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My conversation @ZachBDell on building Base Power If you are interested in energy, the grid, and how each are changing, this is an awesome overview Even since we recorded, Base is scaling at an impressive clip A company, and entrepreneur, to watch

White Collar PEDs Are productivity drugs worth the trade-offs? Find out as reporter @hpmcd1 test-drives Wall Street and Silicon Valley’s favorite “prodrugs,” trying everything from Vyvanse to Zyn to Huberman-style “nootropic” optimization.

Hyperlegible 013 Flounder Mode @zebriez youtu.be/6r2MD5uY2WI

I talked to my friend and infovore @packyM about my latest essay, Flounder Mode, and what it’s like to have a weird career.

I’m always surrounded by people taking what I call “white collar PEDs” For @joincolossus, @hpmcd1 tried them all and reports back on the experience of each This section, on Zyn, made me laugh

This is another $30bn+ market ap company that I didn't know existed. (Note: There are 720 so give me a pass) Marc was excellent - and especially for explaining "chromatography" in simplified terms.

‘Offered the opportunity to test-drive as many substances as I could get my hands on, gonzo style, I figured—sure, why not?’ @hpmcd1 (depicted below) punishes his mind and body for science and discovers the tachycardiac highs and bleak lows of White Collar PEDs. @joincolossus

For @joincolossus , I spent a few weeks trying to hack my own productivity with "white collar PEDS" joincolossus.com/article/white-…

Great photos, too!

Larry Mendelson and his two sons, Eric and Victor, took over HEICO in 1990. If you invested $10,000 at that time, you'd have over $6,500,000 today. A key operating principle has been "push trust down the organization and treat employees as owners". Rather than just say it,…

Caryn Seidman-Becker (@CLEARcaryn)… • Built a successful hedge fund and was inspired by investing in Amazon, Apple, and Priceline • then bought CLEAR for $6M out of bankruptcy and rebuilt it from scratch • Envisioned CLEAR not just as a travel tool, but a universal identity…

Flounder Mode Is it possible to do all the things that interest you and make your mark on the world without also being a tormented jackass? Kevin Kelly says yes. Amazing braided profile of subject and author by the great @zebriez in @ColossusReview (photos by Andria Lo)

Founder mode is one way to do great work What if there was another? @zebriez interviewed @kevin2kelly to write a profile She ended up writing much more than that—a profile plus a mini autobiography, which together introduce a different kind of working: Flounder Mode

So much has been written about Kevin Kelly over his 40 years doing amazing things. I didn’t know if I’d have anything to add to the story so I turned to the truest thing, how this man inspired me and changed the way I think.