Book I'm Reading
I finished this one this week. Worth reading, though some areas require skimming. Too dry and too deep-divish to justify lots of time.
Podcast I'm Listening To
Continuing on this theme of rest, I’ve continued listening to this excellent 7th Day Rest series from the BibleProject:
On Bitcoin
Bitcoin’s price continues to be pinned between the 200-week SMA below and the 8-week EMA above. There was similiar price action to last week with an upward sloping 200-week. It closed right on the 200-week level.
Tweets I'm Reading
A BBC interviewer asked a Nobel physicist the simplest question in the world: why do two magnets push each other apart. He refused to answer it. What he did instead is the best seven minutes on thinking ever filmed.
— Stefan. (@paradeevic) July 31, 2026
The man is Richard Feynman, at home in 1983, no blackboard, no… https://t.co/3p7Lz6NIKp pic.twitter.com/SUKIMVAaX8
What Everyone Missed In Leo’s Blow-Up👇
— Porter Stansberry (@porterstansb) August 1, 2026
Leopold Aschenbrenner lost $30 billion (~67%) in a month.
The consensus post-mortem, from the Wall Street Journal to the replies on X, is that a young man used 4-to-1 leverage on concentrated positions and got carried out. While that is…
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this.
— Ayzaa (@Ayzacoder) August 1, 2026
Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.
Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is… pic.twitter.com/gJFWosSga5
Here is the full letter Leopold sent to his LPs last night.
— TBPN (@tbpn) July 31, 2026
Rumors of his demise are greatly exaggerated. pic.twitter.com/5yIzR0DKIp
My full speech at the @OxfordUnion debating whether the west is right to be suspicious of Islam.
— Laurence Fox (@LozzaFox) July 31, 2026
I needed a security team to attend and we were spat at, bullied and heckled by a baying mob.
But I will not give up on free speech.
I will not submit. pic.twitter.com/fgC7Xr963d
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