Most strategic advice fails because it ignores basic game theory and assumes the other side is playing fair.

In this classic yale lecture, prof. ben polak exposes how dominant strategies work in the real world and why reading hidden payoffs is the only competitive advantage that matters.

The core concepts and key takeaways broken down

If you want to use /loop as efficiently as possible, I highly recommend you follow this loop structure.

This is how you automate anything with loop engineering in Claude:

1. The Trigger

This is what starts the loop without you clicking anything.

This could be a timer ("every morning at 8 am"), or it just fires immediately when you type the command.

2. The Doer

This is Claude actually doing the work.

Reading, writing, researching, coding, whatever the task is.

3. The Checker

Decides whether the work is actually good enough or finished.

Without this, Claude has no way to know if it did a good job; it just assumes it's done and stops.

A good checker asks: does this pass a test? Does this match what I asked for? Is the number correct?

4. Stop Rules

Every loop needs to know when to stop, on success and on failure.

Success stopping: "all tasks are complete."

Failure stopping: "if this fails 5 times in a row, stop and tell me."

Without this, a loop either runs forever or fails the same way repeatedly without ever telling you.

5. Memory

A simple file where the loop writes down what it did and what it learned.

Next run, it reads this first so it doesn't repeat mistakes or forget what it already figured out.

6. Instructions

Lastly, these are the rules the loop should always follow.

Think: your preferences, your constraints, how you like things done.

Read every single time the loop runs, so it always "remembers" who you are.

Put together, a loop is just this:

Something starts it (trigger) → Claude does the work (doer) → something checks if it's actually right (checker) → it stops or tries again (stop rules) → it writes down what happened (memory) → it always follows your rules (instructions)

Master these 6 parts, and you can build a loop to automate anything.

Clarity Precedes Strike

Bertrand Russell drops a cold truth in this clip: good intentions don't make good decisions, game theory does.

It shows why two smart people making totally logical choices usually end up triggering the worst possible outcome for both in business, politics, and relationships.

How to stop asking "what should i do" and start reading hidden payoffs: key concepts.

GOLDMAN SAYS $185 BILLION OF FORCED SELLING COULD HIT GLOBAL STOCKS THIS MONTH

CTAs are funds that trade on price signals alone.

Their programs buy when prices hold above set levels and sell when prices fall below them, regardless of earnings or news.

Goldman's current estimates:

- $7.5 billion of global selling next week under most scenarios, with $4.5 billion in the S&P 500
- $31.5 billion if markets fall further
- Up to $185 billion over one month if the decline continues

The S&P 500 trigger levels are 7,455 short term, 7,204 medium term, and 6,765 long term.

Each level that breaks moves more funds from holding to selling. That selling pushes prices lower, which brings the next level into range.

Goldman says the recent tech decline reflects systematic funds cutting exposure rather than a change in the earnings outlook.

Codex cheat code: tell Sol to deploy Luna Max as a subagent.

This prompt helps you do exactly that

This Codex prompt is literally a $300/hr senior engineer

𝗰𝗼𝗽𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲 the full prompt

BREAKING: #WTI Crude Oil falls 9% to $79 after President Trump claims an Iran peace deal is back on the table.

Reminder: SpaceX $SPCX first earnings call is on Tuesday, August 4, 2026, after the market close 4:30 p.m. ET

Following the earnings report, an additional 20% of shares become unlocked on August 6, with more shares every 2 weeks until 100% are unlocked by December 2026.

SpaceX is currently down 51% from its peak.

Nasdaq futures jump 0.75% on "peace talk hopes"

$VIX futures are falling exactly as expected.
Stay nimble.

Well it took 25 years for Cisco to recover its 2000 dot-com highs, but now it looks like it's on the verge of collapse.

For the past two weeks it's been traveling perfectly along the 60 day moving average (white line).

Once $CSCO intersects the parabolic, all bets are off.

BREAKING: 🇯🇵 🇺🇸 Scott Bessent says the US Treasury won't hesitate to intervene in the Japanese yen again.

The yen rose to 157:1 USD after Treasury interventions on Friday.

160:1 USD is widely regarded as the limit both the Bank of Japan and Treasury are willing to allow the yen to devalue.

They're trying so hard to save the Japanese Yen 🚨 🚨

Reminder: The last time the US was forced to intervene in the Japanese Yen was 15 years ago, during the 2011 European banking crisis.

🇺🇸 Bank of Japan status update: 🇯🇵