There exists a category of individuals devoid of any particular talent, without genius or superior IQ, who nevertheless rise to the top of the hierarchy.

Their secret? An implacable will to dominate any situation, any adversary, to obtain what they seek, without ever giving up.

It was this predatory temperament that characterized the early career of John Rockefeller.

Trying to win a game with no finish line is a fast track to resource exhaustion.

#simonsinek dropped one of the most practical game theory breakdowns ever:

Finite players play to beat a rival, hit a quarterly metric, or win a war. infinite players play for one reason only: to stay in the game forever.

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This article teaches you everything you need to know about graph engineering

MAJOR CORRECTION IN MEMORY STOCKS AFTER SANDISK AND WESTERN DIGITAL EARNINGS

Entire sector is crashing in the premarket:

- $WDC down 16%
- $SNDK down 12%
- $STX down 6%
- $SKHY down 7%
- $MU down 6%

Both companies beat revenues. SanDisk revenue was up 372% year over year, Western Digital up 44%.

The problem was guidance. SanDisk grew 51% last quarter and guided to 18% for the next one.

Growth is slowing, and the market thinks memory prices have peaked.

Too many choices will kill your momentum faster than outright laziness.

Warren buffett told his pilot to list his top 25 goals, circle the top 5, and treat the remaining 20 like a disease to be avoided at all costs.

Execution isn't about deciding what to do. it's about aggressively locking out everything else so only one path remains.

This billionaire hedge fund manager studies 272 charts every day.

Smart people end up making stupid group decisions for one simple reason:

The rules of the game force them to.

Dr ashley hodgson breaks down why team projects fail, why industries ruin their own markets, and why good people turn dirty. when the system rewards the first person who cheats, playing nice isn't honorable, it's suicide.

This is one of the best explanations of the prisoner's dilemma i've come across.

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Prime Intellect just open-sourced Prime Agent.

It's a self-improving coding harness that scores 95.5% on ARC-AGI-3 - well above the human baseline.

This new agent is insane and can rewrite its own prompts, memory, and skills mid-task.

Here's how to install it in <60 seconds:

Step 1. Run the install command

curl -fsSL app.primeintellect.ai/prime-agent/install| sh

Works on Linux or macOS.

Step 2. Connect a model

Prime Agent works with whatever you already have access to:

→ Subscription logins: Codex, Claude Pro/Max, GitHub Copilot
→ API keys: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Groq, Fireworks, Prime Inference, and more
→ Self-hosted: vLLM, Ollama, LM Studio, or open-weight models like GLM-5.2 if you want everything running inside your own network

Step 3. Start a session

Once connected, just start working. It runs as a persistent Python environment, so it can call tools, launch subagents, and reference its own history without losing context.

Step 4. Let it self-improve as it works

Use the /refine command mid-task, and it rewrites its own prompts, memory, and skills based on what's actually working in that session.

That's it. MIT licensed, fully free, works with open and closed models alike.

→ github.com/PrimeIntellect-ai/prime-agent

Prime Intellect's new AI agent just scored ABOVE human intelligence on ARC AGI.

95.5, which puts it well above the average human.

AGI is here?

primeintellect.ai

U.S Treasury raised its Q3 government borrowing estimate to $739 billion, which will push the national debt over $40 trillion!

This is $68 billion more ​than it projected in May, 2026

In Q4, Treasury is expected to borrow an additional $628 billion, based ​on a year-end cash balance of $850 billion.

$9 trillion of US debt matures in 2026 and will have to be rolled over at higher rates, unless they can find a way to force interest rates down.

Currently the 30 year yield is rising despite economic growth slowing.

How do we know economic growth is slowing?

The U.S. government is increasing their debt borrowing at a rapid pace, far higher than their estimates just 3 months ago.

Scott Bessent was asked some hard questions by Japanese 🇯🇵 reporters yesterday about the sudden urgency of U.S. intervention in the yen.

This interview went totally under the radar.

To understand why people are concerned about this, the last time the U.S. intervened in the yen was during the Asian Financial Crisis of 1998.

By getting involved, the U.S. is clearly becoming concerned over the Bank of Japans failed efforts to stabilize the yen's depreciation.

At the same time, if they intervene too much and arbitrage traders smell blood in the water the yen could rapidly reverse, appreciating against the U.S. Dollar and destroying the "Yen Carry Trade" that has pumped U.S. markets to nose bleeding heights.

Scott Bessent worked for George Soros and was directly involved currency arbitrage his entire career.

Many blame Soros for contributing to the UK currency crisis of 1992 known as "Black Wednesday" and the Asian Financial crisis of 1998.

Send this prompt to Claude Code, and it will walk you through the exact steps to deploy your first graph.

10x better than loop engineering.

You'll want to save this prompt somewhere

Russell 2000 stocks above the 50 day moving average is in a giant wedge that ends the 1st week of September, 2026. 🚨

Is this warning us a major market correction is coming like December 2024?
Or just a slow rise in volatility like September 2025?

Market tops/bottoms checklist.
Which items do you think we can check off?

The largest mortgage lender in the U.S. United Wholesale Mortgage ($UWMC) plummeted 35% today after reporting a massive Q2 2026 net loss of $451.9 million & suspending its common dividend

The fall below the $1 threshold is sparking fears of another potential 2008 Lehman collapse

Scott Bessent declared the K-shaped economy is over.

"I can say here definitively, the K-shaped economy is over" adding he’s "sick of hearing about it."