Notes on Notes: After this post you will be sizing bets in your head

Kris Abdelmessih breaks down what the collapse of a highly leveraged AI trade reveals about leverage, liquidity, risk management, and why intelligence alone is not enough to survive markets. He also explains how experienced traders recognize when someone has lost control of their own fate, why appa…

Strong Towns founder Chuck Marohn joins Matt Zeigler to trace the life experiences that shaped his thinking about cities, community, entrepreneurship, and purposeful work. From growing up on a Minnesota farm and nearly becoming a professional drummer to a life-changing trip through southern Italy, …

Matt Zeigler sits down with Dave Nadig to unpack Free Treasure and explore how personal writing gets shaped through drafting, editing, feedback, and the willingness to cut ideas you love. They also discuss AI and creative writing, why human editors still matter, and Dave's larger argument that time…

Ben Hunt explores the Semantic Manifesto, his argument that ideas are real and AI can act as a portal that helps humans access, visualize, and manifest them. He explains Plato's theory of forms, why AI helped him express a lifelong philosophical idea without writing any of the words, and how these …