We are capable of much more than we think we are.
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Optimum Communications is nearing a debt restructuring deal that will hand control of the company to lenders and resolve a landmark antitrust litigation, according to people familiar with the matter
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Apollo Global Management is limiting redemptions from a private credit fund for the third straight quarter, as its investors join the rush to pull cash from the $1.8 trillion direct lending market bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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John Candy and Catherine O'Hara both made the world a better place.
ALT Catherine O'Hara and John Candy standing close together at what appears to be an indoor gathering. Catherine O’Hara is on the left, wearing a light blue sweater and smiling while looking to her right. She is holding a small glass in one hand and a clutch-style purse under her arm. John Candy is on the right, wearing a dark jacket over a light, open-collared shirt, smiling directly toward the camera. The background is dimly lit, with other people partially visible behind them.
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CORRUPTION: Some SNAP recipients have homes in five states and receive SNAP benefits in all five. Not only that, 200K DEAD people are receiving food benefits, and 500K people getting DOUBLE servings of food benefits. Democrats are suing to cover it up.
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First Brands will go down as one of the most brutal bankruptcies of all time
Diameter, a leading credit hedge fund, just shared how they incurred their biggest loss in history, burning hundreds of millions
Read below how the smartest investors in the world got their faces ripped off
Get the Full Letter below ⬇️
1/n The Set-Up
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As a young EOD tech, most days I was holding something in my hands that could kill me. I learned to be fully present in that moment. I couldn’t afford to be a thought wanderer. No matter what you’re doing, focus on the moment you’re in right now, because now is all we have.
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This Acquired/Michael Lewis moment is an all-timer.
What a story.
So, decades after Lewis penned a 'takedown' on Buffett in The New Republic, Lewis finds himself by chance speaking with Buffett’s publicist.
Buffett’s publicist says to Michael:
“Warren has a question for you.”
“What’s the question?”
“Is this the same Michael Lewis who [in 2008] bought Berkshire Hathaway - as cheap as its ever been?”
[Yes]
“And is this the same Michael Lewis who sold two and four years ago?
"Warren would like to know - why did you sell?”
[It was a charitable donation]
“He’ll be relieved to hear [that].”
THE GUY TRACKS SPECIFIC $BRK PARTNERS FOR YEARS.
...and possibly runs version control of his shareholder registry in his head.
Incredible.
Cut from @AcquiredFM
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BREAKING: OpenAI has quietly hired over 100 former Wall Street bankers, including alumni from Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley, to help train its AI on building financial models
Codenamed “Project Mercury,” the effort pays contractors $150 an hour to write prompts and create Excel-based models for IPOs, restructurings, and M&A deals
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In 1908, Houdini stood at the edge of the Harvard Bridge—commonly referred to as the Mass. Ave. Bridge—and was shackled by a Boston patrolman. His hands were handcuffed behind his back and chained to a collar around his neck.
According to a Boston Globe article chronicling the feat, a signal was tooted from a towboat, and Houdini went overboard into the chilly waters below.
“There is always the possibility that I will be unable to free myself, as one never can tell what will happen to a lock,” Houdini told the newspaper.
“However, I am a good swimmer, have confidence in myself, and I hope to perform this feat successfully.”
The Globe estimated some 20,000 spectators gathered to see Houdini’s leap, including the mayors of Boston and Cambridge. They waited 40 seconds for the magician to resurface, which he did with the shackles in his hands.
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My friend Matt just finished hiking the Pacific Crest Trail—2,653 miles from Mexico to Canada.
I asked him if he had any profound insights from the six-month journey, and he dropped this truth bomb on me:
“On the trail, living is hard—but life is easy.
In normal life, living is easy—but life is hard.”
The things that make our lives comfortable also make them complex. Busier. More stressful.
Like a frog being boiled, we slowly accumulate more things, more obligations, and more relationships that need to be maintained (and paid for).
🐸Before we know it… we’re cooked—trapped in a prison of our own design. We’ve made living easy, but life hard.
Here’s the inescapable truth:
Whether you’re a billionaire or broke, everything you own owns a piece of you.
When you do something extreme—like hiking the PCT—it forces a return to simplicity. You realize that less really is more and creature comforts come at a cost.
What I’m talking about here is minimalism—a widely misunderstood concept. Minimalism isn’t about sacrifice and self-denial—it’s about asking of everything in your life:
Does this bring me joy?
Does it make living easier, but life harder?
It’s addition by subtraction: Removing things from your life that don’t bring joy allows you to feast on things that do.
If you feel like you’re living on a hamster wheel—maybe the answer isn’t to run faster…
Maybe it’s time to step off.
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Auto-parts supplier First Brands Group is preparing a possible bankruptcy filing after concerns about its financial disclosures emerged among its lenders, sources said
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