6:58 pm - April 2, 2026There is something quietly humbling about a full moon rising over the eastern horizon. It doesn’t matter how many times you’ve seen it — the moment still pulls at something old inside you. This April 1st, that feeling returns with a moon that carries centuries of human meaning packed into…
Humanity’s curiosity about the future is subtly stubborn. People have reached for cards, stars, bones, and books—anything that might provide a glimpse beyond the curtain of the present—across centuries, continents, wars, and revolutions. The Book of Fortune raises a question that is more difficult to answer than it seems: does it matter if the stories are true as long as people find meaning in them? The Book of Fortune sits inside that long tradition, halfway between serious scholarship and lovely mythology. CategoryDetailsFull TitleThe Complete Book of Fortune: A Comprehensive Survey of the Occult Sciences and Methods of DivinationSubjectDivination, occult sciences,…
Some men want you to know that they are in charge. They make sure their names appear above the company logo whenever possible, host press conferences, and post updates on LinkedIn at midnight. Then there are men like Arthur Storm, who seem to like it when you don’t know anything. Although the phrase “secret CEO” sounds like something from a suspenseful book, it actually refers to a very real and surprisingly prevalent phenomenon in some boardrooms. Someone answers questions from analysts while holding the title and grinning for the camera. CategoryDetailsFull NameArthur StormKnown AsSecret CEO / Shadow ExecutiveFieldCorporate Leadership /…
The Psychology of Money explains why intelligent people go bankrupt and why a janitor became a millionaire. When you hear a story for the first time, it doesn’t make sense. In rural Vermont, a man worked for 25 years repairing cars at a gas station and another 17 years sweeping floors at a JCPenney. He paid $12,000 for a two-bedroom home where he lived alone. Friends say that chopping firewood was his favorite pastime. After losing his wife, he never got married again. CategoryDetailsBook TitleThe Psychology of MoneyAuthorMorgan HouselPublished2020PublisherHarriman House (UK Edition)GenrePersonal Finance / Behavioral EconomicsFormat20 short chaptersOther Works by…
Most people are unaware of a ship that is rusting silently five miles off the coast of Yemen in the Red Sea. It is known as the FSO Safer and has a capacity of 1.1 million barrels of crude oil, which is about four times the amount that spilled when the Exxon Valdez ran aground off Alaska in 1989. Since its abandonment in 2015 due to Yemen’s civil war, which prevented maintenance, the tanker has been deteriorating. It might disintegrate. It might blow up. Environmental scientists are kept up at night by the uncertainty surrounding one of the world’s most…
Silicon Valley loves to tell itself that it saw the future clearly, worked diligently toward it, and was just misinterpreted by the present. The purest example of this mythology is likely Google Glass. Those odd, angular frames with a tiny prism of a screen were introduced in 2013 with great fanfare, and they quickly became a cultural joke. The wearers were referred to as “Glassholes.” They were prohibited in restaurants. In 2015, the product quietly passed away. You would be hard-pressed to find a significant technology company that isn’t, in one way or another, developing the exact same thing more…
When discussing Britney Spears these days, a certain number is frequently brought up. $130 million. It’s the number that the majority of analysts now associate with her name; it’s a tidy sum that, when you take into account what she endured to get here, feels both enormous and somehow insufficient.…
The bedroom dreamer who somehow becomes a worldwide phenomenon is one type of story that the internet adores. Perhaps the most extreme version of that tale ever told is Felix Kjellberg, who was born in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1989. When you look back to PewDiePie’s beginnings as a young man…
The fact that Raj Shamani, who is currently India’s top podcaster, an angel investor, and the man who used to sit across from Bill Gates and Emmanuel Macron, began his career selling dishwashing liquid door-to-door in the tiny streets of Indore, is subtly startling. Not in a symbolic sense. literally…
Larry Wheels has an almost cinematic quality. Not in the Hollywood sense, but rather in the way that real, challenging, unglamorous lives sometimes result in people who are hard to ignore. Born Larry Williams in Manhattan on December 3, 1994, he grew up in some of the most dangerous neighborhoods…
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It doesn’t seem like much, but there is a sidewalk close to Cupertino, California. Not a plaque. Not a monument. It’s just regular, sun-bleached pavement that you would pass by without giving it much thought. However, a charismatic, barefoot teenager named Steve Jobs and a restless engineering prodigy named Steve Wozniak met somewhere around here in 1971, and without either of them fully realizing it, they set something huge in motion. When Wozniak appeared on CBS Sunday Morning to commemorate Apple’s half-century anniversary fifty years later, his remarks were, in a subtle way, more fascinating than any product launch announcement.…
Bond traders have internalized this rule to the point where it is practically automatic: money flows into U.S. Treasurys when things get scary. Investors sell stocks, withdraw from emerging markets, stop making any kind of risky wagers, and put the money they make into US government debt. Costs increase. Yields…
Twenty-one miles. That is approximately the width of the Strait of Hormuz at its narrowest point, which is a narrow stretch of gray-green water between the Omani shore to the south and the Iranian coastline to the north. It hardly shows up on most maps. However, that narrow passage is…
Wall Street gets its first glimpse of the upcoming week on Sunday night, and the image was not particularly reassuring for traders who watched Dow futures fall nearly 300 points after Friday’s market close. The price of oil was rising once more. There were rumors that Marine Expeditionary Units had…
The figures ought to be illogical. Super Micro Computer recorded revenue of $12.68 billion in its most recent fiscal quarter, a 123 percent increase over the previous year. Its earnings per share of $0.69 exceeded analyst projections by over 40%. By every quantifiable measure, demand for its AI servers is…
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What transpired with SoFi Technologies on March 27th is almost ridiculous. The company announced partnerships with a major financial services and insurance group, a global bank, and one of the top five private asset managers in the world, totaling more than $3.6 billion in new funding agreements for personal loans. The agreements were precisely the type of institutional validation that SoFi’s management had been advocating for years. The revenue was increasing. The number of loan originations reached a record high. Mizuho analysts set a price target of $38 for the stock. Nevertheless, SoFi shares had dropped more than 4% to…
It seems that Dario Amodei and Pete Hegseth’s meeting did not go well. Hegseth had insisted on meeting in person in Washington with the CEO of Anthropic, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence firm whose Claude models had surreptitiously found their way into the military’s secret workplace. A contract was the topic of discussion. The subtext was more akin to a cautionary tale. Nothing had been settled when the two men left the room. In a statement released two days later, Amodei declared that his organization would “rather not work with the Pentagon” than consent to technology applications that could “undermine,…
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It began with a $49 tablet. It concluded with a handshake less than a month later. Hims & Hers Health’s stock surged by over 40% on the morning of March 9, 2026, following the company’s announcement that it had reached an agreement with Novo Nordisk, the pharmaceutical behemoth that had been threatening it with a patent infringement lawsuit only weeks prior. After exchanging accusations in court documents and press releases, the two businesses were now partners. Mike Doustdar, CEO of Novo Nordisk, sounded almost happy when he appeared on CNBC. He responded, “I don’t foresee that happening,” when asked if…
Every startup has a point in its existence when it ceases to be a startup. When the modest beginnings of the nonprofit, which was established in a San Francisco office with the goal of helping people, subtly give way to something more difficult to define, something larger, and, depending on your point of view, either more thrilling or more concerning. That moment may have quietly arrived for OpenAI at the end of February when the company announced a $110 billion funding round that caused everyone in the technology industry to pause and reevaluate the figures. SoftBank, Nvidia, and Amazon. Three…
The preliminary proposal comes as private equity firms continue to target profitable software businesses that generate strong cash flows but trade at modest valuations in public markets Francisco Partners and Vista Equity Partners have put a preliminary all-cash takeover proposal to the board of Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), valuing the company at $48 per share. The approach is unsolicited and no binding agreement has been reached. People with direct knowledge of the matter said the board is reviewing the proposal with independent financial and legal advisers. All three parties declined to comment, and further developments are expected in the…
Rubio Signals Quick End to US-Iran Campaign Secretary of State Marco Rubio assured G7 foreign ministers that the U.S. military operation against Iran will wrap up in weeks, not months. Speaking at Vaux-de-Cernay Abbey near Paris, he noted the campaign—now in its fourth week—is ahead of schedule and needs no ground troops to meet all objectives. Rubio specified two to four more weeks of action, per Axios sources, while confirming indirect talks via intermediaries show some progress. “Intermediary countries are passing messages—it’s ongoing,” he told reporters. Troop Surge Despite No-Boots Pledge The Pentagon is bolstering its regional presence with 2,000…
There is a vast portion of the internet that is largely ignored by mainstream entertainment criticism. Go through the YouTube channel or Dailymotion. If you look at My Drama Shorts on any given afternoon, you’ll find something that doesn’t neatly fit into the categories the industry uses to describe what people watch: brief vertical drama clips from serialized romance series, typically lasting between 30 and 30 minutes, with titles like “I Became My CEO’s Darkest Secret” or “Sold to the Possessive Mafia Boss.” The production values are greater than you might anticipate. The audience engagement figures are shocking. “I Became…
The Madison’s trailer did something out of the ordinary for a Taylor Sheridan film: it omitted any reference to Yellowstone. There are no recurring characters, no Dutton family history, no references to Kayce or Beth, or the never-ending political intrigue of the high Montana plains. Instead, Kurt Russell appeared somewhere behind Michelle Pfeiffer, warm in flashback, and she stood in front of a river that seemed too big and too cold for the extent of her grief. For a creator whose entire brand had been built on the franchise he was now consciously stepping away from, it was a calculated…
Sankalp’s opening image perfectly captures Prakash Jha’s vision: a magnificent home in Patna with rooms arranged like a gurukul, formal, hierarchical, and humming with quiet purpose. The corridors bear the weight of old authority. The camera follows Nana Patekar’s character Kanhaiya Lal as he moves inside, much like followers follow a teacher. Take caution. With a mixture of admiration and discomfort. It takes ten minutes or so to comprehend that this man has dedicated decades to creating a network of devoted civil servants who have been trained by his coaching center and are obligated to him in a way that…
During a Rolling Stone cover interview in 2023, Bad Bunny was asked which musicians he believed to be the future of music. Young Miko was the first name he said. He referred to her as one of the new faces that were emerging and stated that he thought she had a lot to show and hadn’t yet unveiled all of her tricks. The video went viral. A fan tagged Young Miko, who saw it. She became terrified. After that, she resumed her work. The cosign from the world’s biggest Latin artist, delivered casually and as though it were obvious, captures…
A patient file, which is a collection of lab values, imaging results, and doctor notes gathered over years of routine care, sits in a database somewhere inside a hospital server in London, Chicago, or São Paulo. It is unremarkable on its own. Multiply that number by tens of millions of patients. Include genetic sequences. Add information from wearable devices that monitor blood oxygen levels, heart rate, and sleep patterns in real time. You receive more than just a stack of records. Researchers are just now learning how to use it, and the initial findings are truly unexpected. Disease research is…
BKR Capital Fund II announced Monday it has raised CA$20 million, roughly $14.5 million, against a CA$50 million target. The Toronto-based firm, which backs technology companies founded by Black entrepreneurs, plans a final close in December. That gives managing partner Lise Birikundavyi about six months to raise the remaining CA$30 million, in a Canadian venture market that has been tighter than most GPs would like. The math on the gap matters. A fund that closes at 40% of its target has a different portfolio construction than one that closes at 100%. BKR Capital Fund II is targeting investments in 25…
