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On a frosty, bitterly cold morning, I needed a little background music to motivate myself. On Spotify, I pressed play on The Gap Band's "Early In The Morning," a funk bop from 1982 currently having a resurgence on TikTok.

After Charlie Wilson's dulcet tones got me in the mood to do a bit of work, Spotify's Smart Shuffle feature carried on the old school funk and soulful R&B vibes. The audio

• Anduril founder Palmer Luckey has voiced support for the Trump administration's new regulations on the defense industry.
• An executive order signed on Wednesday targeted defense contractors for underperforming.
• "It's good to scare people sometimes," Luckey said in an interview with Bloomberg.

President

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• The venture capitalist Bill Gurley said embracing peers, not having sharp elbows, is key to success.
• MrBeast, the world's most followed YouTuber, exemplifies this lesson, Gurley said.
• Donaldson has described spending hours on calls with peers, learning how to go viral.

Want to

• I wanted to drink less in 2025 than I did the previous year.
• I kept track of my drinking and followed the 1-2-3 rule.
• Dry January and alternating alcohol with mocktails helped me stick to my goals.

This time last year, I was in for a rude awakening. Despite fancying myself a

• Box CEO Aaron Levie says AI will commoditize expertise, forcing companies to compete on context.
• As AI agents spread, Levie says proprietary data and institutional knowledge will define winners.
• Tech leaders say "context

Jimmy Kimmel has previously covered the phenomenon of Donald Trump appearing to fall asleep in meetings, but there was apparently a key explanation he's been missing.

"Teddy Dose-velt told the Wall Street Journal that, you know the many videos of him nodding off during meetings? He says he's not sleeping, he's blinking," explains Kimmel. "That's right, he has the rare ability to hold a blink for minutes at a time. And to showcase that ability, we've put together this video montage of some of the many times he most definitely wasn't falling asleep on live TV."

The evidence appears to speak for itself.

• Alexander Campbell is departing $83.5 billion Millennium, several people said.
• The longtime head of corporate strategy joined the hedge fund more than a decade ago.
• Non-investing roles are expanding at major hedge funds like Millennium amid industry growth.

Izzy Englander's Millennium, which recently sold off a 15% stake of the firm, has just lost its head of corporate strategy

For years, we’ve been wondering when Samsung would actually bring Ballie, its cute household companion robot, to market and now we finally have our answer: it won’t. After the planned summer 2025 release window came and went, the company has opted not to release the gizmo as a consumer product, at least not for the foreseeable future. 

According to Bloomberg, Samsung has "indefinitely shelved" the

• Trump said the US used "certain expertise" to cut power in Venezuela while capturing its president.
• Officials alluded to cyber operations and a host of military capabilities.
• Analysts said there are several ways it could have played out, aided by Venezuela's poor infrastructure.

Amid the revelations over

• Madison Reed CEO Amy Errett categorizes her work between things she loves and things she's good at.
• Things she loves are in her "zone of genius," and things she's good at are in her "zone of competency."
• She now tries to delegate so she's doing work that falls mostly in her "zone of genius."

One fundamental truth of life — and

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