YouTube — 2026-06-23#

Watch First#

Why I Love My Bad Days | Alexi Pappas | TED. Olympian Alexi Pappas shares her coach’s brilliant “rule of thirds”: when chasing a dream, you should feel good a third of the time, okay a third of the time, and completely terrible a third of the time. It is a remarkably practical psychological framework that recontextualizes your worst days as proof that you are pushing the boundaries of your potential, rather than failing.

Highlights by Theme#

News & Business#

Chinese financial channel 美投侃新闻 delivers a dense, excellent macro overview in 不用怕加息！ SpaceX抄底了！Anthropic自建数据中心？美光改变存储格局！微软谷歌围攻模型公司！黑色火柴盒新经济, asking why SpaceX is issuing $20 billion in debt right after a massive IPO and unpacking the brewing software war over AI enterprise workflows. On the geopolitical front, LIFEANO CLUB’s 袁Sir聊核扩散：教友给了老神棍“核武器”？#lifeano漫聊 260623 provides a deep, sobering history of A.Q. Khan’s illicit nuclear proliferation network, which serves as essential context for understanding current nuclear friction between the US and Iran. For a quick trade explainer, the FT’s Why hasn‘t China forced chip firms to share their technology? | FT #shorts notes that foreign chipmakers historically avoided forced tech transfers because China relied heavily on those multinational companies to drive its export growth. Back in the US, CNBC Make It warns in Why the job market is especially tough for recent grads that a post-pandemic overhiring hangover has completely frozen the entry-level white-collar job market.

Learning & Ideas#

The NYT presents a counterintuitive public health problem in Why a Less Severe Ebola Could Kill More People: a milder strain of the virus in the DRC means infected individuals are waiting longer to seek hospital care, unwittingly spreading the disease to their communities while displaying only generic symptoms. Hoover’s The Frontier of Neuroscience gives a solid, hype-free update on brain-machine interfaces, highlighting the Stanford artificial retina while reminding viewers that popular interest in neuroscience vastly outpaces our actual scientific capabilities.

Tech & AI#

CNBC highlights how companies are surviving the broader software slump in How Twilio and Datadog are winning back investors, showing that demonstrating “AI native” solutions and clear monetization paths is saving them from displacement fears. The FT conducts a creepy but revealing experiment in How to make a deepfake | FT #shorts; they easily synthesize a reporter’s face and voice using free software, but discover that humans are actually more likely to flag the deepfake based on awkward hand movements rather than uncanny faces. Meanwhile, Tesla Home: Home Energy Management, Powered by AI shows off Opticaster, Tesla’s AI software that autonomously toggles a home’s power source between solar, grid, and batteries based on weather forecasts and utility pricing.

Everything Else#

Why a $1,000 Mahjong Set Can Take 10 Days to Make | WSJ Coveted is a beautiful tribute to Hong Kong’s last female hand-carving Mahjong artisan, illustrating how the push toward machine manufacturing nearly erased the deep calligraphy and craftsmanship of traditional tiles. The NYT explores the historical value of cheap drinks in Are NYC Dive Bars Endangered?, tracing the roots of dives as vital social infrastructure for immigrants and marginalized groups up to their modern battle against $9 median beer prices. Finally, Apple TV’s trailer for The Dink — Official Trailer | Apple TV fully cashes in on the ridiculous tennis vs. pickleball culture war.