Alex Rubalcava

Blue Origin nailing an interplanetary mission AND landing the first stage on a ship, on just the second-ever launch for New Glenn?

Anyone who's bought SpaceX secondary via the ubiquitous SPVs should now be worried. For the first time ever, there's real competition, and the customers are motivated.

I’ve never seen someone levitate one leg to let the other come down inbounds like that.

Do you have books on the coffee table that you did not pick, cannot read, and cannot remove?

When this game started, Mary Hart was still hosting Entertainment Tonight.

My take: grade inflation was always an inevitable byproduct of tuition price inflation, because the high cost of college raises the stakes of bad grades.

That's especially true at schools where you incur debt to attend, unlike the Ivies.

Our home insurance premium is up 40% year over year.

Glad to see you here! I'll send you an email, will be great to touch base.

Everybody in America should be disappointed in a game ending in a tie.

While getting my influenza and COVID vaccine last week at a major national pharmacy, THE PHARMACIST advised me against getting my infant vaccinated, due to autism “risk.” Like you, I chose not to make a scene.

If you come at the Mouse, you best not miss.

I’ve always thought this was the top of the origination funnel for all the growth in private credit AUM.

It feels good to do a good deed in a dark time.

Wish I could see that FA’s face when he learns he’s losing a commission he probably had at 90% likelihood to close in his CRM.

An older lady struck up a conversation with me in the waiting room of my doc’s office. In the 8 minutes before I was called in to see the doc I talked her out of an absurd annuity some jerk was trying to sell her.

Thanks for the rec. I'm locked in for now, by my HOA, but as soon as I've got choice in the matter, I'll check out the Emporia.

If, like me, you have bought or will buy an EV before the federal tax credit goes away, do not get a Chargepoint home charger. Dealing with the flaws in their product and the incompetence of their customer service has drained weeks of my time.

Congrats everyone. We got unemployment down to -2.6%.

I’ve received multiple calls, texts, and alerts from government agencies in California about the tsunami advisory tonight. This is a much better warning system than was in place in 2011 during the Tohoku earthquake.

I’m glad that the victims of the Texas floods have not been treated with the same level of contempt and political theater as the victims of the California fires early this year. May we never do that again.

a man wearing sunglasses and a bandana is standing in front of a field . Alt: a man wearing sunglasses and a bandana is standing in front of a field .

Reading the Figma S-1.

Best mental model for averaging up in a stock: think of it as a VC round, and ask yourself -- do I want to exercise my pro rata? Do I want super pro rata?

Trades and home services businesses in Los Angeles are collapsing. Our home has a plumbing need and the businesses we're calling are saying their people are afraid to go on jobs right now.

#NoKings Playa Vista

I’m proud of my Senator today and I’m proud to be a Californian.

If jackboot thugs feel empowered to attack the senior senator of the richest and most populous state, the thugs will surely feel empowered to attack you.

I get more Lindy by the day.

Q2 2025 is going to be the best kitchen sink quarter since 2020. If you've got an excess cost, a writeoff, a project to cancel, an expense to recognize, do it this quarter.

Everyone's numbers are going to be a mess. Might as well join 'em.

Shout out to all the people flying home with me in boarding group B on Southwest but wearing NetJets hats.

The number of investors from China at the Berkshire meeting feels like it’s back to a post pandemic high. Nothing better for peace and cross cultural interaction than the cult of Warren.

Security throughout Omaha events has been much higher this year. Luigi effect probably.