Back to the sharpening….recent flip & ‘27 Alabama Football... WR commit Cedrick Simmons 3⭐️🛝 is preparing for his senior campaign…. Cedric Simmons currently broke & now owns the AHSAA single season Receiving Yards record (2,192)show more

UPDATE: The University of Alabama extends an offer to... Selma (Ala.) 2027 WR Cedrick Simmons. Cedrick Simmons 3⭐️🛝 Simmons is coming off a VERY PRODUCTIVE junior season with over 100+ catches, 2,000 yards & 20 touchdowns.show more

NCS QB & Georgia commit Jared Curtis 2026 QB... is looking STRONG. The top Quarterback in the country is looking to cap his senior season with back to back state titles! Go be special Jshow more

NEWS: Daphne ‘27 QB Christian Segar has committed to... the hometown South Alabama Jaguars. The 6-foot-3, 190 pound quarterback threw for 2,775 yards & 37 touchdowns. He led the Trojans to the 2nd round last season. Great in-state commitment for the Jags.show more

4 ⭐️ Top Oklahoma ‘27 ATH & Oklahoma Football... Commit Greydon Howell Stirring the POT Been driving hour+ To train here C4 SportsPerformance 3 Years now before he even went back to Football came for all the Reasons we started this business To WORK, DEVELOP & IMPROVE One of the Best multi sport Athletes the 580 has ever seen still Grinding the Same. Built in the 5️⃣8️⃣0️⃣ Emmett Jones 💪🏾 #C4Family #RecruitTEXOMAshow more

.South Alabama Baseball signee & ‘23 SS/RHP Jaxon Milam... (@JaxonMilam; @Gator_Glenwood) drives another over the RCF wall in his second at-bat for a no-doubter 💣. 2-for-2 w/ 2 HR’s. Not a bad start to the season for the No. 1️⃣2️⃣-ranked senior. Gators now lead 8-2, B3. || Shooter Huntshow more

Former PSU commit Khalil Taylor is now a Nittany... Lion (again). The 4-⭐️ WR bolted when Franklin got canned. It was thought that he was Auburn-bound. Until he attended this weekend’s HUGE recruiting weekend here. He wore #10 (the old Nike blue) yesterday. All further OV (official visits) have been canceled (Indiana & Alabama). Considering the circumstances, this is the most important recruit in the Campbell era. Taylor will be a 5-⭐️ sometime during his senior year. Welcome to Happy Valley Khalil! 🏈🔵⚪️show more

#AZHSFB has some great pairs of brothers… one of... those pairs showed out at the NAU Mega Camp today!! Shamar and Romeo Berryhill, recent transfers from Sabino in Tucson who made the move to Peoria power Centennial Coyotes Football this offseason. 25' WR Shamar Berryhill put up over 1300 yards and 19 TD’s receiving last year in the 3A Conference. 27’ WR/DB Romeo Berryhill saw a bit of varsity action last year as a freshman on both sides of the ball for Sabino. Both brothers had solid performances at NAU and are both looking to make some noise this season in 6A!!show more

An incredible run for Mac McClung 💪 After an... outstanding performance at #ATTSlamDunk during #NBAAllStar, Mac McClung is back & making his mark. Averaging 28.7 PTS, 4.3 AST, 4.3 3PM and leading Delaware Blue Coats to a 3-0 record, McClung earned the title of G League Player of the Week.show more

This is starting to get silly. 2-for-2 for ‘26... SS Jackson Ahrens with a leadoff HR & 3B this afternoon. The Kirkwood Baseball commit has now reached safely in his last 1️⃣7️⃣ PAs ‼️ 14-14, 4 HR, 4 3B, 2 2B, 9 RBI, 11 R, 2 SB, 3 BB; 2 CYCLES East Peoria HS Baseball || Prep Baseball Illinois #LPSpringBreak26show more

Former Cincinnati Bengals QB Ken Anderson retired as the... highest rated passer in the history of the AFC. He was the highest rated passer in NFL post-merger playoff history at 93.5. He produced the highest rated passing performance in the history of Conference Championship games (115.9 vs. San Diego in the Freezer Bowl at -59 degrees wind chill, breaking Roger Staubach’s record of 112.2) and the highest rated performance in Super Bowl history for anyone with more than 30 attempts (95.2). He set the mark for the highest cmp-percentage in Super Bowl history at 73.5%. His single-season cmp-percentage record of 70.6% stood for 27-years before Drew Brees broke it by less than 0.1% in 2009. His single-game cmp-percentage record of 90.9% (20 of 22) was set vs. the Steel Curtain’s No. 1 ranked defense in 1974. They held all other opponents that season to 127 of 317 (40.06%). His era-adjusted Rate+ career mark of 114 places him right in between Tom Brady (115) and Patrick Mahomes (113). He produced 8 winning seasons—only 3 of which were backed by a Top-10 defense. Anderson is not a borderline/fringe candidate. He is one of the most dominant players in NFL history. #Bengals | #WhoDeyshow more

TRANSFER TUESDAY: Miami Hurricanes Football had one of the... best portal processes of any team in the country, with UH transfer WR Sam Brown (Sam Brown jr.) being one of the best additions any team made to their WR room this offseason. Brown was a standout at Houston, and by most services was the top-rated WR in the transfer portal. A well-built (nearly 6’2, 195) perimeter receiver, Brown is a highly impressive athlete, boasting a 4.4 PAI (per Tracking Football), led by a 24’01 long jump (96th percentile), and posting a 4.45 forty and a 38 vertical in high school. He joins a now loaded, explosive offense for QB Cam Ward (Cameron Ward) and creates one of the best WR trios in college football with fellow WRs Jacolby George (Jacolby George) and Xavier Restrepo (Xavier Restrepo) Last year, he forced 20 missed tackles after catch, second-best among Big 12 WRs in 2023. And he stood out against top competition: 46% of his total receiving production came against in-state, P4 competition. Brown has high grades from NFL scouts coming into the season, and will be a part of maybe the most balanced, talent-laded skill position group in the country. He’ll be a part of what could be a special season for the 2024 Miami Hurricanes offense. 🔥🔥🔥 #ShrineBowlWhosNextshow more

BREAKING NEWS: Cincinnati has landed a commitment from 2027... 5 star SG Kam Mercer (Kameron Mercer). Mercer was originally in the 2028 class but has since reclassified and will now be an upcoming senior. Currently ranked the 11th player in the class of 2028 prior to the announcement of his reclassification. Should be a consensus Top-20 player in 2027. Now becomes the highest rated ranked Bearcat in program history ahead of Cincinnati great Lance Stephenson. A full circuit moment for the Cincinnati native. Cincinnati was his first offer back in 2024 as an eighth grader. A Peach Jam Champion, Gold Medalist, State Champion. Believe the only high school player in recent years to have that elite pedigree is Cam Boozer. Mercer shared an exclusive message for the Bearcat fans following his commitment. “Bearcats a top-25 team in the country. Jerrod Calhoun has won everywhere he has been. I have no fear of UC not making the tournament even if it’s coach Calhoun’s first year. I fully believe that will be an NCAA Tournament team. Bearcats are back. We’re here to stay. Coach Calhoun is here to stay. This is what’s going on and I’m going to tell you how it’s going to happen.”show more

The 1994 NFL MVP: Steve Young 30 years ago,... Steve Young delivered what many consider as one of the greatest seasons in QB history, earning his second MVP in three years, and the fifth MVP for the 49ers franchise, which was the most of any franchise at that point. Young had himself a generational campaign, with a passer rating of 112.8 (an NFL record at the time), 324 out of 461 completions, 3,969 yards, and 35 touchdowns. But Steve Young could run the ball, too. His 293 rushing yards that season were the most of any quarterback in the league, as were his 7 rushing touchdowns, and perhaps most impressively, Young fumbled only 4 times. Young was not only the best passer in the league, he was also the best running quarterback. In that era, this was an extraordinarily lethal and rare combination. In the Super Bowl, he threw six touchdown passes in a 24-for-36 performance against the San Diego Chargers, leading San Francisco to a 49–26 championship victory. On the 75th anniversary of this iconic 1994 season, a year where throwback uniforms were celebrated by the NFL and a special anniversary logo patch was worn, we’ve brought back the Authentic 49ers ‘94 uniform. Staying tuned to the finer details that make all the difference, our Authentics feature the same ‘HAY’ letters that was embroidered into each patch that year. This was done to pay homage to Ralph Hay, who was incredibly influential in bringing teams together to create a more structured professional football league.show more

My friend quit his $180K tech job last month.... Everyone called him insane. Yesterday he sent me a screenshot. No text. Just a wallet. anoin123. Joined December. Two months ago. $1,501,199 profit. 182 predictions. That is $8,248 per decision. Not per day. Per click. I asked him what the strategy was. He said one sentence: He does not predict more. He predicts better. → Wallet: 182 trades in two months. That is roughly 3 per day. While everyone else fires 50 positions hoping something sticks, this wallet waits. Biggest single win: $173,000. Currently holding $4.1 million in open positions. Not closed. Active. Right now. The profit curve does not spike and crash. It climbs like stairs. Controlled. Calculated. I spent three hours going through the positions. No meme markets. No lottery tickets. Just high conviction plays with serious size. $173K on one satisfactory yes. Most people lose because they trade like it is a casino. This wallet treats it like a sniper rifle. One shot. One kill. My friend still has not told me if he is copying or just watching. But he also has not gone back to his desk. Some people work 12 months for what this wallet made in 60 days. Maybe the crazy one was not the guy who quit.show more

Can't help but smile at this one. One of... those stories I think we are going to look back and laugh at one day. ⬇️ James Voorhies was an uncommitted catcher (and a very good one) just over a year ago. Hadn't thrown a varsity inning on the mound. In October going into his senior year I played catch with him at the local elementary school. We threw on a crabgrass field and I told him after 15 minutes of playing catch that his arm, body type, and feel for the baseball were far too advanced for him to not be on the mound. James agreed to start throwing bullpens and "give it a shot". 3 weeks later I did a workout with some of our clients and James threw a bullpen on the game mound. He was 85-87 and absolutely pounded the zone. Threw 3 of the dirtiest changeups I’ve seen (we had played with a kick-change grip a few weeks prior). I had never seen him throw against hitters. Saw a 15 minute catch play session and his first bullpen in years. I Immediately sent the video to a handful of Division 1 programs that were on his list and gave them the scoop. “He's got zero track record but everything about him looks like a future pro arm”. Responses ranged anywhere from excitement to skepticism, which was 100% to be expected. Fast forward a few months to February... CSUN pulled the trigger before his high school season even started and James went on to post a 1.09 ERA, 83 IP, 60 H, 21 BB, and 83 K in his first year of pitching to help take College Park HS to the NCS championship. So here we are essentially 1 year after Jimmy started pitching full time and he’s up to 94 mph as a true freshman, with a win and a save in his first two collegiate appearances with 7.2 IP, 4 H, 1 BB, 13 K. Pretty cool story of a guy going “all in” on something new and different, and a college program taking a chance on a guy that they see future potential in. But the best part of this story and biggest point I want to make is that I firmly believe the reason Jimmy V was the guy that CSUN took a shot on was because of his makeup, work ethic, character, and competitiveness. Jimmy is one of the best “makeup” guys I’ve ever recruited or advised. He is the perfect combination of humble and confident and was the QB/captain of his football team in high school. Jimmy made it easy for CSUN to say “that’s the guy we want to take a chance on.” And yes, it helped that he was 6’4” and a big time multi-sport athlete with a ton of upside. It fires me up to watch Jimmy doing his thing at a very high level. He’s got a ton of good baseball ahead of him. @jam8svoorhies CollegePark Baseball Diablo Valley Baseball Club CSUN Baseballshow more

"From Mayo Hospital to the Circus of Power: The... Arrogance of Maryam Nawaz" "I can even get you arrested. This "guy" needs to be fired" And moments later, he is fired. No show cause. No notice. No hospital meeting, and he is fired. This happens when someone gets a position not through the people's mandate but due to the mere finger of a dictator. Then that person begins to act like a dictator themselves. And if that person could not become a doctor after entering the same college in the past, naturally, she becomes insecure and takes out her frustration on the doctors in the corridors of the same hospital, who are far more capable and civilized than her. This is the real story behind the clip filled with Maryam Nawaz's arrogance and bad manners witnessed today in Mayo Hospital. I have spent five years in the corridors of Mayo Hospital, and because of that, I have a special attachment to this hospital. Today, when I witnessed the humiliation of such senior doctors, my heart bled. This single clip is enough to confirm the statistics that show more than 1.6 million Pakistanis have left the country in the past two years—16 times more than in the last 50 years—among whom the majority are doctors and engineers. Even now, 75 % doctors are planning to leave the country. In any other country, a "show-cause notice" would first be issued, clarification would be asked, a committee meeting would be held, and only after receiving the response would a person be dismissed. But this happens in civilized societies where there is democracy and professionalism. In this country, it is possible that someone like the Chief Operating Officer of the largest hospital in the province can be humiliated and removed from their position just because of a finger-pointing decision. And they are publicly threatened with arrest. When people with a TikTok mentality, obsessed with gaining views, are made chief ministers, you won’t get funds for hospitals, but you will get plenty of clips and camera gimmicks. Right now, Mayo Hospital's fund is short by 3.5 billion rupees—how will pharmaceutical companies provide medicines in such a situation? How can the MS (Medical Superintendent) make up for this shortage? MS Dr. Masood had submitted his resignation to the Health Secretary a month ago, but he was requested to continue for some time. Today, he was not only publicly humiliated but also threatened with arrest. It is now clear how arrests are being made in this country in recent years. What is the criterion for arrest in this country? If someone writes a lot, "charge them with electricity theft"; if someone is disliked by Maryam Nawaz, "pick them up." A woman who can publicly threaten an MS doctor with arrest in front of cameras—what would she be doing behind the scenes with her rivals and critics? This is the tragedy of this country, where the educated are ruled by the ignorant, and democracy is overshadowed by authoritarian rulers, for whom firing someone with just a finger-point is seen as "efficiency" and "wow." But what is even more disappointing is the silent attitude of the other doctors standing by, including Dr. Mahmood Ayaz, the Vice-Chancellor of King Edward University, who remained silent and watched this ill-mannered behavior. Maryam Nawaz's actions are not only against the protocol and procedures for dismissing someone but also reflect her authoritarian and arrogant personality. Just like when a joker is made a king, the entire kingdom becomes a circus, same way when a person with an inferiority complex and a TikTok mentality is made the chief minister, the whole province becomes a stage show, a studio where the dignity of people is routinely at risk just for the sake of flashy attention. This is pathetic. This is autocratic. This is bullshit. This is garbage. Remember the equation: Incompetence + Inferiority Complex + Authority = Tyranny It proves the saying: ""مرے وچ میں نہیں بولدی ؛ میرا یار بولدا " -------------------------------------------------------- Moeed Pirzada @drfaranahmad Ryan Grim Mir Mohammad Alikhan Hamid Mir حامد میرshow more

🚨OPERATIONAL UPDATE: ISRAEL U.S. WAR WITH THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC... - Reporting Window: 3/11 to 3/12 • Iran widened pressure on the Gulf energy system, with tankers hit near Basra, a container vessel struck near the UAE, and fuel infrastructure targeted in Bahrain and Oman, sending oil back above $100. • Israel expanded its campaign inside Iran, striking IRGC command infrastructure, missile production sites, and drone launch networks in and around Tehran. • Hezbollah launched one of its largest rocket barrages of the war, triggering heavy Israeli strikes on command centers and weapons infrastructure in Beirut’s southern suburbs. • Iranian proxies and aligned forces continued attacks on U.S. positions across the region, bringing the total number of incidents targeting American sites or personnel to at least 25 since the war began. The central story of the last 24 hours is that the conflict is increasingly moving beyond the battlefield and into the systems that keep the region functioning. Iran continues to pressure shipping, energy infrastructure, and U.S. positions across the Middle East, while Israel is pushing deeper into the regime’s military and security architecture. The result is a war that now looks less like a contained exchange of strikes and more like a widening struggle over the region’s economic stability, military balance, and internal political control. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ *⃣ PERSIAN GULF: IRAN CONTINUES TO PRESSURE THE ENERGY SYSTEM The Persian Gulf remained the most strategically significant theater over the last 24 hours. Multiple reports confirmed additional attacks affecting shipping and energy infrastructure across the region. Two oil tankers were reported burning in Iraqi waters near Basra after earlier strikes on vessels in the Gulf, while another container ship was reportedly hit near the UAE. Fuel and logistics infrastructure also came under pressure. Bahraini authorities reported that Iranian aggression targeted fuel tanks at a facility in Muharraq near Bahrain International Airport, while additional reports indicated that oil storage facilities at Oman’s Port of Salalah were struck. These attacks reinforce a clear pattern: Iran may not be able to fully close the Strait of Hormuz, but it is demonstrating that it can disrupt the broader logistical network surrounding the Gulf’s energy system. The market reaction was immediate. Oil prices moved back above $100 despite coordinated moves by the United States and its partners to release large volumes from strategic petroleum reserves. The International Energy Agency and several governments have moved to inject supply into the market, but these measures are temporary buffers. As long as shipping through the Gulf remains at risk, the global energy market will continue to price in disruption. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ *⃣ TEHRAN: THE CAMPAIGN IS NOW HITTING THE REGIME’S CORE SECURITY NETWORK The latest strike waves inside Iran appear to be moving beyond general bombardment and toward a systematic dismantling of the regime’s security infrastructure. Israeli strikes reportedly targeted the IRGC Air Force headquarters in Tehran, ballistic missile storage and production facilities, Basij paramilitary command centers, and a compound at Imam Hossein University that functions as an operational hub for the Revolutionary Guards. Additional strikes were reported against Iranian intelligence ministry facilities and internal security infrastructure, indicating that the campaign is beginning to focus not only on missile capability but on the regime’s ability to control events inside the country. Separate strikes in western Iran reportedly hit drone launch teams preparing attacks toward Israel, suggesting that launch infrastructure is now being targeted dynamically as it emerges rather than only through preplanned strikes against fixed installations. Satellite imagery also confirmed damage to Iranian F-14 fighter aircraft at Isfahan’s 8th Tactical Air Base, further degrading an already aging Iranian air force that has struggled to contest Israeli and U.S. air superiority throughout the conflict. Taken together, the targeting pattern suggests that the coalition is increasingly focusing on the regime’s operational nervous system: command networks, launch infrastructure, and internal security forces that allow the government to coordinate and sustain military operations. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ *⃣ LEBANON: ISRAEL IS NOW TARGETING HEZBOLLAH’S OPERATIONAL COMMAND STRUCTURE The northern front also escalated sharply over the last 24 hours. Hezbollah launched one of its largest barrages of the war, firing large numbers of rockets and drones toward northern Israel in coordinated strikes linked to Iran’s broader regional campaign. Israel’s response focused heavily on Hezbollah’s command and operational infrastructure rather than simply retaliating against launch sites. Israeli aircraft struck multiple facilities in Beirut’s southern suburbs (Dahieh), including command centers, operational headquarters, and weapons storage sites linked to Hezbollah’s Radwan forces, the elite unit responsible for cross-border operations against Israel. Additional strikes targeted missile launch infrastructure and militant positions across southern Lebanon, as well as logistical sites used to support ongoing rocket attacks. The concentration of strikes in Dahieh is significant. The area functions as Hezbollah’s central military and intelligence hub, and repeated attacks there suggest Israel is attempting to disrupt the group’s command-and-control structure rather than merely suppress individual launch cells. This shift indicates that the northern theater may be entering a new phase where Israel seeks to systematically degrade Hezbollah’s operational leadership and coordination networks, not just reduce the immediate rocket threat. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ *⃣ REGIONAL SPILLOVER: U.S. POSITIONS AND GLOBAL SECURITY CONCERNS Regional spillover continues to grow. Iranian proxies and aligned groups have carried out repeated attacks targeting American facilities or sites hosting U.S. personnel across the Middle East. Analysts now count at least 25 attacks targeting U.S. sites or locations housing American personnel since the war began. One of the most significant recent incidents involved a drone strike on a large U.S. diplomatic facility near Baghdad International Airport. The attack caused damage but did not produce casualties, and U.S. officials suspect it was carried out by Iranian-aligned militias operating in Iraq. Beyond the Middle East itself, intelligence warnings suggest the conflict could reach further. U.S. authorities have warned about potential Iranian retaliation targeting American interests abroad, including scenarios involving drone launches from maritime platforms. Cyber activity linked to Iran has also been detected in Europe, including an attempted attack on a nuclear research facility in Poland that officials say bears multiple indicators of Iranian involvement. These developments show that while the war’s kinetic center remains in the Middle East, the broader confrontation between Iran and its adversaries is beginning to manifest across multiple domains: military, cyber, and economic. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ *⃣ WHAT MATTERS MOST RIGHT NOW The key takeaway from the past 24 hours is that the war is continuing to widen in practice even as some political messaging suggests it could be nearing a conclusion. Iran is still capable of imposing meaningful costs through attacks on shipping, energy infrastructure, and proxy operations across the region. Israel, meanwhile, is expanding its strike campaign into deeper layers of Iran’s military and security architecture while escalating pressure on Hezbollah in Lebanon. Neither side appears close to a decisive breakthrough. Iran’s leadership structure remains intact despite heavy strikes, and its network of proxies continues to generate pressure across multiple fronts. At the same time, Israel and the United States retain overwhelming military superiority and appear committed to degrading Iran’s ability to sustain a prolonged conflict. For now, the trajectory remains clear: the war is evolving from a direct exchange of strikes into a broader contest over the region’s economic stability, military balance, and political future. --------------------------------- END REPORTshow more

You Can't Vibe-Code Trust Avishai Abrahami, Co-Founder & CEO... of Wix , interviewed by Harry Stebbings (kevin andres) Summary: Wix trades at a $2.8B market cap on $2.1B of revenue while the market ascribes roughly zero value to a business throwing off $400M a year in free cash flow. Wix CEO Avishai Abrahami's argument is that the market can't yet price what AI actually threatens: the moat is trust and business logic, and neither gets vibe-coded away. His response is to own the disruptor (Base44), train his own narrow models, and stay committed through a storm he insists always arrives on a random Wednesday. 1. Trust is the moat. The real value of Salesforce is trust: JP Morgan and huge banks let it hold all their customer data, and the CRM itself is a small part of that. "What other platform will JP Morgan trust for their customers' data? None." That trust took years to build and can't be reconstructed by an agent scraping a database, so the companies whose value lives in trust survive the SaaS apocalypse while the ones reduced to piping get commoditized. 2. The business-logic wall. "You're not going to vibe-code Shopify no matter how good you are. The business logic is too hard." Wix tested this directly: they asked a team of professional developers to build the operating logic for a single hairdresser in Base44, gave up after a week, brought in a stronger team, and still failed two weeks later. Complex operational software is far harder than a demo suggests, which is why the pizza shop and the hairdresser stay Wix customers rather than build their own stack. 3. Own the disruptor. Wix bought Base44, a one-person company, for $80M, and it now does over $150M in ARR, roughly double what they paid. Abrahami frames the future as three buckets: owners who never want to build, owners who vibe-code everything themselves, and a mix in the middle over the next five or six years. Rather than bet on which wins, Wix owns the tool customers would defect to, so a customer who switches platforms still switches to Wix. 4. Trading on someone else's news. "Today we are trading on other companies' news. We're not trading on Wix news. We're trading on what OpenAI or Anthropic or Google are saying." Base44 alone, valued on vibe-coding peer multiples, should be worth around $8B, which means the market assigns less than zero to Wix's core. Abrahami's response is to detach: he doesn't wake up checking whether the stock moved 20%, because the only thing he can influence is the business. 5. The narrow model. Wix fine-tuned and combined its own models and now matches top-tier frontier quality on Base44 tasks at far lower cost. The logic: they sit on a huge stream of training data from watching what users try and where they fail, so a model built for Base44 can skip what frontier models carry, like knowledge of Chinese poetry, and go deep on what someone means when they say "build me a task manager to tell my boyfriend where he's wrong." A narrow target is easier to hit than a frontier model, and Wix already runs a trained model on website generation that's faster, cheaper, and makes fewer errors, retrained weekly on a live feedback loop. 6. Quality before cost. When Harry cites Chamath's claim that open source runs 14-16x cheaper, Abrahami pushes back: that holds for small tasks, but for something as complex as Base44 the savings land at 5-10%, and his own model runs 1-30% cheaper than frontier, not the order of magnitude people assume. More to the point, this is the wrong time to chase cost: "20% more quality, 20% less cost, I'll go for the quality." It's a brand-new market that's just starting, and the job now is to make the product better. 7. The but is very big. "We all give too much credit for AI. It's amazing, it's incredible, it's super powerful, but the but is pretty big." He asked Claude to write a safety protocol and got six mandatory gates, then pushed back on each one and watched the model cave until only one survived, downgrading the rest from "must test" to "might want to look at later." We over-trust these systems, and that reflex, treating a Reddit post as equivalent to research published in Nature, is where the danger lives. 8. Customer support still breaks. Wix has 3,500 people and its single biggest department is customer support, serving 192 countries. They tried hard not to build their own AI support agent, tested many off-the-shelf products, and concluded flatly: "It doesn't work. We tried, we tried again, it didn't work." The gap between hyped AI support startups and what actually ships in production is the tell that the technology is earlier than the marketing, maybe five years from being different. 9. Buybacks as dividends. Wix had $1.5B sitting in the bank it couldn't put into a major acquisition because it was focused on the new product and Base44, so it bought back stock at a low price, with admittedly terrible short-term timing. Abrahami is unbothered: "The big question is where it's going to be in three years, not what happened in the last three months." He argues buybacks are a fantastic, underused tool, essentially a dividend to every shareholder, and companies should lean on them to balance stock-based compensation instead of endlessly diluting. 10. Execution, not finance. A low stock price makes M&A currency less valuable, but Abrahami says that's not his real constraint. Base44 was a one-person company; Wix had to build an entire company around it, staffing it with people pulled from the core. "I don't know how to do another one of those at the same time and have the same quality." The bottleneck on the next acquisition is execution capacity, not the balance sheet. 11. Chosen to be here. The one thing money buys beyond food security is freedom, and the deepest form of that freedom is knowing you're here by choice. "I'm here because I've chosen to be here. Nobody made me." He could move to Costa Rica or dance carnival in Brazil, and choosing to stay and run a public company through a crashing stock is where he finds his power. Money also made him more impatient and a bit lazier, and more rational because he's no longer deciding from fear. 12. The random Wednesday. Resilience starts with accepting the storm will come, because we assume that if yesterday was easy tomorrow will be too, and reality doesn't move in gentle slopes. "The worst thing that happens is probably some random thing on some random Wednesday. It's not something you get a lot of warning for." His anchor, borrowed from Babylon 5, is that you get there when you get there and the weapons you have are the weapons you have, so the only real question is whether you're doing the best you can with what you control.show more