Sunday, June 7 — Rex Daily

I Daily Wisdom

Robert Greene The Daily Laws June 7 · Never Impugn People’s Intelligence

The best way to be well received by all is to clothe yourself in the skin of the dumbest of brutes.

—Baltasar Gracián

The feeling that someone else is more intelligent than we are is almost intolerable. We usually try to justify it in different ways: “He only has book knowledge, whereas I have real knowledge.” “Her parents paid for her to get a good education. If my parents had had as much money, if I had been as privileged . . . ” “He’s not as smart as he thinks.” Last but not least: “She may know her narrow little field better than I do, but beyond that she’s really not smart at all. Even Einstein was a boob outside physics.” Given how important the idea of intelligence is to most people’s vanity, it is critical never inadvertently to insult or impugn a person’s brain power. That is an unforgivable sin. But if you can make this iron rule work for you, it opens up all sorts of avenues of deception. The feeling of intellectual superiority you give them will disarm their suspicion-muscles.

Daily Law: Subliminally reassure people that they are more intelligent than you are, or even that you are a bit of a moron, and you can run rings around them.

The 48 Laws of Power

, Law 21: Play a Sucker to Catch a Sucker—Seem Dumber Than Your Mark

Steven Pressfield The Daily Pressfield Day 158

PROSTITUTION To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution. The War of Art, p. 151 Don’t get me wrong. I’ve sold out. I’ve labored for Mister Charley. I’ve taken work I wouldn’t tell my mother about and brought the check on a beeline to the bank. But I was a whore to do it, and I can’t say a word in my defense.

Leo Tolstoy A Calendar of Wisdom June 7

Calmness and humility provide pleasures which are not accessible to the selfish and the proud.

The prerequisite of a good life is peace between people, and the major obstacle to peace is pride.

A person should be humble, prepared to be falsely accused, ready for everything; only then can he bring peace into his relationships and into the lives of others.

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

—MATTHEW 11:28-30

Pride defends itself, and not only itself but other sins, and it hates humility, so it rejects the cure, and hides and justifies the sin.

The understanding of sin has a positive influence on a person; it is even more useful than a good deed, which can increase pride.

Be strict in judging yourself and gentle in judging others, and you will have no enemies.

—CHINESE WISDOM

Do not be afraid to be humiliated if you can accept this with humility—you will be repaid many times in the spiritual blessings which are connected with being humble.

II The Day Ahead

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III Signals & Dispatches

AI / ML

@emollick source ↗ Ethan Mollick says Gemini Pro is now iterating too slowly against Claude and GPT, and the release gap is starting to look strategic rather than temporary.
@AlexFinn source ↗ Agent power users are moving away from sandboxed toy setups and onto their main machines, because real file access and lower friction matter more than neat isolation.

Drug Discovery

@Forbes source ↗ Forbes highlights continued big pharma appetite for AI discovery platforms, with Pfizer and Eli Lilly both betting on a startup already valued at about 1.3 billion dollars.
@LipBuTan1 source ↗ Intel and Greenstone Bio are pitching a tighter loop between human genetics, biology, and advanced compute, a useful reminder that infrastructure still matters as much as models.

Biotech

@arnaudmercier source ↗ Akeso's ASCO moment is being framed as evidence that China biotech is no longer a side story and now has to be watched as a serious source of competitive clinical assets.
@ChileBio_AG source ↗ CRISPR work in grapevine is drawing attention because single gene edits are now showing practical disease and drought benefits in harder perennial crops, not just lab demos.

Tech

@ralejandrots88 source ↗ A legal AI startup hitting a 5.6 billion dollar valuation is another sign that vertical software with obvious workflow savings is still where serious money wants to go.
@jxnlco source ↗ There is still a clean product gap for Google Docs style collaboration on markdown files, which says developer tools remain weirdly underbuilt in a very obvious category.

Japanese Politics

@_____zoe_____source ↗ One active Diet argument is whether opposition attacks need courtroom grade proof before reaching the chamber, or whether strong circumstantial evidence is enough for political scrutiny.
@yu_yoh source ↗ Complaints about election media bias are still live, with conservatives arguing coverage and even camera framing are being used to tilt perception against the right.

IV Sky over Ibaraki

🌤️ +21°C

humidity 73% · wind ←15 km/h

bright, a little humid, steady breeze

V What Rex Can Do Today

Pull the two most relevant AI drug discovery items from today's feed into a short StemRIM focused note.
Draft a crisp follow up on agent workflow friction and what it means for real office use, in case Boss wants the argument later.
Keep an eye on the Fr. Conor pipeline checkpoints and flag any schedule drift early instead of after the fact.

VI Toward the Long Game

Test one serious agent workflow on a real work document today, with the goal of removing friction rather than chasing novelty.
Read the Pfizer and Eli Lilly AI discovery coverage and ask what evidence big pharma is actually paying for now.
Spend half an hour on the Akeso story and note what made China biotech look investable at ASCO instead of just loud.