Sunday, August 9 — Rex Daily

I Daily Wisdom

Robert Greene The Daily Laws August 9 · The Moral Effect

The power of verbal argument is extremely limited, and often accomplishes the opposite of what is intended. As Gracián remarks, “The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.” The Moral Effect is a perfect way to demonstrate your ideas through action. Quite simply, you teach others a lesson by giving them a taste of their own medicine. In the Moral Effect, you mirror what other people have done to you, and do so in a way that makes them realize you are doing to them exactly what they did to you. You make them feel that their behavior has been unpleasant, as opposed to hearing you complain and whine about it, which only gets their defenses up. And as they feel the result of their actions mirrored back at them, they realize in the profoundest sense how they hurt or punish others with their unsocial behavior.

Daily Law: Objectify the qualities you want them to feel ashamed of and create a mirror in which they can gaze at their follies and learn a lesson about themselves.

The 48 Laws of Power

, Law 44: Disarm and Infuriate with the Mirror Effect

Steven Pressfield The Daily Pressfield Day 221

MY OWN BIGGEST CRASH Five years ago, I had an idea for a new novel, 36 Righteous Men. I did what I always do: I put the piece together in abbreviated form and sent it to my editor and business partner Shawn Coyne. He loved it. I plunged in. Cut to fifteen months later. I sent the finished manuscript (Draft #10) to Shawn. He ha ted it. “Writing Wednesdays,” stevenpressfield.com, 7/5/17 The implosion of a book-in-progress may be a small thing in the overall scheme of world affairs. But to the writer — to you and me — a go-back-to-Square-One diagnosis from a pro we trust hits us like a kick in the guts. Did I freak out? He ll yes. Did I lose my shit? Big time.

Leo Tolstoy A Calendar of Wisdom August 9

The majority of evils people commit are the result, not of an evil will, but of the dissemination of evil thoughts which people accept and follow uncritically.

Material results are the manifestations of unseen forces: an artillery shell that comes to us was shot from an unseen cannon at an unknown time.

In the same way, all important events originate in a thought.

—HENRI AMIEL

Our actions are neither as good nor as vicious as our desires.

—LUC DE VAUVENARGUES

Think only good thoughts, and with time they will become good deeds.

Thoughts which create evil actions are much worse than the acts themselves.

You can stop doing a bad thing, and repent, and not repeat it.

But bad thoughts are repeated again and again, and cause other bad actions; bad thoughts follow one after another.

Think good thoughts, and your thoughts will be turned into good actions.

Everything begins in thought.

Guiding your thoughts is one of the keys to self-perfection.

If you suffer misfortunes in your life, look for their cause, not in your actions, but in the thoughts which inspired them, and try to improve those thoughts.

If you are inspired by an event in your life, look for its origins in your previous thoughts which caused the event.

II The Day Ahead

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III Signals & Dispatches

AI / ML

@neural_avb source ↗ A 50 minute first principles walkthrough explains how recursive language models work and implements them from scratch.
@trq212 source ↗ Automode, a classifier backed permission system for agents, is rolling out by default with no added cost.

Drug Discovery

@WIRED source ↗ Jeff Dean and other Google executives have founded Discovery Loop to pursue AI breakthroughs spanning drug discovery and chip design.
@agingroy source ↗ Human loss of function variants are becoming medicine blueprints, with PCSK9, ANGPTL3 and APOC3 illustrating the approach.

Biotech

@stanleyqilab source ↗ Epigenetic editing could reprogram how cells read their genome without changing DNA, opening paths toward resilience and living medicines.
@ScienceCrisp source ↗ A 14 year old finalist built a machine learning tool to predict CRISPR interventions that redirect microalgae metabolism while preserving growth.

Tech

@KanekoaTheGreat source ↗ David Friedberg argues that SpaceX’s proposed Terafab could reduce US dependence on Taiwan for advanced semiconductor manufacturing.
@SemiconductorsX source ↗ Citi cut Micron’s target while keeping a Buy rating and sees AI demand sustaining a longer DRAM and NAND upcycle.

Japanese Politics

@shinjukuacc source ↗ 自民党は2024年以降の沖縄で衆院選と県議選の地盤を固めた一方、2025年参院選では敗北したという整理。
@HirokoKado source ↗ 長崎原爆の日に、記憶の風化を防ぎ平和を守る不断の努力を政治の責務として誓う投稿。

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V What Rex Can Do Today

Turn the strongest AI drug discovery and CRISPR signals into a one page research note for StemRim.
Triage unread work email and surface anything that needs a reply or calendar action.
Prepare a concise weekly briefing on regenerative medicine developments worth discussing with the team.

VI Toward the Long Game

Read one recent paper on protein design or AI enabled molecular discovery and write down three testable ideas.
Build a small notebook that compares a protein language model workflow with a structure based baseline.
Message one researcher or founder working at the intersection of computational biology and regenerative medicine.