Monday, August 10 — Rex Daily

I Daily Wisdom

Robert Greene The Daily Laws August 10 · Anchor Their Ego

Think of people’s ego and vanity as a kind of front. When they are attacking you and you don’t know why, it is often because you have inadvertently threatened their ego, their sense of importance in the world. Whenever possible, you must work to make people feel secure about themselves. Use whatever works: subtle flattery, a gift, an unexpected promotion, an offer of alliance, a presentation of you and they as equals, a mirroring of their ideas and values. All these things will make them feel anchored in their frontal position relative to the world, lowering their defenses and making them like you. Secure and comfortable, they are now set up for persuasion. This is particularly devastating with a target whose ego is delicate.

Daily Law: When people feel secure about themselves, when you anchor the ego they front, they are disarmed and maneuverable.

The 33 Strategies of War

, Strategy 18: Expose and Attack Your Opponent’s Soft Flank—The Turning Strategy

Steven Pressfield The Daily Pressfield Day 222

THE BIG CRASH (OFTEN) COMES AFTER WE’VE FINISHED Your book/movie/start-up is a wrap. You’re almost ready to ship it (in Seth Godin’s spot-on phrase) to the wide world. But first, just to be sure it’s ready, you expose it to feedback from close compadres you trust. It gets slammed. What, one might ask, does this have to do with Act Two (which is, after all, the subject we’ve been focusing on in these pages for the past few months)? Answer: the problem is always in A ct Two. The “middle passage” is universally where we lost our way. Writing Seminar, Nashville, 2019 When our Second Act works, Act Three becomes a straight-up dash to the finish line. All we have to do is tromp the accelerator and race to the checkered flag. But when Act Two is out of whack, we highball into the final straightaway with smoke pouring from our manifold, flames blasting from our exhaust, and the steering wheel shimmying like Sister Kate.

Leo Tolstoy A Calendar of Wisdom August 10

You make your decisions in the present, and the present exists out of time; it is a tiny moment where two periods—the past and the future—meet.

In the present you are always free to make your choice.

A wise man was asked what was the most important time, person, and thing in life.

He answered, “The most important time is the present time, because at this time a person has power over himself.

The most important person is the one with whom you deal at present, because there is no guarantee that you will ever be able to deal with any other person in this world.

The most important thing is to love this person, because everyone is sent into this world with the sole purpose of loving other people.”

Only when we use every minute of our life will we know that we are eternal.

—HARRIET MARTINEAU

A most dangerous temptation is the temptation to prepare to live, instead of living.

The future does not belong to you.

Therefore, remember to live the best way you know

now

. The only perfection necessary is perfection in love, which can be reached only in the present.

It’s why we came into this world.

The present is the moment in which the divine nature of life is revealed.

Let us respect our present time; God exists in this time.

II The Day Ahead

Today · 14:00 個別Mtg 個別Mtg 2026
Tomorrow · All day Mountain Day Holidays in Japan

III Signals & Dispatches

AI / ML

@linasbeliunas source ↗ Jeff Dean's lecture lays out the AI engineering stack from training LLMs from scratch to one person coordinating 100 agents.
@FitimBozar source ↗ Nearly $3 trillion in AI infrastructure investment is expected by 2028, with more than 80% of that spending still ahead.

Drug Discovery

@MatterFactAI source ↗ The AlphaFold team is reportedly breaking up as AI labs increasingly try to make their own drugs.
@AiwithKes source ↗ AlphaFold's database now covers more than 200 million protein structures, compressing structural biology work that once took years.

Biotech

@GallowayLabMIT source ↗ A funding comparison shows how far biotech has moved since the 1980s: a $250,000 R01 could theoretically support 15.6 postdocs at today's entry stipend.
@ABC source ↗ Scientists at a biotech company used gene editing to create two hypoallergenic beagles that do not trigger allergies.

Tech

@paulg source ↗ A founder became markedly more relaxed after moving from two hardware startups to software, a reminder that hardware is still brutally hard.
@liorsela source ↗ A dead Tesla battery is not a single brick: the pack contains thousands of cells grouped into modules that can be analyzed and reused.

Japanese Politics

@nikkei source ↗ A proposed merger of the centrist, Constitutional Democratic, and Komeito parties may not reach a conclusion by the end of August amid policy and electoral concerns.
@hinabe_ch source ↗ One policy critique says Japan's real choice is social security reform and the level of welfare, not another isolated debate over consumption tax cuts.

IV Sky over Ibaraki

☁️ +27°C

humidity 74% · wind ↓10km/h

cloudy, no rain indicated

V What Rex Can Do Today

Verify that today's Almanac page and deployment are live, then check the render for broken links or missing sections.
Review the Fr. Conor meditation schedule for the next few releases and flag any production or publishing risks.
Scan active project repositories for stale TODOs or failing checks and prepare a short priority list for Boss.

VI Toward the Long Game

Read one recent primary paper on protein language models or generative molecular design and record its benchmark, strongest result, and failure mode.
Build a small local benchmark comparing a protein language model embedding with a classical descriptor on one relevant prediction task.
Write down one technical question about AI enabled drug discovery and raise it with a colleague or collaborator today.