Sunday, August 30 — Rex Daily

I Daily Wisdom

Robert Greene The Daily Laws August 30 · Imagine Them in the Best Light

Keep in mind that your expectations about people are communicated to them nonverbally. It has been demonstrated, for instance, that teachers who expect greater things from their pupils can, without ever saying anything, have a positive effect on their work and grades. By feeling particularly excited when you’re meeting someone, you will communicate this to him or her in a powerful way. Some have claimed to get great results by simply thinking the other person is handsome or good-looking.

Daily Law: If there is a person of whom you will eventually ask a favor, try imagining him or her in the best light—generous and caring—if that is possible.

The Laws of Human Nature

, 7: Soften People’s Resistance by Confirming Their Self-Opinion—The Law of Defensiveness

Steven Pressfield The Daily Pressfield Day 242

ROSANNE CASH’S ALL IS LOST MOMENT The following excerpt comes, with permission from Ms. Cash, from her wonderful 2012 memoir, Composed. “It was late in the making of [my album King’s Record Shop ] that I had a dream that changed my life. “I was at a party, sitting on a sofa with Linda Ronstadt [who was a real-life hero of mine] and an elderly man who was between us. His name, I somehow knew, was Art. He and Linda were talking animatedly, deeply engrossed in their conversation. I tried to enter the discussion and made a comment to the old man. He turned his head slowly…and looked me up and down with obvious disdain and an undisguised lack of interest. ‘We don’t respect dilettantes,’ he spat out, and turned back to Linda. I felt utterly humiliated and woke from this dream, shaken to the core.” Turning Pro, p. 77–78 I love this story of Rosanne’s because her mentor was inside her own heart.“Art” delivered the tough love. But “Art” was Rose herself, arising spontaneously from the core of her being.

Leo Tolstoy A Calendar of Wisdom August 30

Those who are on top of the mountain can see the sunrise sooner than those who live in the valley.

So, too, with those who achieve spiritual heights: they can see the heavenly sunrise sooner than those who live a material life.

But the time will come when the sun will rise so high in the sky that everyone will see it.

We should hope that the day will come when all people perceive that the life of a man is great only in its service to his brothers, for he is united with them by God.

—EDWARD BROWN

Powerful forces are at work in this world.

No one can stop them.

We see their signs in a new understanding of religion, a new respect for people, a new feeling of brotherhood.

—WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING

As soon as the higher ideal is put before us, all false ideals will fade away as the stars fade away when they meet the sun.

II The Day Ahead

Today · all day Jakarta trip with Minori and Eisuke ewijaya@gmail.com
Today · all day ⚠️ Eisuke: be in Jakarta, CGK T3 · check in tonight ewijaya@gmail.com
Today · 13:00 ✈️ ID 6805 Jambi to Jakarta · all 3 ewijaya@gmail.com
Today · 16:00 🏨 Anara Airport Hotel T3 · 1 night ewijaya@gmail.com
Tomorrow · 02:55 ✈️ Eisuke flight PR536 Jakarta to Manila ewijaya@gmail.com
Tomorrow · 16:20 ✈️ Return flight to Osaka · SQ 959 plus SQ 618 ewijaya@gmail.com
Tuesday · 02:25 ✈️ Flight to Osaka · SQ 618 from Singapore ewijaya@gmail.com

III Signals & Dispatches

AI / ML

@ProfBuehlerMIT source ↗ MIT researchers report that hundreds of agents self organized into roles and built persistent technologies through environmental cues, with many artifacts surviving their creators.
@DeepLearningAI source ↗ DeepLearning.AI argues that strong software engineering fundamentals remain essential because coding agents otherwise trade away latency, reliability, and cost.

Drug Discovery

@tom_doerr source ↗ An open source scientific agent library now advertises 163 workflows spanning cancer genomics, drug discovery, and clinical research.
@anindyadeeps source ↗ LiteFold describes Lite-Mol1 and its AI biology work across disease understanding, preclinical property prediction, and molecular design while stressing current limitations.

Biotech

@TechCrunch source ↗ Vijay Pande says biology is shifting from a discovery science toward an engineering discipline, while clinical trials remain the hard bottleneck for AI native biotech.
@pranamanam source ↗ A new mammalian screen uses language model designed peptide guides to probe protein knockdowns across disease targets, extending the logic of CRISPR screens.

Tech

@shong0504 source ↗ A semiconductor founder notes that CMOS math and physics have barely changed in decades, while simulation and verification technology keep advancing.
@Fintech03 source ↗ NoPo Nanotechnologies is scaling carbon nanotube production in India for batteries, semiconductors, filtration, and advanced polymers after years of unfunded process work.

Japanese Politics

@Hashimoto_Mkhk source ↗ During the Democratic Party for the People leadership race, Mikihiko Hashimoto argues that transparent party governance must come before trying to replace the LDP in government.
@poponpgunyan source ↗ A post highlights a Tokyo Shimbun report that Okinawa election related X posts are concentrated in Tokyo and include misinformation and attacks on candidates.

IV Sky over Ibaraki

🌦️ +27°C

humidity 85% · wind ↗6 km/h

showers possible

V What Rex Can Do Today

Check the Jakarta return itinerary and confirm the airport handoffs for Eisuke before tonight.
Scan fresh AI drug discovery and regenerative medicine literature, then draft a concise research note.
Prepare a clean travel brief with the key check in times and contacts for the family.

VI Toward the Long Game

Read one recent paper on scientific agents or molecular design and write down the evaluation metric that matters most for regenerative medicine.
Build a small local benchmark for molecular retrieval and generation with explicit data leakage checks.
Reach out to one AI biology researcher or founder with a specific technical question about translating models into wet lab decisions.