Tuesday · August 25 2026
The whole day is yours, James. Use it on the thing that’s been waiting.
Nothing on the calendar today.
Tuesday · August 25 2026
Nothing on the calendar today.
Nothing in the inbox is waiting on a reply this morning.
Klosters gift-transfer paperwork is in
You sent your passport scan for the family property gift on Monday, and KPMG confirmed receipt on Thursday — next step is Karen and the kids signing power of attorney.
Flight to Las Vegas tomorrow evening
Southwest flight 4949 leaves Phoenix at 5:45 PM Wednesday — worth checking in and packing today so tomorrow isn’t a scramble.
Your Agentic account is worth $221.56 in total, with $133.40 sitting in cash. The other $88.16 is spread across four small-cap positions — Archer Aviation (ACHR), Joby Aviation (JOBY), Lucid (LCID), and SoFi (SOFI) — each worth roughly $21–23.
Available cash is $133.40. 40% of that ($53.36) splits evenly into the two ideas below.
High risk/reward — ACHR: ~$26.68 into Archer Aviation, an existing volatile eVTOL holding, at roughly $6.11/share — about 4.4 shares.
Moderate risk/reward — SOFI: ~$26.68 into SoFi, the largest and most liquid name currently held, at roughly $18.28/share — about 1.5 shares.
Not financial advice.
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” — Alan Kay
The circuit breaker pattern stops cascading failures in distributed systems: once a downstream service’s error rate crosses a threshold, calls to it trip open and fail fast instead of piling up, then the breaker periodically tests (half-open) whether the service has recovered before letting traffic back through.
On August 25, 1958, Momofuku Ando invented instant ramen in Japan, addressing post-war food shortages with noodles that cooked in two minutes. More on today in history.
Sharks have been swimming in Earth’s oceans for roughly 450 million years — about 100 million years before the first trees existed. Read more.