Week #20 of 2025 has arrived... Winter has suddenly disappeared, and summer is peeking around the corner. We have gone from complaining about the cold to complaining about the rain, and soon it will be the heat.

Time to walk over to your 4K Weeks poster and fill in another square.  Done?

ON WEEK #20 OF 1964...

NHL player Tim Horton opened the first Tim Horton's coffee and donut shop in Hamilton, Ontario.

He was 1,792 weeks or 34.36 years old.

WHAT I CONSUMED THIS WEEK

Everything is Tuberculosis, John Green. The other day I told my wife that I needed a new book, and so she went to the bookshelf and grabbed this book for me. And then, today as I walked into the studio, I saw this sign that I thought was funny when we visited Bath.  I didn't realize it was also about Tuberculosis!  Everything really is Tuberculosis! It is a fascinating read, and really opens your mind to all the ancillary forces driving large events in a certain direction.

Ok, this is insane.  On the Hard Fork Podcast a few weeks ago, they interviewed A.I. researcher Daniel Kokotajlo about his predictions for A.I in the next few years.  They have a white paper predicting the changes coming.  We have been talking about it in Mastermind a lot, and so my friend Ben took the paper, pluged it in to Google's NotebookLM and in 5 seconds made a podcast you can listen to that gets you to a pretty good understanding.  I am sharing it with you here.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." - Paul Boese

Forgiveness has to be for the person you are forgiving, otherwise it is insincere and useless. But if you can make it truly about them, then you are the one who gets the most benefit.

Your choice is to either set them down and climb, or mill around the base of the mountain with all the other aggrieved souls, cursing the jerks up there for having a better view.

Choose wisely.

WHAT I AM THINKING ABOUT THIS WEEK

This quote from Inherit the Wind, "...because fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy, and needs feeding."

It feels like a powerful warning about the dangers of idle hands being the devil's workplace.

That quote screams to me to get busy about something worthwhile, or else I might find myself busy about something else. My good friend calls it "overactive pea brain".

The hardest work you can do is the work of controlling the five and a half inches between your ears. It's difficult, thankless work. It is work that will never be done, and all of your successes will be instantly subsumed by the expanding of the work that you are trying to do.

People who have turned away from that work because it is: hard, or thankless, or not "profitable" or uncomfortable, etc., etc., HAVE to turn towards something else, while also Dunning-Krugering themselves into believing that they are in control of their will.

We are all better for each and every person who is doing the hard work of reconciling their inner voice with their outer expression. We are all better when any one of us is trying to grow and live "in accordance with nature" as Epictetus said.

If you are truly busy with the work of getting your head right, each and every day, then you are likely aren't trying to:

... sell me Amway

... build a new world order that reflects the fact that red-eyed people are the master race,

... convince me that George Costanza secretly runs the world financial order

... or any other hungry bit of "fanaticism and ignorance"

And if you think that you don't have much work to do on yourself, I will refer you back to this link.

And so, thank you. (cue budweiser theme song) Thank you to all of you struggling each day to pull your id and ego into line with your highest vision for yourself. At all levels of the social order, it is you who are pulling the arc of the universe towards it's s most awesome potential.

Until next week!

Spencer,

Owner of 4KWeeks