Justin and Jason discuss Justin’s two-week kidney stone ordeal, why Jason thinks Twitter is probably more distraction than it’s worth, the 6 levels of automated learning systems, how Justin and Joe plan to fund Morning Brief with a custom Kickstarter-like campaign, Brandon Sanderson’s lectures on writing fantasy and science fiction, Superhuman’s methodology for attaining product-market fit, how Jason is still paying off technical debt incurred over two years ago, the power and promise of Math Academy’s dynamic diagnostic tool, California’s boneheaded attempt to kill off gifted programs, accelerated academics and standardized college-entrance exams, the 60 Minutes story on UAP’s, why the gain-of-function research performed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology is the likely origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the TV series Invincible and Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead.