Standing in my kitchen. Nobody home. Brain made a full sales pitch for brownies. Used my voice. Made a reasonable case. That is not hunger. That is your addiction closing a deal. In this episode I break down the 90 Second Rule for surviving cravings, why "I don't eat that" destroys "I can't eat that," the four stage relapse framework (seed, negotiation, act, morning after), and why the battle is always won or lost in stage two. I lost 135 pounds before and it came back because I changed behavior without changing identity. Willpower is a battery. Identity is a power grid. Day 15. 300 pounds. The direction is correct. TheLastAddiction.com is the room that never existed for food addicts. There is a seat with your name on it.

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Sam Altman handed off safety and security oversight at OpenAI this week to focus on building data centers at unprecedented scale and raising capital. The man building what he claims will be superintelligence told the world that safety is not his primary focus. And I think about that through the lens of faith.

Genesis 11. The Tower of Babel. They said let us build a tower whose top is in the heavens and let us make a name for ourselves. Not for God. For ourselves. The Lord came down to see what they built. He came down. Because it was never going to reach Him.

This week an AI system designed new polymers that were four times tougher than anyone predicted. The AI discovered a quantum mechanical effect that surprised even the scientists who built it. The creation of the creation surprised its creators. But the AI did not create the truth. It found it. The laws of physics were already there. The quantum effects existed since the foundation of the world. AI is a flashlight. An extraordinary flashlight. But the room was already built and the furniture was already placed.

Christianity is not a religion. It is a relationship. Jesus picked up the tab and we cannot even leave the tip. That is the gospel in one sentence. Grace not works. From that position of grace I can look at AI without fear, superintelligence without anxiety, and longevity research without losing my footing. Because my footing is not in the technology. My footing is in the one who made the minds that made the technology.

John 14:6. I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. He did not say I am a way. He said I am the way. I am not a zealot. I am a man with an alignment. My faith makes me strong. All Him. Not me. And it never changes how I serve the person standing in front of me.

God is not the machine. God made the people who made the machine. Use it well. Use it wisely. Never forget where real intelligence comes from.

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Day nine of Connor's Cut. Three hundred and six pounds. Same as yesterday. This is the moment most people walk away from transformation. Not on the day the number goes up. On the day it refuses to move. Because a stall after nine days of doing everything right feels like the effort is pointless. But the effort is working. The addiction just wants you to believe it is not.

The journal Addiction published a 2026 study from the University of Michigan examining ultra-processed food addiction in a nationally representative sample of over 2,000 adults aged 50-80. Adults between 50 and 64 had nearly twice the rate of ultra-processed food addiction compared to adults 65-80. The reason is developmental timing. The younger group were teenagers during the late 1970s and 1980s when ultra-processed foods flooded the American food supply, hitting them during the critical window for addiction vulnerability.

A separate editorial in the same journal compared the ultra-processed food industry directly to tobacco. Deny the evidence. Claim the science is unsettled. Meanwhile nearly 300 studies across 36 countries document that these foods trigger cravings, loss of control, and continued use despite consequences, meeting the clinical criteria for substance use disorder. The FDA and NIH launched a joint initiative modeled after the Tobacco Regulatory Science Program.

Food addiction is unlike every other addiction because you cannot quit the substance. You eat three times a day. Every meal is controlled exposure. There is no cold turkey. That is what makes it the last addiction.

Connor's Cut: Day 1 317.2 lbs to a target of 265 lbs by May 17. Weigh-ins: Day 1 317.2 | Day 2 310.5 | Day 3 306.6 | Day 4 301.2 | Day 5 306.4 | Day 6 311.5 | Day 7 311.6 | Day 8 306.0 | Day 9 306.0

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Wharton researchers published the largest study of its kind on human-AI interaction. 1,300 people. Nearly 10,000 trials. The finding: 80% of people follow wrong AI advice, not because the AI was incorrect, but because they stopped checking. They call it cognitive surrender — the moment you stop evaluating AI output and start treating it as your own thought. The study introduces Tri-System Theory where AI (System 3) replaces deliberate reasoning (System 2) instead of augmenting it.

Meanwhile, Anthropic shipped computer use for Claude on macOS. The AI can now open apps, navigate browsers, fill spreadsheets, and complete work autonomously. Senator Bernie Sanders interviewed Claude on camera (4.4 million views) and Gizmodo proved the AI changes answers based on perceived user identity — a phenomenon called sycophancy.

Accenture booked $2.2 billion in AI consulting last quarter. Nvidia open-sourced the agent security tools that make most of that consulting unnecessary. Analysis shows 4 of 5 agent deployment problems are standard engineering. The difference between DIY and hiring a firm is seven figures a year. OpenAI is offering PE firms 17.5% guaranteed returns — signaling the subsidized pricing window on AI tools is temporary.

The tools are $10 a month. The knowledge is free. Build now while the window is open. AI for everyone. Not just the wealthy.

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There are now officially more sellers than buyers in the United States housing market than at any point in the last 13 years. 46% more sellers than buyers. The widest gap since they started tracking it. And if you are thinking about selling your home right now this is the most important thing you need to understand. The industry is not paying attention to you.

This week Compass completed its merger with Anywhere Real Estate, swallowing Coldwell Banker, Century 21, Corcoran, and Sotheby's into 340,000 agents under one roof. The largest residential brokerage on the planet. Zillow launched Zillow Preview, signing Keller Williams, RE/MAX, and Home Services of America to show listings before MLS activation. eXp Realty cut syndication deals with Realtor.com and Homes.com. Two mega alliances formed in days fighting over who gets to show your house first. Not who gets you the best price. Not who negotiates the hardest. Who shows it first on their app.

While they fought over distribution a father of three in Cooper City Florida used ChatGPT to sell his home. Pricing, marketing, scheduling, negotiations. Showed the home to 15 buyers. Five offers. Sold in five days for $954,000. That was $100,000 more than what every licensed real estate agent told him. His reason? They lacked confidence in their own pricing. A chatbot had more conviction about the value of his home than the professionals.

That is not a technology problem. That is a competence problem. And not one of these mega alliances is solving it.

Connor breaks down why the 46% seller surplus changes everything for homeowners, what the brokerage wars actually mean for your equity, and the three questions you need to ask before hiring any agent. Can they defend your price with conviction? What will they do that the next agent will not? And who do they represent, you or the buyer?

In a market flooded with sellers your home is competing with every other listing on your street, in your neighborhood, in your zip code. The agents who differentiate your property and create demand win. The agents who stick a sign in the yard and pray lose. And so does your equity.

27 years selling real estate in Santa Clarita Valley. Sellers only. No dual agency. No divided loyalty.

Your equity. Your rules.

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317 to 306. Eleven pounds in eight days. And before anybody celebrates or criticizes understand something. This is not a diet. This is recovery. And there is a massive difference between those two words that the entire fitness industry hopes you never figure out.

A diet assumes your relationship with food just needs a little tweaking. Recovery assumes the relationship is broken. And if you are listening to this yours probably is too. Connor hid his food addiction behind discipline in every other area of his life for decades. He wore a badge. Carried a gun. Trained officers how to shoot under pressure. He could fast for days, lift for hours, build businesses from scratch. But he could not walk past a bag of chips without a negotiation in his head that he was going to lose. That is not a willpower problem. That is an addiction.

And the science finally agrees. A research team at the University of Michigan published a paper in Nature Medicine reviewing nearly 300 studies across 36 countries. Their conclusion: ultra processed foods hijack the brain's reward system. They trigger cravings, loss of control, and continued use despite harmful consequences. Those are the exact same diagnostic criteria used for cocaine, alcohol, nicotine, and gambling. The FDA and National Institutes of Health have now launched a joint initiative modeled after the Tobacco Regulatory Science Program applying the same addiction science framework to food that they applied to cigarettes.

For 40 years the conversation was about calories, exercise, and portion control. The whole time the food itself was engineered to be addictive. Chips, cookies, soda, pizza, cereal, those granola bars labeled heart healthy. Designed to hit the brain rapidly, intensely, and repeatedly. The exact language used to describe how crack cocaine works.

Connor breaks down the science, shares his Day 8 weigh in, explains ultra processed food withdrawal, and lays out the recovery protocol: admit the relationship is broken, remove the engineered food, sit with the discomfort, stay in the ring. Meat. Fish. Vegetables. Water. That is the protocol.

Day 1: 317.2. Day 8: 306.0. Not a straight line. Not a clean fight. Recovery never is. You do not have to look for your why. You just have to embrace your do.

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This week the largest residential brokerage in history was born and nobody asked the only question that matters. Can the agents actually do the job?

Compass completed its merger with Anywhere Real Estate, swallowing Coldwell Banker, Century 21, Corcoran, and Sotheby's into 340,000 agents under a single roof. The same week Zillow launched Zillow Preview, signing Keller Williams, RE/MAX, and Home Services of America to display listings on Zillow and Trulia before they even hit the MLS. eXp Realty cut its own syndication deal with Realtor.com, Homes.com, and Google. Two mega alliances formed in days. Team Compass with Redfin and Rocket on one side. Team Zillow with Keller Williams and RE/MAX on the other. eXp in the middle trying to play both.

Every single one of them fighting over the same thing. Who gets to show the listing first. Who captures the first click. Who owns the top of the funnel. This is a plumbing war. They are fighting over pipes. Not one of them is solving whether the agent behind the listing can defend a price at a seller's kitchen table.

While they fought over pipes, Fortune Magazine reported that Robert Levine of Cooper City, Florida used ChatGPT to sell his home. He used it for pricing, marketing, scheduling, and negotiations. Showed the home to 15 buyers. Five made offers. Sold in five days for $954,000. That was $100,000 more than what the licensed real estate agents told him his home was worth. His reason for bypassing the agents? They lacked confidence in their own pricing. A chatbot had more conviction about the value of a home than professionals who do this for a living.

That is not a technology problem. That is a competence problem. And not one of these brokerage alliances is solving it.

Connor connects this to the larger AI consolidation pattern. Elon Musk announced TerraFab in Austin, a $20 to $25 billion semiconductor fabrication facility that would produce 50 times the current global advanced chip output. Same play. Own every layer of the stack. And Friday the White House dropped its national AI policy framework signaling light touch regulation and innovation first. The window for independent operators is open but consolidation is accelerating.

The competitive advantage for small operators remains speed, proximity, and trust. Distribution is a commodity. Competence is not.

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