Imagine a glob of wet cement and a stick of butter sitting side by side in the middle of the street on a hot summer day in Florida. Both objects are experiencing the exact same thing -- intense heat -- but how they respond to their environment couldn't be more different. The cement hardens. The butter melts.

Investing can be like that too, sometimes. Businesses can lean into the exact same secular tailwinds but experience widely disparate results.

Today, I want to highlight the artificial intelligence (AI) trend, but I don't want to highlight the AI trend for its own sake. Rather, I believe there's a deeper, hidden investing lesson that you can't afford to miss.

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