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General Partner @a16z . American Dynamism.

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Katherine Boyle

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When I joined Andreessen Horowitz 2.5 years ago, we were still in the midst of Covid. Russia hadn’t invaded Ukraine yet. And “America” wasn’t a word you heard people in Silicon Valley say very often. In January 2022, we launched American Dynamism and committed to funding…

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Katherine Boyle

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Believe in something. Anything. You are not enough.

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Substack just published the boldest defense of free speech we’ve seen from a tech company in recent memory. Not really that interested in the opinions of those who didn’t stand for it when they had the chance.

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For those of you on substack: why not use @ghost instead? Is the payment you get from substack inc. greater than the freedom ghost would provide? (it does have a centralized dependency on stripe...which could be fixed with bitcoin/lightning integration)

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Big day for Baby Blaise.

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First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then they haul you before Congress for tech support.

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People will forget that a few years ago a founder wouldn’t dare say this publicly. It’s because of people like Palmer that you now can. Thank you @PalmerLuckey

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palmer luckey is a national treasure

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The most destructive memes of the 2000s: 1) college at all costs 2) study what you’re passionate about 3) treat your 20s as delayed adolescence A generation set up for failure and discontentment.

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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦

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The Elite Overproduction Hypothesis: A theory of why unrest exploded among educated Americans in the late 2010s.

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“What might this pandemic and its aftermath have looked like if there had been a more open debate about the origins of Covid, about lockdowns, about the true risks of Covid in kids, and much more?” Of all the mistakes Twitter made, this had the greatest effect on your family.

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David Zweig

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1. THREAD: THE TWITTER FILES: HOW TWITTER RIGGED THE COVID DEBATE – By censoring info that was true but inconvenient to U.S. govt. policy – By discrediting doctors and other experts who disagreed – By suppressing ordinary users, including some sharing the CDC’s *own data*

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Katherine Boyle

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Disagreeableness is an under-appreciated trait in work and life, and it’s concerning that disagreeable people are less likely to succeed in tracked professions like medicine or academia. Disagreeableness is essential for good leadership and decision-making. We need more of it.

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Katherine Boyle

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Some people issue statements and call themselves leaders. Others build.

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Starlink — here. Thanks, @elonmusk

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We’re living in a golden age of independent journalism and independent thought. Proud to start writing again at @TheFP .

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Welcome to The Free Press! We're a new media company built on the ideals that were once the bedrock of great journalism. Read more from our Editor-in-Chief @BariWeiss

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We don’t fully realize this yet, but nearly all of our modern cultural ailments stem from the radical belief that suffering is not a natural part of the human condition and should be eradicated— through science, laws, medicine, lifestyle and even death.

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Elon Musk

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@PeterDiamandis Absolutely. Freedom means freedom to die when you are sure that you want to.

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Walter Isaacson on the link between suffering and greatness and those with happy childhoods: “We grow up with fewer demons but we grow up with less drive. We end being Boswell and not Johnson. We end up being the observer and not the doer. Respect those who are in the arena…”…

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Lex Fridman

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Here's my conversation with @WalterIsaacson , author of the new biography on @elonmusk and one of the greatest biographers ever, having written incredible books on Einstein, Steve Jobs, Leonardo da Vinci, Jennifer Doudna, Benjamin Franklin, and many others. Outline of our…

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The Elon Musk biography devotes many pages to his childhood, but this paragraph stands out: his mother’s insistence on radical self-reliance and his compulsive need to read at an early age. When you hear the question “why aren’t there more Elons?” It might stem from a culture…

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A common difference I see between Gen X and millennials/GenZ in the workplace is the number of odd jobs they had in their youth. Many attribute this change to greater class divisions or the growing number of college graduates, but it seems to have much more to do with culture.…

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It’s time to bet on America. 🇺🇸💪🚀

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Opinion | Venture Capitalists Should Bet on America

Washington can cooperate with the private sector. Elon Musk’s SpaceX showed the way.

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Katherine Boyle

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Announcing American Dynamism at @a16z . We're looking for serious founders who want to build for America. Learn more about our mission, what we stand for and why we’re investing in American Dynamism now.

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Investing in American Dynamism | Andreessen Horowitz

We’re committed to working with and investing in the best founders who want to make American dynamism real.

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There’s an inverse correlation b/t living an interesting life and success in most domains. Interesting lives involve hobbies, whimsy, an erratic sampling of personas that don’t compound over time. Success requires repetition, a narrowing of options. It’s not glam on Instagram.

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The decline in liberal arts degrees bodes well for society on almost every dimension. College students now know that majoring in Book Club won’t get you a great job. This is progress.

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Yes. Elon should DEFINITELY make the Texas Institute of Technology and Science real. Here’s an idea of what it could look it. — The Texas Institute of Technology and Science is a private STEM university that will be the most competitive engineering school in the world. Like…

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Should I make the Texas Institute of Technology & Science real? It would of course have Advanced Social Studies too.

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I’m often asked the question: “How do I break into venture capital?” But the more important question is “should I become a venture capitalist?” Here are the five books that helped me answer that question.

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Five Books for Venture Capital

Or what I wish I had known

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Lana, Taylor and anti-institutional realignment Recently, I watched the Grammys and learned more about Lana Del Rey. I had no idea she was friendly with Taylor Swift, or that she and Taylor shared the same producer. These women have been pop stars for over a decade: Taylor the…

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Physically removing oneself from an environment of mimetic rivalry is one of the simplest and most obvious ways to find clarity and peace. When people opt to leave NY or SF or a handful of major cities, they’re often breaking a mimetic spiral that began in adolescence.

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Some very specific advice for founders, or really anyone presenting an idea in a meeting: You may think you’re really great at storytelling or speaking off the cuff. You are not. In nearly a decade of investing (and many years of interviewing people before) I can count on one…

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Katherine Boyle

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Call me old-fashioned, but I always dress up for a flight. Right now I’m flying through the air at 482 mph, watching live TV and scrolling Twitter. Commercial flight is the height of human technological achievement, available to pretty much everyone. Wear something nice.

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Ashley St. Clair

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Wearing pajamas to the airport should be illegal

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Katherine Boyle

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What I find amazing about space is that in every era, the press, politicians and cultural critics have repeatedly told us that it’s not popular, it’s not important and it’s not the right time to focus on space. It’s rarely popular to do hard things. Let’s do them anyway.

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The reason extraordinary feats of human achievement are so important is because they make all of us say “I can try again. I can push through my day. I can do one more lap. One more job. I can resist my vices. I can do it.” Anyone rooting against this kind of human achievement…

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SpaceX

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Liftoff of Starship!

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Excited to share that I’m joining the @a16z team later this year. Thank you to General Catalyst and to the extraordinary founders whom I’ve partnered with over the last five years.

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Katherine Boyle | Andreessen Horowitz

Over the last few years a number of us in the firm have been sharpening our focus on investing categories that promote “American dynamism.” These categories include defense, national security, public...

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Jensen washed dishes at Denny’s. Bezos worked the grill at McDonald’s. Both started working at 15. “No task is beneath me.” Amen.

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This is why NVIDIA wins.

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SpaceX showing other companies the best possible response to a hit piece: Release the source material and let the public see for themselves.

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SpaceX

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SpaceX completed 18 successful missions in 2017, launching flight-proven rockets and spacecrafts for the first time. It was a record-setting year and we were just getting started on our path toward a more exciting future. Watch the full company talk with @elonmusk :

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One thing I didn’t realize until later in life is how the incentives of an industry shape your mood, your outlook, and even your character. In early stage investing, the incentives reward optimists, so it literally pays to keep an optimistic outlook. In journalism, the opposite…

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The mark of an extraordinary mind is consistent learning, consistent building. @bridgitmendler is the embodiment of this ethos. Thrilled to back her and the entire @NorthwoodSpace team as they build the data highway between earth and space.

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Bridgit Mendler

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Expect the unexpected! So excited to announce our $6.3M seed led by @foundersfund and @a16z with participation from @CapitalAlso , @LongJourneyVC , @BoxGroup , @humbavc At @NorthwoodSpace we have our sights on building a data highway between earth and space. We are designing…

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I’ve long said that tech’s greatest film is The Social Network (2011), and that like Wall Street (1987), it popularized an industry/culture and led to a surge of young people moving West to build. There was an equivalent cultural force for DC, but it happened with two shows and…

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Katherine Boyle

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The memes against motherhood start young and are relentless. Prolong adolescence as long as possible. It’s freedom, power and prestige. The family is limiting. Once you see it, it’s everywhere.

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Devon ☀️

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maybe one reason for low fertility among educated women is that health class in US high schools hammered it into us that having a baby will ruin your life

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One of the greatest ways to learn is to be so far outside the status hierarchy of a place you can ask the hard and dumb questions no one else can. The outsider advantage is less about having nothing to lose and everything to gain (though that’s part of it.) It’s more that an…

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We cannot build American Dynamism without American Seriousness. My latest for @bariweiss and Common Sense.

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The Case for American Seriousness

We don't need aging institutions to pave the way for 21st-century dynamism. What we need is will. And audacity.

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It’s dangerous to assume that everyone is just like you. That everyone is on your wavelength. Everyone needs balance. Sleep. That everyone has imposter syndrome. The truth is there are people on this earth who are operating at a speed and level of genius we will never understand

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Walter Isaacson

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Late last night, after winning his battle for Twitter, @elonmusk was in Boca Chica and held his regular 10 pm meeting on Raptor engine design, where he spent more than an hour working on valve leak solutions. No one mentioned Twitter. He can multitask.

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Awesome Day 1 with the @a16z team. Back on Twitter now. Anything happen?

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It’s my son’s first birthday so in true millennial fashion I’m going to talk about me:

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People make fun of business school, but I learned a lot there through observation. And one of the major lessons I learned from watching classmates was this: management is not leadership. They’re often used synonymously as in “the management team of X company” or “leadership at…

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McKinsey is offering to pay hundreds of its senior employees to leave the firm and look for work elsewhere, the latest attempt by the consulting giant to reduce staff amid a sector-wide downturn ⬇️

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One of the remarkable things about having children is that they’re an automatic civilizing force. Not only do parents start modeling better behavior, but pretty much everyone you meet does too. The world softens in the presence of innocence. Everyone treads lighter. Normal people…

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A very successful woman CEO once shared the best piece of advice with me on this. There are four quadrants in life: career, family, friendship and community. Pick two, do them to the fullest, and you’ll be fine. It’s stuck with me and I’ve found it to be very true.

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One possible solution to having less time to work after having kids: work on harder things. The hardest kinds of work can't be done for more than 4 or 5 hours a day anyway.

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A lifetime of service to her country. God bless the Queen.

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My guess is that the most interesting political figures of the next 20 years will come from this cohort— 1981-1987. -not digitally native, but digitally fluent. -came of age during or just after September 11th. -Started adulthood just before or during the Great Recession. -the…

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Millennials close to the Gen X/Millennial cut-off are the most interesting generational cohort alive.

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Your annual reminder that International Women’s Day was a socialist, then communist holiday used as propaganda by the Soviets and Mao during a very, very dark time in human history. I don’t celebrate it. You don’t have to either!

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I remember going to Stanford in 2018 and seeing plastic straws in the cafeteria. Sounds like a small thing, but the fact that the students didn’t have time for the straws was a tell. One of the minor saving graces of Stanford— compared to the current insanity on East Coast…

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The line for @sama at Stanford today

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“Just let it go” is often the worst advice you can get in business. I want to work with people who care about what’s right and who care about what’s true. Serious people don’t ever “let it go.” They hold grudges. They don’t forget. And they keep pushing for people to know the…

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The emergence of extended adolescence was designed both to coddle the young and to conceal an obvious fact: that the usual leadership turnover across institutions is no longer happening. Proud to start writing for @TheFP .

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Katherine Boyle

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🚨Lobbyists for Chinese AI Drone Manufacturer DJI are successfully lobbying Congress to remove a ban on selling Chinese drones to the U.S. Government and law enforcement.🚨 The Biden Administration calls DJI a “Chinese Military Industrial Complex Company” WHAT IS GOING ON?!?!

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As the mother of babies, it has been heart wrenching and physically painful to see the images of Israeli families killed or taken hostage by terrorists, but I’m grateful for an open platform showing us the truth, no matter how horrific it is to see. The New York Times is an…

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Katherine Boyle

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The number of professional critics saying “remember Time Person of the Year is about Influence…for better or worse” when we’re talking about the guy who made vehicle electrification and reusable rockets a reality tells you everything you need to know about the culture war.

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The seismic shift in culture since 2020 has been insane to see. Truths that were unspeakable just a few years ago are now acceptable debates. I’m a hopeless optimist so I’d like to believe these moments will last a while, but it feels like a portal has opened and will start…

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Katherine Boyle

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This is THE most interesting politics story that I haven’t seen a thoughtful piece on yet. A MAYOR is targeting a relatively niche community on Twitter during a PANDEMIC to bring revenue to his city, and they are evangelizing the city FOR him. Hello? Politicos? You all there?

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That’s EXACTLY what it is!

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Katherine Boyle

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This is a great write up on decline in Church attendance and I’ll add another dimension to what’s been lost. If you have young children and you practice a religion — as in you attend a house of worship once a week— you realize it’s not just about community, it’s also about a…

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In the last 25 years: 1. The U.S. had the fastest decline in church attendance in history 2. Socializing time fell for all groups—but declined the most for those whose religiosity fell the most I wrote about what America loses when it loses religion

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“Interesting. You hear all those engineers at @SpaceX cheering the moment it blew up! You would have thought they’d be glum-faced and despondent, but it gives you a little insight into how these engineers see tests like this. This is where you learn.” Days like today teach us…

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"The fact it got as far as it did is a huge step forward" Sky's @aTomClarke analyses the launch of Starship - calling it a "result" for SpaceX despite the fact that the rocket ultimately exploded 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

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The older I get, the more I realize that storytelling is one of the most important skills in business and in life. Many founders will tell you it’s the skill that separates the good from the great, and yet we don’t practice or study it enough. Stories are how we remember people,…

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Neo-communism is all around us. It’s a shape-shifting ideology that always looks silly when you first see it’s new form. But make no mistake, when it truly takes hold, it ends with this.

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what did y'all think communism meant? vibes? papers? essays?

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“Well, if the US government just keeps printing money I guess it makes sense that you all can have your own dog-themed thing.” -My mother, 2021

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Relentless positivity and kindness as a strategy. Hard to execute, but guaranteed to make you successful.

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If you think you’re above holding grudges or that it’s not productive, let me reframe them for you. Since having children, I’ve started thinking about those who’ve wronged me as not only having wronged me, but also having wronged my children. And then I think of them wronging…

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“Just let it go” is often the worst advice you can get in business. I want to work with people who care about what’s right and who care about what’s true. Serious people don’t ever “let it go.” They hold grudges. They don’t forget. And they keep pushing for people to know the…

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🚨Some BIG news 🚨: Proud to announce that General Catalyst is launching the Civic Vertical, our commitment to fund technology companies that touch government and important civic missions. Here’s more about our Civic Investment Thesis in @FortuneMagazine .

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Good enough for government work? General Catalyst to back startups tackling the U.S.'s biggest...

General Catalyst partner Katherine Boyle is focusing on "civic tech."

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Contrarian and right. @PalmerLuckey

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Lulu Cheng Meservey

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“Planning for your startup to make tech for military use is now firmly in vogue in Silicon Valley.” Five years ago, it was totally taboo Every great idea started out “controversial” and every great person was once a punchline If you’re offending no one, you’re not doing enough

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Taylor Swift and TFP A few days ago my partner @sriramk asked a question that’s on many of our minds these days: how is Taylor Swift SO famous? How did she become the ultimate pop star and surpass pretty much everyone in her tier of success and stardom? She’s ubiquitous in a way…

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Yes, our Christmas plates say Elon.

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Katherine Boyle

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The best founders are highly disagreeable, yet in elections, “do I want to have a beer with this guy or gal?” is supposedly an important question. It shouldn’t be. Disagreeable (caffeinated) people make the world go round.

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Katherine Boyle

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Declining birth rates isn't a crisis of pregnancy; it's a crisis of parenting. Making housing/childcare cheaper—most importantly, work from home + enabling technologies like Starlink that allow families to live in affordable exurban/rural areas—are key to reversing the trend.

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We should be much more worried about population collapse

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One of my greatest lessons in 2022: most people focus too much on downside protection in everyday life. If we tweaked our mental models to be 20% more focused on upside/wins, we’d be far better off. Tweet a half-baked idea. Say the weird thing in a meeting. Act more, think less

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Katherine Boyle

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The greatest threat to democratic ideals is weak people passively relinquishing their right to free thought and free expression. Independent writers have never been more important. Kudos to @ggreenwald for calling out this nonsense.

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Glenn Greenwald

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Journalists Start Demanding Substack Censor its Writers: to Bar Critiques of Journalists

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“Offer me money. Offer me power. I don’t care.” 🔥

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Katherine Boyle

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This is Rule by HR Department and it gets dark very fast.

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Bill Ackman

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The presidents of @Harvard , @MIT , and @Penn were all asked the following question under oath at today’s congressional hearing on antisemitism: Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate [your university’s] code of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment? The…

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Katherine Boyle

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The thundering push for alternative education and choice around the country is unlike any political movement I’ve witnessed in recent memory. Across demographics, states and political lines, there’s massive support. Covid upended the myths we held on how to educate children.

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Joe Connor

2 years

BREAKING: NYC schools are projecting enrollment losses of 30,000 students for this Fall. Mayor Adams: “We have a massive hemorrhaging of students — massive hemorrhaging." Over 120,000 students have now left the city's district schools over the last five years.

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Katherine Boyle

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The most important talent in your company or org will not fit the rubric. The best leaders make room for iconoclasts. If leadership doesn’t embrace them, no one will.

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Katherine Boyle

6 months

Fentanyl and TikTok. Wake up and see them for what they are.

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Bari Weiss

6 months

Why Do Young Americans Support Hamas? Look at TikTok. In @TheFP Rep. Mike Gallagher argues that the app is digital fentanyl made by China. And it is brainwashing our youth against the country and our allies.

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Katherine Boyle

2 years

To those at Reagan National Defense Forum #RNDF , if there’s one BLUF you take away from the weekend, you should know: Time is running out with Silicon Valley.

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Katherine Boyle

1 year

English Majors in my replies right now…

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Katherine Boyle

1 year

My fellow English majors are all very perturbed by this tweet, but let’s be honest why: we all think we’re going to become the next David Foster Wallace and here we are, on Twitter, coping.

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Katherine Boyle

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There is of course a deeper reason why you don’t see films about nurturing genius. Good Will Hunting has to end with him rejecting the NSA offer and going to see about a girl because it’s the only narrative option. Because the alternative, him getting a professorship at MIT and…

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Katherine Boyle

1 year

A tale of two Saturday mornings.

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Katherine Boyle

1 year

Wow, the comments on this! If you really think the best way to learn “critical reasoning skills” is to get an English degree and $100K of debt, then we’re in more trouble than we think.

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Katherine Boyle

1 year

The decline in liberal arts degrees bodes well for society on almost every dimension. College students now know that majoring in Book Club won’t get you a great job. This is progress.

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Katherine Boyle

2 years

One of the saddest things about a society where forbidden speech goalposts shift so fast is that I know the smartest people I encounter aren’t sharing their most original ideas with me. And they certainly aren’t writing their most groundbreaking ideas online.

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Katherine Boyle

7 months

One of the things about pure evil is that it’s so horrific, so sickening and shocking, that the very human impulse for good people is to look away. To close your eyes because it’s too painful to see. These orphans are the age of my youngest son. Don’t look away.

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Rotem Segev

7 months

Itay and Hadar Berdichevsky, 30 years old. They hid the ten-month-old twins in the shelter while terrorists broke into their home. They were brutally murdered after fighting fiercely with the terrorists. The babies were left alone for over 12 hours until they were rescued.…

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Katherine Boyle

2 years

Reflexively saying “yes” early in your career turbocharges opportunities, builds network, and leads to steep growth. Reflexively saying “no” later in career creates ruthless focus, protects time and gives you power to prioritize your goals. Knowing when to switch is the art.

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Katherine Boyle

5 months

The vast majority of conscientious people should focus on making decisions faster. Rare to find a high-achieving person who should slow down and be more deliberate. Speed of decisioning across personal and professional life can be improved and measured daily. More should do it.

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Katherine Boyle

2 years

This tweet is thoroughly under researched and deserves more attention.

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Graeme Wood

2 years

@maggiemphillips The singleminded crusade to make raising children as hard as possible in the US should perhaps be rolled back a tad

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Katherine Boyle

1 month

The biggest shift in American politics in the last two decades is the prioritization of ideology over winning. It used to be that our system forced ideologues to the fringes. In the end, rationality reigned because politicians like to hold power! You would never make unforced…

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Katherine Boyle

27 days

Wrote about exceptional kids yesterday and that we don’t discuss how to nurture them enough. Then it dawned on me —we don’t have many films about nurturing genius. Indeed it’s usually the opposite. It’s “Wow, this kid’s a genius! We need to study him!” And then some nice…

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Katherine Boyle

2 years

The major differences between Washington and Silicon Valley are structural: —zero-sum versus positive-sum games (elections versus company building) —short-term versus long-term thinking (2-year cycles versus 10-year horizons) Everyone is acting rationally given the parameters

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Katherine Boyle

5 months

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Katherine Boyle

1 year

Free idea: I would listen to a long weekly podcast that delves solely into the childhoods and family lives of successful people. How did they grow up? What were their early memories? What were their parents like? School? Hobbies? Youthful mistakes? Someone please make this!

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Katherine Boyle

9 months

Never trust words. Only actions. Sounds simple, but it’s amazing how much is revealed when you ignore what people say and just watch what they do.

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Katherine Boyle

11 months

“Work, family, scene. Pick two.” Such a great essay from @RyanHoliday on prioritizes, time, and just saying no to the things that are mostly about you.

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Dads Can’t Have It All Either

You have to choose between doing more for yourself—or being more for your kids.

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Katherine Boyle

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Elon Musk

3 months

America, America!

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Katherine Boyle

3 months

Lots of talk on here about The Gundo vibe shift. But perhaps the most important part of this is seeing fathers bring their young children to hackathons. The kids are more than alright. We are so back. 🚀🇺🇸👶

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3 months

@ADoricko and @isaiah_p_taylor opening up the Gundo Defense Tech Hackathon The atmosphere is electric 🇺🇸

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Katherine Boyle

8 months

In the arena. Trying things.

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Katherine Boyle

2 years

Reputations are built on 1) who you stand beside when the mob comes 2) what you stand for when it’s unpopular. That’s it. Very few will remember anything else.

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Katherine Boyle

6 months

Controversial opinion: this is the most glorious mommy mobile ever made. Change my mind.

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Tesla Owners Silicon Valley

6 months

📐👽🚀 Cybertruck looks even better in Matte Black

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Katherine Boyle

4 months

There’s been a daily drip of hit pieces recently, and unless you’ve witnessed one first hand, it’s hard to explain what they’re designed to do. Readers see a hit piece and only experience the final product— often it’s nothing and the world moves on, so it looks like there’s no…

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Katherine Boyle

1 year

We have long been fully invested in eradicating the suffering we deem unconscionable, but more important are the simple questions that define a serious life: For whom will you sacrifice? What will you defend? For what will you choose to suffer?

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Get Serious: About Suffering

The war on pain has not only robbed us of resilience. It has sold us a mirage that is making us miserable.

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Katherine Boyle

2 years

At 18, I was very passionate about writing and political philosophy. A decade later, when I found myself walking to work in a snowstorm because I couldn’t afford a cab, I learned to become very passionate about business and technology. You can will yourself into passion.

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@KTmBoyle can you expand more on 2)

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Katherine Boyle

3 years

Some personal (and professional!) news: after 6 months of perpetual catnapping, baby slept a full 7 hours last night!!!🔥🥳🙏

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Katherine Boyle

12 days

Some years ago today. Highly recommend.

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