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CEO @joinwarp , prev CS @MIT

New York

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Joined July 2018

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Ayush S

1 month

1/ Big news from Warp! We’ve raised $5.7M from @HOFCapital , @ycombinator , @AbstractVC + a ton of amazing builders and angel investors. Also excited to share more about – - Our customers - Our platform - Our grand vision - In-person launch events in SF + NYC Read more below…

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3 years

The richest man in the world understands differential equations as well as tweets dank memes. Lesson there.

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One of the most under-the-radar contrarian idea Peter Thiel ever articulated was that failures teach you nothing. Just think of how much mythology exists around justifying failures as “oh well I learnt this and that”. It’s practically a PMC shibboleth to “learn from your

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btw the real reason stopping bots is not easy is because it will tank half the view count and engagement metrics on this app

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Peter Thiel’s list of 7 questions to evaluate startups - 1) Tech 2) Timing 3) Monopoly 4) Team 5) Distribution 6) Moat 7) Secret Tesla is successful because @elonmusk nailed all 7/7 🤯

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“Dad, where were you when Sam Altman was removed as CEO of OpenAI”

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3 years

Watch @paulg write timeless essays one after another in straight vi while you switch note-taking apps every week hoping it’ll make you a better writer.

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my engineer better than yours you know how I know? just look at his company update slide dawg

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2023, what a year.

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Exactly. Cold plunges are great if you have a fake email job, it lets you trick your brain that you're doing hard things. Releases dopamine. But if you're building a startup and getting punched by reality every day, you don't need to "simulate" stress.

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Doing hard things is great, especially in pursuit of a goal. But also stress management is important. If you have a hard job or you’re an athlete you need to be minimizing lifestyle stress, and instead focus on recovery when you can. The body can only take so much stress load.

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Quick life update: Finished the @MIT chapter of my life with a bachelor's and a master's in CS and AI and have recently moved to SF. Super contrarian, I know. But hard to beat this WFH view –

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Thrilled to announce that it's here – A Beginner's Guide to First-Principles Thinking. [THREAD]👇 on why we wrote it, what it is and who should read it. Please RT if you find this useful.

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The ultimate lesson from the Humane saga? Users don't care about: - Your mountain of funding - Your high-profile VCs - Your Twitter hype - Your all-star ex-apple exec team - The years spent crafting your product What truly matters to users: Does it solve my problem better than

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if your CTO isn’t absolutely stanced up like this on the office floor pushing commits, you’re ngmi

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3 years

Car on fire on the San Francisco Bay bridge right now

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a common Reddit-tier belief is that people achieving extraordinary things are experiencing lives at an inferior level. nothing could be further from truth. people doing great things often live life to the fullest, whereas your avg NEET is zogged out on weed and tiktok

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DAY 1 WARPHQ 5.2024 | NYC

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Personal update! I’m founding a startup – Warp (YC W23) ( @joinwarp ) - What problem are we solving? - What are we building? - Why am I building this?

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Today is a good reminder that no matter which way you look at it, the days of traditional centralized social-media platforms are numbered. @naval once said socia-media is committing slow motion suicide, we’re just seeing it play out.

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Elon: by next year we’ll have superhuman AGI. Also Elon: sorry, stopping “ass in bio” porn bots is too hard a problem. Ok.

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@sullyj3 try hiring someone and you’ll realize very quickly that most things that seem irrational to you serve a purpose for example, asking basic questions like “why do you want this job” is a filter for “can you think and talk like a normal human in a social setting”

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9 years

people talk too much about the lessons they learn from failure. those are often dangerous. much better to learn from success.

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New Warp office secured ✅ Come by if you’re around SoHo

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4 years

Announcement: The Ultimate Guide to First-Principles Thinking (v2) is finally out on the homepage of Product Hunt. [THREAD] on everything that is new in this much improved version👇

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fpt.guide - Product Information, Latest Updates, and Reviews 2024 | Product Hunt

fpt.guide is a rich treasure trove of resources to help you become a first-principles thinker. It walks you through the most fundamental lessons from a diverse mix of Math, Econ, Game-theory,...

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4 years

Met the one and only @david_perell and talked for 2.5 hours about: - How hard it is to write 15000 words on Peter Thiel - P vs NP – Generation vs. Verification - An upcoming 🔥 collab w him for our v2 Guide to First-Principles Thinking.

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4 years

Stoicism, like Minimalism, is a modern response to the socio-economic constraints on the millennials. - can’t buy a house and physical goods -> be a minimalist. - the world outside seems hopeless -> here, read Marcus Aurelius and become a stoic

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4 years

@TuckerMax I have heard people suggest that stoicism and its cousins arise during periods when people feel their prospects are hopeless

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Halfway into my 10-day Intellectual Keto experiment, and the difference between reading old philosophy books vs. browsing twitter couldn't be clearer. Allow me to illustrate

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My two rules for early-stage hiring 1. Don't hire until it hurts. Most founders hire prematurely, mistaking headcount growth for PMF. Before hiring for any role, I like to be able to do that function at an 80% level myself. 2) Great hires prove themselves indispensable within

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Upgraded my WFH chair to a Steelcase Gesture, and wow 🤯never sat on a chair that is more supportive Lesson learned: never cheap out on things that you use for 8-10 hrs a day – an ergonomic chair, a comfortable mattress, a nice monitor setup – expensive but worth every penny!

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I cold emailed the CEO of @replit , @amasad with a Substack article of mine. He responded and invited me to dinner! We just met and discussed startups, politics, and institutions for 2.5 hours. So yeah, send that cold email/DM :)

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3 years

People like to mock Elon’s AI views because he’s not an AI engineer. Seems odd to me. Personally, I’d rather pay attention to an engineer-turned-CEO who thinks of tech in decades than some big-tech “ML engineer” whose entire job is importing keras and numpy.

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3 years

The Algorithm Prison. Someone makes a funny TikTok, goes viral, and is now forever stuck making content within the same hyper-specific niche, eternally serving the egregore, craving that first rush of dopamine which never comes.

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3 years

Most won’t understand.

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Four months ago, we launched @joinwarp while going through @ycombinator 's W23 cohort to make payroll and compliance easy for founders and remote teams. One month ago, we hit $1M in payroll $$ processed. Today, in just a month, we have hit $2M in payroll $$ processed. I hear the

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@EricRWeinstein 2+2=4.... oh nvm

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just arrived – @joinwarp hoodies – hottest startup merch in town 🔥 reply/DM if you want one

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“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology." – E.O. Wilson

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3 years

We already have UBI. It’s called getting a job at faang.

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5 months

Europe is surprisingly Peaty. You can get freshly squeezed orange juice at most grocery stores for like $2. Just walk in, press a button, and the oranges are squeezed in front of you. No preservatives/added sugar bs. The American mind cannot comprehend this.

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8 months

Where I create enterprise value from

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3 years

*Some personal news* happy to announce that I have a new pfp, and also a new job! I'm now working on all things Growth at Rize – a series A startup started by Harvard grads + funded by Thrive/FF. Against mounting student debt of ~$2T+, Rize's mission is to reform higher-ed.

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4 years

Tech Twitter is hyped about GPT-3 today! Let me add a counter-perspective. Here's my contrarian take on GPT-3 – it has little semantic understanding, it is nowhere close to AGI, and is basically a glorified $10M+ auto-complete software. 1/N

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3 years

Science vs. Engineering is just another fake Twitter debate. No amount of theorizing is going to get you airplanes. And good luck getting to General Relativity or Quantum Electrodynamics by "tinkering". Both are complimentary and critical.

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1 year

if your b2b sales hire doesn’t have this exact phenotype then I’m sorry to tell you’re ngmi

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4 years

We did it! We colonized Mars. Really enjoying my stay on Interplanetary Elon Station Mars:1 so far.

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did someone say San Francisco isn’t cyberpunk

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10 days

Really excited to announce that @PirateWires is now fully running on @joinwarp 🫡 Here's why they chose us –

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5 months

I honestly don't know how we ever operated before using @linear

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4 years

My Twitter started blowing up last night and I wasn't sure why! Then, I realized it's because @david_perell wrote about our meeting and gave me a shoutout in his Monday Musings newsletter that goes to 35K+ people. Will have to frame this one for posterity 🙏

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9 months since starting my company, we have made our first new hire. Huge welcome to @varunramg joining Warp – I've been friends with him for some time, and have also worked with him last couple weeks. Absolute killer at Growth, Sales, and Ops. Huge accelerant to have him on

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4 years

Evening skies in SF are sometimes just 😍

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4 years

I don't think people have *really* understood what @Apple has achieved with their latest M1 chips. The MacBook Air ($999) now: -outperforms the latest 16" highest-end model ($3-5K) -opens hundreds of Chrome tabs with no issues -runs all apps seamlessly without any fans/heating

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Exactly 1 year ago, when @joinwarp was a $0 million dollar company. I'd write that big $0 and keep it at my desk so I could stare at it every day.

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4 years

Peter Thiel's contrarian worldview of the future. (Thread)

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@basedalexandoor means about a year ago OpenAI reached the inevitable stage where grifters started joining

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@bryancsk OpenAI knows their audience and knows what they’re doing here 👀

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3 years

a moment of silence for the $DOGE bag holders who bought in yesterday

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4 years

I start today as a Core ML engineer at @Yelp – let's do this! 🎉

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4 years

Too little socialization and you start to fear every single time you have to initiate a conversation. Too much socialization and you lose everything that's unique about you as a person and morph into a weighted average of your social circle. Avoid both.

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29 days

warp team in SF, see you guys at the meetup

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3 months

@nullllptr and you know this based on what?

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3 years

There are currently: - 9 countries with nuclear weapons - 3 countries with their own Internet (US, China, Cuba) This gap will be filled. Just as we have nuclear superpowers, we will see a race to become an independent Internet-power. Owning your Internet > owning Plutonium.

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apple transitions are magical as usual, but what's more shocking is how they cleaned up the SF pier of any homeless people in the background

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@kunalb11 @paraschopra We are living in an era of woke capitalism in which companies pretend to care about social justice to sell products to people who pretend to hate capitalism. -- Clay Routledge

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4 years

I recently graduated from @MIT with an undergrad and a master's. To this day, I get asked the question from students, "How do I get into MIT?" I even had one of my answers on @Quora go viral and get ~1M views. Figured I'd finally give away the secret formula. Thread 🧵

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At Warp, we have one goal in mind: to be a fully automated payroll and compliance platform for founders and remote teams. Today, we hit $1M in payroll $$ processed, in just 3 months since starting. This is a testament to the many problems founders face with payroll and

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4 years

Like this tweet for a pleasant surprise! #AppleEvent

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21 days

We're hiring an engineer at @joinwarp We're well-funded and growing fast. If you love working with a cracked team on an incredible product, come join us. You'll work directly with me and the GOAT @rankintweets and have significant ownership.

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4 years

Most people's beliefs and desires are not original but downloaded from society. Why being original matters and why should you care? Thread 🧵👇

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2 months

Paul Graham is right. Using complex words when simple will do is usually a mistake – if anything, complex words signal a lack of clarity and perhaps even insecurity in your own ideas. Relatedly, guarantee you'll be a better writer if you spend even 30 mins reading this book.

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4 years

The real critique of the US billionaire class is not that they’re too powerful, it’s the opposite — that they’re too impotent. With the exception of @elonmusk , none of them are doing anything ambitious or inspiring and instead are busy signing “The Giving Pledge”.

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4 years

came across a twitter bio that said “building in public @ stealth” 🙄

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@kunalb11 As Darwin said, “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.”

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3 years

The Lindy reason for the success of Airbnb is that 4HLers seek volatility of a new home rather than the monotony of a regular old hotel. cc @PaulSkallas

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4 months

1 like and I’ll buy it

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4 years

@naval : I thought Silicon Valley was impregnable. But the pandemic has revealed the cracks. The next Silicon Valley will be built in the cloud. 31/N

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@platowizard wait a min did you just say that MKBHD is “some tech YouTuber that no one watches” if so, I’ll take a hit of the copium you’re inhaling

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The same Harvard/HBS careerist types who were: - getting into startups in '00 - getting into Wall Street in '06 - getting into crypto in '17 Are now "breaking into VC" in 2020.

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4 years

trump was never my president but neither is biden As an Indian, my president is ofc this man

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5 years

Today, I became the first person in my family to have graduated from college, and that too from MIT. The seemingly impossible can be done with enough grit, ambition, and supportive mentors. Thank you!

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Just started getting messages from founder friends who are worried about their payroll due to SVB's collapse. If you're a startup founder dealing with this, I'm here to help any way I can. We've decided to discount @joinwarp payroll to any startups impacted.

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3 years

The best thing you can do to reduce anxiety is to lift heavy weights.

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4 years

Megha from South Delhi would like you to know that she’s voted for Biden and urges you to do the same.

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5 months

HOW WE WRITE INVESTOR UPDATES AT WARP One of the highest ROI 20 mins I spend every month is writing @joinwarp 's investor update. Open-sourcing our investor update format below. Feel free to copy/paste.

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Don't ever let some academic lecture you on why you should feel bad for creating new tech/products

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"everything they create turns to shit"

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I've used Apple Vision Pro for 2 days, and this one's going to be a long post, not a typical review of what's been said already by everyone. I was very excited to try Apple's implementation of VR - if only to see if this truly is the future. Having used it for some time, I've

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I had the entire Warp team take the facial expressions test @varunramg sat down like this for the whole duration taking it, and then proceeded to score 23/36. absolute gigachad

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"A Beginner's Guide to First-Principles Thinking" will be out this coming Monday (8/31). It will walk you through a diverse range of foundational topics like Math, Stats, Evolution, Game Theory, Mental Models, Antifragility, and more. If you'd like to contribute, DMs are open

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If it looks like a distant nuclear explosion, that’s because it is.

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Okay I've peaked on Twitter. Time to quit while ahead.

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One last time at the Institute! So long, MIT.

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need one of these between the Tenderloin and Tokyo city. for the cultural enrichment.

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THE PORTAL: a visual bridge connecting New York City to Dublin A public technology sculpture known as The Portal was unveiled this morning in New York City’s ’s Flatiron neighborhood. The sculpture has a real-time, visual live stream connecting New York City to Dublin, Ireland.

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Today, I'm excited to announce that @joinwarp is partnering with @tryfondo to simplify all bookkeeping, corporate tax, and R&D credits for your company. Fondo is one of the top accounting and tax firms for startups for over 1000 top tier VC-backed companies.

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twitter is so talented. this week, everyone on here is an electrical grid engineer.

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Holy shit!! They did it! macOS is getting a complete redesign! #WWDC20

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Finally getting around to listening @balajis on @tferriss podcast. Have so many thoughts but I’ll leave you with just one. Much of Balaji’s philosophy is based on a very simple driving question — what if we take technological progress seriously?

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In 2020, you have a competitive advantage if you don’t completely lose your sanity.

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How Innovation Works. A thread summarizing the latest @naval podcast with @mattwridley 1/N

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me and the boys meeting to discuss quantum theory. 1927, colorized.

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