Drew Austin @kneelingbus Twitter profile

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

17 days

i wrote about cardboard as the definitive material of the 21st century and the low-gloss future we've ended up with

Cardboard Cathedrals

Life at the end of the supply chain

kneelingbus.substack.com

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Drew Austin

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3 months

thank god this happened in the morning imagine how many espresso martinis would have spilled

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Drew Austin

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2 years

what if you discovered that your whole personality depended on low interest rates

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@kneelingbus

2 years

there should be a Brooklyn version of Colonial Williamsburg with historic Yeah Yeah Yeahs reenactments and stuff like that

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Drew Austin

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2 years

it's funny how last names like Smith or Taylor are essentially the past equivalent of someone being named Productmanager

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Drew Austin

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3 years

Pitchfork should just make its ratings fully dynamic, fluctuating constantly based on current trends, they could display all the scores on a realtime feed like they're stock prices. It would be fun. "Merriweather Post Pavilion is up 10% today!"

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Drew Austin

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2 years

jason calacanis is elon musk's chris christie

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2 years

williamsburg is not a safe place to raise a child, you leave them unsupervised for 15 minutes and they get onboarded to web3

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@kneelingbus

3 years

@waitbutwhy

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1 year

say what you will about this image - it is not the aesthetic of gentrification

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

4 years

What if the virus learns to code

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

4 years

Academia: Spend your life absorbing everything that's ever been said about a topic in order to hopefully add a tiny increment of original thought to it Tech: Disregard everything that's ever been said about a topic and confidently rediscover other fields' most basic ideas

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

2 years

Ace Hotels are nursing homes for people left behind by previous vibe shifts

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

1 year

-a good girl -loves her mama -loves jesus -and america too -$300-500k total comp

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

3 years

everyone desperately needs to get out of the house

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

4 years

Is it just me or are too many smart people are still underestimating how bad the economic damage is going to be?

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3 years

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

3 years

bro that's not a DAO that's just your family

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

2 months

half marathons were a great invention. there should be more life achievements that have a 50% version you can also do

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

3 years

every culture throughout history has had the concept of Wario

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

2 months

Dad in evening

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Drew Austin

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2 years

we used to be a country

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

3 years

nassim taleb found a way to make the afghanistan situation about deadlifting

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

4 years

I wrote for @_reallifemag about how subscription products enforce brand loyalty and erode the remaining limits on our relationships to companies

Loyalty Tests — Real Life

Subscription services aren’t an escape from shopping, they’re a surrender to brands

reallifemag.com

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Drew Austin

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1 year

tfw you're on a hot girl walk and come up with the concept of girl dinner

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

4 years

The next phase of quarantine will be everyone realizing the things they're currently doing on Zoom might as well not be done at all

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

3 years

when a big new netflix show drops now it feels like a software update is being pushed to everyone's brain

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

3 years

right now someone is telling Donald Trump what Clubhouse is

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

4 years

i'll use roam research once it has stories

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

3 years

failure is just the onboarding process for reality

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@kneelingbus

3 years

this guy could have been an email

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

2 years

i always think KYC means kill your customer

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

2 years

Rothko-ass gas station

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Drew Austin

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2 years

twitter should have a feature where if you post enough bad shit you get relegated to linkedin, premier league style

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

2 years

urbit outfitters

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

3 years

I wrote for @_reallifemag about the creator economy's monetization of the internet and how speculation is its own form of entertainment

Paid in Full — Real Life

The emerging dream of an internet where every interaction is a financial transaction

reallifemag.com

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

9 months

never forget

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@shl

9 months

Some personal news: I moved to Brooklyn, NY! My wife and I are going to start our family here next year. I’m super excited, because I think it’s the best place to meet as many of you as possible. So if you’re a local or visiting–I’d love to grab coffee and/or go for a walk.

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Drew Austin

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1 year

is Mystcore a thing yet

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

1 year

Lord, grant me the enthusiasm of an Australian visiting Williamsburg for the first time

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

4 years

what hot people are doing today, smart people will be doing in 10 years

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

2 years

getting this tweet off is probably why he went there lol

Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)

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2 years

Wartime Lviv is cleaner and more orderly than SF on a good day.

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

2 years

@joshuamcwhirter It's sorta not even a joke...kinda worried about it tbh

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

4 years

I hope Microsoft buys Tiktok and then combines it with LinkedIn

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

7 months

what happened, did sam altman call for a ceasefire

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

3 years

ribbonfarm is the velvet underground of blogs, everyone who read it started their own

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Drew Austin

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1 year

every culture throughout history has had a mr beast

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

3 years

celebrating my birthday at laguardia terminal D this afternoon...excited to order 2-3 goose island IPAs from an ipad

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

3 years

i've posted this before but the reason tech people aren't into fashion is because it enhances the public realm and has positive externalities

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

3 years

any updates on this

Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

3 years

everyone desperately needs to get out of the house

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

2 years

i wrote my first piece for @dirtxyz about geography-as-content and why the internet is fixated on esoteric local scenes like Dimes Square

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

2 years

sea shanties + gamestop + storming the capitol was more fun than wordle + market collapse + imminent war

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

2 years

"tech-minded brothers" is how you say tech bro in New Yorker Style

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

3 years

NFTs are the perfect possessions for an era where floods routinely ruin all your stuff

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

4 years

How is this a good future lol

Balaji

@balajis

4 years

One possible good future - move out to rural area - work remote - change jobs more easily in a truly global labor market - fewer but longer drives with autonomous cars - 24/7 delivery drones - socialize online & in VR Physical social distancing, digital social networking?

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

3 years

i bet people in the middle ages were like "this year could have been an email"

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

3 years

you're telling me an elite overproduced this?

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

3 years

my advice for this summer: take however hard u were gonna try and reduce it by half

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

4 years

Herman Cain is this year's darkest story - even if you die you have to keep tweeting

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

4 years

Folks, I just took a personality test....it came back negative!

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

2 years

check out my soundcloud

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

3 years

2011-2015 was the 90s of the 21st century

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

1 year

it's so over makes strong men strong men make we're so back we're so back makes weak men weak men make it's so over

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

3 years

FAANG is now NAMASTE (Netflix, Amazon, Meta, Apple, Starbucks, Target, ExxonMobil)

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

2 years

tech people think homelessness occurs because the incentives to live in a home aren't powerful enough

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Drew Austin

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3 years

listening to john cage's 4'33" at 1.5x speed

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Drew Austin

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3 years

everyone's an investor now, i miss the time when everyone was just a DJ

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

3 years

@isosteph "my girlfriend is on a different blockchain" is the new "gf goes to a different school"

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

5 years

Norm MacDonald once explained how even if nobody watches your network TV show, it still gets credited with like 1M viewers just bc people leave their TVs on all the time. I wonder how much economic activity today falls into that category.

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

3 years

money has 3 functions: a store of wagmi, a unit of meme, and a medium of yolo

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Drew Austin

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2 years

the vibe shifts will continue until morale improves

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Drew Austin

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4 years

"Like I said" is an ideal phrase to sprinkle into your conversation to add a tiny degree of vague aggression that will usually go unnoticed

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Drew Austin

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2 years

@ruralindexing

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Drew Austin

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1 year

saw a youtube comment describing ska as "the music that plays in a 12 year old's head when mom brings home pizza"

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

1 year

if you're still using twitter i hate to tell you this but nothing will ever be bad enough to make you stop

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

3 years

are you sure it's without the labor

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Drew Austin

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3 years

*seinfeld voice* what's the deal with NFTs

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

4 years

this is an irresponsible tweet that makes everyone dumber

Kurt Andersen

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4 years

U.S. deaths per 100 confirmed cases: 4 Infected people in Tulsa as a result of MAGA rally: 500 Human sacrifice to please the leader briefly: 20

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Drew Austin

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3 years

really excited to develop this idea into an essay - been wanting to write it for a while!

Worn Out — Real Life

Tech elites’ supposed indifference to fashion is a contempt for the commons

reallifemag.com

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@kneelingbus

3 years

i've posted this before but the reason tech people aren't into fashion is because it enhances the public realm and has positive externalities

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Drew Austin

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1 year

if you are able to remember something, anything, from 10-20 years ago, you can blow everyone's mind on the internet by simply reminding them about it

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

4 years

Deleting academic PDFs off my desktop so i can download Starcraft

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Drew Austin

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1 year

@jrhennessy "focus on my private life with my remaining apes" is not in the bible

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

4 years

this coronavirus is already one of the biggest things of 2020

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

4 years

can AI crack a cold one with the boys yet

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

3 years

instead of banning people twitter should just slowly reduce their character limit until it's zero

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

3 years

me and the boys are headed to the local seaport to volunteer/help out with the supply chain shortages

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

4 years

Time is accelerating because our brains are just chunking this entire month into one formless unit of experience

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

1 year

the weirdness of this tweet is underrated...even i thought i'd be on a boat

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Never thought I'd be on a boat.

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

2 years

I wrote for @WIRED about "digital hoarding," the end of infinite storage, and the privatization of public knowledge. Check it out:

The End of Infinite Data Storage Can Set You Free

The belief that we could save endlessly online turned us all into information hoarders. What society needs instead is better systems for preserving public knowledge.

www.wired.com

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Drew Austin

@kneelingbus

2 years

"my work exists at the intersection of intersections and technology" -traffic light engineers

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