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Bobby Goodlatte

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2 years

I worked at Facebook when we had 200 employees I’ve never understood why FB needs 20,000 employees. And less so the 70,000 employees Meta has now @elonmusk ’s Twitter layoffs are appropriate Unfortunate, but appropriate These businesses just don’t require that many people

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I once met Alex Honnold on a flight in Switzerland We chatted for about an hour. As we picked up our bags he asked me: “what do you do for a living?” “I invest in startups” He replied: “Isn’t that incredibly risky?”

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Steal ideas from nature. Evolution ran more A/B tests than you ever could.

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@PicturesFoIder Sell the option to push the green button to someone else for $20M

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2 years

Miami: “Let’s build 20 new residential skyscrapers in one year!” SF: “Oh no! You can’t build here. This is a historic Nordstrom’s parking lot”

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I strongly agree with this point, but boy is it unpopular 😅😂 Let’s give Congresspeople $2M a year, Senators $6M, and Presidents $40M We’d likely save money on-net. Because now qualified people want to apply for those jobs

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Politicians should make significantly more money. The incentives are all wrong. Pay the President $40mil/year and see the candidates. No need for backroom deals or bribery.

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5 years

I’ve found it. The worst user interface ever built 😂

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1 year

If Elon winds up pulling this off & builds a leaner, more profitable & innovative Twitter… a lot of tech journalists’ #RIPTwitter tweets from tonight are going to look pretty silly But they won’t care. They’ll be too busy being faux-outraged at the next thing

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2 years

Next year we have 2/22/22 22:22:22 to look forward to. It's even on a Tuesday

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3 years

I’ll just come out and say it: I don’t get NFTs. I don’t understand the JPEGs. If anyone should get them it should be me. I was early to Bitcoin, a pre-sale buyer of Ethereum, a Coinbase seed investor, early Solana… And I don’t get it. It feels like the emperor has no clothes.

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5 years

Mr President—he's one of our nation's most accomplished CEOs. Show some respect. The least you could do is address him by his full name... Tim Apple

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5 years

To Tim: The Button on the IPhone was FAR better than the Swipe!

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6 months

@growing_daniel eat your airpods vegan burger daniel

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6 months

My perpetual motion machine just arrived. Deal with it, physicists 😂

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2 years

Unfortunately, no one can be told how bad The Matrix 4 is. You have to see it for yourself.

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4 years

Design is more important than ever for startups. One theory why: almost everything else has gotten easier. Basic tech stacks are a commodity—automation enables smaller, focused teams—capital is abundant. Product design is a larger percentage of what’s left.

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3 years

Oh no! Bitcoin crashed all the way down to 2 dollars! Oh no! Bitcoin crashed to 260 dollars! Oh no! Bitcoin crashed to 3,000 dollars! Oh no! Bitcoin crashed to 55,000 dollars! notice a trend? ;)

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2 years

The most common profession before becoming a Congressperson is being a lawyer. That’s a huge problem We need more founders, engineers, scientists, doctors, inventors, builders to run We’d be better off with folks in charge who have actually contributed something to society

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@Rainmaker1973 That kid clearly caused it with that magic wand 😂

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I’m a huge crypto bull and I think art NFTs are stupid. Oops, I said it.

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2 years

Men will rant about Calendly rather than going to therapy “Okay fine I’ll go to therapy!” Therapist: *sends Calendly link*

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3 years

If you’re anti-nuclear, you’re not serious about climate change.

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4 years

The genius of Instagram V1’s filters was in how they solved the “ghost town” problem. Filters were a useful single-player experience even w/ 0 friends. If building a new social network—I’d paradoxically focus less on network design—more on crafting a novel 1-player experience.

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6 months

Genuine question: what set of services or safety net does California provide at 13.3% state tax rate that Florida lacks at 0%? Call me Miami-pilled: but it’s honestly outrageous how many dollars the tech industry has effectively hand-delivered to corruption & graft

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2 years

After 2 weeks of thinking about it: wow, Chris Rock was an A+ example of what positive masculinity looks like. Took the punch. Didn’t swing back. Could have easily escalated—justifiably so. Chose not to. De-escalated. Didn’t press charges. Walked away. Forgave.

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3 years

The older I get the more I realize I should just optimize my life around getting good sleep.

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8 months

@FastestPitStop Oof. He’s digging an even deeper hole there 😅

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4 years

In the last 24 hours, I: Connected a US Congressman from NYC to a ventilator supplier. Connected the largest Fiat-Chrysler manufacturing facility in the world to Operation Masks Had calls with 5 PPE suppliers, each of which can provide 1MM+ masks a week And I tweeted a bit 😅

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2 years

I’ve beat Chris to every good investment he’s ever made so I welcome the short. Chris was series B at Coinbase, I was series A. Chris bought ETH in 2015, I bought in 2014. 🤷‍♂️ Dunks, then blocks me. What a clown

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2 years

Look, I’m still reluctantly a Democrat—but there’s no better sales pitch for switching parties than experiencing San Francisco

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Zero sum thinking. If Elon hadn’t made those billions it’s not like we’d all get a check in the mail. He created new wealth. Assets that wouldn’t exist if he hadn’t started those companies.

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Elon Musk's net worth increased by $28 billion today. If that doesn’t convince you wealth inequality is out of control, I don’t know what will.

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Trump has not been denied his freedom of speech. He’s being denied free reach. You do not have a constitutional right to viral reach. Twitter doesn’t owe you their megaphone.

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3 years

gm here's a cockatoo eating his morning croissant (via reddit)

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We're ceding far too much authority to people who are good at attracting attention. At every level of society. Quiet competence is in decline.

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2 years

It’s quite popular to slam dunk on art NFTs right now But where was everybody 6 months ago? You’re only entitled to a victory lap if you called out the nonsense when doing so came at a social cost. When it was the unpopular thing to say

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3 years

Ethereum will see a 99.95% reduction in energy usage with proof-of-stake. Why Elon doesn't jump on that makes zero sense to me.

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3 years

I meet a lot of new grads who ask how to break into VC My general advice is: don’t Work at a breakout-stage co. Get an exit. Then angel invest You’ll be in control of your destiny & net better returns 100% ownership of checks is better than 20% split across a partnership

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2 years

It’s pretty wild that the board voted *unanimously* for the poison pill measure Even @jack Do you really think @elonmusk would be that horrible of an owner? He does have a track record of being modestly successful, being the richest man in the world and whatnot

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Let's say Spotify caves and de-platforms Joe Rogan. So he goes back to YouTube. Now his content has far more virality & people see it *even more*. So they'll lobby YouTube to kick him off. Repeat this a few times & yes—this actually is about free speech & the tyranny of mobs.

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@Carnage4Life Your death, her likes 😂

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10 months

@netcapgirl wake up babe, new academic journal format just dropped

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2 years

Almost every one of these companies should be publicly traded—but they’re not We’ve systematically cut the general public out of upside If you were an early fan of Apple in the 80’s: great just buy the stock Fan of any one of these? Better be an insider if you want to buy

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Global Unicorn Club - by @CBinsights - 1066 private companies valued at $1B+ worldwide - #Fintech #Startup #Unicorn

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My foolproof diet: 1. Eat bland healthy food including a lot of veggies 2. Dump this stuff all over it 😍

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5 years

@elonmusk @SpaceX Looks like there's still room at the top for launching memes

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2 years

Okay, I’m attempting to annoy everyone, by saying obvious political truths across both sides of the spectrum. Here goes:

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Facebook’s “move fast and break things” was one of the best company values of all times It’s incredibly misunderstood and interpreted in bad faith

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2 years

"Why are people searching Reddit specifically? The short answer is that Google search results are clearly dying. The long answer is that most of the Web has become too inauthentic to trust."

Google Search Is Dying

(There is good discussion on this article on Hacker News and Reddit) Reddit is currently the most popular search engine. The only people who don’t know that are the team at Reddit, who can’t be...

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@TristanSnell “Invented nothing” lol

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3 years

Me: invest 7+ years in Coinbase, patiently waits for my 1,000X+ return WSB: YOLO calls into GameStop, turns 1,000X returns in 3 months Me:

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3 years

I know of very few successful people who don’t have haters. That tells you much more about the nature of haters than it does successful people.

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4 years

Let me make this clear: Fuck you @VCBrags , @Recode and @voxdotcom . Seriously. Folks like @balajis warned us about COVID-19 early on. And you mocked them with your cynicism. Apologize now.

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2 years

Congrats! You all made my annual 8 billion under 8 billion list

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2 years

Yes, art NFTs have crashed hard. But who cares? We all only bought it for the art, yeah? It’s all about supporting artists. I’m not trying to make a profit here. Wait. We bought it for the art, yeah?

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3 years

Every dang time

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If you pay $11 billion in taxes you shouldn’t be demonized by elected officials They should at least send you a free t-shirt or something

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3 years

An email intro from 2013 that changed my life. Thanks @patrickc & @brian_armstrong ! And the follow-up email making the ask to invest a month later:

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6 months

Remember that one time people were spending $200,000+ on photos of rocks and cartoon monkeys… And a prominent VC called me an idiot when I suggested such purchases might be dumb? Good times 😂❤️

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4 years

"This incredible technology is meant to make fun of Web developers, who struggle to maintain 15fps while scrolling a single-page application on a $2000 MacBook Pro, while enjoying 800ms delays typing code into their Electron-based text editors." 🤣

Unreal Engine 5 is meant to ridicule web developers

Our sources report that the underlying reason behind the impressive tech demo for Unreal Engine 5 by Epic Games is to ridicule web developers. According to the Washington Post, the tech demo includes...

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@growing_daniel I mean, they’re right that the IRS does love video proof 😂😂

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3 years

The upside of being a cynic is capped The upside of being an optimist is uncapped

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9 months

The unsaid thing in politics right now: We’re not sending our best to Washington Or to state houses And certainly not to city councils The people leading are frankly folks who graduated from condo board president into government Nobody good wants to run 🤷‍♂️

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2 years

College education is a cost-disease scam. Forgiving student loans is a shameless handout to the demographic most likely to vote Democrat. To forgive the loans you have to reform the system that created them first

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3 years

. @GavinNewsom as California gets more supply of vaccine, can we set up 24/7 distribution? Normal business hours aren't going to cut it. The more shots in arms per day, the more lives you save. I for one don't mind taking a 3am appointment some time in February to get the shot.

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4 years

Done is better than perfect. Done is better, then perfect.

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2 years

Can we please just have smart people govern? I really don’t care which party. Just bring in the smart folks

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5 months

@ChrisJBakke “I calculate a p(good) of 90% for hamburgers, assuming a Bayesian stochastic sample set of all possible hamburgers & that we live in a simulation”

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3 years

I don't just want Miami to be a tech hub. I want it for Atlanta And Nashville And Philadelphia Houston San Antonio Columbus Durham Detroit All of them, and 20 more. This isn't a zero sum game. I don't understand people hating on Miami becoming a tech hub.

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4 years

If mom & pop businesses had an index, we'd all be much more alarmed about the economy

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2 years

@trendlinehq @elonmusk I don’t think this is a good metric though The nature of technology is leverage. Revenue per employee should ideally grow exponentially, not stay flat

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4 years

As the greater technology community, let's not trust @Recode or @voxdotcom ever again. Retweet if you're with me. /cc @balajis

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3 years

Please don’t follow this advice if you want meaningful, long-lasting relationships. This sort of ladder-climbing, Machiavellian over-thinking of friendships is a recipe for loneliness. Galloway’s life advice is about on par with his stock tips.

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You constantly want to be upgrading your peer group. You want to hang out with smarter, more successful, more interesting, higher-character people because you will rise or fall to the level of your peer group. #officehours #ProfGPod 4/26

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I have a friend who: Negotiated hard when buying his car down to the last $10 Knows the price at every gas station in his city down to the penny Won't ever spend more than $1,000 on vacation ...and who just bought a cartoon penguin NFT for $9,000 😂🤷‍♂️

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Lease signed. Newest Miami resident. Thanks for the welcome Mayor @FrancisSuarez !

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For the first 5 years of angel investing, when asked “what’s your best investment?” I always said Coinbase. Almost always the VC asking would laugh. Now, about half of them are no longer partners at their funds & the other half are scurrying to hire a crypto-focused partner 🤷‍♂️

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@sdw They’ve had this fantasy since the 70’s 😂

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Many VCs operate under the guise that they somehow don’t work in finance We work in finance. And unless we contribute tangible work beyond a check—we’re just financiers That’s why I find 98%+ of VC content mktg & threads insufferable. Should founders take advice from bankers?

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1 year

Florida high speed rail: Status: built ✅ Total cost: $2.7 billion Cost to taxpayers: $0

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Make up your own damn mind about how hard you should work. I’ve met happy & successful people with vastly different work styles. Just don’t let virtue-signalers on Twitter influence your decision either way. Especially those whose “hustle” is to tweet all the time about hustling

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Miami has been such a blessing in my life. Love this city. What a dream to call it home

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@ShaanVP I mean, if my couch is netting accidental $1MM returns... Maybe I put it right back in the couch and see if it can return more. Let your winners ride

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The Dark Knight Rises is by far the best of the Nolan trilogy, and the most slept on

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@0xgaut Zuck built the first version of Facebook on a 9, so I’m inclined to agree

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Generally not worth it to reply to someone who is engaging in bad faith It's like playing chess with a pigeon The pigeon just knocks all the pieces over, shits all over the board, and struts around like it won

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3 years

I dislike that so many jobs these days seem to increasingly require social media self-promotion. Where does the trend end? Will we have influencer plumbers? Thought-leader electricians? Will humble, quietly competent ones lose business b/c they won't be influencer sell-outs?

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Venture Capital is a brutal business. You may very well fail. But I won’t be the person who tells you that. I’ll tell you the opposite. Because almost everyone told me I was going to fail when I first started 8 years ago. Frankly: I beat every single one of them. You will too.

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I hope Elon is able to buy Twitter and goes in like a wrecking ball Has to be one of the most squandered opportunities in tech over the last decade

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In 2022, I fully expect Harvard Business School to do a case-study on the effectiveness & efficiency of shitposting as a marketing strategy. It’s a sign of the times that I don’t even know if I’m serious or joking with this one

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I have no doubt that NFTs will evolve into something exciting. But I think the prospect of buying into the 1000th derivative art project copying crypto punks isn’t interesting whatsoever. Digital ownership is exciting. But most of these art NFTs are going to zero

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3 years

Without any context, tell me where you think Scott Galloway said to sell the stock 😂

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Something big is happening with this SF exodus — I don’t think most are fully grasping the impact this will have. The center of gravity for tech is a jump-ball at the moment. And smart mayors like Miami’s @FrancisSuarez are jumping for it.

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Venture Capital is a business predicated on the idea of being wrong 19 times out 20. The one win out of 20 massively making up for the rest. Given that dynamic, you would think VC's would be less arrogant about the nonstop advice they espouse on Twitter. But nope

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Immigration is a good thing. We have a declining birth rate below replacement level, so we need more people. But they should be high-skilled

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4 years

So much of startup/vc twitter is tweeting out "rules" for things that don't need rules. Speaking in absolutes works great on Twitter. Listening to absolutes & accepting them as canon is a disaster.

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@tedlieu @SpeakerPelosi @realDonaldTrump @POTUS How Trump thinks this photo makes him look good—and Speaker Pelosi look bad—I will never understand. She looks confident & resolute. The sole woman at the table, literally standing up to the most corrupt President of our lifetime—perhaps ever.

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The minimum form of an activity is usually overlooked, when it should be the default 10 min of daily exercise would change many lives—but most consider that an insufficient workout Writing 1 pg of a novel sounds meaningless—It isn’t Doing zero is infinitely less than something

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3 years

On the M1 Air this means you got a good 10 hours left

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San Francisco was a place for those looking to re-invent themselves A place for change. For rebels. Round pegs in square holes. Weirdos, misfits, nerds. Loose marbles all rolling to one corner Stay if you still feel it But I lost that feeling And found it again here in Miami

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In a way, art NFTs reflect a growing nihilistic view on investing They’re not a business where you can predict future cash flow. They’re a speculative gamble, bought in the hope a greater fool will pay more, couched in the conceit we’re being patrons of the arts by participating

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The cube has arrived. It’s so much heavier than I expected. The person in the mail room asked if I had ordered weights. She was very confused when I said it was a tungsten cube 😂

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. @theallinpod has become a weekly highlight for me. Congrats @Jason @chamath @DavidSacks @friedberg I think you guys are quietly creating somewhat of an institution

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