I hate to say it, but @dhh is right. Bought a Beelink ($800) instead of M4 Pro Max ($5000). 96 fucking GB of Ram, 2TB of SSD. 2.5M lines of code builds in 61 seconds. and now I can't go back. Really great job to the @OmarchyLinux team.

Never try and appease the mob. No matter what you do, it’ll never be enough.

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She’s worth just shy of 490 million in today’s dollars! (Not even close to done in the book btw)

Poverty knows no racial boundary.

Hetty Green is every Indian grandmother’s dream.

.@typesfast dropped 2 sentences about the Axial Period and now I’m 150 pages into a 600 page book.

Since today’s @HTTOTW covered Lee Kuan Yew, here’s my review of “One Man’s View of the World” https://t.co/NJhhDOuqA6

What a casual flex lol.

Since @AcquiredFM decided to cover Trader Joe's, here's my review of 'Becoming Trader Joe' from January! https://t.co/2icKpMMZsP

Disgusting behavior.

Watching Curtiss slowly morph from patent infringing asshole to true engineer — at precisely the time the Wrights gave up their engineering for commercial interests — is the plot twist I never saw coming.

The greatest failing of the Wrights was to not recognize that their distaste for exhibitions is precisely what kept the military away from flight for so long and, ultimately, limited their market size. In 5 short years they went from the preeminent scientists to flight to

This era just captures the American spirit so well. America thirsts for heroes because America, more than any country, believes in an individual’s capacity for greatness.

There was a time when the human condition was so obviously bad that even in the worst single day of aviation history, they never thought for a moment of halting progress. Loss of life was just so obviously worth it to move society forward. Now, when we can advance technology

Is this the first time someone sidestepped military procurement by simply gifting the good or service?

You invent human flight. As the son a pastor, you hate exhibition matches, drinking, and general revelry. What do you do? Stay in the lab and keep advancing your technology? Of course not. Go around the globe trying to keep exhibitions boring and trying to enforce your patents

I'm so old I now have the LinkedIn app on my homepage 💀

The theme of the book is, repeatedly, Wilbur Wright might be the most mechanically gifted human to have ever been born but he had not a single brain cell that understood the basics of business.

The first 15 chapters of Birdmen are the most thrilling and simultaneously frustrating I’ve ever read. The best engineers and the hands down dumbest sales people of all time 🤦‍♂️

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