taimur
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co-founder @causalhq + podcaster @noverthinking
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Joined April 2011
Why is that thing happening? It’s simple bro, just look at the incentives. The hunter-gatherers bro, it’s evolutionary. These things correlate bro. Basic game theory bro, Prisoner’s Dilemma. Occam’s Razor bro. That’s just a cognitive bias bro. Big 5 personalities, it’s simple bro
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In 2021, startup performativism on Twitter was based on trying to sound smart + insightful It was cringe but nowhere near as bad as the tweets coming out of the 2025 cohort
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We need a moratorium on analogies. People are obsessed with saying “That’s like saying…” when disagreeing — no, dude, just directly point out what’s wrong, we don’t need to go via your analogy. Get out of your abstractions and back in the real world
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Based on personal experience, >30% of B2C subscription spend is from zombie customers who haven't gotten round to churning yet B2B probably >15%
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The Dharma Initiative aesthetic from Lost was immaculate. Some startup needs to steal this name format and vibe
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Here are the levels of career consciousness I observed at Oxford circa 2013: Level 1: Didn’t know anything about careers before uni. Didn’t feel under much pressure about it. Expected to think about it and apply for jobs in final year or after graduating. Didn’t quite take it
I don’t understand how everyone else just knew what to do. like before graduating when they were doing a bunch of micro-internships ready for careers in management consultancy and magic circle law firms. how did they even know those were jobs
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Tyler cowen fans when you tell them that more GDP growth will result in higher GDP
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If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said agentic business workflows
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My thoughts are with the US venture capital community tonight, who are suffering through an epidemic of Mamdani Derangement Syndrome
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Louis Theroux has interviewed paedophiles, nazis, the klan, westboro Baptist church, aryan, conspiracy theorists, sex perverts, South African apartheid adherentsa and ultra Zionists but he loses sponsorship for interviewing someone who criticises Israel?
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Technology brothers will point out a startup's "first-mover advantage" but won't point to the First Mover for their own advantages 😔
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Reading Urdu transliterated to English on WhatsApp was my first experience of next token prediction
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I have a Mac mini on one side of my apartment which means I can leave my MacBook on the other side and not have to carry it around the apartment
tell me how rich u are without actually telling me.
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Enjoying the @patrick_oshag pod with @karimatiyeh and want to add to the Ramp discourse: We got Brex when we started Causal in 2019 and used it happily for 2 years until we switched to Ramp, and we’ve been happy customers ever since Why did we switch? I don’t really know. Our
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Why are the people claiming to “fearlessly pursue the truth” always the ones with the dumbest, most naively tribalistic takes? University of Austin Texas, founded by Joe Lonsdale and Bari Weiss, and bankrolled by Bill Ackman and Elon, is an SNL-skit-level parody of this
quillette.com
Created as a haven for free thinkers, UATX was the last place where I’d expected to encounter ideological litmus tests.
"Palestine was invented as a way of allowing guilt-ridden liberals despairing of Western civilization and traditions to have a torrid affair with third world violence and politics, an emotionally thrilling if morally vacuous assignation, which the only ones ever to pay any price
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