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Co-Founder @Lux_Capital | Trustee @SfiScience Santa Fe Inst | Chair @CiPrep Coney Island Prep (Brooklyn) | Co-Founder of Carson, Quinn & Bodhi w/ @ltwolfe
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-anti hamas/terror
-anti hostage taking
-anti killing civilians
-anti anti-semitism
-anti islamophobia
-anti religious + tribal divides
-anti tiktok +foreign interference
-pro Palestinian state (esp free of Hamas)
-pro Israel right to exist (esp free of existential threat)
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WHOA.
Stare at the cross for ~10 seconds.
Your brain will make the colors disappear.
(it's crazy. And it's called the Troxler effect––another clue how our minds filter reality)
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1/ WOW.
Anonymous just dropped 💣on Elon Musk
(Cant believe this isnt episode of MrRobot)
Part 1
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GENIUS.
Emotionally choreographed to historic price of Bitcoin.
(Tip: put sound on)
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Wow. Wow. Wow.
Incredible powerful message (incredible speech writing)—to those who stumbled on the wrong path and may ruin their future for not knowing the past.
The weight of history
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1/ My friend Jon Haidt
@JonHaidt
has written the MOST important article you can read today...
"Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid––it's not just a phase"
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"Gas the Jews" is an inspirational call for comedians to bring peace through laughter and comedy
"Swatstikas" are mathematical symbol celebrating symmetry and our equality
"Jude" on a yellow star is celebration of the Beatles and harmony with constellations of love and peace…
From the river to the sea is an aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence, not death, destruction, or hate. My work and advocacy is always centered in justice and dignity for all people no matter faith or ethnicity.
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🤯Regular reminder—REALITY is not what our brains actually reproduce.
Infuriatingly TRUE—nothing is actually. moving. Put a pen tip or paperclip at any point to measure.
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Brilliant from NASA in 1965. And still true.
“Man is the lowest-cost, 150lb, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.”
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Malthus was wrong.
We make MORE food than ever with LESS land than ever. Because we have one inexhaustible resource—
Human ingenuity.
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DO NOT LOSE SIGHT.
(black) PROTESTORS (peacefully protesting injustice)
stopping (white) RIOTER hackign cement to throw + create chaos––and teaming to turn him into police (justice).
THIS must go viral. Please RT
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OK I am one of Elon's big critics when it comes to Tesla
This piece makes me think MORE highly of him
LESS highly of NYT. It reads:
Area man born in very BAD setup
does very GOOD things
Elon Musk grew up in elite white communities in South Africa, detached from apartheid’s atrocities and surrounded by anti-Black propaganda.
He sees his takeover of Twitter as a free speech win but in his youth did not suffer the effects of misinformation.
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I am extremely bullish on India 🇮🇳 century...
And just as shocking to me seeing Jews facing record levels of antisemetism many Hindus are facing rising intolerance and anti-Hinduism + Hinduphobia
I stand with all 🇮🇳 brothers + sisters against this!
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CAPTIVATING.
The most clever Rube Goldberg way to have your cake--and eat it too.
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"They had sent many subtle warnings to the humans...before they arrived"
We'll make great pets.
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This = MASTER CLASS.
A must-read (or hear if you wait until tomorrow when Bezos reads it to Congress) in entrepreneurship, leadership, value-creation, invention, immigration, philanthropy, environmental stewardship.
The team alongside Jeff Bezos writing this is 💯
LETS DIG IN
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Use AI to substitute other protected identities
Replace "jews" with "black or brown people" or "LGBTQ+"
CHILLING.
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TSMC...should have been TEXAS Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp
We cannot make the mistake again where brilliant diverse talent feels more comfortable OUTSIDE the US than INSIDE 🇺🇸
The movement of a single brilliant scientist––can and has lead to movement of militaries...
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Freedom of speech means freedom of speech
It also means freedom for me—Cornell alum—to close my wallet and calendar to supporting any activities of any institution with leaders not using their speech to shame + condemn orgasmic glee of pro-violent antisemitism
Cornell University Professor Russell Rickford speaking about Hamas terrorist attacks. Shameful
@Cornell
.
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Everyone is talking about AI or quantum or space or chips or defense in US v China competition.
What are few talking about? Nuclear reactors. Here's why that is critical.
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An entire compilation of dope “dad reflexes”.
With 3 little ones I live this daily.
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50yrs ago 1968
-2001 Space Odyssey
-Beatles Yellow Submarine
-MLK + RFK killed
-OJ wins Heisman
-Bill Cosby 1st African American to win Emmy (I Spy)
-LBJ signs Civil Rights Act
-Packers beat Raiders
-Celtics beat Lakers
-Nixon wins Presidency
-Surveyor7 send pics from Moon
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2/ part 2...
Anonymous may do more in revealing truth and lies... than all us critics have tried
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1/ Here are some REALLY interesting findings from a controversial empirical paper asking:
*WHY do some people become ENTREPRENEURS?*
Of the many findings + hypotheses, a few stand out
-SIGNALING theory
-REJECTING a system that REJECTS them...
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WOW
Talent is universal—opportunity is not
Story of 8yr old Nigerian refugee (Tanitoluwa Adewumi) fled Boko Haram in NYC homeless shelter—now chess champion for K-3 in NY!
UNDEFEATED + OUTWITTING rich kids from private schools who have chess tutors—he learned chess 1 year ago!
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Don't say I didn't ever agree w Elon.
He is right.
@DrEliDavid
If WFP can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6B will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it.
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The reason Penn as an INSTITUTION must make an example of her as an INDIVIDUAL is not because she is a bad person but because she failed to rise to be an examplar model of moral leadership, of excellence, of civic value, of virtue.
She gave an INVERTED commencement speech…
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On decision making—and key reason why startups can beat incumbents
IF there‘s a chain of command (+ path dependence) requiring serial consent: “Yes” > “yes” > “yes”—
—THEN a single “NO” kills a new idea
BUT if 19 VCs say no, 1 VC saying “yes” launches it.
Bezos nails it here:
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1/ FASCINATING new theory on DREAMING from observing a deep neural net
but 1st––some of the most cutting-edge + interesting research on how 🧠🧠 work –– are inspired by observation of modern 💻💻 + algorithms
every era there's a theory of brains running parallel to era's tech
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Genius.
If you took BlackMirror x Punkd x trendy fitness high intensity training.
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Detroit, Philly, Milwaukee, Atlanta.
Trump WAS right when he said nobody has done more for black communities than Trump...
Because he personally got them to turn out in absolute record numbers—and FIRE HIM and his racist cynical white supremacist dog whistling divisiveness.
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INSANE.
The line between reality <> fiction blurs further.
Very surreal + disorienting how Bill Hader morphs digitally into Tom Cruise & Seth Rogen—and back without missing a beat.
When fakes get abundant—value what is scarce: veracity + TRUTH.
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1/ "Release the hostages"
Why is that not the FIRST universal cry?
Why is that not the universal social media post?
How is intentionally kidnapping innocent children as hostages condonable, met with silence or worse screaming it by ripping down posters.
I don't understand it
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Dearborn, Michigan?
Hamas leaders looking for new HQ outside of Qatar as pressure mounts for hostage deal: report
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Infected mind virus zombie
@Columbia
Imagine
Black students singing in unison and someone holding a sign "KKK's next target"
Mexican students + someone holding a sign "CBPs next roundup"
LGBTQ students and someone holding sign saying "shoot straight. target practice"
This is happening at
@Columbia
right now.
A pro-Hamas protestor calling on the Al-Qasam brigade (the military wing of Hamas) to kill Jewish students.
If you are not enraged by this, you can GO FUCK YOURSELF.
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entire thing was clever ruse to
SELL + LIQUIDATE $8.5 BILLION of TESLA STOCK
(w/plausible excuse for doing it)
80% odds Elon pays $1B breakup fee
+ walks away with $7.5B liquidated
20% spends $100M fighting litigation
honestly think he can “land rockets”
but can’t fix ‘bots’?
the reason that elon musk can't get out of the deal over the bots thing is not that he "waived due diligence." it's that he SIGNED A BINDING AGREEMENT TO BUY TWITTER, and that agreement does not have any outs for "i think there are too many bots."
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Twitter followers with massively more followers than others should NOT exist.
Bernie Sanders has 9.7M followers.
More than 99.9% of Twitter. A true 0.1%-er
He discriminates against most—and chooses to follow less than 1,500 people—excluding 99.9999% of the people.
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1/ We are novelty seeking primates, in permanent quest to find secrets & shortcuts to be absolutely & relatively "better" off (self/others)
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BRILLIANT piece by
@sequoia
Mike Moritz
If Barcelona ⚽️ had given Messi EQUITY 📈…
(requiring it be sold on departure from team)
…instead of just throwing cash
they’d not be drowned in debt💰🏦 📉
and have better aligned incentives
Like the best high-tech ventures:
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4/ This paper by NYU Stern (MBA school) friend + prof Deepak Hedge suggests...
Individuals with ACTUAL ability that EXCEEDS the SIGNAL value of their ability (ie they know they are better than employers can tell from credentials)...become entrepreneurs.
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Because. It. Is. Not. Genocide.
It's a war started by Hamas.
Who broke a ceasefire on Oct 7.
Murdered and kidnapped Jews.
And then tricked the world with lies
Anyone saying it's genocide is intentionally spreading Hamas lies and desecrating what the word means—or a moron
Very important clarification from the
@CIJ_ICJ
that they did NOT rule there was a plausible case of genocide (there was not) in Gaza, only that the applicant had plausible right to bring a case to the court.
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Oprah is a queen👸🏾
They omitted the even worse parts: being born into horrible poverty, on welfare, as a child wore dresses made of potato sacks. Molested & raped—repeatedly. Pregnant @ 14, would lose her son in infancy, her half-sister to drug addiction, half-brother to AIDS...
Oprah:
Age 65: $3.5 billion net worth
Age 61: buys 10% of Weight Watchers
Age 56: starts OWN Network
Age 49: becomes billionaire
Age 46: starts O Magazine
Age 34: starts Harpo
Age 32: becomes millionaire
Age 32: starts Oprah TV show
Age 19: first TV job
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I still cannot believe this actually happened.
They mistakenly held press conference at Four Seasons—Landscaping company instead of Four Seasons Hotel.
Borat 2 star Rudy Gulilani and disgraced former NYC mayor learned the election was called from the parking lot.
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Kind of AMAZING.
I am at Lux office playing physical chess—with a GHOST.
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Comparing the 10 largest companies in the S&P500
-from March 2009 to Aug 2018.
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Holy f'in s#!+
1. Trump needs 💰for lawsuits
2. Jeff Yass (Susquehanna) needs his 7% stake in TikTok ($30B!) to not be hit by law that will thwart China Communist Party from intentionally using TikTok to corrupt 🇺🇸 democracy
3. Yass 🎁💰 Trump SPAC
4. Trump 👎 on TikTok bill
BREAKING: The biggest institutional investor in the SPAC that’s merging with Truth Social is Susquehanna International Group LLP, which was co-founded by GOP megadonor Jeffrey Yass.
The deal is poised to give Donald Trump a massive financial lifeline.
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With recent news of many all-stock deals—I share my favorite story on VALUE
A dad comes home from work—
Son: “Dad! I sold our dog 🐶 today for $1MM”
Dad: “Wait you did what! to whom!?”
Son: “Yup—to our neighbor”
Dad: “He gave you $1M?!”
Son: “Yeah! He gave me 2 $500k cats🙀 🙀”
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2019: Year of "Spending More Time With Family"
CEO exits (just today)
-Nike
-Boeing
-Service Now
-Under Armor
2019:
-HP
-REI
-Juul
-eBay
-PG&E
-Boingo
-RiteAid
-MetLife
-WeWork
-BestBuy
-Overstock
-KraftHeinz
-WellsFargo
-Warner Bros
-BedBathBeyond
-UnitedHealthcare
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1984 vibes. Pure evil.
CEO of TikTok in DC
“Our opium dens are meant to serve you and bring you and your children joy and happiness” ht
@miles_k
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u can’t sell products that don’t actually exist yet
u can’t sell features that don’t actually exist yet
u can’t sell investors on acquiring a failing biz to bail it out
but here we are
u can’t sell houses u don’t own
u can’t sell cars u don’t own
but
u *can* sell stock u don’t own!?
this is bs – shorting is a scam
legal only for vestigial reasons
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Zelensky is the perfect anti Putin.
During his inaugural address in 2019, Zelensky told lawmakers: “I do not want my picture in your offices: the President is not an icon, an idol or a portrait. Hang your kids' photos instead, and look at them each time you are making a decision.”
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Fascinating how NYT coverage of Orlando evolved as facts came in
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CRAZY.
The worst year in history to be alive? 536.
A “mysterious fog” (it was unknwon then but was Iceland volcano) covered earth from Europe to Asia in darkness—for 1.5 years, blocked the sun, dropped temperatures to 2 degrees, caused mass deaths
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Name a better duo (with a shtick) on TV right now—than these two.
Pure gold.
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Can’t cancel a man who walked from $50M on principle.
If it offends you—don’t watch it
Don’t share it or talk about it
NOTHING gets others more curious
than protests to censor something deemed dangerous!
free marketing + PR
I found it EMPATHETIC, BRILLIANT and HILARIOUS.
“We know that a number of you have been left angry, disappointed and hurt by our decision to put Dave Chappelle’s latest special on Netflix,” Sarandos wrote in an email obtained by Variety.
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60 Muslim or Muslim majority countries
1.8 billion people
25% of the world population
They should live free and prosper
1 Jewish state a scant 7 million Jews representing 73% of Israel population welcoming of Muslims and 22% Arab—and the ONLY democracy in the Middle East. A tiny…
@phuecn
@unvrslexplainer
@minibardenial
@wolfejosh
If, by 'critical', you mean propagating absurd and blatant falsehoods casting Israel as vengeful, bloodthirsty and mendacious, using tropes that have been used against Jews for centuries, generously excepting 'good Jews', then no, it's too unlikely a coincidence to be plausible.
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This is a cancer hospital
The wing is named for a jew
Lives are saved here
My brother in law died of cancer. here.
none of this helps your cause. none of it.
you cement a brand of hate, anger, intolerance
Pro hamas and pro Palestinians protest target Sloan Kettering Cancer Center . This hospital saves people's lives in a major way . This is disturbing.
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Reality + fiction blur again.
This makes touchscreens seem...quaint.
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The good news: the METAVERSE is exciting but NOT for the reasons most people are talking about.
The bad news: odds are the 'Metaverse' will be used by IBM in an add before year-end and further dilute + erode it as buzzword bs that we all grow AVERSE to...
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1/ This is a good + fair question.
I hope i give a good + fair answer…
Why is BRK (buffett) a different ‘religion’ than TSLA (musk)?
A thread🧵…
@wolfejosh
Berkshire Hathaway is the ultimate financial religion.
People call Buffett an Oracle, go on Mecca to Omaha every year, and literally call his followers disciplines.
Why do you participate in one religion but discriminate against another? 😉
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Level 1 thinker: 😄I will follow the crowd and add a pic of me from 10yrs ago to this meme challenge by Facebook
Level 2 thinker: 🤔wait a sec. What if FB is tricking me to be part of a mass experiment to train facial recognition algorithms on aging...
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1/ Releasing a redacted Lux quarterly letter to LPs.
Some strong views of
-a catalog of an excess of excesses
-what catalysts cause the current market frenzy to end
(preview: LP indigestion)
-what we are advising our Lux family companies
-much more…
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Morons. Utter morons.
"Down with the USA!" "Hamas is on the way"
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Wolfe fam learning influence + responsibility from kings of TikTok, Instagram, YouTube
@JoshRichards
+
@lmgriffjohnson
of Sway House
Class acts, smart, enterprising, business-minded with wise ambitions + big long-term plans cc
@LTwolfe
Go LONG these guys
don't underestimate.
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We don't need to leave Earth to find ALIENS.
They are already here.
Melibe viridis—no teeth, crazy gel like net as a head that traps crabs and other crustaceans on ocean floor like a Dyson vacuum.
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1/ LIQUIDITY v. SOLVENCY
At market level:
government bond buying can solve LIQUIDITY
(by buying bonds + propping up prices with no bids)
At company level:
they cannot solve SOLVENCY
(when (growing) debts exceed ability to pay them)...
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Imagine alongside ABC, CBS, NBC that 🇺🇸 gave a TV channel to Nazi Germany in the 1930s or Communist USSR in 1980s to broadcast direct propoganda to US citizens
Imagine 🇨🇳 allowing US social media content to influence their kids today—none may
This is a national security threat
Over the past 24 hours, thousands of TikToks (at least) have been posted where people share how they just read Bin Laden’s infamous "Letter to America," in which he explained why he attacked the United States.
The TikToks are from people of all ages, races, ethnicities, and…
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DOPESICK.
More humans between 18 - 45 died last year of fentanyl overdoses than COVID, car accidents, breast cancer + suicide.
CHINA is the primary source of fentanyl.
It’s impact is even worse than the Sacklers + Oxy.
via DEA intel report
More adults between 18 and 45 died of fentanyl overdoses in 2020 than COVID-19, motor vehicle accidents, cancer and suicide
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1/ NEW
Lux Q1 2022 Letter to LPs
“…SURVIVAL is a necessary precondition for GROWTH”
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NO
don’t blame “inequity” in PAY
blame inequity in DEMAND
ASK: why do women hate women’s sports?
Why send $$ + attention wastefully to Kardashians + Real Housewives who just tear women down?
Can most name 5 WNBA players? or 2 WNBA teams? or even your own WNBA home team?
The first pick in the NBA draft will make around $10 million in one year.
Caitlin Clark will make $76,535.
That is wrong. Pay women what they deserve.
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🔥 from Yuval Harari:
"When a thousand people believe some made-up story for one month, that's fake news. When a billion people believe it for a thousands years—that's a religion"
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Cash is the god that transcends all regions.
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WHOA.
More proof we do not see reality.
TRUE: Both buses below move at constant speed.
Also TRUE: no chance you see that.
It's called the "stepping feet illusion"
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SPECTACULAR.
What a life––and still alive.
After giving away $8 Billion(!) to significant causes––he now lives in tiny SF apartment that looks like a dorm room.
Testimonials from Warren Buffett,
@BillGates
, Laurene Powell Jobs,
@JohnArnoldFndtn
+ more.
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1/ Some unsolicited advice.
A few people I admire and mentor were obsessed with the current news cycle––distracted + distraught with disbelief almost daily.
My advice was THIS: 👇👇👇
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15/ Here is full MUST-READ piece by my friend
@JonHaidt
on democracy after our disintegration...
how it gets worse before it gets better
and whether you want to continue to be part of the PROBLEM––or part of the SOLUTION...
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Close friend runs serious co
has interview w/GenZ candidate @ 10:00
Candidate is 6 minutes late 10:06
Friend calls front desk
checks when candidate checked in
Desk says 10:05
Me: How was she?
-She was smart
Me: Hiring her?
-6 mins late. Not a chance
🚨GenZ BOUT TO GET SHOOK🚨
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Our country, our economy, our co's, our tech––
are built by IMMIGRANTS
We should staple green card/visa to those earning advanced tech + science degrees in the US + do everything to help them + their families stay in the US
my exchange with veteran US Marine––Rep.
@sethmoulton
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Never been better setup for NUCLEAR
-Global energy shock + constraints
-Higher prices
-Nuclear related stocks outperforming
-Commodities, Metals, Mining
demand cheap energy
-Commodity consuming humans
demand for zero carbon
-Next gen environmentalist awakening to it
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1/ At a recent dinner a few extraordinarily successful VCs could not see what might threaten the grip of Facebook or Google.
I had a simple answer: China.
How? Simple....
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Why? Because it was a literal faked product demo to cynically get shareholder approval for a shady bailout of of a relative's failing biz that protected from any viral narrative of failure. But it's OK because stock price bro, you're jealous bro, accelerating sustainability bro
It’s been several years since Tesla acquired SolarCity for around $2.6 billion. Why hasn't Tesla’s solar business taken off as Elon Musk promised? Watch the full video here:
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