This baobab, like many on the Kenya coast, can easily be more than 1,000 years old. The oldest trees on the planet are more than 5,000 years old, and that's excluding clonal organisms like Aspen groves >80,000 years old. The word "tree" shares the same root as the word "truth".

Excellent article that will resonate with every founder or operational CEO blog.staysaasy.com/p/first-princi…

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💯 "evidence consistently demonstrates that personal economic freedom and growth opportunities create vastly more poverty reduction worldwide than direct philanthropy... " Kyle Westaway betonit.ai/p/escaping-pov…

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Govt spending beyond what's earned from taxes can only be fueled by (1) printing more money (inflation) or (2) borrowing more money (mostly from China). Trumps bill will kill the US economy. The BBB could bring the US into the league of Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Yugoslavia...

It's getting so hard to get off grid. I don't want to have connection everywhere !

Brilliant.

AI is making everyone's beliefs and writing styles eerily similar at an insane speed

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”

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Stands the test of time, thanks Paul Graham "Startups don't win by attacking. They win by transcending. There are exceptions of course, but usually the way to win is to race ahead, not to stop and fight." paulgraham.com/mean.html

Step inside the outcome and its effort dissipates.

Still some of the most important business advice ever written: review.firstround.com/the-remarkable…

If {people} cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them. -Orwell

The US desperately needs efficient legal immigration channels. This is the perfect example of how it is shooting itself in the foot with the crazed xenophobic anti-immigrant policies. Legal immigration is good! And it just doesn't work in the US. theguardian.com/global-develop…

The REAL test of whether a public tech CEO is a good Manager or just lucky right place right time is how much better they perform than decentralized BTC. pretty high bar.

Maybe the US economy is in the equivalent of 1981, Reagan's first year. 1982 was the worst recession since WW2.