First data from a non-anglo country I’ve seen. Wonderful!

The tragic failure of natalist marketing is that nobody without kids knows that babies are a huge source of comedy and entertainment, not just a drag on an entertaining life. They are little slapstick comedians, elves, non-stop humor from baby antics, and do not mind adventure.

If that's the case, who is now the lead of the European beat? techcrunch.com/2025/06/11/eur… via @techcrunch

I can generally not remember the names of mimes, mummers, and bards. The social discourse around and respect for them is a little baffling to me. A possible artefact of industrialization? And I do love music!

Leftists in 2020: Don’t kill granny Leftists in 2025: On second thoughts…

Can we ban the word “cracked” it’s been cringe for at least 6 months now. Instead of saying your team is cracked just bring the fucking receipts, what have they done.

Democratized access to yield is the key value propositions of DeFi but non-native crypto users encounter hard time when trying to participate. The long-term solution are clearly yield vaults that abstract all the underlying complexity away and open up access. Veda

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Since you unblocked me just to post this, I’ll respond in earnest. 1. Obviously, a world in which suit wearing becomes an oddity, even low status, is a world in which the kind of fine tailoring that you and I enjoy so much disappears. I don’t just mean in some sort of vague

First Independence Day as an American. God bless this great country.

The playbook on what’s valuable is changing. First principles help, as usual

In my experience, the best founders aren't loud. The best ones aren't shitposting, rage-baiting, nor glorifying their ego on social media. Instead they're mission-driven (not fame/ego-driven), and are quietly and maniacally focused on product, customers, and product-market fit.

Funny, but I really worry about the long-term implications of unserious people running comms further destroying the credibility of institutions.

Could I just point out that WW3 would be really dumb, esp at this point? Let's regionalize.

And that's what you get for cancelling Car Talk

Even if you think you don’t like poetry, you’ll find something to like in my book, America Is the Poem. The book will end up on your nightstand, in your glove compartment, on the coffee table—you’ll keep it within reach! Pick up a copy. Thank me later.

Web traffic is down 15% YTD

Resist

The play for Europe on AI is to launch new startups which co-evolve with the multiple open-source Chinese models. Sanitize, distill, distribute. Open source individual-empowering AI will win!