For the past couple years I’ve just been agreeing with people who say the 2020 election was stolen and I tell them not to bother voting ever again because we’re stealing them all from now on.

Doesn’t this show we are at (or near) the economic limit of cheap solar? Now, any extra solar must come with a huge amount of storage and/or transmission so that the power can be sold during a period with an above-zero price. Aidan Morrison explains these issues here

What a massive waste of potentially productive capital. Australians put a huge majority of their capital in housing which is almost entirely non-productive. Just imagine the businesses, inventions, research and innovation that could be done with just half that investment.

What sort of cognitive dissonance is required to support both Bitcoin and efforts to limit climate change?

Founders often think a startup running out of money or not being able to raise another round from investors is the end. They think there’s only two doors. DOOR 1: Shut down, let go of all your staff, and throw away years of work.

DOOR 2:
 Do a depressing acquihire to save

I've completed 10 Ironmans and treated over 3,000 patients over the past 10 years. Here's every fitness tip I could think of: 1) Kids will only move as much as their parents do.

Each of these rebrands cost $20-100M in salaries + agency and consultant expenses

Is economics following the social sciences into the replication crisis?

Super nerd final exam: Question 1 (worth 100%) Explain the use of adhesive tape for improving aerodynamics and preventative maintenance on an aircraft using a detailed and obscure Lord of the Rings analogy. Bonis point for seamless delivery and accurate Tolkien pronunciation.

“[S]cientific projects that would otherwise have been funded on merit were rejected by the NHMRC solely on the basis that the applicants were male. Valuable scientific work was cast aside to balance a DEI spreadsheet.” quillette.com/2024/10/11/rev…

A high single dose of creatine can partially reverse metabolic alterations and cognitive deterioration associated with sleep deprivation. 🧵1/9

When I was pregnant with my first kid and CEO of a startup I remember promising I wouldn’t be one of ‘those women’ who love their kids so much they step back from work… to a female VP who was grilling me about it directly I cringe at that convo now… feminism doesn’t support

Testimonials are coming in from teachers about their newly phone-free schools, and the amazing things that students are now doing. Like taking notes, completing their assignments, then talking to each other. "Was it this easy of a solution the whole time?"

Suggestion for a tax reform experiment: remove negative gearing and capital gains tax concessions from a random half of all Federal MPs and observe changes in their property investment behaviour relative to the other half as a control group (and with an open data protocol).

An era has past.

i think about this dude all the time

I hope I'm wrong. But tonight feels like some sort of invisible line has been crossed that we didn't even know was there. The last time I felt like this was 9/11 when it was clear, without knowing the how and the what, that the world was about to change forever. Like the

Scumbag scammers at it again. (And Twitter still MIA on fixing it.) They are using my name and photo, but I am NOT associated with it in any way. Run, RUN, away. Please be careful.

Of course that's your contention. You're a first-time SaaS bear. You just got finished listening to some podcast, Dario on Dwarkesh, probably. Now you think it’s the end of white collar work and seat-based pricing is screwed. You're gonna be convinced of that til tomorrow when

Two economists just published a mathematical proof that AI will destroy the economy. Not might. Not could. Will — if nothing changes. The paper is called "The AI Layoff Trap." Published March 2, 2026. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Boston University. Peer reviewed.