You can scale infinitely as a CEO or VP if you are relentless in recruiting people truly better than you to work for you

- Explain 83(b) election as a country song - Explain Delaware franchise tax as a rap song - Explain QSBS as a poem - Explain employee equity pool as a haiku

oh my god

Whitepill #3: Conflict drives evolutionary improvement of ideas (memes), just like life. Conflict levels (non-violent, of course) are rising. The marketplace of ideas is strengthening, not weakening.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but Neil Diamond, who retired from performing five years ago because of Parkinsons, just had a Broadway show of him open and it at the opening night he did this

Absolutely uncanny. (From Slack co-founder Eric Costello)

The heroes of the Capitol police and their families refusing to shake the hands of Republican leadership sends a crystal-clear message: January 6 is on their hands.

In 1934, no Democratic senators lost re-election. But since 1934, every president, Democrat and Republican, has seen at least one senator from their party lose re-election in every single midterm cycle. Biden becomes the first president since FDR not to lose a single senator.

“Digital and physical storage” absolutely killed me.

(1/15) “It’s a magic trick, a dupe. Nothing but an illusion. And it starts the moment you walk in the door. Biggest store in the world. Eight full floors of shopping. And Santaland is at the very top. You can take the elevators. Or you can do what I did when I was a kid..."

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Distributed ids are a pain. You either end up with autoinc which has the delightfully named "german tank problem" or you end up with ugly uuids in urls. github.com/ulid/spec solves all that and should be available by default in mysql/pg/sqlite

it is fucking absurd that in the year of our lord 2022 patients can't see their images in their patient portals

What really is amazing about this situation at Stanford is that they willingly convened and *funded* a committee to do this and then promptly lacked courage to defend it by quickly withdrawing list from public availability. If you’re making a list of prohibited words, defend it.

Cassidy Hutchinson's QAnon aunt and uncle thought about refinancing their house so she didn't have to go back to Trump world to pay her legal bills, and she begged her Trump-supporting biological father for help.

And pages later, Hutchinson reflects, "You know, I never wanted or thought that I would be the witness that I have become, because I thought that more people would be willing to speak out too."

During this joyous holiday season, as we reflect on what REALLY matters, I’m remembering the time I took my family to see Rare Exports in the theater on Christmas Eve, after pitching it as a “feel-good holiday classic about Santa Claus.” #noregrets #MerryChristmas 🎄🧊🎅🏻🧨

AGI before reliable headphone pairing.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.