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Al Hemmingsen

@alhemmingsen

Family Office Chief Investment Officer, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt, Tree herder, Child herder

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calendar_today10-08-2015 00:37:17

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"one has to be short term contrarian, long-term right, and crucially - close enough on the timing that contrarian can flip to consensus [in the time frame of your fund and cash flows]"

"one has to be short term contrarian, long-term right, and crucially - close enough on the timing that contrarian can flip to consensus [in the time frame of your fund and cash flows]"
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Green eggs and ham and performance enhancing drugs. "But we all know they're bad for you. I will not die at 52. I would not could not take the gas. I do not need that muscle mass. They may be big while I am small.. I do not need turinabol."

Green eggs and ham and performance enhancing drugs.

"But we all know they're bad for you. I will not die at 52. I would not could not take the gas. I do not need that muscle mass. They may be big while I am small.. I do not need turinabol."
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Overheard: "you're an investor. And you do it for a while. And you have good results. Then they make you CIO. Then all you do is talk to board members for the rest of your life."

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23 floors, 576,000 square feet. And it's possible that tax abatement is the only thing that kept the price above $0. The adjustment to office values is not over.

23 floors, 576,000 square feet.

And it's possible that tax abatement is the only thing that kept the price above $0.

The adjustment to office values is not over.
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"I’ve found that, the more dogmatic someone is, the more stuck they tend to be. " "There is also a strong correlation between how much someone talks, and how poorly they listen, and how stuck they are. I describe it as filibustering your own soul." newsletter.theleading-edge.org/p/10-insights-…

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I have a friend who is still single. We were having dinner. Half way through he asks: "isn't that sound driving you insane?" What sound? Then I realized there was a screaming baby 2 tables away. Like white noise or a background fan. Didn't notice until someone pointed it

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Epistle to the Netizens 1:2-3 (apocryphal) 2: "I give thanks for your faith made known even in the marketplaces of the web, yet I fear lest your minds be led astray by the glitter of click-bait. 3: "For not all headlines proclaim the truth, nor do all links profit the soul;

Epistle to the Netizens 1:2-3 (apocryphal)

2: "I give thanks for your faith made known even in the marketplaces of the web, yet I fear lest your minds be led astray by the glitter of click-bait.

3: "For not all headlines proclaim the truth, nor do all links profit the soul;
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"A fun way to replay worries about generative video is to look at an earlier communications shift that led to similar worries: printing!" "An observer who was thinking through the implications of Gutenberg's new toy might say that, first of all, the new stuff is likely to be

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"LLMs basically define what's "beta" for a given career. Anything the LLM can reliably do, in response to basically the same prompt that the employee would get, is no longer viable as a job." "As the models get better in these domains, individual workers and companies have to

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"If you care about the content of your mind, you must protect it from domestication. We must, each of us, cultivate a feral intellect. " generalist.com/p/lesser-apes

"If you care about the content of your mind, you must protect it from domestication. We must, each of us, cultivate a feral intellect. "
generalist.com/p/lesser-apes