Perhaps the most optimistic part about the Trae & AD trades is the confidence that Dawk must feel in the *young* guys. You don't do these moves if you feel like you need more opportunities to bring in lottery-type talent.

Trumps video is disgusting. The naked racism will be laughed off by supporters as Trump just doing Trump, but if somebody made a similar “joke” about their in-group, they’d be up in arms. GOP, again, is spineless and is depriving America of the conservatism we so badly need.

This is a great, thought provoking piece.

This was a really fun, thoughtful conversation.

The US is unique (and arguably successful) because it has a high acceptance for a lot of thin cultural differences -- as long as you buy into the thick culture. That is, you can live how you want, as long as you ultimately believe in making mint through hard work and playing by

Brilliant framing and spot on.

The Long Afternoon On the European and American minds, and what happens when the machines come for both --- There is a café in Paris where a man sits every afternoon at 2:30. He drinks a glass of red. He reads the newspaper. He does not check his phone. He is not retired. He

Yes, but… Some % of knowledge is knowing what questions to ask and some other percentage of knowledge work has nothing to do with information itself and more with outsourcing unpopular opinions, courage, discipline, etc. AI might take a meaningful chunk but not all imo

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This is a really interesting piece that resonates profoundly.

Suddenly, its turns out that it is not smart to arrogantly shit on an ally that has learned how to down 200 Shaheds every single night and then wipe out and oil refinery or a military airfield with a handful of cheap drones.

And we’re supposed to just go out and do errands and head to work like any of this is fucking normal

This should be a golden age of ESOPs. And tbf, given Capitalisms popularity we need employee ownership more than ever.

This is an incredible read and speaks to something I’ve said here repeatedly. “Zionism became a target because it represented what Westerners on the right claim to desperately want but are unable to attain, and what Westerners on the left wish to define as impossible: a form of

Altman is a Kelsonian!

It’s rare that I’m as moved by an essay as I was by Alana Newhouse's latest for Tablet Magazine, “Zionism for Everyone.” Newhouse answers the question of why Zionism vs. antizionism has emerged as a central ideological faultline in the market democracies of the West, something that