Here's why mass deportations or declining birth rates cannot solve the housing crisis: housing is all about location. Right now, America has a ton of cheap houses in rural nowhere or mid-size midwestern cities. but people don’t want housing in the abstract; they want housing

We should have more billionaires

Dude

odysseus asking his men to tie him up so he can hear the sirens’ call just because he’s curious is one of the realest moves in classic literature. i would definitely also do that.

The Wuppertal Schwebebahn is a suspended monorail in Wuppertal, Germany It is world’s oldest electric suspension railway still in operation - designed by Eugen Langen (1901)

The story of the last century is basically the United States defeating its fellow great powers, in order: Austria-Hungary (1918), Turkey (1918), Germany (1945), Italy (1945), Japan (1945), the United Kingdom (1956), France (1969), and Russia (1991).

I see people on the timeline worrying excessively about age today. Meanwhile back in the real world we have tech execs in their 40s and 50s with teenager level energy. The problem isn't that you're too old, the problem always is losing the will to live and win. Skill issue.

This attitude is precisely what Abundance should push against. Building more housing + energy, providing more healthcare + childcare is a far better strategy for helping middle class have more joy and fewer financial worries than endlessly blaming businesses and rich people.

People who climb the career ladder by choking the flow of information through the org chart are insanely dangerous. They appear competent for a brief period of time but the house of cards will fall apart and everything will break sooner than anyone thinks it will.

Don’t be coming into my house and causing big spikes of cortisol

夏の円グラフ、海岸線

― Rainer Maria Rilke

Screens present you with images, but books force you to create them, and the power of that image-creating muscle is the control center of the creativity because the subconscious whispers in images, and if you let your powers of imagination waste away, you won't be able to hear it

It's an uncomfortable thing to say, but every great company starts as one person seeing reality more clearly than most.

The existence of karmic debt implies the existence of karmic credit and karmic default swaps

A lesson I wish more people understood: Failing is closer to success than thinking about success is.

protect wildlife (people with a soul)

One issue with corporate comms is there’s too much “how to build a boat” and not enough “why you should should yearn for the vast and endless sea”

I wrote a 20,000 word Notion guide on what I would do differently as a founder if I were to start from scratch Covers equity, fundraising, raising money, taxes, hiring & paying my team, running finance, selling secondaries & exiting Comment or RT & I'll DM you a copy

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