murakami getting up at 4am and doing three hours of crossfit to maximise his productivity writing quirky novels about shy, down to earth but ineffectual men who meet magical monkeys and wander and day dream and are preyed on sexually by insane women

good thread

salesforce devs will have to spend 1 day per quarter figuring out what salesforce actually does

Feel like the last few months I’ve really started to notice how many people I knew on here or considered friends just aren’t even around anymore. Not like grand leaving or anything but just one day stopped posting and disappeared.

When you have to dichotomize the continuous treatment to get significant results.

Passed a business guy in downtown Chicago who yelled "I don't care what they want, I need to be home on Halloween!" into his phone. There are 90s family-comedy films all around us for those with eyes to see.

It’s never more over than when the dividend investors show up

A video is going to be released shortly that appears to show me chasing waterfalls. I assure y'all that this is a deep fake, as I routinely and religiously stick to the rivers and the lakes that I'm used to and whatnot.

“Well, Joe, it’s something called vol surface. It’s a surface—it’s a beautiful surface—the most beautiful surface in fact. It’s powerful, some say, too powerful, Joe.”

“We will be a great league that has two teams from New York City.” In which borough will they play sir? “None. They will play in New Jersey. And approximately 45% of their games will be on national television.” Wow, these two teams must win very often sir. “Almost never.”

ALSO on the subject of My Dinner With Andre, one of my favourite Simpsons bits

Is this dude ever gonna run out of stupid shit to say?

legacy software companies adding an ai chatbot to their product

I like Nate Silver, but his "river" type can be a retcon for unethical success or luck, as well as compulsive gambling. Which leads away from the actual "river" to a replacement-level podcast shtick, promoting the same old tech creeps to the same angry audience

New public note thedrawingboard.net/reits-are-not-…

"There is a freemasonry among those who prey on the rich" — Jean Rhys

2025 is the year that value investors buy saas while growth investors buy european electrification co at only 8x EBITDA but capex is 100% of revenue