Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers

Elon Musk illustrates my #FooledbyRandomness point: solid financial success is largely the result of skills, hard work, and wisdom. But wild success (in the far tail) is more likely to be the result of reckless betting, extreme luck, & the opposite of wisdom: folly. 1/2

drake aint make this album for you. he made it for remote tech workers at a series D fintech to headbob at their standing desk while ctrl + shift + tabbing between a draft code review and sports twitter

i should be able to download 1000 songs onto my headphones and walk around anywhere listening without my phone

Normalize being busy doing nothing by yourself.

Sadly, we’re on TikTok now. If you’re like 12, follow us there.

founder of duolingo is crazy impressive • sells first startup for a few million • reinvests back into himself and authors recaptcha, sells to google • sprouts idea for duolingo in 2009 • private beta in 2011, launch 2012 • 3 mill users by 2013 • 200 million users by 2017

Margaret Hamilton, NASA's lead developer for Apollo program, stands next to all the code she wrote by hand that took humanity to the moon in 1969

Your ability to speak clearly is enhanced by reading (not listening) to books and by writing and journaling in complete sentences. Texting, voice dictation and audio books are wonderful but degrade articulation. Conversely, structured writing aids structured speech.

This is like when we stopped making flying cars in the 70s 😪

Plato, Kant, and Schopenhauer studed two planes of existence: material reality and sensory perception. We moderns, more advanced, know that we live in a third: pure fantasy.

Involuntarily re-watching the walking dead with my housemate and i forgot how absurdly hilarious the takedowns are. Seeing someone user a fire truck water gun like an MG-42 is straight out of the tarantino playbook 😂. youtu.be/K4B-7o4rPis

Predict hard enough and you produce (?)

Second best foreign film after Mongol. Ebru Yıldırım would love to see your take on Mongol.

new heat from Stripe Press 👇

@ me if you're in Australia and want to accept payments on your phone.

This gets me excited about AGI

Spotify has many great features (DJ, blend, shared playlists) but BY FAR their greatest contribution to humanity is allowing us to skip through ads during podcasts.

Stripe Billing (our product for handling subscriptions and recurring payments, usage-based billing, discounts, invoices, per-seat pricing, etc.) is now a pretty large and fast-growing business. (Used by Atlassian, OpenAI, Notion, Anthropic, Intercom, and ~300k other businesses.)