Game Theory: Poker

Ben Horowitz (founder, a16z): “Your behaviors are the culture, not your values”

Peter Thiel on advice to his younger self

US President, Donald Trump, has announced sweeping reciprocal tariffs including the 10.0% baseline tariff applying to economies such as Kenya. To make sense of what this means for Kenya, we need to understand what are Donald Trump's demands regarding Kenya from a tariff

Trump tweeted a video saying Buffett supports what he's doing and then Berkshire says it's BS LOL Clown Show continues

Real time example tariff impact of a watch brand that took pre-orders months ago for the production of an upcoming watch release.

i’m actually more struck by the fact that it’s been 100 years and we are still driving cars these two are closer together in form and function than i would expect from a 100 year gap

this is a high tier psyop from sam. he’s talking directly to the market. by floating a number like $100m: - he sets an anchor so absurd that anything meta offers now feels cheap. - he forces meta to either deny or match, both of which hurt them. - he gives his own employees a

🇬🇧 The recent capital gains tax increase in the UK was expected to bring additional tax revenue. Instead, high-net-worth individuals and families are leaving the country leading to an 18% fall in net capital gains tax revenue. A £2.7b loss. Welcome to the Laffer curve, suckers.

Facebook once bought a VPN app for $120M and turned it into a surveillance tool that spied on 33M+ users' entire phones for years. This app helped Zuck buy WhatsApp for a whopping $19B and break Snapchat's encryption. Thread

At some point the meaning of ‘driving’ and ‘self-driving’ will invert.

The engagement on this post (see quoted tweet) on the Tax Appeals Tribunal's judgement on Appeal No.E1116/2024 (Kirin Pipes Limited vs KRA Commissioner Intelligence Strategic Operations Investigations & Enforcement) regarding deposits to one's bank account being deemed income &

Stephen Miran just gave a speech outlining the logic of his Fed vote. It's this: He assumes every cockamamie White House claim is true, feeds them into a model, and out pops the number the President has asked for. He has become a walking advertisement for Fed Independence.

The AWS outage has impacted some of our users since last night, disrupting their sleep. That is not the experience we want to provide and I want to apologize for it. We are taking two main actions: 1) We are restoring all the features as AWS comes back. All devices are currently

I have been reflecting on the increasingly speculative nature of today’s stock market. It has many drivers such as ill-thought-out government dividend, share repurchase, and capital gains tax policies (which leads to quite severe capital dislocations and low growth), the rise

The World Bank on the good news about the Kenyan economy: —Private sector credit has improved from negative 2.9% in Feb 2025 to about 5% by Aug 2025, signalling that monetary policy transmission is working and credit conditions are normalising. —PMI recovered to above 50 in Oct

The World Bank on the bad news about the Kenyan economy: —Labor market outcomes remain weak: formal employment growth is slow and real wages have fallen by about 10.7% between 2015 and 2024. —Most new jobs are informal, lower-paying roles, indicating that growth is not

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Safaricom has confirmed a major ownership restructuring that will consolidate Vodafone’s entire position under Vodafone Kenya, while the Government of Kenya retains its 20% stake: Key numbers: —Vodafone Kenya will buy the Government’s 6.01B shares (15% of Safaricom) for KES

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