I think Orwell's Politics and the English Language needs a follow up essay: Technology and the English Language We have reached a point where industry terms in a variety of fields actively obscure what is or is not happening materially.

dense difficult books, long meandering conversations, slow cooked meals

Guys will see this and just think “hell yeah”

Bicycle for the mind

Best in class

“Optimism can be a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

"You are not a machine. Don’t act like one."

There’s a common meme in Silicon Valley that the measure of a man is how quickly he changes his mind with new data, or his ability to change a long-held view when presented with evidence that runs contrary. There’s reason we prize the data readers in company building— people

really looking forward to this one 🤠

Ok, let’s do this. Unlike lame-ass poll-based Monte Carlos, these will update throughout the day and night based on state-by-state prediction market fluctuations. You can close the tab, but you will always come back. election.elidourado.com

You’re not a one hit wonder, your results are just power law distributed.

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I’m still VERY long on 🇨🇦, but for real we gotta get our sh*t together as a country. We can’t just stand on our past performance. We need to requalify every damn day for our place on the global stage. Time to build.

!! Save the date!! I’m super excited to announce an event that Gabriel Sundaram and I have been working on for the last four months. On Thursday January 23, we will be holding a community-led gathering at HEC downtown. It will feature Harley Finkelstein President of Shopify. We are

Canada/acc. 🇨🇦💪

AI opportunity is hyped but probably appropriately rated. Opportunity to rebuild the world’s infrastructure better is getting more hyped but still deeply underrated.

One thing that isn’t explored enough: men and women, who used to meet and fall in love before and/or without filtering or selecting so strictly for political “compatibility”, as many are doing now, used to marry people with much more divergent views—and they would naturally

Go Xona, Go, Go, Go 🚀 🛰️ SpaceX successfully launched 70 satellites in one go, with the Xona Pulsar-0 bottom right. It is pioneering low-orbit GPS, of keen interest to the government as 150x power makes it harder to jam or spoof & much more precise: xonaspace.com/news/launching…

GPS, as amazing as it is, is not accurate enough and can be spoofed and hacked. Xona is the next generation navigational system that solves these problems and more. Exciting to see a space startup liftoff! Proud 1517 was the first money in.