I love the internet.

The birth of Ben Hunt story.

Wherein Ben starts writing and tells his wife, 'I think I've got something to say.'

And she pats him on the shoulder and replies, 'I guess you'd better do that then.'

Support your people.

Do your best work.

It's not too late to start:

Leaders gotta lead.

The older I get the more I realize the wisdom of Warren Buffet’s “Give your kids enough so they can do anything, but not so much that they’ll do nothing.”

This adage is true in most areas of life. Retaining aspiration while eliminating scarcity is so powerful.

As a New Yorker, who now lives in Pittsburgh -- this take is growing on me. The Pittsburgh left really seals it...

It should be illegal to give low income people car loans at >10% interest rates. I've seen some people with them as high as 19-20% for a high mileage older car.

GenZ has more (1) money (2) time than previous generations.

Money - Higher wages growing faster.

Time - while working 25% less

Guess the kids are ok.

Regulators are incredibly important — but they can tend to bias away from industries with heavy lobbying spending for obvious reasons, which leaves emerging industries as unfortunate targets.

A window into the future of complex systems without human management.

We've been publishing the best of what we've read every friday Spero Ventures for the last few weeks and its been a fun experiment. Love seeing the rabbit holes my teammates are going down ɹǝʞɹɐd ʍǝɹpuɐ Shripriya Mahesh Sara Eshelman Marc Tarpenning Lisa Zieger
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Humanoid robots x generative AI based motion is going to make the future so different than today.

How many years until these are replacing large swaths of repetitive or physically challenging jobs?
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My name doppelgänger out there making me proud w/ Ben Hunt 🙂

Middle class Americans live in the richest country on earth at a time of unprecedented global prosperity and have let online ragebait convince themselves that they are living through awful historical circumstances.

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Art exists so that the unsayable can be said without having to actually say it.

We have a lot of work to do, on many different fronts, to responsibly ensure access to homeownership in the U.S.

But Kyla Scanlon is absolutely right. The 30-year fixed rate mortgage is a miracle of modern financial engineering.

TIL Bill Withers was a 33 year old airplane mechanic playing gigs at night when “Ain’t no sunshine” took off. He didn’t want to quit for years as he achieved success because he didn’t believe the music industry would provide a stable living: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_With…

Gosh this place has gone downhill. It’s becoming increasingly harder to find the good content with all the spam and self-help guru posters.

CBRE: office to resi conversions are increasing across the country.

Current leader: Ohio, which has some local incentives