The euphemism treadmill is retarded; based men and women everywhere shall ignore it going forward.

Great to spend time with Shaan Puri on his My First Million

We cover a lot of ground, including lessons from Peter Thiel; building Palantir & Addepar; how to hire top talent; and some fun stories from the trenches.

9/ A second standard exists for the disfavored. Intimidation and harassment of the disfavored are loudly defended as free speech.

Jewish students fall into the latter category.

Jewish students know it.

We all know it.

Under current law, the preferential treatment for people with a strong work ethic and for smart, bold optimists exacerbates income and wealth disparities; the solution is to destroy wealth incentives and make our country look more like the third world where most are equally poor.

New MFM is live…I sat down with Joe Lonsdale

If you don’t know him, you need to:
- He's started the MOST billion dollar companies of anyone under 50 in the U.S.
- He's Peter Thiel's pro​té​gé
- 20 of his former employees have gone on to start billion dollar companies

In the…

This is a primary organizer of the Columbia 'protest' - not a random participant.

The alternative for the wealthy and usually talented ppl this impacts is to leave it in a bigger company you started years ago to compound there, or to reallocate it to new higher growth companies that you work to bring about.

Which choice do you think is better for the country?

Mass deportations isn’t harsh… migrants bankrupting cities and costing taxpayers money because Biden left the border open is harsh.

Bullish the young generation.

The left pretends to be the party of data and science, then suggests insane things like Biden’s massive capital gain tax hike.

Here is your periodical reminder that this is a terrible idea for a long list of quantitative reasons - and would ultimately hurt the poor the most.

Think about pre-Musk Twitter.

If you strayed from the outrageous lies and saccharine platitudes about gender and race and crime and immigration by tweeting government statistics and peer-reviewed scientific studies, you got a notice from the site saying you had engaged in 'hate…

At the start of the 20th century, recurring famine was a big problem for humanity. Fritz Haber came up with a tech solution. Lenin came up with a political solution.

Compare and contrast the results since.

I remember thinking and saying it was very likely this came from the Wuhan lab, getting pushback for “disinformation”, then dropping it.

Like the implications of different median IQ of cohorts, society is irrational and dumb about many aspects of reality.

Good to see the recap.

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Do you remember how bad the media’s “Covid lab leak” - the hypothesis that the virus came from a lab - coverage was?

I thought I did. But it was a more dramatic example of uniform media malpractice than even I remembered.

So I revisited it. Buckle in, it’s long. ⤵️

In response to the video released today by Hamas of their son, Rachel Goldberg-Polin and Jon Polin, parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, an American-Israeli civilian who was kidnapped into Gaza 201 days ago, released the following statement: “Seeing the video of Hersh today is…

Excited to be investing again in Scott Wu and the Cognition team after knowing Scott for nearly a decade

Have been blown away by the product. The capability slope is incredible, and believe the UI will inform how future AI-native apps are built

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