Sick of therapists advertising themselves as "kind, caring, compassionate". I want "grumpy fuck who knows themselves inside and out and can handle all your shit".

The whitepill here is that if an American academic & ex-senior government official wants to pen an article about why his political enemies should be arrested for speech, he has to do so in a partisan European paper — and only after they’ve let some Euro writer do it first.

Burning Man this past week. (good, but dont go full burner). So much divine feminine. But someone making anything divine masculine would be 🤔. Hell, the man is a burned scapegoat. Its fighting the last cultural war maybe. Vivid Void’s onto something

Anyway here’s photos and stuff

Where’s the podcast app that auto finds episodes with all the people i follow on twitter?

Lastly, be wary of how much advice can be gleaned from last cycle’s startups: their founders have retconned their own histories and current startups are operating under wildly different conditions. The Ubers and Airbnbs are to you what the Microsofts and Oracles were to them.

It’s like 47 GPUs so I hope they get to ramen profitable quickly

Want to find nuggets in discourse on twitter? Filter everything a content-marketing VC says to understand it as leadgen. There. There's my "founder mode" take.

You can explain this to business types getting into politics: tell them it’s like when Congress or regulators start to dive into your industry and change it.

It was a great piece of leadgen, yeah

Don’t write about what you know, write about the universal ley lines in what you know.

Me finding illegal street vendors in SF (there are basically 3 locations: civic center, 16th, 24th street bart stations)

Well, Gordon , I maybe found something as ambitious as Fukuyama's "origins of political order" It's this drawing from Venkatesh Rao ☀️

Technically correct.

A real estate agent/lender would get more trust if they didn’t (1) force a phone number and then (2) immediately call twice in a row expecting me to interrupt whatever I was doing (my job?) and get on their schedule. It’s pushy sales behavior and the opposite of trust earning.