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The American liberal project is quite successful, contrary to most people’s opinions. At the same time, the U.S. has a very strong hand to play geopolitically but is playing it extremely poorly right now.
I’m 80% done writing this article, it will be done tomorrow. Unfortunately, it’s not a short article 😭. But you’ll love reading it!
I’m going to write a short essay on the principal contradiction facing America: should it be a nation or an empire? Pericles has an answer: “Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.”
If the only thing the left has to offer is “Eat the rich” & “billionaires shouldn’t exist”, I’m not interested. I care about the left/liberal/Dems organizing their supporters to provide a meaningful alternative to the status quo, not how much you hate someone for being richer.
I always cringe when I hear of students wanting to drop out of college to start a company. College is a path to getting a job at a bigger company, and that’s where you learn how companies are run. Working at a bigger company is also how you discover problems to solve with your…
Don't drop out of college to start or work for a startup. There will be other (and probably better) startup opportunities, but you can't get your college years back.
But do you ever hear VCs already on the cap table say “don’t take the money?” to their portco founder?
Noticing a (new) and very dark pattern at seed. Seed investors pushing well capitalized founders to raise ever more safe money they don’t need “in case the A is hard.” The dilution only hits the founders and employees, not the post money safe investors. Deeply adverse…
rather naive take. some of the stuff I’ve learned in my MBA you’d have to build a $10M+ ARR business to learn the same lessons
If you’re doing an MBA to “learn” you’ve already lost the plot
These media-first Gen Z founders give me early 2010s YouTube creator hypebeast energy
Chinese open models being at the frontier today isn’t thaaat surprising for folks who were following closely. What is more surprising is how quickly Llama disappeared from the clear top spot in the conversation. Two trends combine for massive impact.
If you want to have the equivalent social mobility of, say the 70s-90s, you have to go into finance, consulting, or tech. Anything else won’t cut it.
We still talk about the USA economy as if its overall growth provides a “rising tide lifts all boats” effect It doesn’t. Its overall growth is concentrated in a few sectors. Broad-based prosperity in America isn’t possible anymore.
Sounds like a typical venture-backed startup lol, founder is just doing his/her job Not seeing the problem here?
talked to a founding engineer at a VC-backed startup he said their founder was purely focused on chasing growth + revenue instead of improving retention just so they could have favorable numbers to raise their series B this is so fucked.
Stimmy checks? In this economy?!?
White House pool report says Trump today discussed stimulus checks (just a reminder — I as a journalist am not responsible for giving or not giving you said checks)
I’m thinking about putting together a writing series where I talk about how I plan to navigate my 30s amid the current state of America Eventually I’d love to move to YT and do @WhyLearnTec-style commentary videos
I found @WhyLearnTech on YouTube, and he’s quickly become one of my favorite content creators His lifestyle + gaming content is a cool throwback to the early commentary playing over CoD gameplay era of YT He’s genuine and has a growing, organic fan base Hope he blows up!
dudes get 1 good year in their life and live in nostalgia for the rest of it
I think my favorite new genre of tweet is folks being uncompromising in maintain basic social etiquette
Lectured a couple for bringing their big dog inside the restaurant to sit by their table next to ours, Karen move felt good ngl
Incredibly damning article about 1 of the Top 3 MBA Programs in the country. I’ll try to get some key excerpts here but I would suggest reading the whole article.