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From the new book by @tylercowen and @danielgross, here is @sama’s data on how quickly the best founders replied to important emails. https://t.co/MnLTVnSdYq
There is no first world and third world anymore. There is the ascending world, and then there is the descending world. And this is the descending world. https://t.co/zV0UuyhlMY
In a declining empire, the law is powerless to help you. But it can still harm you. Why? Because it’s easier to destroy than build. Burning a house is 1000X easier than building o...
Never give free content to legacy media corporations. They hate you, they will distort you, and you don’t need to. Just go direct when you have something to say. https://t.co/a2NK...
A few things happened: - tech built its own media (newsletters, podcasts) - big post-election drop off in their traffic - defection of their best to newsletters - refocus by journ...
English and Chinese are perhaps the most “monitored” languages. Platform operators in the US and China speak these languages, so it’s easier for them to act as digital thought poli...
The concept of a "mainstream" media presumes that they represent the center of anything. They no longer do. Instead, any digital community of sufficient size will develop its own...
Decent piece. More angles: 1) Laser eyes means overlap of crypto & political culture. 2) The Chinese contribution is visual, not verbal. As with TikTok, visuals cross language bou...
The only way to learn from history is to make historical analogies. But how to do so in a rigorous way, without having it degenerate into mere assertions of "X is the next Hitler"...
More complex than that. Westerners like John Reed were prominent in the revolution. Germany let Lenin go to Russia. Sutton wrote about Wall Street’s financing of the Bolsheviks....
What happens when philanthropy is vilified rather than praised? The consequence is that someone like Zuck gets less flack for investing in a new biotech than for endowing a hospit...
China started by making plastic stuff for Walmart and leveled up to making anything in the physical world. India started by doing customer support for Walmart…and is leveling up t...