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I will tweet on this thread a list of my (current) favorite products and keep adding to it over time:
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I'm constantly blown away by how I can have insights into someone's profession that they know nothing about, based on just a few minutes research on Amazon.
are most people just not curious at all? a job is literally what you spend the majority of your time on.
examples:
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Target says it's closing all of it's San Francisco stores early because shoplifting is out of control
The SF district attorney issues a press release mandating that all prosecutors must now ask the people accused of crimes their preferred gender pronouns
Target says it's closing all six of its San Francisco stores early because of crime specifically thefts and shoplifting. abc7ne.ws/3jAtW6r
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@voxdotcom is an embarrassment to the media industry right now:
1/ claims corona isn't going to be a global pandemic nitter.app/Austen/status/12422801…
2/ says VCs paranoid for not wanting to shake hands: nitter.app/balajis/status/1228447…
3/ criticises mask donations from SV:
Question: is this the WORST take of all time? Or just really bad. Summary: companies give away millions of masks. Are criticized because they’re based in the Bay Area.
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Shoplifting is so common across America now.
Of course the IRS has to give guidance so that people know how to report their takings.
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“when nobody wakes you up in the morning and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?”
- charles bukowski
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Oatly just filed for IPO.
On this day, it's worth highlighting this health reminder:
Oatly milk spikes your blood sugar levels almost as much as a can of coke.
Oatly, Beyond Meat etc are more like alternative “junk foods” than health foods, with shitty ingredients like rapeseed (canola) oil
jeffnobbs.com/posts/is-oatly…
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VC funds normally cost like $100k in legal fees to set up. @naval, @AngelList just made it possible for ~$12k : producthunt.com/posts/angel-…
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Marrisa Mayer’s new app looks like it was designed for the iPhone 1
they raised $20m but THIS is the best logo that they could come up with?....
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the US government just wasted nearly $1trillion on a war in Afghanistan
so I don't see how Elon Musk paying any more tax would help "save the world"
Even if Elon's entire net worth (~$0.186 trillion) went to the US government, they'd spend it on stupid shit in just a few years
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not true
more likely to get pregnant at that time. but not impossible to get pregnant at other times of the month
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MFM is the only podcast that I listen to.
Thanks @thesamparr @ShaanVP for having me back on the show.
Hope listeners enjoy some of the stories:
mfmpod.com/jack-smith-sold-a…
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on Twitter, it seems like people expect any company's main function to be to operate as a political lobbyist group.
Refreshing to see the CEO of Coinbase just saying that at Coinbase, their main job is just to work on building their own company
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I find genuinely cool products that I end up buying via Facebook ads
So why are all the ads that I see on Twitter for crypto shit or weird mobile games? (i don’t even play mobile games)
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I was on the board of The Hustle. @thesamparr is telling the truth and being extremely candid about all of the numbers
weird/lame flex to try and call him out over legal filings that don't tell the whole picture.
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AngelList is the #1 startup in the world that I wanted to invest in.
I invested the largest check that I've ever written
Any engineers considering which company to join:
at $4bil valuation, AngelList has the most upside potential of any startup that I can think of.
We raised an additional $44M from AngelList customers.
In partnership with our GPs, nearly 10% of active LPs invested.
angellist.com/blog/angellist…
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if you drink something called “this is food”
you can pretty safely assume that it is not food
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“If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
- Lao Tzu
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leading health advisors (such as the US surgeon general Jerome Adams) now admit that they were wrong to initially say don’t wear masks
but if you posted on facebook / youtube that they were wrong, you’d be labelled as spreading “misinformation”
dangerous censorship
Last year Tony Fauci and I famously, prematurely, & wrongly advised against masks. I felt it was the best call at the time, but now regret it.
I’m worried the CDC also made a similarly premature, misinterpreted, yet still harmful call on masking in the face of ⬆️ delta variant.
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Oatly milk spikes your blood sugar levels almost as much as a can of coke.
Oatly, Beyond Meat etc are more like alternative “junk foods” than health foods, with shitty ingredients like rapeseed (canola) oil
jeffnobbs.com/posts/is-oatly…
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great returns for @angelpad recently:
- Bought ~7% of Vungle in 2011 for ~$120k. Exited to Blackstone in 2019 for $770+ mil
- Bought ~8% of Postmates in ~2010 (i think) for like $70k. They just sold to Uber in 2020 for $2.65 billion
who said that YC is the only good incubator?
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Jerome Adam’s didn’t just say that masks didn’t work.
He actually claimed that using them INCREASED your chances of getting covid
"You can increase your risk of getting it by wearing a mask if you are not a health care provider"
politico.com/amp/news/2020/0…
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1) Me to pool maintenance guy:
"I'm sure that you must get this all the time, but what's your thoughts on using a copper ionizer to reduce the amount of chlorine we need to use each week?"
him: "I've literally never heard of that"
him weeks later "this thing is amazing"
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Billionaires' tax returns got leaked. It turns out that a bunch of them are using a top secret tax evasion strategy:
they donate money to charities and get to pay less tax.
disgusting.
bbc.com/news/business-573838…
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I've never seen a startup with an onboarding process as detailed and as well thought out as @Levels
every new team member gets a virtual assistant and is encouraged to see what parts of their role can be delegated. Every company should do this
medium.com/levelshealth/a-de…
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"My first day in India I saw a man taking a shit on the beach at 6AM" - sounds like an average day in san francisco
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UPDATED:
Here is a list of books that I'm planning to read:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
I only want to read amazing books.
If there are any on this list that you've read and can recommend, or suggest avoiding - then please let me know.
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31% of this year's 30 under 30 didn't get college degrees: forbes.com/sites/carolinehow… (h/t @leepnet) CC: @1517fund @dstrachman @william_blake
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founder has the voice of someone who worked at Apple for 30 years. but seems like he took the wrong lessons
an Apple product launch video would never say that it uses a "Snapdragon processor"
no one cares dude
ipod = "1000 songs in your pocket". not bla bla processor
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they’re probably so much better than all the other car companies because they don’t have unions involved
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4) contractor:
"can I take a photo of your ladder? I never knew that such tall ladders can fold this small. I need to send my boss a photo. Our ladder barely fits in the van."
me: "search 'telescoping ladder'. there's like a hundred of them on amazon"
amazon.com/s?k=telescoping+l…
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5) my brother in-law telling the networking company he hired to wire his new house about Ubiquiti equipment (they'd seemingly never heard of it)
and then them subsequently switching their entire company to use Ubiquiti for all future houses.
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Building Disneyland: 366 days
Building the Empire state building: 410 days
Building the Eiffel Tower: 793 days
Building a new bus lane in San Francisco: 7000+ days
“The project has been delayed due to an increase of wet weather since the project started,” said a spokesperson
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Korean’s eat a lot of fermented foods. They eat meat, but small portions and it is supplementary to rice and kimchi etc
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Government mandated “nutrition ratings” are trash and poisoning people.
This shit drink has tapioca starch and rapeseed oil as top ingredients, sweetened with sucralose (artificial sweetener) and the UK government has a label rating it the highest rating possible for nutrition.
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2) super experienced electrician:
"why do your outlets have a green dot on them?"
me: "oh. that means they're the highest durability grade outlet possible: hospital grade. less likely to rust. your cords are less likely to fall out of the outlet etc."
him: "fascinating"
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I was honored to be invited back on my favorite podcast: @myfirstmilpod by @thesamparr and @ShaanVP
I met loads of interesting listeners after my last appearance. LMK what you think of this episode!
piped.video/W_oJJtSvCcA
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"Strong minds discuss ideas,
average minds discuss events,
weak minds discuss people."
- Socrates
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3) also to electrician:
"yeah, I chose this outlet, because it's the only one that I could find which is GFCI, weather resistant AND tamper resistant".
( amazon.com/gp/product/B019BX… )
him: "how do you know all this stuff?"
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"Omicron could be dominant in UK within weeks"
this should be being celebrated. not feared.
it's caused zero reported deaths thus far.
this variant is another step towards covid becoming the flu.
the media don't like the idea of the "end of the world" narrative ending though
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You can think that the Capitol being stormed was one of the most shocking and disgusting things seen in modern US politics, clearly encouraged and endorsed by Trump
...and also think that banning him from Twitter & Facebook is a bad idea, which could have negative consequences
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“If there is a God, He will have to beg my forgiveness.”
— found carved on the walls of a WWII concentration camp cell.
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i have the best ladder, best outlet and best pool ionizer, so i should be able to charge at least three times as much
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If you were to think about places that have:
- a relaxing nature environment
- moderate temperatures (not too humid, hot or cold)
- very cheap cost of land & cost of living
where would jump to mind?
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Coinbase CEO ($8billion+ company) needs to change his leadership style.
say 11 people who've never been CEO of a billion $ company...
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Plastic recycling is a scam.
1) USA ships plastic to Asia and pays them to “recycle” it.
2) Asian countries dump in the ocean
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I've played around with a bunch of setups for video calling and researched a bit. Here's my current setup:
jacksmith.eu/blog/my-current…
I particularly like the lens. Most lenses that I've seen online cost like $400-$1200+
The lens that I use is $299 and gets good bg blur effects.
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Kanye West is obsessed with the kids' game Connect 4:
- He challenged a stoned Jonah Hill to a game
- Beyonce once beat him 9 games in a row
- He missed the birth of his child due to playing with friends.
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“The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.”
-Thomas Edison
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tim ferriss struggled with insomnia. he said the combo that worked for him and his friends to fall asleep is apple cider vinegar (Braggs) and honey
page 3 here: tim.blog/wp-content/uploads/…
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surprising that he allowed himself to get into such a vulnerable position though; with a small board that he clearly could not count on each individual
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Some people exit their company and buy a Ferrari. Me? I buy shit off Amazon.
I took a 3-week break and came back to a mountain of boxes.
My team told me to post an unboxing video.
here's part 1. LMK if i should post the rest👇
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the metal filter doesn't filter cafestol. can boost your LDL levels significantly.
pour-over with a good filter like Chemex will filter out.
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why on earth are hospitals around the world having vending machines selling chocolate and candy
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“not sure why he has to say that he’s the founder”
as much as I admire Elon Musk, I have to agree with this. He was a Series A investor and later became the 4th CEO Tesla’s ever had. I don’t get the need for him to make a big deal about having founded it
digg.com/video/elon-musk-is-…
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most sea salt is also full of microplastics.
because sea salt comes from the sea, which is full of plastic...
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fine for her to pullout if her head wasn't in the right place.
stupid to have headlines that her "withdrawal is more impressive than winning".
discredits other athletes that are winning the medals. participation trophy gone to far.
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it probably substantially increases their likelihood of committing fraud at some point
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you know you've really made it when huge companies like Dropbox start cloning you.
congrats @loom!
dropbox.com/capture
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This is ESSENTIAL reading for any new first-time founders -> "Legal Concepts for Founders" on @ProductHunt producthunt.com/posts/legal-…
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they may have made more wealth just renting and investing the same amount as their mortgage in the S&P 500 in many cases
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Business idea:
- Service for a lawyer to check a legal agreement generated by ChatGPT and ensure they're legally compliant.
Many lawyers will refuse to review other lawyer's legal agreements and only write their own.
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I loved attending @nickgraynews’s birthday conference #NICK42 in Austin
it’s one of the few events in the world that I’d travel for and it was awesome to see someone obsessed with their craft (in Nick’s case event planning), thinking about every small detail
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Things that I think should be illegal or taxed up the wazoo:
- Plastic beads in face scrubs - literally pouring micro plastics down the drain into oceans
tax it like $3 a unit sold and donate to cleaning up ocean plastics
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This book from the Google Ventures Design team (@jakek, @kowitz, @jazer & co) will be a must-buy for many startups: producthunt.com/posts/the-de…
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after all the complex legal structuring that @sama did with OpenAI, making it a not-for profit, then later having a profit cap, raising billions etc.
i am shocked that he didn't have better protection in place to stop the board being able to kick him out
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anyone know a developer who can help a charity turn some designs into a Webflow site?
i helped start 501c3 prisonmathproject.org our current website kind of sucks. a volunteer graphics designer made a new design with same basic functionality
we can pay. just not huge $$$
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"there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates:
Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society,
and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in."
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Business idea:
Re-incarnate dead products from the past that are better than their modern replacements.
eg: I am trying to buy a salad spinner,
but they're all made of plastic
I don't want plastic shit.
I want a high quality salad spinner with a metal basket like the old days.
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front page news: tesla has to recall 2 million cars!
you read the actual article: Tesla is just gonna issue an update that the cars will auto download.
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Devastating stock chart for Bird
has raised $1+ billion. now entire company is barely worth $100mil
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