never a true believer
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Most men dress like shit for virtually their entire 20s, learn slowly, and only start dressing well in their 30s
Countless men’s’ lives would be greatly improved if they hired a stylist to explain this stuff and underwent some kind of curriculum to gain taste at age ~17
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Molded by an absolute gangster. An extremely skilled applicant of molding and crowning
Honestly I feel like this is just a guy showing off his technical skills at molding, looks be damned. I kinda love it
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Seattle is the most clearly tier-two city in the US. Whatever reason you have for living there, it is outclassed by others.
Like it bc it’s a big city? NYC is bigger. Because of tech? SF is stronger. Because of nature? Bay Area wins. Because it’s quiet and safe? DC more so. Etc
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Can we talk about how the ONLY thing she is documenting about the date is the material consumption?
Octopus and Cabernet and Aperol Spritz and Dog Treat
Christ that’s depressing. What happened to, like, the stuff of actual relationships
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Amazing that the online iterative content algorithm has converged on this being the most entertaining, click-maximizing thumbnail type
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Lambda School and Replit will both fail
It is weird that these days, perpetual Paul Graham endorsement is a kind of counter signal
If things were well, these guys would never have had to push their press so hard
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Nobody making more than $120k will describe themselves as having a “six figure salary” because they’d get confused with these pretenders
Nobody making less will describe themselves as such either, for insecurity is nipping at their heels that they’re not far enough over the line
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the right play is to say "i'm about to come" and when she makes eye contact you say "or am i" and wink
that's usually pretty effective in playing off the situation for me
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Imagine seriously telling yourself Rice is ranked 15th in the nation lmfao
Absolute copium from a guy who spent $300k on retard daycare
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You’re telling me a 35 year old 5’8 philosophy teacher making $45k is less attractive than a 4 foot tall 8 year old child laborer making the minimum wage? Controversial
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Everything in this screenshot is totally acceptable give that the employee is being billed out for $850+ an hour
When I pay people $1000/h — and it’s not often, cause it’s real expensive — I expect perfect work done instantly. Par for the course.
This BigLaw firm finally said the quiet part out loud:
Nothing matters but the firm and generating billables.
Your family. Your health. You.
Doesn’t matter.
Just bill.
“24/7”
“No excuses”
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Eg I dressed terribly for a solid decade, and not for lack of money — just lack of sane taste
Would’ve benefited a lot from a tutor early on, good style goes a long way
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As someone born in 1990, my penis’ inflation adjusted length is — yes, that’s right, inflation adjusted — yeah, someone born in 2000 basically gets 0.34” for free — yes, it’s the hormones in the water, now, listen here — [unzips] as you can see,
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I love stuff from TikTok like the Pinkydoll Gang Gang or Bella Poarch’s M to the B because it shows that there’s some weird latent videospace that basically hacks our brains
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Following @michaelcurzi — I will bet up to $10000 that Twitter will not go “down” (defined as nobody being able to log into Twitter during a two week period) over the next 6 months.
BTC/ETH only, mutually agreed upon escrow service. You pick the odds and I will accept/decline
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One of the worst sensations on Twitter dot com is seeing a glimpse of a great tweet as you’re scrolling the timeline, and then the whole thing refreshes and you didn’t finish reading it and you don’t know who wrote it and the tweet is gone forever
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There’s something that feels ever so slightly off about the video. She mentions the name of the website up front. Hugely long story. Effusive praise how it was a good time, she learned a lot, etc. I think this is a submarine advertisement
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Pinkydoll is some kind of highly advanced AI creation. That’s the only explanation I got
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Staying at my $200/night hotel and walking over to my friends’ $2000/night hotel
As a % of their net worth, they are spending less than I am.
Humiliating. Class consciousness is real
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Codecademy track is a few hours and will teach you basically everything you need to know
From there on, you will only need help w bespoke queries, where StackOverflow will have examples for anything you could ever possibly dream of
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Americans seem generally woefully ignorant of how easily their tax dollar-funded institutions get scammed. My favorite anecdotes are about Afghan farmers scamming the US military: washingtonpost.com/graphics/…
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Awkward moment just now
Delivery driver hands me a pizza
I say thanks
He says “no tip for delivery, sir?”
I say “that’s right, I did not tip” and close the door
Felt kinda bad, god I hate this system. They should just pay their drivers a fair wage instead of guilting me
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Can you imagine the mountainous coke bender you have to be on to log on to twitter and be like. This is it. I’m betting a million dollars. The US is collapsing next month
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Me: breeding rats by the dozen and releasing them into the city. A farm of hundreds of rat nurturing machines. All to offset one good ol’ American bison burger every night
Overheard in a Berkeley bathroom: "Yeah I have a 300-gallon saltwater aquarium in my apartment keeping thousands of shrimp living in exquisite bliss for just $200 a month. At average lifespan of 6 months it completely offsets the suffering from my diet."
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The way to look at LVMH is not as a single luxury brand but rather as a skillful PE firm that has managed to acquire and turn around many individual brands, cross-pollinating between its portfolio companies, and thereby almost monopolize the luxury goods market
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It's not just FIRE. It's Van Life and Tiny Houses and Remote Work, too. All of them hide the generational poverty of Millennials. Your tweet inspired me to write a blogpost on this: jayriverlong.github.io/2020/…
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Tfw you’re talking to a couple and they say “we’ve been trying for months to get pregnant” o k thanks for letting me know
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If Sergey Brin was a lifelong celibate man like Nikola Tesla, monkishly devoted to his inventions, I would be writing this from the moon
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Elon Musk’s drumming about the Hyperloop is nothing but an effort to sabotage high-speed rail development (which would compete w Tesla sales). Let perfect be the enemy of the good, and sell tons of cars in the meantime.
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Habitually single men fail to understand that treating women like male friends is (1) a great way to overcome the male creepy desperation when approaching a woman and (2) having female friends makes it easier to date women because it makes the man not creepy weird around women
“I don’t need more friends” is the nail in the coffin of many a single man who doesn’t understand women but is desperate for a gf
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Today I wrote a bitter essay about San Francisco as the city where the homeless go to die.
jayriverlong.github.io/2021/…
I follow the story of a fentanyl-addicted woman who has been on the streets for nine years. SF spent $632,000 on her care. She doesn't want to change or get clean.
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Veuve cliquot is the most basic new money drink in the world. These people are LARPs and will be swiftly separated from their money. Probably a netjet rental too
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Ranking Rice over Columbia or Berkeley is patently ridiculous and reflects nothing but a shortcoming in the ranking methodology
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A clue for how all this insanity would go was the focus on Twitter blue/verification: who cares? Outside of a handful of status-obsessed dorks and spiteful conservatives, nobody. Nobody cared.
A *businessman* would’ve brought back Vine to launch the American TikTok competitor
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There is no such thing as “pressing charges”. You can report it to the police and the local DA has the unique privilege of deciding whether or not to proceed with a criminal investigation
You can also launch a civil suit
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A guy there told me this almost verbatim. Users are all free-tier Indians and Pakistanis. Monetization is extremely challenging
But the greater thing for me is just all the marketing smells like BS to me. Hard to articulate but I’ve seen a lot of BS in my life and it matches.
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New blogpost: No More Bold Visions of the Future
jayriverlong.github.io/2020/…
A personal reflection on dreaming big about spacetravel and supersonic flight as a teen, and not anymore a decade later. What happened?
(hat-tip @spakhm and @micsolana whose recent work inspired this)
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Finance guys based in Toronto are suspicious
If you’re so successful, why don’t you live in NYC?
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Make fun of David Guetta all you like, but I find it heartwarming to see a guy in his 50s this excited about new technology and immediately using it to do something cool
Can we close the debate now on how AI kills creativity?
I love how genuinely excited Guetta seems about the possibilities of AI.
Now remember 99% of people have not experienced AI yet, the world is in for a treat.
What’s your take?
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This guy needs to Shut the Fuck Up
Guy worked for some bullshit SPAC that promptly cratered by 80% and now is trying to become a Pompliano threadbro by telling his idiot listeners to get business advice from r/milfs
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Are you telling me that the Dominos' staff aren't obsessively updating the status of the Pizza in an internal project management system as they knead the dough? There are no kitchen buttons and levers to undo a mistaken JIRA ticket transition from "making raw pizza" to "cooking"?
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Imagine having that much money but still making yourself into a continuous public laughing stock
Utterly debased
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Props to Dustin Moskovitz, who didn’t just take the “co-founding Facebook” money and retire, but kept the chip on his shoulder to build a generationally strong company in its own right
Asana and Monday are now both $600-700M revenue multi-billion dollar businesses, didn’t really expect that — lot of stickiness in even relatively easy to switch b2b stuff once you’re in there
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It is possible to create a product with a significant amount of public attention but little to no monetizability and/or unit economics that don’t work
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Why don’t I tip for delivery? It doesn’t make any sense at all, even if you believe in tipping. A tip is given for quality of service. You can’t tell the quality of the delivery until later, when you’ve actually started eating. Did it spill? Is it cold? No way to tell at the door
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Repeat after me: the core problem of American social economics is that housing is meant to be BOTH affordable/plentiful AND your largest investment by far, safe and levered
Obviously only one of the two can be true. virtually all socioeconomic policy issues follow from this.
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It is obviously not the case that 20% of all high school students are disabled in any geography. 1 in 5 disabled? Have you been to any school, ever?
That’s obviously a fake stat made to euphemise failure in educational attainment.
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One of the greatest traits of America is the willingness of people to aggressively call bullshit
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megachad micro-LP:
- is a solo fund of funds, he's written checks for 100 rolling funds
- 100% carry
- doesnt fly commercial or need to charter, owns his own bicycle
- single dealmaker -- no boss, no rules
- doesn't even bother reading "shareholder letters"
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As the *customer*, if I’m paying some exorbitant rate, I will expect commensurate service or I will terminate the agreement. That’s how the world works
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Not to sound like some kind of culture war chucklefuck, but EEAAO was a garbage movie, The Avengers for people who have gone to college, and Michelle Yeoh, while talented, shouldn’t get an Oscar for her performance. The fact that she did strikes me as politicization of the Oscars
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Wfh swe is structurally the same as playing a video game
I could be an engineer or play Warcraft for 10 hours a day
Only difference is 200k of income
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This is aestheticized homelessness. These women need real houses. This is the highlight reel, and it looks claustrophobic and gross as fuck. I am reminded of prison cells in third world countries where it’s 3 people to a 30 square foot room with no AC.
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Strong agree. NVC, while well intentioned, leans into/facilitates manipulative patterns. Skilled manipulators ape the *aesthetics* of the sensitive/empathetic, including protected/victimized classes, and then abuse from that position. Insidious stuff
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Paid like $5k for some NFTs last year. Arguing with my accountant how best to claim the capital loss. His argument is I should just list them for $1 on Opensea to make the tax position cleanest.
Think there will be a lot of these $1 auctions 👀
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It’s not about marketing per se. There’s a particular flavor to their marketing that feels off to me. Especially when it’s founder-led marketing, the desperation/insecurity can shine through. And I think it does.
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What I like about Joe Rogan is that he is always the everyman on the podcast. Asking questions, goofing off, not pretentious
By contrast, Lex Fridman always acts as if he is the expert, the nuanced Smart Man parrying with his audience
But that’s pretentious as hell, of course
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Yep! being a director can be a BIG issue if there ends up being litigation over securities fraud, etc. as there will be in crypto.
Investors want to avoid board litigation in general, but esp when there are SEC risks, which can impact their legal ability to remain investors
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There's a fantastic article by Scott Alexander about New Atheism, and how the atheist crowd morphed over time into the Social Justice crowd.
Unsurprising to see the same folks get bored of this movement, too. slatestarcodex.com/2019/10/3…
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Tempted to say that virtually everything in dentistry is a scam. From the weird fixation on tooth whitening to unnecessary surgeries, the whole ordeal could be avoided if people just stopped eating sugar but nooooo
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