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The fact that you don't get hangovers is part of the problem. If you did, you wouldn't be able to drink and function the next day. Did you ever get hangovers?

I like drinking from time to time, but the hangovers put me off, which is nature's way of saying, leave off. If I have more than four drinks I have to spend the next day in bed. I …

There was no tech crash in 2007.

Yes I think it's the main trigger. Vancouver is in a major house price bubble and the correction is going to be huge.

Good point. Perhaps starting off with some short-term consultancy gigs to build it first would help.

Lee Smolin, Time Reborn (although he is unaware of the work of Henri Bergson before him).

You could also ask, what if time is the primary thing that exists? That is, it has authority over everything else that exists. This would mean that the laws of physics, for example…

Check out Henri Bergson. The first person to argue that Time is Real.

Similar introvert here. Open plan offices destroy me. It's a balancing act, not being too isolated so you get depressed, but having your own space really matters

In Brazil, architects often build a social space into their apartments. It's a good idea and works really well, but the people have to want to socialise together in the first place…

Anecdotally, and with the risk of the greatest generalisation, in my experience Protestant countries tend to be far more atomised than Catholic ones.

This article is overblown, but the demographic changes in the West are heavily impacting economic growth. It isn't so much to do with saving as to do with the Boomers getting older…

Another demographic to consider is retired people with pensions. Some of them waste it down the pub, others lead meaningful lives and describe these years as their happiest.

Influencer marketing will boom with the launch of social commerce. But startups need to be careful about advertising regulation. If someone has paid for a promotion, then it will h…

Read my Lips, Time is Real. And no new taxes.

It's a case of energy depletion. Now I'm in my 30s I've decided to exchange deep friendships for acquaintances/drinking buddies. This is because deep friendships involve time, effo…

Two long term trends: automation car sharing/hiring Both mean that in the case of autos, Trump won't be able to bring manufacturing home in terms of jobs.

Indeed. Here is the great truth - for most people, race matters, and always will. They want to live with people of the same ethnicity, with the same history, in the same territory.…

Precisely. Political Correctness is now starting to work against the Left.

It's not a return to the 1920s. Globalisation proceeded too quickly, and many people got left out. It is a revolt against a system which simply doesn't work for the majority of Eur…

Now I guess there is an added reason for angst in your 20s: not being in YC!

I agree but only to a limited extent. There is such a thing as genius, it is very rare, and it is talent x infinity, which means no matter how many brilliant people you have in a r…

Well they did pass the YC "Nice" test. So Admirable Disruption, of course!