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I knew him a little in his capacity as a mad Hindu cultist. He was mad, Hindu, and a cultist. https://shivashakti.com is where you can find that aspect of his work.

https://www.westonboxes.com/ I recently discovered these. Lifechanging in two ways: * you can put them on their ends and they don't fall over, which is ideal for storage on shelves…

Absolutely! He’s a Star!

A person I know reasonably well is currently the Lord Mayor of London. I suspect I could get him to do an AMA here if people would like to hear more about the City and its fascinat…

They started with 8 mice. This seems like an inbreeding problem not a utopia is hell problem. Has anybody replicated with a more diverse mouse population?

The bleakest cyberpunk future event to date.

Oh I meant from the perspective of the one selling the insurance, not the person buying it.

In insurance you expect to come out ahead in the average case. In gambling you expect to come out behind in the average case. Therefore insurance is rational and gambling is irrati…

They look practically custom designed for this task. The purpose of a system is what it does.

If America had the same covid death rate as Canada, nearly 700,000 less Americans would have died of covid. Alarm by the Epidemic Intelligence Service officers is not "alarmism." I…

How does a corrupt society become less corrupt? https://web.archive.org/web/20200428230447/https://northatla... I used to work on failed states for a living. This is what I had to …

well said. "A few years ago there were memes about how the problem with zombie movies is that they never showed people running out to get zombified." I laughed far too hard at this…

Campaign finance reform: Lessig's "Lesterland" springs to mind.

Eh. The problem pandemic-wise is the number of humans in slobbering distance of the animals: pets like cats are less of a problem (toxoplasmosis) because they're in less proximity …

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I'm too far away to know: based in London, mostly working in the legaltech domain, we're far far away from the SV cultural nexus (other than occasional trips to Burning Man for a r…

So... where's the magic pixie in this story? If VC is not a job -- and remember most of the junior people in funds, it's like their first job in finance -- then what is it? I mean …

Yes. I learned this the hard way. I'm glad to see people _getting it_! Good luck!

Agreed. VCs are companies, start ups are companies, they've got very similar dynamics. There's no magic anywhere in here.

Check the bio.

Seven years in business. Number of staff varies with the environment but we've had as many as 40 on all hands, mostly part-timers with specialised skills. It's not a very ordinary …

Let me throw in one other tip for founders looking to get funded: do not ignore regional VCs. Most of the stories about "how VC works" are 10, 15 years out of date. The cultural "s…

Hardly, I'm a CEO.

I don't understand what you are saying or asking. We can only measure against real world data.

Paul Graham, Black Swan Farming: https://paulgraham.com/swan.html > "The two most important things to understand about startup investing, as a business, are (1) that effectively al…