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I have found by-and-large they have relatively little interest in tech & design, and treat product-building more as a game to be played, particularly within the boundaries of BigTe…

What drives you? Is it money, general problem-solving? I must be wired differently because I cannot understand how someone can try so many things in so many different industries wi…

the question really is whether you'll use GPT4 to write your resignation letter

In my mid-30s and I find myself yet at the bottom of another cycle of failure to make meaningful progress in the most basic parts of life. Traumatic childhood, blah blah, has almos…

Did you foresee this?

it was a joke, reference to the DAO that tried and failed to buy the constitution at auction

let’s start a DAO to buy it

Why aren’t most assets marked-to-market, at least in some regular fashion?

I’m not blaming depositors. In fact, I think depositors have a right to panic withdraw. They’re making a decision to take business elsewhere, as they should. That that can cause or…

How many people are actually parking their money at a bank to earn high interest? My guess is for most, the safety deposit box is their bank account.

Maybe a stupid question: if banks can collapse from a bank run, shouldn’t the entire model be questioned? A bank run is simply when a threshold number of customers decide to withdr…

Genuinely asking: for startups who were not banking with SVB, is the recent event a good thing from a competitive standpoint?

VCs with no personal skin in the game have funded what is essentially addiction engineering. It’s wild that the industry does not seem to have the awareness to understand or care a…

Because many of the engineers here either do not understand or are unwilling to accept that society operates in more dimensions than the technical and "rational". They see celebrit…

"Real value" is an attempt to draw a distinction where there isn't one. Kim Kardashian brings in more "real value" to a clothing company than any one seamstress. Welcome to marketi…

Is it so crazy to assume McConaughey may enable more business through his influence than 8,000 employees combined? If true, then it is justified by the argument Benioff put forward…

"I can think the community is more important than the individual, but still leave to protect my children from starvation." You can think that, but your actions demonstrate otherwis…

"There's a plethora of reasons people come here: freedom to express themselves, security, financial opportunity because they're literally living in squalor elsewhere, etc. I don't …

The very act of leaving a community for better economic opportunities abroad is a demonstration of one's relative values, even if there is a hope to eventually reestablish that sen…

Not just losing religion, but losing every source of shared purpose that people have historically relied upon. Religion is bad. Having kids is increasingly looked down upon. People…

The US is a country of immigrants who for the most part came here because they valued the individual over the community. The individualism lives in the deepest roots of our culture…

This is what technology does.

All my life I’ve wanted to be an entrepreneur, but my battles with childhood trauma, depression, anxiety, and obesity have kept that dream out of reach. I now find myself in my mid…