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PSA: learn to cook. savings skyrocket. no apps required.

Worth also pointing out as Rate of Change around the Expert increases they become executionally non excellent, while still being called Experts. So that kind of confuses everyone i…

People who beg for power will always be dependent on someone else to hold on to it. If you are begging for it you are on the wrong path. Doesn't matter what the gender is.

No need to make them cofounders. Take a loan for N months and pay them (or someone more skilled). Recover the amount when you fund raise. If you get to a decent prototype state, re…

pfft people who want to find a way around what anyone "allows" will do so. To desperate people rules dont matter. There are more than 50 countries right now standing with begging b…

Thats exactly how Governments in the rest of the world protect strategic sectors from being swallowed up by Wall Streets massive mountain of capital.

Google Sharon Zukin. She wrote a book on loft living and describes the decline-rejuvination cycles in cities. According to her poor artists are the reason for those million dollar …

Saying Zuck et al knew what they were doing is misleading, and gives them too much credit. They are no experts in how dopamine works. Tech makes it easy to build things quick. Some…

The issues have been well understood for decades but the fixes involves dismantling existing power structures so nothing simple about it. Short summary of the issues - https://mich…

It is scarce in the sense Attention doesn't grow. As in there is an upper limit to how many things you can pay attention too, and how much free time you have to pay attention. But …

The problem is not info or misinfo but scarcity of attention. Herbert Simon in 1971 - In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a sc…

In theory India has sort of done it with UPI. Cost have been distributed across govt/banks/tech firms that make the apps and the end user who pays for the internet and phone. Wheth…

It's not just Greed. Sure there are mindless greedy parasites in any environment that extract more than they input into the system, but you can easily find a whole bunch of execs i…

It reveals what the priorities are - https://michael-hudson.com/2023/11/israel-as-a-landed-aircra... Few years back they were furiously crying about afghan girls. We can see how ma…

More like they don't want to deal with drama when they have a whole lot of other headaches on their plate. Winds can change overnight. Like Churchill hitting peak support and popul…

Its not their fault. They are competing against large roving armies of pure scum at Microsoft, who land up at the door of whichever large corp or govt org that decide to switch, wi…

And there will be lot of jobs to clean up all the mistakes AI makes (currently being hidden or swept under the carpet to keep valuations up).

But you are competing with the National Association of Realtors. One of the largest spenders on lobbying in America - https://www.opensecrets.org/industries?cycle=2022 The US is a …

Compounding matters is the fact that it has become really easy to roll out half baked shit at ridiculous scales. The marketing mega machine then uses the Scale to pretend its not h…

These guys dying in the thousands but oligarchs are untouchable. That's what I don't get.