Alex Mans

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[Aaron Epstein @aaron_epstein]

The biggest hack I’ve seen for founders to close deals faster: just show up.

Get on a plane, fly to their office, meet in person, bond with the whole team.

Instantly replaces weeks of zoom calls.

[Kane 謝凱堯 @kane]

I couldn’t help but notice that Senator Sanders chose to use electric lights.

Millions of lighting jobs — GONE: lamplighters, linkboys, wick-trimmers, candle-snuffers, tallow chandlers, wax chandlers, spermaceti refiners, whale oil renderers, harpooners, whaling coopers, gas mantle makers, gas fitters, gas-meter readers, kerosene lamp makers, lamp shade fitters, gasolier makers, lamp-chimney sweeps, lamp-chimney glassblowers, oil-lamp fillers, dairymen’s lamp-boys, mine candlemen, miners’ tallow-dip makers, pit-lamp keepers, theater limelight operators, theater gasmen, Drummond-light operators, calcium oxide cylinder suppliers, Argand-lamp lighthouse keepers, wick-spinners, wick-weavers, rushlight makers, beeswax taper makers, candle moulders, candle dippers, bayberry wax gatherers, taper-stand makers, hand-lantern makers, bull’s-eye lantern makers, ships’ lamp trimmers, railway lamp-men, signal-lamp lighters, lantern-bearing watchmen, night-soil men, knockers-up, match girls, white phosphorus match dippers, match-box makers, fusee makers, vesta makers, flint-and-steel makers, tinderbox makers, lamp-cleaning charwomen.

[Alex Mans @alexandermans]

@Jason @ROLEX Would recommend a 1980s vintage Daytona (Big Red or Sigma). Great investment, rare and differentiated from today's mass production, and solid daily driver.

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

This may be the most articulate response I’ve ever heard to this question.

[Alex Mans @alexandermans]

Great read. Bessent will go down in history as one of the greatest Treasury Secretaries since Mellon.

[@amuse @amuse]

https://t.co/XnuotiT7je

[Alex Mans @alexandermans]

@garrytan @conductor_build Try running Little Snitch with one of the StevenBlack hosts files. Gets rid of a lot of network chatter that clogs up your inflight WiFi, helps a ton.

[Alex Mans @alexandermans]

Can’t make this stuff up..,

[NYTimes Communications @NYTimesPR]

@sissenberg @nytimes A correction will appear in tomorrow's print edition:
"A headline with an article on Friday about President Trump’s threats to leave NATO misstated the full name of the body. It is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, not the North American Treaty Organization."

[Alex Mans @alexandermans]

@AndreasSteno @AndreasSteno 200,000 bpd increase offsets only 1.5–1.9% of the lost Hormuz volume. Like trying to fill a swimming pool with a garden hose. Lloyd’s underwriters will determine the near term path.

[The Humanoid Hub @TheHumanoidHub]

CMU researchers, in collaboration with NVIDIA, present ASAP, a two-stage framework for humanoid robot agility.

It pre-trains motion policies on human data, then refines them with real-world corrections using a delta action model, which adjusts for simulation mismatches.

[Alex Mans @alexandermans]

They will, but they can’t sustain it. It’ll be a “who blinks first” game and Trudeau has lost his backing as he’s on his way out. My bet is Canada blinks first, NATO spend goes up, car production starts shifting to US with parts supply being ‘allowed’ to remain in Canada (will take time).

[Alex Mans @alexandermans]

Canada has a history of high tariffs on US goods (270%+ for dairy, 238% on poultry, up to 20% on softwood, etc). Canada’s economy is 6th within NATO, yet they spend 27th as on defense as % of GDP because the US is so conveniently close. That, and the 1 in 5 cars made in Canada is what the administration wants to see changed. Tequila, Avocados, Maple Syrup, and Oil (as US and Saudi start raising supply) are not a staple of your average American household.

[Alex Mans @alexandermans]

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[Matt Kilcoyne @MRJKilcoyne]

The Competitiveness Compass @pmarca

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

The most amazing aspect of DeepSeek Open Source is that just the Reasoning Engine can be isolated and used with any other LLM.

In fact you can have a mixture of Reasoning Engines cascade around a problem and then use an Operator type agent AI to function on the the results.

[Alex Mans @alexandermans]

The absurdity of this topic is astounding. “Have a nice home? You should let it burn out of solidarity with those less wealthy“ https://t.co/yNQVuGw29q

[Suhail @Suhail]

Practically every CEO that runs a social network or messaging app can go to jail in France.

[Bloomberg Technology @technology]

Travel startup Flyr raises $295 million in equity and debt in a new funding round https://t.co/8AFAtjfjNZ

[Alex Mans @alexandermans]

@james_dedir @LukeBornheimer Show me the data of Cybertruck vs other trucks then. I believe this article makes my point https://t.co/99BxWdXtkN