David Ryan

Bus driver, mariner, aviator, mechanic, shipwright.

[David Ryan @CaptDavidRyan]

@four4thefire I had a really good unpopular opinion yesterday but I can't remember what it was.

[David Ryan @CaptDavidRyan]

Friend

[TheChameleon @christhemusic]

What English word has been most devalued during your lifetime?

I’ll go first: Engineer.

[David Ryan @CaptDavidRyan]

Do you all remember the phrase “vanity press”? A pre-digital phenomenon wherein someone so craved to see their words in bound form, they’d pay to have their manuscript reproduced as a book.

[BLACK ASS MAN @MartinaezJ]

Good Morning Lovers 🖤🤎

[David Ryan @CaptDavidRyan]

Charging for blue checks is a good way to get the most annoying people on twitter to leave.

[David Ryan @CaptDavidRyan]

@four4thefire I know nothing about everything and everything about nothing.

[David Ryan @CaptDavidRyan]

Auto-catalyzing group wank.

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

25% of universities produce about 80% of all tenure-track faculty. Of the top 20 universities, the first 10 produce 1.6-3.0X more faculty than the second 10

"Across disciplines, prestige hierarchies make the most accurate predictions of faculty placement" https://t.co/rScj85aSH5

[David Ryan @CaptDavidRyan]

I had a really interesting boat ride with a reinsurer this summer. Fascinating stuff…!

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Tampa is extremely vulnerable to a hurricane. Miami, New York City, Long Island, Tampa, and New Orleans are the $100B insurance risk areas.

[David Ryan @CaptDavidRyan]

@evolutionarypsy Bravo on consistency!

[David Ryan @CaptDavidRyan]

As my uncle says, “You don’t become conservative until you have something to conserve.”

[David Ryan @CaptDavidRyan]

@classywarfare You’re not going camping because it’s necessary, you’re going because it’s fun; and for people like you and me, speaking money is not fun, and not spending money is fun. Do what is fun!

[David Ryan @CaptDavidRyan]

@four4thefire @KeithNHumphreys Misery loves company

[David Ryan @CaptDavidRyan]

@SteveFishburn @four4thefire Oily

[David Ryan @CaptDavidRyan]

One of your primary obligations as a business person is to drive your price up at every opportunity. That’s what allows you to send your kids to college, have health insurance, save for retirement, pay higher wages, etc.

[David Ryan @CaptDavidRyan]

This will come as a shock to some of you, but if a barber is cutting hair for $20 when the market will support $35, he’s stiffing himself and his family $15 on every haircut.

[David Ryan @CaptDavidRyan]

@JuddLegum IBonds are paying over 10% right now

[David Ryan @CaptDavidRyan]

@burtlikko @Hal_RTFLC Whatever documents are handled by the president in a manner inconsistent with their being classified are presumed to be declassified by the president. I bill at $3,500/hour.

[David Ryan @CaptDavidRyan]

@SailBluenoseII H O L D F A S T

[David Ryan @CaptDavidRyan]

@matthewstoller @thegarance First property purchase was at 7 7/8th, second was at 7 3/8th. Anything under 10% is a deal.

[David Ryan @CaptDavidRyan]

Of course you can control what happens to you. That’s the biggest differentiator between those of us who stack the deck in our favor and those of you who merely control how you respond to what happens to you.

[David Ryan @CaptDavidRyan]

@burtlikko @RTodKelly Jews are a subhuman race, that’s why they control the world.