Sean Goodwin

Tech Generalist & Blockchain Evangelist by Design

[Sean Goodwin @DealAppSEO]

@xai or @grok: "Interested in early access/beta for Grok GitHub integration to connect private repos and automate Tasks!" Please make it avai!

[Sean Goodwin @DealAppSEO]

I just discovered my AI personality: The Empathic Strategist! 💫 https://t.co/feY7EVwp0M Hope it's true and not hype, if you know me, would love to get your take.

[Sean Goodwin @DealAppSEO]

Check out my latest article: Why I Built 8 AI Agents—And Why You Should Build Yours https://t.co/A1jnIYodIw via @LinkedIn

[RadioGenoa @RadioGenoa]

Christians in Syria captured by Islamic terrorists.

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

My conversation with @elonmusk. Live today at 3pm ET. https://t.co/RyaZFmvC8i

[Adam Graber @AdamGraber]

Recent resource list of Christian thinking on AI from @ISCAST_Oz

ft. @faithtechhub @ahc @TonyReinke @johndyer @Robotheology @NoreenHerzfeld @ProfJohnLennox @jaykimthinks @AIandFaith @MulherinChris + more

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[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

I guess this says everything about the current climate alarm:

My initial reaction is this video must be fabricated (if hilarious)

But I really can't tell any longer

Does anyone have a good link on this being fake or real?

[Sean Goodwin @DealAppSEO]

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[Dave McClure @davemcclure]

reflecting: it’s so much easier to discuss non-traditional (aka “crazy”) VC investment strategies with 15 yrs of data / 2,000+ co’s in the rear view mirror.

back in 2008-10, i spoke with hundreds of (smart & experienced) VCs & LPs who said i was insane… and when I said the firm name was going to be called “500 Startups” (thx for that domain @hnshah 🙏🏼❤️) they literally laughed in my fucking face.

fundraising was hell for many years because nobody thought it made any goddamn sense (and tbh, i was scared shitless it might not work). even after we were on our 3rd fund and >1,000 investments, ppl still thought we were crazy and it wouldn’t work.

but i was very lucky a few folks gave us a shot in the early days (@foundersfund @Redpoint @accel @bluerunventures @JoshKopelman @pmarca @mkapor @fredwilson @marcusogawa among many others)… the checks were small but they were enough to get started, and we never looked back.

today i have a lot of sympathy for rookie VCs and founders aspiring to try out their “crazy investing ideas” — especially in such a tough market, altho 2009-10 was pretty similar in a lot of ways.

it’s a GIANT pain in the ass starting a company or a VC fund, and it takes a lot of support and believers, AND a lot of hard work & persistence.

and even then, many many times we will fail. and try again. and fail again. and try again. and fail again.

but i want to let people know — keep working on your crazy ideas!

because one time, a few times, sometimes… you will SUCCEED.

and that makes all that failure and doubt and persistence worthwhile.

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[Moritz Kremb @moritzkremb]

AI-powered CRMs are incredible.

They change the way you run your business.

Let me show you how an AI-powered CRM can help your business grow while saving you time:

[Rune Østgård @enur72]

Today I will explain one of the most powerful graphs you will ever see in your whole life.

But before we look at the graph, I can mention that about 60% of Americans invest in stocks and about 50% of Norwegians invest in securities funds.

Few know that the value of their investments in stocks isn't able to keep pace with the money's reduction in purchasing power over a longer period of time, when measured against all types of economic goods.

The reason is that few understand the effect of monetary policy and that their investments compete with an inflation of the money supply which is roughly on average 7% per year, both in the US and in Norway.

The red line in the graph refers to the official M2 money supply (Norwegian kroner).

The dark blue line is the Oslo Stock Exchange's main index. This includes dividends paid to the shareholders.

As you can see the stock index isn't able to keep up with the rate of the money printing.

You get about the same results with USD and the S&P 500 index.

The dark blue line isn't adjusted for capital gains tax. The more money that is printed, the more the price of the stocks will rise and the more you will have to pay in capital gains tax.

Neither is it adjusted for management fees. Investopedia says that "Management fees can range from as low as 0.10% to more than 2%".

When you take capital gains tax and management costs into account, it's very, very few who can beat the 7% rate of increase in the money supply.

That's why professional traders "gear" their stock investments by borrowing money so they can double or triple the investment and their profits, as they go in and out of stocks.

Access to cheap credit and understanding how the stock market works makes it possible for them to beat the index.

It's the same with large corporations who invest in real estate, factories and other forms of capital. They use cheap credit to make a profit.

The yellow line is the price of physical gold. It has performed just slightly below stocks. When you take into account that the risk associated with buying gold is lower than the risk associated with buying stocks, it looks like gold has been a better investment than stocks.

Many people believe they are saving when they buy a house that they can live in. The green line shows that the nominal price of average homes in Norway cannot at all keep up with the rate of money printing. Norwegian households are more indebted than in any other countries, because they have bought into the idea that buying a house is saving, which it in general clearly isn't.

The light blue line at the bottom of the graph is CPI, the Consumer Price Index. This is important, because wages are adjusted by CPI, give or take a few percentage points. The devopment of wages is far, far lower than the rate of money printing as well as the stock market index, gold and homes. This means, for instance, that buying a home becomes more and more costly for wage earners as time goes by.

But this is how the monetary policy works. The few who gain from money printing have to make someone pay for it. And this group is the wage earners, ordinary workers like you and me.

Roughly speaking it's the government and the wealthiest 1% of the people who benefit from the money printing. A few more manage to preserve the value of their savings by taking risks and investing their earnings in securities.

The overwhelming majority lose out. We are the ones who finance what the 1-percenters and the government earns from the system.

This is also what explains the ever increasing wealth gap and concentration of economic resources on fewer and fewer hands.

Without this redistributive effect, the government wouldn't bother to have a monetary policy based on inflating the money supply.

Perhaps you now begin to understand that it's no coincidence that those who wake up to this reality become interested in gold and #Bitcoin

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

All sales are final

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

The economy explained ... all over the world. I died laughing listening to this.

It is worth it.
3 minutes. 🤣

🔊sound ...🤣

[Sean Goodwin @DealAppSEO]

Google Down: The Perils of Centralization https://t.co/fhbP8bl8wB

[Sean Goodwin @DealAppSEO]

Evercore Says PayPal’s Crypto Offering Could Bring Big Business Boost https://t.co/oAbvcsEndj

[Sean Goodwin @DealAppSEO]

Crypto Bank Sygnum Tokenizes Shares, Eyes Public Offering https://t.co/IQVcxyJpYt

[Sean Goodwin @DealAppSEO]

Binance, OKEx Payments Partner Banxa Set to Make Milestone Stock Exchange Listing https://t.co/FIXRKqRJe1

[Sean Goodwin @DealAppSEO]

Saylor Hits Back at Claims MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin Trove Makes It an ETF https://t.co/QyANLR8hpT