Daniel Foth

Dad of 4. Semi-nomadic. April to Oct in Europe. Nov to Mar in Asia/Latam. Building IRL football communities backed by FC Barcelona at

[Daniel Foth @FothDaniel_]

“ Nobody is fully in control, it's just constant struggle, war as the organizational force to society just like Hegel wrote (with literal war now proxied via capitalism). Until the senior tier dies and is replaced by the up-and-comers and the cycle restarts, forever. The end."

[Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) @antoniogm]

The more you get enmeshed in the actual power plays of tech--fundraises, M&A, deal-making--the more you realize that everyone more or less has some beef with everyone, there is no 'they' here conspiring to do anything, and it's just an ever-shifting set of cliques low-key warring against each other constantly.

Sub in almost every broad grouping--'tech', the Jews, whatever--and it's the same deal. There isn't a ghost of a chance they're conspiring to do anything...like ancient Greek city-states, they're constantly warring with each other, only pausing very occasionally when some common enemy like the Persians show up, and then going right back to the constant scheming and battling.

It's white-pilling in a way: there's no big society-wide scheme going on. It's also black-pilling: there's no Protocols of the Elders of AI (or ads, or anything else) going on either. Nobody is fully in control, it's just constant struggle, war as the organizational force to society just like Hegel wrote (with literal war now proxied via capitalism). Until the senior tier dies and is replaced by the up-and-comers and the cycle restarts, forever. The end.

[Martin Varsavsky @martinvars]

True if you earn your $ elsewhere

[Daniel Foth @FothDaniel_]

@Bkclaims @eastdakota 😆

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Jeff Bezos reveals why compromise is one of the worst ways to resolve a disagreement

"An example of a really bad way of coming to agreement is compromise. If I say the ceiling is 11 feet and you say 12 feet, we say let's call it 11 and a half. That's compromise"

"The advantage of compromise is it's low energy. But it doesn't lead to truth"

"Another really bad resolution mechanism is who's more stubborn. Two executives disagree, they have a war of attrition, and whichever one gets exhausted first capitulates. You haven't arrived at truth, and this is very demoralizing"

"Escalation is better than a war of attrition. Escalate to your boss and say, we can't agree, we like each other, we're respectful, but we strongly disagree, we need you to make a decision"

"Exhausting the other person is not truth seeking. Compromise is not truth seeking"

[@levelsio @levelsio]

I think the challenge is that everyone can now build apps

But

1) almost nobody has distribution (like an audience), or

2) the money to pay for distribution (ads or UGC), or

3) the creative genius to get distribution for free (classically called guerilla marketing)

[Jen Zhu @jenzhuscott]

Massive output uptick due to agentic AI. Complete flat adoption.

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

The parenting advice that I’ll be sitting with for a VERY long time:

You either face your demons or they raise your children.

[Prompter @PromptLLM]

Claude is telling you to think in questions, not statements

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

STRANGE FATHERHOOD ADVICE I GOT FROM AN OLDER DAD THAT ACTUALLY WORKS:

1. Never lecture your son when he's already feeling small.

[Daniel Foth @FothDaniel_]

@willahmed @WHOOP @PSG_inside 💪

[Daniel Foth @FothDaniel_]

@LloydLegalist 😆

[Daniel Foth @FothDaniel_]

@nic_amadio top city

[Daniel Foth @FothDaniel_]

@Mehdiyac agreed

[Daniel Foth @FothDaniel_]

@IvanLandabaso Barcelona is beautiful

[Daniel Foth @FothDaniel_]

@jnpayne Mallorca is amazing

[Daniel Foth @FothDaniel_]

@TeBe_Blade 😆

[Daniel Foth @FothDaniel_]

@mazi_more @crazyclips_ 😆

[Daniel Foth @FothDaniel_]

"Don't ask people their opinion, watch what they do with their wallet"

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Don't ask people their opinion, watch what they do with their wallet (#SkinInTheGame).
In polls the French claim to prefer to live away from large expensive cities in favor of small towns & bucolic villages. But when they vote with their wallet they do the exact opposite.

[Daniel Foth @FothDaniel_]

"You can learn from anyone"
@ShaanVP @MohnishPabrai @myfirstmilpod

[Daniel Foth @FothDaniel_]

@cxgonzalez Yes