Josh Perryman

Guy in TX. Married to a girl. Got 4 kids. Keeping real w/ God. Oh, and I also do distributed graph databases.

[Pamela Hobart @gtmom]

I graduated with high honors from an affluent, acclaimed high school and then again with high honors with a BA in philosophy & pre-law before EVER once hearing the idea that prices convey information and coordinate actors.

I'll never forget rolling up to a philosophy conference in Pasadena in 2008 and wandering into a session on "price gouging" and the pro-"price gougers" introduced this concept.

Possibly the single most transformative moment of my entire education.

[Josh Perryman @JoshPerryman]

@patio11 Nothing says “new tech toys, fun!” Like the temptation for premature optimizations

[Keith Humphreys @KeithNHumphreys]

Excited to be on @CNN tonight talking about the rise of fake AI news with Miles Davis and Galadriel of Rivendell.

[Josh Perryman @JoshPerryman]

I buried Zorro in our backyard just a few days ago. I cannot convey the devastation felt by Kimela and Ariel. Please help as you are able.

[Josh Perryman @JoshPerryman]

Never have I seen such heartbreak up close. I don't ever ask, but this time I must. GoFundMe link follows

[Josh Perryman @JoshPerryman]

https://t.co/zmHIKgRj6s

[Mike Bird @Birdyword]

Working on some yard signs for the newly popular free trade movement

[Steve DuBois @Twitlysium]

@asymmetricinfo So why not yield to a future in which real-world speeches will mostly be written by AIs?

Because the process of learning how to write is the process of learning how to think.

Because crafting a speech to appeal to a given audience is an exercise in empathy.

[Jeremy Horpedahl 🥚📉 @jmhorp]

Men will literally try to recreate the CPI from scratch instead of going to therapy

[Josh Perryman @JoshPerryman]

@petersuderman I should also note that I have twin teenage sons and their esteem, as well as their peers, may have factored in my decision matrix. YMMV

[Josh Perryman @JoshPerryman]

@petersuderman I finished BG3 last year and found it as enjoyable a story as any book I’ve read

[Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo]

Government-funded basic research and industrial translation research are complements, not substitutes. The left frequently gets this wrong, thinking that the government does all the real work and private firms (notably pharma) just steal the idea and make bank. Now the right is getting it wrong from the other direction.

[Josh Perryman @JoshPerryman]

@petersuderman I prefer the lemon peel too. What’s your gin, vermouth choice?

[Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv]

for starters I don’t think you’re selfish for not having children

and kids actually are a joy to have

but if you need a different reason, I really liked what some other couple once said, about wanting to have “a maximum human experience”. I’ll elaborate how I interpreted that

[Patrick McKenzie @patio11]

Wild is not priced in, I don’t think.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Well, it's Joe Biden's last full day in office, and I have a lot to say about it.

https://t.co/cvVGKwdsRO

[James Taranto @jamestaranto]

“Fact Checkers” Become Rent Seekers by @jamestaranto https://t.co/nsUW6MN8pT via @WSJopinion

[Josh Perryman @JoshPerryman]

One of the most important questions every society must answer: what story will you give your young men to help them order their lives? A story of hope leading to the belief they can make the world better, or another story. They will act, but the direction is set by the story

[Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌 @Chris_arnade]

I read this article and it boils down to the writer believing the Hero archetype is corrosive, bad, and unnecessary -- an outdated concept of masculinity.

I personally think the continual appeal of the hero archetype, especially to younger men, is something a society shouldn't dismiss, and rather than try to make it profane, realize the universal need for it, and the good that can come from it.

A society where a young man wants to rush into a burning building to save someone is actually a good thing,

[Josh Perryman @JoshPerryman]

This is so true

When I write code, I try to write it for the dumbest programmer that I know: me 6 months in the future

[Bilgin Ibryam @bibryam]

Hot take: Cognitive load is better metric than clean code!
https://t.co/PzLEXXmvat by @zakirullin

[Mollie @MZHemingway]

This @tabletmag piece is the most brutal beatdown of @davidaxelrod and, to a lesser extent, @BarackObama -- and their dystopic, authoritarian, and totalitarian approach to gaining and preserving power.