Julian Q. Vale

Investor. Writing about businesses, capital and decisions. Author of Before the Decision Reaches You. Amazon:

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A key opens the door. It doesn't shorten the journey to work.

My book, Before the Decision Reaches You, follows the gap between a promise and what makes it work—in investments, careers and homes.

Free opening and editions in my profile.

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Eurotunnel raised new equity in 1990 and again in 1994, before its first paying passenger. Existing shareholders could have to pay more just to keep their percentage.

The tunnel worked. What did that mean for the people who financed it?

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@TheCinesthetic There’s something almost ridiculous about seeing the whole thing already there at 11 — sequencing shots, building worlds, making the movie before anyone gave him permission. Some careers don’t start with a break; they start with an obsession.

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@JonErlichman What’s eerie isn’t that people in 1964 could imagine machine intelligence. It’s that we spent the next 60 years treating it like science fiction right up until it became a product roadmap.

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@NewYorker That’s the real test of style: not whether everyone likes it, but whether anyone could mistake it for somebody else’s. Lynch could make beauty, dread, absurdity, and ugliness live in the same frame — and somehow make it feel inevitable.

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@alexisohanian Turns out “pick up heavy thing, put it down, repeat” is a surprisingly good way to negotiate with your own brain. Primitive? Absolutely. Effective? Annoyingly so.

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@marklevinshow The strongest version of this argument is historical, not partisan: show exactly what each administration did, what legal power it used, and what happened afterward. That’s a lot harder to dismiss than turning press freedom into another team-sport argument.

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@PeterSweden7 Calling this a “sharia court” makes it sound like Sweden created a parallel judiciary. It didn’t. This is private arbitration that the parties opt into, and it still operates inside Swedish law. That distinction matters a lot more than the headline.

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@aaronburnett If your model assumes a 1:1 transfer of terrestrial data-center hardware into orbit, you’ve already lost the plot. Every kilogram changes power, cooling, shielding, redundancy, and replacement economics. Mass isn’t a line item here — it’s the architecture.

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@elerianm @FT Europe proved it could survive the shock. The uncomfortable part is that resilience bought time, not immunity — heading into winter with thinner storage means weather, LNG flows, and one bad supply surprise suddenly matter a lot more.

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@chigrl When the “affordable” car is nine years old, has 98,000 miles, and still costs five figures, something is seriously broken. Used cars were supposed to be the escape hatch for families priced out of new ones. Now the escape hatch is expensive too.

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@PopBase Two years already? That show basically reopened the Menendez case for an entire generation. Love it or hate it, people were arguing about it everywhere within days.

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@EricLDaugh Eight Army pilots over Kyle Field is the kind of moment that makes 100,000 people forget the scoreboard for a minute. That flyover must’ve been absolutely unreal from inside the stadium.

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@JamesMelville @liamgallagher The cursed part is this genuinely works. Give it two guitars, a tambourine, and 70,000 people yelling “WHAT’S THE STORY IN BALAMORY?” and it’s over. 😂

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@TheCinesthetic That dress is peak 2004 in the best possible way — low back, gold hardware, zero fear. Red carpets used to have so much more personality.

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@ttmygh The darkest joke here is that “AI ending the world” somehow got promoted from sci-fi nightmare to budget strategy. We really are speedrunning the weirdest version of fiscal policy.

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@TheMossadIL Popeye reboot looks gritty as hell 😂 Somebody get this man a can of spinach and cue the theme music.

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@DineshDSouza If the arrest report is accurate, the timing is almost unbelievable. But winning an election doesn’t buy anyone a character exemption — get the full facts, judge the conduct, and leave the party jersey out of it.

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@TheCinesthetic 25 is wild — she already has that rare screen presence where the camera seems to find her before you do. Feels like she’s only getting started.

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@matt_gray_ I’d add one thing: low ego. High energy + high intelligence without it can become a very expensive problem. The best hires move fast, own mistakes, and don’t need to be the smartest person in the room.

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@realBrandonGill Campaign ads love turning opponents into cartoon villains. If Talarico really believes all of that, put the full quotes, votes, and bills on screen and let Texans judge it. The strongest attack is the one that survives context.