I haven't read this for about 10 years, but I just looked at it after someone linked to it and I was surprised how many of these things are starting to happen. Still no next Steve Jobs yet though.
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Q: Why is it so easy to criticise and have a plan till you get into government? 🤔
A: Because outside govt, you see the problem in straight lines. Inside government, you meet the maze.
From outside, failure often looks like a lack of will, competence, courage, or integrity. Sometimes it is. But inside government, plans meet weak institutions, inherited liabilities, vested interests, procurement rules, courts, legislators, budget limits, security realities, civil service inertia, and the politics of timing.
Culture happens, stories begin and self-preservation agendas find life.
The easiest sentence in public life is: “They should just fix it.” The harder truth is that the state is not one person with one button. It is a network of laws, interests, fears, incentives, sabotage, capacity gaps, and consequences.
Still, complexity is not an excuse for failure. Government exists to organise complexity into results. The real test of leadership is whether a plan survives contact with reality, adapts without losing its moral centre, and delivers relief citizens can feel.
So, I have learnt to appreciate progress, momentum and incremental gains..... not the eldorado version.
Yet, criticism keeps power honest, but getting results for desired governance requires more than criticism. It requires getting involved, sequencing, coalition-building, courage, competence, communication, and the humility to accept that the problem was deeper than the slogan.
The code is to win by knowing when to lose, win or compromise.
On a scale we can all relate wirh, we should for example know that the wedding, of which we priotise expenses with, is just an event, while the marriage remains the institution of priority. Even within this family arrangement, optimising value reflects similar challenges.😔 You can read this in a way you get the message.
Be ye circumspect.....
Stand firm; for well you know that hardship and danger are the price of glory, and that sweet is the savour of a life of courage and of deathless renown beyond the grave...
~ Alexander III of Macedon
Between 1982 and 2020, the number of the 100 richest Americans who got rich from inheritance decreased from 60 to 27. And yet on the left they think the mid 20th century was the good old days, because economic inequality was lower then.
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Prepare for takeoff. ✈️ Flight simulator is now available globally on web to all users. https://t.co/hQP0No142P
We've recently added many our most powerful professional desktop features to web. Elevation profiles, new import types, but there's always been one other feature you've been asking us to add to the web version of Google Earth, just for fun...
Where will you fly? Share your best maneuvers, views, and flyovers with us!
June 12, 1993. Nigerians woke up early, stood in the sun, and voted.
For the first time in a long while, it felt like something real was happening.
Then the result was annulled.
What followed changed the course of history.
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#DemocracyDay#GetInvolved#AskQuestions #FollowTheMoney
Welp, that happened faster than I predicted. Thought it would be end of 2027, then early 2027, but agentic traffic growing so fast that bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time in the Internet's history. https://t.co/2zX5bHdhsa
I valued SpaceX for its IPO a few weeks ago, with minimal information and a promise to revisit the valuation, when the prospectus was made public. The prospectus is public, the offering price has been set and my update is up and running. https://t.co/zRjpD1C0wv
Prediction: In the AI age, taste will become even more important. When anyone can make anything, the big differentiator is what you choose to make.
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List of all 39 Ideas:
1. If you find a genius, give them all power.
2. You are neither right or wrong because a poll agrees with you.
3. The key to success is mediocre competition.
4. There are answers worth billions of dollars in a $30 history book.
5. It’s always a skill issue.
6. Cargo Cult Science.
7. The men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.
8. Incentives.
9. Intelligent is different from smart, and both can be stupid.
10. Worldly wisdom
11. Education is software for the brain
12. Economies of scale.
13. Quality.
14. Extraordinary results are just 1,000 boring days strung together.
15. Stack the bricks
16. There are multiple ways of thinking.
17. Real understanding comes through continued mental exposure.
18. Deep simplicity.
19. Tweak a problem only slightly and you’ll turn it from impossible to easy.
20. Systems naturally trend towards decentralization and specialization.
21. Complex adaptive systems.
22. Why thinking what no one else is thinking pays off enormously.
23. The difficulty lies not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
24. You drift toward the average of your surroundings.
25. Causes of human misjudgment.
26. Find out what works and do it.
27. After a business gets to scale, capital allocation matters more than any other thing.
28. ‘History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes’.
29. Uniformitarianism vs catastrophism.
30. Lollapalooza effect.
31. Paint the fence.
32. The role of technology is to make complicated and expensive things cheaper and more accessible.
33. Attractor states.
34. Make things as simple as possible, but no more simple.
35. Ideas are much older than you think.
36. Do what you love.
37. True law is reason.
38. You can’t teach an old dog to live in chain and you can’t teach old tricks to a new dog.
39. Knowers vs non-knowers.
Deferred context is one piece of the Software Factory.
Building software autonomously requires the full loop: planning, implementation, testing, deployment, and verification at every step. Droid always optimizes this loop for the best quality-cost tradeoff.
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S&P lifted Nigeria’s credit rating for the first time since 2012, citing higher oil prices and the country’s improved capacity to refine and export crude https://t.co/MUN3ZSRepu
Computer use is now in Claude Code.
Claude can open your apps, click through your UI, and test what it built, right from the CLI.
Now in research preview on Pro and Max plans.
This is a classic articulation of the "logos/rhema" distinction.
Logos = written word of God / logic / reasoning
Rhema = spoken word of God / "now word" / "revelation" (the "word of the Lord came" to a prophet)
The only problem is that this distinction is false. 👇⬇️🧵 1/
After 60 years, Warren Buffett stepped down as CEO of Berkshire Hathway.
Greg Abel just published his first shareholder letter.
To honor the Oracle of Omaha's legacy, we asked Computer to build something to make sure Buffett's wisdom lives on.
Introducing the Buffett Archive.