Ross Brendel

Founder, Westerly Group; Incrementalist

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@cremieuxrecueil @balajis When comparing prices consumers pay, you have to account for taxes. Europe loads the majority of price with tax, so input cost has a more muted effect compared to the US.

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@BullandBaird Negative two times

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2x more people stood outside Heinz field to see their team select an OT than stood in St Peter’s Square last year to see the new Pope announced

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Pittsburgh broke the all-time round one attendance record with 320,000 fans tonight, topping the 275,000+ who attended in Detroit in 2024, per the NFL.

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Can you explain how a democracy would function when a majority of the electorate is receiving transfer payments from the government funded by a shrinking minority of the population? Given the absolute control government would exercise over the populace in this world, and fundamental human incentives, how does that not devolve into autocracy?

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@elonmusk That is tyranny. You cannot have a democracy where the majority of people are serfs of the government.

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@creation247 @Pontifex care to comment?

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@Camp4 It’s not that contrarian. Strauss and Howe make a similar point in The Fourth Turning, very entertaining read 20 years later!

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@TheTranscript_ But don’t these businesses run on very tight coverage ratios? Like a 20% drop in cash flow could imperil interest payments.

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@GovernorShapiro Sit this one out, bud.

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@mattforney It’s on the license plate: “Live Free or Die”

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@elonmusk Let’s reserve judgement until we learn the dog’s view on deficit spending.

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@OnlyCFO Isn’t the magnitude here largely driven by SOX auditor attestation requirement? That could use some reforming 24 years later.

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@Breaking911 Just vote on the bill! No piece of legislation is more important for this congress to pass.

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@jasonwhitlock Offense was elite as late as the 2017-18 season. Ben, Bell, Brown putting up huge numbers and winning games in shoot-outs.

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@paulg @elonmusk Totally. Watched Train Dreams over the weekend which had phenomenal reviews and was objectively a beautiful movie but could not get over this!

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@marshal Beautiful home. What type of gravel did you use for the courtyard?

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@TheRobertBshow Anyone paying attention knows that public school system is an adult employment (read: largely welfare) scheme that has no regard for the future of the children they educate. The constituency is the teacher / union member, not the student.

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In 5 years from now, probably 95% of the tokens used by AI agents will be used on tasks that humans never did before.

I just met with about 30 enterprises across 2 days and a dinner, and some of the most interesting use-cases that keep coming up for AI agents are on bringing automated work to areas that the companies would not have been able to apply labor to before.

Most of the world hasn’t quite caught on to this point yet. We imagine AI as dropping into today’s workflows and just taking what we already do and making it more efficient by 20% or something. Yet most companies realize that most of the time they’re doing far less than they could because of the cost or limited capacity of talent.

This shows up in different ways across every industry. In real estate it’s ideas like being able to read and analyze every lease agreement for every trend and business opportunity possible. In life sciences it’s being able to rapidly do drug discovery or improve quality by looking through errors in data. In financial services it’s being able to look through all past deals and figure out better future monetization. In legal it’s being able to execute on contracts or legal work for previously unprofitable segments or projects.

And these are just the Box AI use cases that deal with documents and content. The same is going to be true in coding, where companies tackle software projects they wouldn’t have done before. Security of all systems and events they couldn’t get to. And so on.

If you are working on AI Agents right now, the big opportunity is to bring enterprises “work” for problems that they couldn’t do before because it was nearly impossible to afford or scale.

And if you’re deploying AI agents in an enterprise, consider what things you’d do more of (or differently) if the cost and speed of labor became 100X cheaper and faster. This is going to get you the real upside of automation.

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@MatznerJon Dude what happened?? You shaved the mustache! What kind of signal is this?