Alberto Trani

[Alberto Trani @alberto_trani]

@ConceptualJames Napoleon used to say there are four kinds of officers: intelligent and high-agency, intelligent and low-agency, incompetent and low-agency, and incompetent and high-agency. The latter are the most dangerous and should be relieved of their duties immediately

[Alberto Trani @alberto_trani]

@FirstSquawk Thirty-seven deals and still no Nobel Peace Prize? This world is clearly broken.

[Alberto Trani @alberto_trani]

Parafrasando una vecchia pubblicità passare lo stretto di Hormuz tra Iraniani ed Americani armati fino ai denti col sigaro in bocca non ha prezzo….per tutto il resto c’è Mastercard…

[Alberto Trani @alberto_trani]

@MichaelShurkin Finnish, Polish and Baltics want to believe that is fault of Russia
Neapolitans want to believe that politics are the source of all evil
Socialists want to believe that fault must be originated from Catholic Church
Football player needs to believe that is always referee’s fault

[이재명 @Jaemyung_Lee]

<끊임없는 반인권적 반국제법적 행동으로 고통받고 힘들어하는 전 세계인들의 지적을 한번쯤은 되돌아볼 만도 한데 실망입니다.

내가 아프면 타인도 그만큼 아픕니다.

나의 필요 때문에 누군가 고통받으면 미안한 것이 인지상정입니다.

아닌 밤중에 홍두깨라고 아무 잘못없는 우리 국민들께서 뜬금없이 겪고 있는 이 엄청난 고통과 국가적 어려움을 지켜보는 마음이 매우 불편합니다.

보편적 인권과 대한민국의 국익을 위해 할 수 있는 일을 더 열심히 찾아봐야겠습니다.>

이스라엘, ‘전시 살해=유대인 학살’ 李대통령 발언에 “용납 못해” https://t.co/R9OOeMDSr3

[samir kaji @Samirkaji]

Truth about venture today

We are in peak AI fomo.

Growth trajectory drowns out legit durability concerns of most AI companies

Family offices playing direct / co invest instead of funds, almost at any cost for top companies. Anthropic is the hottest asset of all time and fees are getting unethical.

Vcs know the market is nutty but incentives matter; quick markups, easier raises, and get the right one and the inevitable failures don’t matter (or they do but it takes awhile).
One anthropic and you are minted for 10+ years. Even lesser companies can king make someone. This is where irrational becomes rational.

Companies growing 2-3x per year largely ignored if a 10x year isn’t clearly coming next. Benchmarks are completely distorted on what’s fundable.\

This is like the internet on steroids. Tech shift is real and it’s inevitable but investing behavior is similar to past cycle - too much, too fast.

Winners will be 10-100x bigger but most investors will incinerate tons of capital hoping for the golden goose.

[Alberto Trani @alberto_trani]

@valfurla Ci illudiamo abbiano gli strumenti culturali. La disponibilità di informazioni non coincide necessariamente con l’incremento della cultura media intesa come capacità di comprensione critica. Altrimenti i vari populismi dell’ultimo ventennio non avrebbero avuto spazio.

[Alberto Trani @alberto_trani]

@TimurNegru Maybe cause wine consumption is collapsing worldwide??

[Alberto Trani @alberto_trani]

@CryptoCyberia @ATabarrok @grok is this a verified news?

[Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero]

I am asking my European friends to actually turn on the sound and listen to this clip. To understand what America is now.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

French judge Nicolas Gouyou, who issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu at the ICC:

• Visa and Mastercard have blocked all my cards
• I cannot make any purchases
• I am a judge, yet treated like a criminal
• Judges, lawyers, and politicians are being intimidated
• A colleague told me my name won’t be removed from the blacklist until Trump’s term ends
• Despite intervention by the French president, U.S. authorities have not responded

[Alberto Trani @alberto_trani]

Finally EU is waking up after a quarter century of deep sleep

[European Commission @EU_Commission]

We are introducing EU Inc. To make building and growing a business across the EU faster, simpler, and smarter.

🔸 Start a company in less than 48 hours
🔸 No minimum capital requirement
🔸 Fully online and borderless

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

Today is one of those days that will be referenced for decades to come.

Oil prices are up +25% on a Sunday, US stock market futures erasing over -$2 trillion, and 20 million barrels per day of oil supply offline with no signs of deescalation.

This market never ceases to amaze.

[Alberto Trani @alberto_trani]

I signori della guerra non hanno considerato il potenziale strascico in termini di terrorismo.
Ci furono anni di attentati per motivi molto più futili di questi.Ora con Gaza rasa al suolo e l’Iran distrutto, stanno costruendo una nuova generazione di attentatori disposti a tutto

[Alberto Trani @alberto_trani]

You cannot raze Gaza and Iran to the ground, kill people and then expect no blowback. Decades of suicide bombings were triggered by grievances far less devastating than this.
They’re creating a whole new generation of people with nothing left to lose and everything to avenge

[Alberto Trani @alberto_trani]

You cannot raze Gaza and Iran to the ground, kill people and then expect no blowback. Decades of suicide bombings were triggered by grievances far less devastating than this.
They’re creating a whole new generation of people with nothing left to lose and everything to avenge

[The American Conservative @amconmag]

JD Vance in 2024, less than 10 days before the presidential election:

" Our interest, I think, very much is in not going to war with Iran.  It would be a huge distraction of resources. It would be massively expensive to our country."

[Alberto Trani @alberto_trani]

Il paradosso della ricchezza e del saper goderne: generalmente le caratteristiche che conducono alcune persone ad accumulare grandi fortune sono le stesse che impediscono loro di goderne pienamente. Chi ha il pane non ha i denti, chi ha i denti non ha il pane…🤷🏾‍♂️

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

This sounds good in practice but doesn’t work the in real world

The traits that make you wealthy will prevent you from being able to sit on your porch with a coffee to just enjoy a slow day

Some people are able to leave that drive and personality behind after becoming rich, but they are by far the rare cases

[Daniele Angrisani @putino]

Un uomo, una sentenza. Settembre 2024: “io personalmente, Matteo Salvini segretario della Lega, mi auguro che vinca Donald Trump perché quando governano i repubblicani, nella storia finiscono le guerre. Quando vincono i democratici, cominciano le guerre”.

[Andrea Giuricin @AndreaGiuricin]

Un settore che vale il 2% dell'economia e che prende il 30% dei sussidi europei )pagati dalle nostre tasse), blocca un accordo (#Mercosur) che porterà migliaia di nuovi posti di lavoro in Italia e miliardi di esportazioni per le nostre aziende.

[yung macro 宏观年少传奇 @apralky]

The Mark Carney Episode has done a great job demonstrating just how many of the developed world's seemingly unsolvable quagmires would completely evaporate if everyone just followed the simple time tested strategy of "Just Elect a Guy With an IQ Above 135"