Black Spy Project

White Spy is my mortal enemy.

[Black Spy Project @blackspyproject]

You can’t make a good deal with a bad person. Don’t try to protect yourself with contracts and due diligence. You can do fine over time dealing with people you like, admire, and trust. The bad actor will try to tantalize you but don’t give in. You won’t win. It pays to avoid him.

[Black Spy Project @blackspyproject]

Even the most bumbling pathological liars can build credibility through sheer persistence.

[Black Spy Project @blackspyproject]

The individual-action narrative is an effective distraction from the biggest corporate polluters.

[Black Spy Project @blackspyproject]

Arresting people is old fashioned. Modern totalitarianism is built on disinformation, micro targeted propaganda, surveillance, and nudge theory.

[Black Spy Project @blackspyproject]

Chamath is real slippery

[Black Spy Project @blackspyproject]

Rolls-Royce has best quarter in 116 years as wealthy snap up $400k cars. Can you feel the wealth trickling down now? Right onto your dumb face? Ahhh. Refreshing.

[Black Spy Project @blackspyproject]

A one time non-repeatable business transaction can make you rich, but not wealthy. Build a machine that is repeatable and reinvestable.

[Black Spy Project @blackspyproject]

Visionaries demand an instantly-new world.

[Black Spy Project @blackspyproject]

The unholy trinity of refined sugars, refined grains, and refined oils (“vegetable” oils) may be killing us. They’re in everything. This from someone who loves fried chicken and french fries.

[Black Spy Project @blackspyproject]

Gold is valuable because it’s rare (but not too rare), chemically uninteresting (so long lasting, portable, stable, non toxic), and pretty. Start with the periodic table, think about society’s needs, and by process of elimination, you land on gold. Neat. https://t.co/dRMVNWe4Sw

[Black Spy Project @blackspyproject]

Matt Levine’s “cheerful nihilism” seems like a useful mental state to cope.

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Software design at monopoly scale is de facto law enforcement without recourse.

[Black Spy Project @blackspyproject]

Poor people are crazy. Rich people are eccentric.

[Black Spy Project @blackspyproject]

Turns out it’s easy to beat the shit out of your competitors when they’re locked in a cage and can’t punch back. Who would have thought?

[Black Spy Project @blackspyproject]

@Walmart running incessant TV ads that blatantly lean into covid opportunism.

“It’s a one stop shop” say the smiling shoppers. “Toys, treats, stuff that the kids like.” “I can get everything at Walmart.”

Big box stores breaking records while small businesses get destroyed.

[Black Spy Project @blackspyproject]

“Festering fucktangle of seditious democracy-hating treason-weasels.” Pithy. Credit Jeff Tiedrich

[Black Spy Project @blackspyproject]

Startup culture is a scam that is ruining the real spirit of low risk entrepreneurship and turning your brain to mush. Read this thread for the antidote.

[Nick Huber @sweatystartup]

I’ve gotten a lot of bad advice in my career and I see even more of it here on Twitter.

Time for a stiff drink and some truth you probably dont want to hear.

👇👇

[Black Spy Project @blackspyproject]

Locked down small businesses are well and truly fucked. No need to mince words. Yet another record breaking transfer of wealth to the rich.

[Black Spy Project @blackspyproject]

Google showed 20 billion profit in Bermuda. Well feed me nails and call me rusty! Those 60k Bermudians must buy a LOT of search ads.

[Black Spy Project @blackspyproject]

Tax the sales in the countries those sales happened. Multinationals can manipulate the location of their profits but they cannot manipulate the location of their customers.