d11n

Software engineer. Technologist, accelerationist. Reposts often things I want to remember.

[d11n @d11n__]

“The courage that's needed the most isn't the kind that drives you to prevail over others, but the kind that allows you to be true to your truest self, no matter what other people want you to be.” - Ray Dalio

[d11n @d11n__]

@s8mb Find a middle ground, let’s just bring construction back to rates during Thatcher (more per year than Blair did during his entire incumbency).

[d11n @d11n__]

@theJayAlto It’s a gradient: stimulation/enjoying and the information density of the medium are often inversely proportional.

[d11n @d11n__]

“Most of us really don't want to be rich. We just don't want to be poor.”

[47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r @47fucb4r8c69323]

Very good ad, but I want to focus on the first few seconds where she wakes up and is suddenly surrounded by people: flowers delivery girl, movers, pool guy.

Around 2013 or so I stopped being surrounded by academics and started being surrounded by Wall Street types. Changed jobs basically.

And I started, well, noticing how the richest people were always surrounded by people. Assistants, delivery people, managers, consultants, etc.

Seemed annoying. Still does tbh.

Then in 2017 I met and became friends with a guy who sold his startup and walked away with $10m. And one day he said this to me:

"I had a mentor. He warned me: if you make it big and get a big payout, people are going to come out of the woodworks asking for money, pitching you things, and wanting to be your friend, so you have to be careful. But the craziest thing is, after I sold my startup, none of that happened. Friends congratulated me, but besides that, no body cared."

The disappointment in his voice made me realize something very strange that I only resolved when I went back to reading about the philosophy of language after leaving it when I left academia.

Having sufficient wealth to ensure an upper middle class income is enough if you're introverted. Any more than that will be a waste of time, unless you happen to have absurdly expensive tastes and want to blow the money on wine or something (and even then it's harder than you think).

The only people who can appreciate having more than ~10m USD or so are the extroverts.

Most of us really don't want to be rich. We just don't want to be poor.

[d11n @d11n__]

“…events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.”

[billy walsh @reaIityobserver]

Brian Eno spoke of this.

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

You think you're good at thinking until you write

[d11n @d11n__]

“Digital panopticon”

[tintin @rentierrobbe]

I hate that we live in such a digital panopticon where people can just record you and post you to the worldwide web and get you fired at a whim. That being said, how are you an executive at JPMorgan and dumping trash on the ground to steal a public trash can?

[d11n @d11n__]

@RegHumber Almost all all socialists believe that there is some cupboard of goodies, and, if somehow they could just wrestle the key from the powers that be, they’d be able to open the cupboard and distribute the goodies.

The reality is the cupboard is empty.

[space cadet 🇪🇺🌐🇩🇪 @actsmaniac]

classic European problem

[໊ @user0000O0]

seeing people my age doing better than me

[Adam Wathan @adamwathan]

Feels like we're all just building "things for building other things" and not a lot of "things" anymore.

[d11n @d11n__]

@0interestrates culture is not the product you seek but the things you come across on your journey to it.

[rahul @0interestrates]

found this banger on instagram

[d11n @d11n__]

@BernoulliDefect Meeting Buffet was probably the most costly decision Gates ever made.

[Douglas Carswell🇬🇧🇺🇸 @DouglasCarswell]

Rather than addressing the problem, they want to target people who notice the problem

[Heinz @Snowmannequin]

bit of an epidemic of people who basically only work and exercise

[d11n @d11n__]

@zzwitz “5-15% install rate lifts on cellular traffic” - almost all of this will cannibalise the WiFi traffic that would have come anyway.

[d11n @d11n__]

@zzwitz The magnitude of the 200mb drop-off is grossly overstated and mostly relevant for apps with dubious value propositions.

Uber has limited reason to keep the app below 200mb.

[d11n @d11n__]

“Normal mimetic desires have been replaced for turbocharged global algorithmic ones.”

[Jose Guillermo @JoseGHedderich]

@anarch97 Normal mimetic desires have been replaced for turbocharged global algorithmic ones.

If Don Quixote was born today, he’d want to be an old money 80’s NY financier based on IG reel AI edits.

[d11n @d11n__]

@lucaspatiri_ UGC