A decline in car break-ins across Oakland is being welcomed as a public safety win, but it is also contributing to a downturn for some local auto glass repair businesses. https://t.co/14r7UeCpS1
@elonmusk@garrytan We need a way to go on the offensive, but we don't want anything from them. They can just take-take-take and put us on the defensive infinitely.
@BrianRoemmele We've been thinking of AI as being the thing that will create better outcomes. This example says that the profits from AI will also be used to create better outcomes. Which is a actually a gigantic shift in thinking.
USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.
Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.
I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."
"They just come with the table, man."
They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.
This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.
I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then โ I must report this calmly โ the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.
"Did weโฆ?"
"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."
Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.
My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."
Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished โ an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.
I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.
Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.
I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.
Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.
@rohindhar Zillow has a great experience and brand. They have won search, but can be disrupted. The market is fragmenting as we speak and listings are going to get messy. It's an old fight a startup should steer clear of.
@JTLonsdale AI needs a win that impacts every American. Iโm working on reducing mortgage risk with AI and updating the amortization table. Saving hundreds of Billions/year.