Dave Allen

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[Dave Allen @dvlln]

@CosinChristian @TheUnjournaling Simplification? It’s eight volumes?

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

A square staircase that climbs forever and goes nowhere. Every step looks ordinary but when you've come full circle you end up exactly where you started.

[Jay Surdukowski @Jay1043]

We need to support good reporters.

“Democracy dies in darkness” is no longer a catch phrase befitting the @washingtonpost. Shit is getting real, and our best journalists are being sidelined.

This is heartbreaking news for anyone who follows the very best journalists in America.

#WashingtonPost @JeffBezos #NHPolitics

[Dave Allen @dvlln]

@GeronimoMorgans Reis too?

[Dave Allen @dvlln]

@PaulSpacey 100% true. But for many kids (even D1 ath) sports are very important life experiences, but also not what those kids end up doing professionally. With this in mind, experiencing a range of extracurricular activities may contribute to better overall human development.

[Dave Allen @dvlln]

@amlivemon Tennis too.

[Dave Allen @dvlln]

But what about: "It exploded like a cluster bomb filled with candy." Congrats @Passionweiss, good read so far.

[CoffeeWithTheClassics @CoffeewClassics]

Nothing like a good hook to reel in the reader!

A Thread of the 50 Best Opening Lines in Classic Literature. 🧵 👇

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

Men only want one thing

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

“I never see you in the club”

“ I never see you in page 92 of the credit document trying to figure out the restricted payment capacity of a distressed borrower”

[Dave Allen @dvlln]

@CoffeewClassics 5

[Art Levy @artlevy]

PSA for junior VCs or MBAs looking to join a startup: there are no "strategy" or "corp dev" jobs

You can join to either:

→ Sell (Sales/BD)
→ Build (Product)
→ Manage Burn (Finance)

[Dave Allen @dvlln]

@jhitchco @StephBellistri @NewNorthVC @BosBizJournal congrats

[Dave Allen @dvlln]

@Passionweiss Maybe you could have arrived at similar conclusions about the culture with ~100k words about the clipse?

[Dave Allen @dvlln]

@Passionweiss @GabeNandez @winowilly_ he doesn't miss.

[Michel Bauwens @mbauwens]

Quote of the Day, March 30, 2024:

< most of the world is locked so deep in the tribal war that it just doesn’t see what an idea is actually saying. They only see the question: is this the enemy thing or is this our stuff? > (Nick Land)

* Contemporary Western Politics Are Essentially Tribalistic

"The reason that this Right/Left language is so indispensable is because it’s now tied up with a structure of tribal animosity that is so profound. In recent years I’ve been stunned by the arbitrariness of the thing—it’s like the Roman Blue and Green. The differences between Right and Left are drowned out by tribal war. People have done tests on this. They put politicians’ policy proposals into the mouth of their opponent and the supporters of the opponent immediately backed up all those proposals that they had thought were absolute incarnation of evil when they came from the other guy. The notion that this tribal war is going to be reducible to a set a coherent ideological positions is nuts and an example you gave is totally like that. Who is saying something is much more important to people than the actual content, the positive proposition. The number of people who don’t fall prey to that is really small and I find them impressive. My own attempt not to be totally captured by tribalism is to try to make sure that there’s enough fissile hyperstitional craziness going on. Sometimes you have to flip about and get the sense what the thing looks like from the other side, but I really think that most of the world is locked so deep in the tribal war that it just doesn’t see what an idea is actually saying. They only see the question: is this the enemy thing or is this our stuff?"

- Nick Land

https://t.co/mGYoA4N9Rr

[Dave Allen @dvlln]

@lylepratt think he’d pay a dividend with corn?

[Dave Allen @dvlln]

@AdamBFerg @TheBlueMatt That’s fate.

[Andy Murray @andy_murray]

Tarnishing my legacy? Do me a favour. I’m in a terrible moment right now I’ll give you that. Most people would quit and give up in my situation right now. But I’m not most people and my mind works differently. I won’t quit. I will keep fighting and working to produce the performances I know I’m capable of.

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Brian Shaw

[Jeff Weiss @Passionweiss]

Mateen Cleaves

[Dave Allen @dvlln]

@tkyles39 What's your analogy for interviewing with Glasser?