epochso

A private family office. Nothing here is advice.

[epochso @epochso]

“We were in the jungle. There were too many of us. We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.”

replace equipment with information and this quote perfectly describes the information age

[Ben Hunt @EpsilonTheory]

We’ve measured the linguistic extremism of political media over Presidential campaigns since 2012. However bad you think it’s going … you’re not even close.

The language of political extremism isn’t new in America. The scale and persistence is.
https://t.co/gN8fMOzr2A

[mariana Z @mariana057]

Parenting is buying 6 yogurts and watching them all get eaten In one day.

Then buying 12 yogurts and watching them expire because, “Nobody likes yogurt.”

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

We start from scratch and beat you.

[Maxime Rivest 🧙‍♂️🦙🐧 @MaximeRivest]

Fable turned my remarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter.

My prompts fade, a LLM respond.

Magical!

[Fede’s intern 🥊 @fede_intern]

european football has spent the past fifteen years solving futbol like chess.

a generation of coaches optimized for pass completion, pressing triggers, territorial control, rest defense, and positional occupation.

the problem of this is that they optimize for what is measurable. depth, the willingness to attack space early, attempt the difficult pass, dribble past a defender, or deliberately create chaos, is a high variance play. it fails more often than it succeeds. if you evaluate players by completion rate, ball retention, or positional discipline, those actions look like mistakes. so they get coached out. eventually, everyone converges toward the same local optimum.

the game becomes increasingly legible. every team occupies similar spaces, presses in similar ways, builds from the back with similar patterns, and minimizes the same risks. systems become better at defeating other systems, but worse at dealing with players who refuse to behave like systems.

south american football never fully abandoned the duel as the fundamental unit of the game. the 1v1 remained sacred. so did the tactical foul, the unpredictable dribble, and the player willing to lose possession five times if the sixth breaks the match open. the objective was never simply to preserve structure, it was to create someone capable of destroying the opponent’s structure.

football is not won by completing the most passes. it is won by scoring more goals than the other team. those are related, but they are not the same objective.

this is the danger of optimizing proxies. when everyone optimizes the same measurements, they stop optimizing for victory itself. they optimize for looking efficient.

italy may have been the first major european football culture to lose part of its identity this way. its historical advantage was never athletic superiority or perfect positional play. it was tactical asymmetry, unpredictability, and an instinct for making matches uncomfortable. as italian football converged toward the same coaching model as the rest of europe, it gradually surrendered the qualities that had made it different.

the broader lesson extends well beyond football. every optimization process eventually risks becoming self-defeating. metrics become targets. proxies replace objectives. variance is mistaken for error. the outliers capable of breaking the system disappear because the system itself learns to eliminate them.

[epochso @epochso]

@CliffordSosin @nachkari

[Not Today Eric @NotTodayEric]

Ok hear me out.

[epochso @epochso]

Another reason Europe's hate of air conditioning is making them poorer

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

The human brain works best at 68 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s why offices need to be cold.

[Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke]

Since it’s widely cited that it only costs $20B/yr to end homelessness in the US - this amount should’ve done it right?

We fixed all the problems in the country, or no?

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

These 3 recurring headlines aren't separate stories. Each helps explain the next:
1) High schoolers are entering college academically unprepared
2) College students are increasingly using AI to complete their coursework
3) Recent college grads are struggling to land employment

[epochso @epochso]

@HighyieldHarry Tbf you are middle class you make 7 figures in an expensive metro like NYC

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

Homeless, yachtless Elon Musk, who actually builds rockets, EVs, and neural tech trying to benefit humanity, should apparently cough up $50 billion in taxes on unrealized gains.

Meanwhile, Laurene Powell Jobs ($15B inherited), Nancy Walton ($20B inherited), and MacKenzie Scott ($40B divorce) never built shit, never risked shit, and never shipped a single product that changed the world.

But they get the praise and zero scrutiny. Because they have the right politics.

(BTW ~25% of Walmart employees are on government benefits.)

[Syd Steyerhart @SydSteyerhart]

Everyone tells me that Elon Musk is a fascist because he could "solve world hunger" for a mere 3 billion dollars, but MacKenzie Bezos has burned through 26 billion dollars of her ex husband's money and accomplished absolutely nothing of note.

[epochso @epochso]

@Midnight_Captl Market thus far is inelastic. Idk how people can debate this when the data makes it obvious https://t.co/9JlAN6GBIz

[greg @gandalf_thegreg]

toddlers to people with deformities in the grocery store

[epochso @epochso]

@LePapillonBlu2 Nightmare blunt rotation

[epochso @epochso]

@CarioCapital @grok explain the “fast follower” strategy

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

“Four years after ChatGPT comes out, the evidence will be much stronger that it’s expanding solo entrepreneurship than that it’s reducing overall employment” would have seemed to me a pretty rosy prediction from 2022, but it seems, for now, quite plausible

[Karthik @karthikponna19]

Programmer: "just read the documentation"

the documentation:

[Bobby Fijan @bobbyfijan]

“Possessions are bs”