Erich Lang

Constantly learning about M&A, housing, and technology. Opinions are my own.

[Erich Lang @erichlang]

Mercer Island reimagined with skyscrapers and much higher density. If only this was possible…

[Erich Lang @erichlang]

@JamiePastore9 @benmaritz It's dumping in the economic sense where a country illegally subsidizes a product and exports it with the intention of putting other countries out of business

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

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[Erich Lang @erichlang]

@StatisticUrban WA state haters in shambles

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@asher_971 @loganb Safeway on 15th still locks up the ice cream

[Erich Lang @erichlang]

@garrrish Highest minimum wage in the country will do that!

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[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

The vibes are turning against Dario. I expect this to accelerate until he changes his messaging

Why? Because AI broke the social contract of the internet.

For the last 20 years, people shared their data with tech companies as part of a *symbiotic* relationship. The services got better. Traffic went to your site. Network effects made transactions liquid and simple.

AI broke that contract. AI sucked in the collective IP of civilization and paid out nothing for the inputs. And now Dario goes on TV every day to tell us he is going to break the economy and our children will be poor. But he did that. It’s economic gaslighting.

Dario is the embodiment of the “We’re all trying to find the guy who did this” meme and people are not going to sit there and take it

AI needs a better, more inclusive message. I expect he will realize this eventually. The question is whether he will realize it before it’s too late.

[Erich Lang @erichlang]

PNW is so underrated 🦦

[Erich Lang @erichlang]

@benmaritz Nice project!

[Erich Lang @erichlang]

@BuySellSMB @guessworkinvest So sick!

[Will Fry @BuySellSMB]

Yesterday was a big milestone.

Inside this 18-wheeler were 2 pallets of baseball bats.

These are not your average bats. These bats are manufactured with care by our proud American small business partner, POM Industries.

In addition to manufacturing self-defense products, @CarusoA7 and his team have offered to help us manufacture Main Street-defense products.

This product line is anchored with our "Not For Baseball" baseball bat.

It can be used to defend your business from NOT private equity roll-ups, NOT overregulation, NOT Chinese copycat manufacturers, NOT smash-and-grab hoodlums, etc.

There is a reasonable argument that every small business in America should have one of these behind the counter.

There is also a reasonable argument that this is just a bat.

Both of these things can be true.

You can grab one at the link below for a very special price. We recommend buying two - one for the office, one for the truck.

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I have been advised by counsel to say these are SOLELY decorative and you should take "NOT" literally and NOT skip over it. We bear no liability for your use of a baseball bat.

[Erich Lang @erichlang]

@dvassallo @deepakvenkatesh Underrated point RE: Seattle weather! I grew up in the Bay Area and never remember being that excited for summer because it was usually sunny rest of the year. Now living in Seattle, there’s incredible anticipation of the summer months!

[Erich Lang @erichlang]

@nikitabier @moseskagan Give me the option to choose what countries can show up on my feed!

[Erich Lang @erichlang]

@leiffoged @dvassallo Exactly. Doesn’t make sense to build all of the income tax infrastructure and only apply to a few thousand residents. It was naturally expand during the next fiscal “emergency”

[Erich Lang @erichlang]

@PadraicMcC Nothing beats PNW camping in the summer

[Erich Lang @erichlang]

@TechFundies @jaminball I agree with your points. What value does the OP add when it’s mostly just hand wavy w/ support from industry rumors despite their access to proprietary hard data?! If the economics of AI works - show us! With real numbers!

[Erich Lang @erichlang]

@TechFundies Claude rate limits are awful. I can get one medium sized task done in Cowork before I hit the rate limit

[Erich Lang @erichlang]

@jesseproudman 🫣

[Erich Lang @erichlang]

@Jack_Raines Glad I didn't waste my junior years being a sweat in Excel. Relationships and reasoning are so much more important

[Erich Lang @erichlang]

@kylascan I think it's the unfortunate byproduct of reductive thinking that only sees right or wrong with no spectrum or context. Young people tend to hyper-scrutinize the actions of prev. generations and back into a moral judgement