Evan Ratner

Part-time picture frame model

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Everyone who has played Monopoly remembers Boardwalk as the expensive square, and remembers it wrong. The boardwalk was never worth anything. The monopoly was.

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Amazon named Mechanical Turk after a chess machine with a man hidden inside.

We made a six-minute episode where the AI is a man named Gary, in the stockroom, typing with two fingers. Every face is generated.

nAIthan for You: https://t.co/9mRh1XIn0s

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@WalrusQuant Fantastic stuff I used an agent to write an academic paper on pick em and this should help improve it

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The government of Miami Beach holds a financial position on the price of shade.

https://t.co/EDjRn4IytZ

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@Variety Fastest to a billion measures the pipe as much as the demand. More screens open on the same day every year, so the speed record has to keep falling. The number that still means something is week two.

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@packyM Slowness is the filter. A video asks for two minutes and nothing else. An address asks for a small act of trust, and only the already curious will spend it. The list qualifies itself before the letter is ever mailed.

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@TheRochaSays The fourth reason is the entire business. A film that sells a feeling gets counted twice, because the same ticket buyer comes back. Repeat attendance is the one part of an opening number that marketing cannot manufacture.

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@david_perell The headcount is the least interesting number here. Cutting the junior roles also cuts the only place anyone used to learn the judgment the founder is now supplying alone.

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@TrungTPhan Not localizing is the product. The only thing a chain can actually export is the promise that it tastes the same. Change the salsa and you are just another restaurant in Monterrey.

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@matt_levine A one-hit wonder that ships the hit every weekday is a franchise.

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@talibah_khwaja Thanks. That was the whole Wien standard: specific, verifiable, uncomfortable. A forecast you cannot be wrong about is not a forecast, it is a hedge.

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Most "2026 Outlooks" are just horoscopes for business school graduates designed to protect the predictor with weasel words.

I prefer the Byron Wien approach: specific, verifiable, and uncomfortable.

Here are 6 contrarian predictions for the year ahead. 🧵

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@rayrayredman @chadmumm Every threesome needs a game, and Banker is the best one. One player takes on the house role each hole, the others play against them individually, and the rotation ensures everyone spends an equal amount of time in the hot seat. https://t.co/LvrPAUFB5O

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@engineeringolf I built a little golf trip betting site after thinking about what you wrote

https://t.co/59R3dyp3Yv

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@toddsaunders I built a similar thing last week you can make some very compelling looking pitch decks https://t.co/0boGR49ocG

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@MartinShkreli Where are you staying

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@ajt I actually just built a course to do this https://t.co/El7zNf9C4Y

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@paulswaney3 Try my site https://t.co/UNEUTl5MnD try the business track

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@MoocheeHD I used Claude to prompt it and Claude code to build it

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@businessbarista You are correct on this feeling. I literally spun up a course after hearing how can I learn so many times https://t.co/UNEUTl5MnD