GRANT T. ADAMS

Passionate about providing customers maximum productivity through minimum downtime in the heavy construction equipment space.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

This is the intellectual version of a COVID Mask. You may think you’re doing something smart but you’re not.

[The Techno Optimist @technooptimist1]

Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath "Bro, there is no failure."

"That is what other people think of you to keep you down. There's no failure. If you were left on an island and it happened, you would just brush it off and move on. It's everybody else that you think is judging you. But then, here's the secret. They don't give a fuck about you. They are living their own lives. So it's your perception of what they think of you."

"There is no failure. There's do and learn. Do and learn. Do and learn. Do and learn."

@StanfordAILab

[GRANT T. ADAMS @GrantTAdams]

@shkeengolf Which other these two options, in your experience, is easier to fix?

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

True

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Jordan Peterson made a great point about Harry Potter.

The real heroes in the story aren’t the perfect rule-followers, and they’re not the delinquents either. They’re the kids who break the rules when it actually matters.

That’s why the books became such a massive phenomenon, kids instinctively recognized the archetype.

In a world full of rigid systems and blind obedience, true character shows up in having the wisdom and courage to break bad rules when necessary.

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

https://t.co/zB1WgXzFAz

[GRANT T. ADAMS @GrantTAdams]

@4golfonline 53

[Brad Gerstner @altcap]

Tons of people reaching out w high CAC scores so time for a periodic retweet. Get a CAC for $150 - can save your life. Heart attacks are preventable. We started the @Ctr4HeartAtkPrv bc widespread CACs could save 50k lives per year! 🤍🇺🇸🤍

[GRANT T. ADAMS @GrantTAdams]

😂

[malinvestment.jpeg @malinvested]

Of course that's your contention. You're a first-time SaaS bear. You just got finished listening to some podcast, Dario on Dwarkesh, probably. Now you think it’s the end of white collar work and seat-based pricing is screwed. You're gonna be convinced of that til tomorrow when you get to “Something Big is Happening”. Then you’ll install ClawdBot on a Mac Mini, vibe code a dashboard on top of a postgres database and say we’re all just a couple ralph loops away from building a Salesforce competitor. That’s gonna last until next week when you discover context graphs, and then you're gonna be talking about how the systems of record will be disintermediated by an agentic layer and reposting OAI marketing graphics.

“Well, as a matter of fact, I won't, because ultimately the application layer is just ….”

The application layer is just business logic on top a CRUD database. You got that from Satya’s appearance on the BG2 pod, December 2024, right? Yeah, I saw that too. Were you gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us? Do you have any thoughts of your own on this matter? Or...is that your thing? You get into the replies of anyone posting a SaaS ticker. You watch some podcast and then pawn it off as your own idea just to impress some VCs and embarrass some anon who’s long SaaS? See the sad thing about a guy like you is in a couple years you're gonna start doing some thinking on your own and you're gonna come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life. One: don't do that. And two: you dropped thirty grand on Mac Minis and LLM API calls to come to the same conclusion you could’ve got for free by following a handful of VC accounts.

[GRANT T. ADAMS @GrantTAdams]

@hutch_golf Great idea!

[GRANT T. ADAMS @GrantTAdams]

@Jason Easy solution: Mandate E-Verify nationwide for all employers, with annual audits and strict penalties for noncompliance. This directly eliminates the incentive to hire unauthorized workers without excessive complexity.

[Ronald P. Karlsberg MD FACP FAHA FACC MSCCT | @RonKarlsbergMD]

https://t.co/tUtBgoNqVb

[GRANT T. ADAMS @GrantTAdams]

@_simonsmith Tonal and Oura need apps

[david friedberg @friedberg]

what if the AI creates/enables/unlocks new higher-paying jobs? by trying to prevent organizational evolution due to technology, you are limiting technology’s ability to create more value for workers.

if you had done this with the emergence of the tractor to protect loss of jobs on farms, we’d have very expensive food, no industrial revolution, and a shitty standard of living for workers. if you had done this with the emergence of the automobile, we’d have lost the economic explosion that arose from highways, lower cost transportation, and countless networked industries. if you had done this with the emergence of the computer and the internet, your entire district would still be based on an economy of oranges and plums.

humanity’s ability to compete, organize, and carry itself forward is a magical miracle. in every truly free society, tech evolution has improved the lives of absolutely everyone. in every society where a government stood up to create barriers and gates to tech evolution in the name of “workers rights”, standards of living went into a freefall.

your view is luddite at best and authoritarian at its heart. limiting freedom of choice, controlling the rights of workers and capital providers, is the core activity of socialism and will cause unbelievable unintended damage. well-intentiined, sure, but examining the consequences and n-th order effects, it’s clear how this model deeply harms workers, employment standards, wage growth etc.

i urge you to deeply study the social and economic history of technology evolutions, speak to folks in your district, and avoid the socialist trap the Dem party seems to be swirling into…

[GRANT T. ADAMS @GrantTAdams]

@shawngorham I find it crazy that for most home improvement items, that pictures/plans/CAD/ can’t be uploaded into a website/app for some level of approval. Seems like a lot of regulation and wasted productive time.

[Alabama Crimson Tide Updates @BamaMinute]

Ok. Yep.

[College Sports Only @CSOonX]

💀

[GRANT T. ADAMS @GrantTAdams]

@mikerodak @UA_CTSN Alabama football isn’t about “sunshine and rainbows.” We demand discipline, execution, and results—not warm fuzzies. DeBoer’s soft approach doesn’t cut it. Time to go. #FireDeboer #FireEverybody #RollTide @AlabamaFTBL

[david friedberg @friedberg]

i’d argue you’re too easily moved by the choice words. “privilege” and “equality” are selected because they confuse the notion of fairness. another way to frame his statement “if you’re accustomed to succeeding due to hard work, ingenuity, risk/sacrifice, and, sure, some amount of luck, having the outcomes reset so that everyone is rewarded more equally feels unfair.”

is succeeding after making good choices, sacrificing personally, and working hard really “privilege”?

is it oppressive that everyone doesn’t get to the same place?

perhaps the real oppression is the loss of individual liberties when naively egalitarian philosophies mutate into marxism, denying opportunities for individual sacrifice, effort, and achievement to be rewarded.

framed as privilege v equality misses the mark.. equality of opportunity and equality of outcome are v different things. silicon valley’s most successful are the immigrants who found america as one of the only places on earth where an individual with zero baseline privilege can struggle and sacrifice and effortfully succeed. calling them privileged after the fact seems hardly the point. but an easy one to make.

[GRANT T. ADAMS @GrantTAdams]

Best test for the new Chat GPT5:

Look at all our interactions and show me examples where your thinking has changed as a result of GPT5