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Building the 🇺🇸 Dream by helping immigrants, founders, and homeowners.

Co-founded @Harvard's Experiment Fund, @Work_Bench, and Castle.

[The Free Press @TheFP]

College president Sian Beilock has said American universities lost their way. They can fix themselves, or ‘someone else will try and do it for us.’

[Charted Daily @Charteddaily]

To put the scale of the sacrifice made by New Zealanders in the world wars into perspective, around 1 in 6 boys aged 15 in 1909 were dead within a decade, and 1 in 11 in 1934 didn't live to 25.
By comparison, for boys aged 15 in 2015 it was closer to 1 in 170.

[Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️ @jansramek]

1/ For 250 years, America has been forged by partnerships of American business and labor. 🇺🇸

Today, business and labor have come together in the largest construction labor agreement in history to build the next great American city, and call on California to break ground in 2026.

[Joe Gebbia @jgebbia]

From launch to New Yorker cartoon within 24 hours 🇺🇸

[Hugo @hvgo]

@TheKiffness Venue is stunning. South African patriots of all backgrounds are here, kids playing together on the lawn, and the vibe is purr-fect.

Nature is healing.

@TheKiffness for President. Alugalug! 🇿🇦🐈♥️🐈‍⬛

[Jan Sramek 🇺🇲 🌁 ⛰️ @jansramek]

1/ 🇺🇸 Today, @CAForever submitted detailed plans for the next great American city, an hour north of Silicon Valley, including: Solano Foundry, America’s largest manufacturing park, Solano Shipyard, our largest shipyard, and walkable neighborhoods for 400,000 Californians.

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

Speech is not violence. Violence is not speech.

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

New York City is marking its 400th birthday this year, and almost no one gives a damn. Yet it is a particularly important time to celebrate it. We explain why https://t.co/zQliolqhJh

Illustration: David Simonds

[Hugo @hvgo]

“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.”

Exodus 20:16

[Lulu Cheng Meservey @lulumeservey]

Going direct is now THE way

A year or two ago it was still controversial; some considered it a last resort for people who got canceled

Now it’s the default

[Ali Partovi @apartovi]

Thank you to Sam Altman for hosting an open Q&A with @Neo Scholar applicants. 💙

If you're an undergrad who excels at CS, apply by this Sunday 7/6 at https://t.co/8f1GONnWQK

[scott belsky @scottbelsky]

narrative violation, but I think being on a jury is f'n fascinating. did it once a decade ago, and was a wild ride through what makes society tick, psychology, storytelling...and you get an appreciation for imperfect yet beautiful civil systems.

jury duty, highly recommended.

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

AI Residential Security
@bosmeny

Legacy home security companies are a $20B joke.

Meanwhile, AI is already preventing crimes in office buildings–think facial recognition, loitering alerts, even virtual guards to yell at intruders.

We think the first startup to bring mass-market AI to consumer home security can win the market and make everyone safer.

[Kelechi Onyeama @kelechisp]

O-1 approved after 6 days!! 🇺🇸✅

i had 7 law firms (mostly in SF) deny to take my case, except @joinellis in NYC!

dropping outta college (again) and moving to downtown manhattan. let’s fucking build 🚀🚀

[Douglas Carswell🇬🇧🇺🇸 @DouglasCarswell]

Home Depot is worth more than all the European start ups created in the past 50 years combined. Home Depot.

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

Innovators vs regulators
Engineers vs lawyers
Acceleration vs Deceleration
Growth vs friction

[Hugo @hvgo]

@ashleymayer You are funny and insightful. More content please.

[Hugo @hvgo]

@amandaorson @sjwhitmore

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Elon is a field experiment from the Harvard Sociology Department circa 1972 with the title: "What if one person shows up and just tells the truth?"

[Hugo @hvgo]

@albertwenger Concur. Freedom of speech makes 🇺🇸great