@arjunkhemani@pmarca@PerBylund Is it the people not understanding or wanting to understand economics or is it that economics hasn’t understood the world and hasn’t predicted much of what happened until after the fact? In other words, is economics right or wrong most of the time?
"Why should I search for some tiny, unimportant, hard-to-find new stupidity in my own field when some large, important, easy-to-find stupidity was just over the fence in the other fellow’s professional territory?"
- Munger on multidisciplinary learning.
Tech guy in real life: "I like hamburgers."
Tech guy on a podcast: "Oh, great question. I mean, if we zoom in from a flavor architecture perspective, I have pretty strong biases toward the hamburger. I just got back from Tokyo and they call them hanbāgās there. Really, really good. Have you ever been to Japan? It's unreal. Quick story: my good friend Sam - oh, sorry, yeah - Sam Altman - he's vegetarian, but in like 2014 even he agreed at this SV Angel lunch that from a pureplay gastronomic perspective hamburgers are consumable masterpieces that completely embody disruption. I mean, you start with this robust framework of the bun, right? Which seems straightforward, okay? But now, we introduce condiments which really start to power this user-centric, completely personalized experience. So, when I was at Stripe, we used to..."
ok, I've now read the full NYT complaint filed this morning vs OpenAI and Microsoft. I'm impressed - it's future-focused around fair value for work vital to democracy. It also contains 220k pages of exhibits although the pages of Ex J stood out to me. more on that in a minute. /1
"Value your time. It is all you have.
It’s more important than your money. It’s more important than your friends. It is more important than anything. Your time is all you have.
Do not waste your time."
@naval
@BigImpactHumans By ship during the gold rush. There is a great book about the tragic journey of one such ship bringing back gold and goldhunters from California to the east coast and the recent hunt for that gold in the 1980s called - Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea by Gary Kinder
WHAT A WONDERFUL TIME TO LIVE IN!
Red meat is bad, idli-sambar is good
Rice is bad, millets is good
Beef is bad, mutton is good
One whole egg increase cholesterol, but statins will kill
Refined seed oils is bad, but ghee (clarified butter) is healthy
Sugar loaded Coca Cola is bad for the body, but sugar loaded Chyawanprash is not
Maida-made Kerala porotta is bad, but maida-made breads, naan and biscuits are not
Antibiotics do not cure infections, but turmeric does
Meftal-spas is bad warns the Government, but Lead & Arsenic laced Ayurveda is good, no warning needed
Whey protein damages liver and we are sure of it, but we need proof that alcohol does
Coffee is dangerous, but green tea extracts are safe and you may even lose weight
Modern medicines have side effects and science does not have the answers to everything, but our ancestors never had any of it and lived long 15 years
Vaccines do not prevent or reduce severity of infections, a bunch of herbs from your backyard does
Sugar is bad, honey is good
We can't stop drinking alcohol, but we want a detox to protect liver
Modern medicine is synthetic chemicals, herbal drugs are natural and safe
An occasional paracetamol is bad for the liver, but the immune damaging Giloy herb is not
Simple calorie restriction and physical activity does not help in weight loss, but water fasting and crash intermittent and keto dieting does
Modern medicine cannot cure life style diseases, but Homeopathy is just alcohol and sugar, and we found it cured the child's asthma and that aunty's psoriasis
We don't have any rational response to your factual posts, so we are going to abuse your religion and personality and consider this argument won.
🙌Keep it up🤌
@cperruna Great work Chris, you are so transparent. Do you have any regrets on being too much cash on your short term account and missing out on a lot of the growth stock gains in 2023?