Jean-Philippe Herbert

Senior lawyer, head of EU and UK trade at Amazon. Canadian 🍁

[Jean-Philippe Herbert @JPhil_Herbert]

Ran into @chamath outside the White House just as the shutdown lifted. Awesome quickly chatting, and thanks to @NathalieDompe for the photo. Serendipity at its finest.

[Jean-Philippe Herbert @JPhil_Herbert]

@bariweiss She’s a Sussex now

[Made In Canada @MadelnCanada]

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS” 🏆 🇨🇦
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[Jean-Philippe Herbert @JPhil_Herbert]

@ThomasSowell Great and compelling summary of why tariffs on balance don’t protect.

[Jean-Philippe Herbert @JPhil_Herbert]

@NBA Thanks for the positive and lasting impact you've made Hubie.

[Geoff Lewis @GeoffLewisOrg]

Covid came from a bat = Deepseek cost $5.57m to train.

[Thomas Chatterton Williams @thomaschattwill]

Jay-Z once made a point about the pendulum swing of hip hop culture that I think actually encapsulates a larger truth about the cyclical, seasonal nature of human affairs. Speaking of the rise of 50-Cent, he said whenever a Mase figure arises and captures the zeitgeist, eventually someone else comes along “to DMX-up the game.” Obama was the Mase of 21st-century U.S. politics. Wildly charismatic, enjoyable and successful. Trump has definitively DMX’ed up the contemporary political game. Biden attempted to come back and put the shiny suit on one more time, alas… Where is the next Mase (a young and hungry Drake on the horizon) to change the culture again?

[Jean-Philippe Herbert @JPhil_Herbert]

@BitcoinMagazine Congrats!

[Naval @naval]

All new information starts as misinformation.

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Canada needs to look at this with fresh eyes and see it for what it is

[Jean-Philippe Herbert @JPhil_Herbert]

Small tax breaks are not effective at bribing voters. They also won’t undo the harm you did to our country. Time for you to go and let Canada return to normalcy.

[Justin Trudeau @JustinTrudeau]

Canadians are getting a tax break. Starting December 14, we’re pausing GST and HST for two months to make groceries, kids clothes, and other essentials tax-free.

[tobi lutke @tobi]

This is such sad populism

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

Bitcoin has gone from $0.01 to $100K in 14 years. Trying to think of other things that have gone up 10M+ times in value in human history.

A painting by Van Gogh bought when he was a nobody?

Prime real estate in an expensive city bought when it was still a fishing village?

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The new right-wing Twitter trolls are dumber than the old left-wing ones, but at least they're not trying to get you cancelled. If you said something that offended the old left-wing trolls, they'd try to lure you into actual cancellable heresy. The new ones just call you names.

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

Conversation with Naval Ravikant https://t.co/zjw2o5pQYg

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

Bezos is like “I think maybe my journalism company should try to do journalism in a professional not unprofessional way” and the rest of the media is like “wow look at how corrupt and cowardly he is.”

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: Jeff Bezos rips the band-aid off, blasts his own newspaper’s credibility and the victim mentality.

Based.

The statement comes after Bezos refused to allow The Washington Post to make a presidential endorsement.

“Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose. Reality is an undefeated champion.”

“It would be easy to blame others for our long and continuing fall in credibility (and, therefore, decline in impact), but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We must work harder to control what we can control to increase our credibility.”

“Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election. No undecided voters in Pennsylvania are going to say, “I’m going with Newspaper A’s endorsement.” None. What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias. A perception of non-independence. Ending them is a principled decision, and it’s the right one.”

“Lack of credibility isn’t unique to The Post. Our brethren newspapers have the same issue. And it’s a problem not only for media, but also for the nation.”

“Many people are turning to off-the-cuff podcasts, inaccurate social media posts and other unverified news sources, which can quickly spread misinformation and deepen divisions.”

“While I do not and will not push my personal interest, I will also not allow this paper to stay on autopilot and fade into irrelevance — overtaken by unresearched podcasts and social media barbs — not without a fight. It’s too important. The stakes are too high.”

“Now more than ever the world needs a credible, trusted, independent voice, and where better for that voice to originate than the capital city of the most important country in the world? To win this fight, we will have to exercise new muscles.”

“Some changes will be a return to the past, and some will be new inventions. Criticism will be part and parcel of anything new, of course. This is the way of the world. None of this will be easy, but it will be worth it. I am so grateful to be part of this endeavor. Many of the finest journalists you’ll find anywhere work at The Washington Post, and they work painstakingly every day to get to the truth. They deserve to be believed.”

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Writes and Write-Nots: https://t.co/GdwU5KKmhe

[Jean-Philippe Herbert @JPhil_Herbert]

@Rainmaker1973 Trust no one except the tattoo removal dude

[Jean-Philippe Herbert @JPhil_Herbert]

@Rainmaker1973 Rainmaker indeed