Kevin Swan

Former Private Markets @MorganStanley, VC, mechatronics engineer and beekeeper. Husband of 1. Dad of 4. Rational optimist. 🇨🇦

[Farhan Thawar @fnthawar]

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good

—Thomas Sowell

[tobi lutke @tobi]

This is a terrible mistake to do this. Will make it a lot less likely to get the economy back on track. People who can think around corners know exactly how this will be applied. Just look at the UK.

[tobi lutke @tobi]

What you are actually doing here is to bribe nokia to put these jobs into Canada by paying hundreds of thousands of dollars per job from taxpayer money. What this does is to lower the cost basis of nokia per employee. This has been going on for decades, called FDI which all civil servants think is a good thing. I spent a lot of time explaining to civil servants in ottawa that its not good for our economy that American and Oversees branch offices can employ Canadians at half the cost to all the canadian companies around them due to these subsidies. We should not do them at all, they are toxic, at least in the tech sector.

It's never meat to be this way, but the situation that very often arises is: It's strictly worse inside of Canada to be a Canadian company compared to a company headquartered everywhere else.

This is a bad situation, because the fruits of the subsidized labor will accrue to the wealth of other countries and not Canada. It's tax payer money invested into locking up scarce high tech talent in jobs where they no longer contribute to the Canadian economy directly. Why

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Mark Carney is a great candidate, the Liberal Party is lucky to have him. But after the platform release today, its clear the Party is still in control: it commits Canada to continued economic decline

Progress happens in zigs and zags- We tried this for 10 years, its time to zag

[Kevin Swan @kswan]

@AmericanAir You lost my 16-yr old daughter's passport and she is now stranded in another country. We're not getting a lot of help from your support call center. Is there someone we can talk to directly?

[Alfred Lin @Alfred_Lin]

“There’s been such a focus on victim ideology for so long and such a…limited focus on actually reading texts. When these university presidents want to say these issues are too complex…I mean, we have…raped girls, stolen, kidnapped grandmas, we have a massacre at a concert, we have intentionally targeted schools and babies,” Sasse said. “This isn’t morally complex. It’s easy to condemn evil as evil.”

[Ben Gilbert @gilbert]

"Every market valuation is a number from today multiplied by a story about tomorrow.

And the stories change much faster than the numbers." -@morganhousel

[Kevin Swan @kswan]

Most important book I’ve read in the past 10 years.

[Burke Fewel @burkef]

I think this is the best book you can read right now if you are the parent of a child. Helps you understand how to raise a resilient & well-adjusted person, not a coddled, anxious, victim. Should be required reading for all kindergarten parents IMHO... @JonHaidt @glukianoff

[Dr. Matthew M. Wielicki @MatthewWielicki]

Why I am leaving the University of Alabama:

Some internet sleuths have discovered that I will be leaving my faculty position in the Department of Geological Sciences after this semester so I thought I should tell you why. As with most large decisions, the reasons...

[Morgan Housel @morganhousel]

Everyone belongs to a tribe and underestimates how influential that tribe is on their thinking.

[Kevin Swan @kswan]

Excellent read. Highly recommend Morgan’s book as well.

[Morgan Housel @morganhousel]

A very long piece:

The Art and Science of Spending Money

https://t.co/HCzQNJW29u

[Justin Mares @jwmares]

1990: zero states with obesity rates above 20%

2018: zero states with obesity rates below 20%

Not to mention an explosion in chronic disease, cancer, ADHD, inflammation...

Something has to change. And that something is our broken food system.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

Two activists just threw tomato soup at Van Gogh’s original masterpiece, “Sunflowers” to protest natural gas and oil. With millions at risk of dying around the world from energy & food shortages, this isn’t climate altruism, it’s anti-human nihilism.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

Over the last week, the mainstream news media claimed that hurricanes are becoming more frequent & intense, but they’re not, as the data clearly show. What’s more, it’s clear that the media are engaging in *deliberate* misinformation. These aren’t innocent mistakes.

[Austen Allred @Austen]

“The world is not driven by greed, it's drive by envy.”

— Charlie Munger

[Morgan Housel @morganhousel]

“Humans don’t mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.” @sebastianjunger

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

Thread: In the early 2010s, something changed in the wiring of society, and things got weird -- first on campus, then everywhere. I've been struggling to understand it, writing a series of four articles in @TheAtlantic.

1) In 2015, with @glukianoff:
https://t.co/aKsjw5zg1n