Matt

"has achieved tech salaryman nirvana". Miami native, SF exile

[Matt @mattlarraz]

Ok new plan: turn Miami into the next big tech hub

[Alex Armlovich @aarmlovi]

I love NYC & Chicago because they indulge the pleasant delusion that High Classical Liberal Urbanism (1880-1940) did not lose the battle of the 20th Century

Manhattan & the Loop are a kind of Shutter Island for urbanists where we pretend we can still build subways & skyscrapers

[Matt @mattlarraz]

@Neon_Jon_ @ChristianHeiens Now compare those numbers to NYCHA's

[clara the urbanist @SlopHq]

imagine running food stamps like rent control. whoever got in line in 1994 eats free forever, the discount follows the seat not the person, and newcomers get nothing. we’d call that insane. for housing we call it a historic victory.

[Matt @mattlarraz]

@FeralPHunter If you have to shave it, it's by choice

[Matt @mattlarraz]

@FeralPHunter If you have to shave it, it's by choice

[Bernard Stanford ✡︎ @stanfordNYC]

The Board's report not three months ago found a 5.3% increase in operating costs. Freezing the rent like this is naked thievery, taking from those who provide a vital service and giving to those who simply got lucky. This system needs to be nuked from orbit.

[Matt @mattlarraz]

@InezFeltscher Taste is one of the biggest things NYC has going for it over SF, but this is being slowly eroded over time

[signüll @signulll]

what a fucking tragedy for nyc.

the same dumb resistance happened during the uber saga & now you’re watching the same shit play out again with autonomous cars.

the reality is that humans should not be operating metal death machines forever. esp in a city where taxis have spent decades gaming routes, ignoring pickups, driving like maniacs, & treating the meter like a side quest. uber fixed some of that, then slowly became expensive as hell, degraded, & unreliable in its own stupid way.

collective decision making of humans is often so so damn stupid.

[Matt @mattlarraz]

@Indian_Bronson There's worse fates than being a Weird Suit Guy

[Matt @mattlarraz]

This was all true 15 years ago too

[mads campbell @martyrdison]

college is going to become completely irrelevant, especially community college

the only point of going to college will be to make friends, socialize, find a husband/wife, and maybe pick up new hobby

the highest impact schools will be the harvards, yales, and stanfords of the world, not because of what they teach, but because that is where you have a chance of meeting those of a status worthy of working alongside in the future

not to get a degree that, despite being free, is still useless

[ein @stylishdawg]

one thing they don’t tell you in software engineer school is that you’re gonna fumble generational wealth like 10 times and you just gotta learn to thug it out

[𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯 @atlanticesque]

If the rats who live beneath my boss’ house were electing a new rat king I would also not care

[Matt @mattlarraz]

@socksjf @benjamin_horne 1. He didn't lose Lucky Strike. They decided to leave and he chose to keep it a secret to buy time to bring in new business
2. He later brought in GM at the same time Don lost the Jaguar account

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

A man working as a welder at SpaceX for $28 an hour has just become a millionaire.

Juan Hernandez, who came from Mexico, welded rockets for SpaceX at $28 an hour.

SpaceX gave him $10,000 in stock when he went full time in 2015, and he bought more with every paycheck for 10 years.

$SPCX is now trading at $167, making his shares worth over $1 million.

[David Zagaynov @DavidZagaynov]

The sheer scale of a trillion dollars can be hard to comprehend. Let me put it in perspective. You would be able to buy 42 miles of high speed rail in California with that much money.

[Lee Kuan Yimby @LeeKuanYimby]

Reminder: Zohran and his family keep an extra luxury home in Uganda in a neighborhood surrounded by armed security because everyone else is so poor.

[Matt @mattlarraz]

@dsonoiki I don't think you understand, $2M is the down payment

[Matt @mattlarraz]

@YIMBYman Who do you think is shown in those photos (which were clearly taken in the West Village)?

[andrew pignanelli @ndrewpignanelli]

We're at "comparing an insurance company to the manhattan project" stage of the cycle