microvoltaire

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[signüll @signulll]

at this point the last genuinely unique place to travel might be north korea.

everywhere else has been absorbed into the same internet monoculture. e.g. everyone wearing the same clothes & there are the same damn instagram interiors everywhere too, etc.

but north korea is basically one of the last places where the monoculture has not arrived & the only place left that is truly outside the algorithm.

[microvoltaire @microvoltaire]

@F_Compounders I think the bonds actually never paid

[microvoltaire @microvoltaire]

@matt_slotnick This is a quality tweet, good sir

[Matt Slotnick @matt_slotnick]

seems like an overreaction. it’s just an $85B offering and they do need to ramp capex to remain competitive. the dilution is minimal

[roon @tszzl]

every good outcome I’ve seen has been from finding a secret and doubling, tripling down on it in a way that compounds over time. not necessary that it even remains a secret because nobody ever believes you anyways; if it was something easy to accept it wouldn’t be available

[microvoltaire @microvoltaire]

The actual context we all needed

“Crashed event”

Actually I didn’t

[Suhail @Suhail]

tbc, I did not literally crash the whole event and randomly hound guests; I had a bunch of mtgs setup w their permission in the lobby pre-planned and flew in to meet everyone simultaneously.

[John Fio @johnfio_]

100% disagree.

this only serves the VC. it gives him more chances to spread his capital across a wider net. it doesn't increase the number of outlier founders.

Talent doesn't scale with hustle. the real founders are born the same way the real athletes are. no peptide makes a sprinter. no podcast makes a founder.

We just saw this with The Enhanced Games. This is the same fallacy just wrapped in a patagonia vest.

venture capital didn't create more elon musks. it just tricked a bunch of wannabes into a total delusional, make believe identity, that mostly ends in debt or jail.

They would've been better off just working for elon.

If the original sin of man was listening to the serpent, then the original sin of your career is listening to a VC.

[Blake Byers @byersblake]

Im sorry you were traumatized by Vinod falling asleep in your meeting. But he founded one of the pioneering companies of the modern computer industry (Eric Schmidt worked for him there), has the highest ever multiple and IRR at exit in Kleiner Perkins history ($7B return on $3M invested in only 3 years) and while everyone was investing in SaaS throughout the 2010s, Vinod was funding the first round of companies building battery tech, rocket launch, fusion, genomics, carbon tech and a little AI research lab called OpenAI. And he did this while hitting grand slams and raising multi billion dollar funds. He is one of the truest VCs to ever do it.

[Josh Wolfe @wolfejosh]

Chips on shoulders put chips in pockets…

[microvoltaire @microvoltaire]

@Empty_America Meh, I disagree

Your take misreads the post lol

Perhaps he just matured earlier and regular kids just take a while to grow up

When they do, all will be well

If he just deals with older kids it’s fine

[microvoltaire @microvoltaire]

The dead Internet is here

[Alfred Lin @Alfred_Lin]

Quiet but important milestone.

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Sam Altman on the advice he wishes he received earlier in his career

“One of the other things I learned that I wish I had gotten advice on early in my career is ‘ask for what you want.’ You will get told no a lot, but sometimes it will work. And I think you see a lot of entrepreneurs shoot themselves in the foot because they don’t ask that person to quit their job and come join them. They don’t ask this big company to do a deal with them. And they’re just not aggressive enough.”

Sam continues:

“Being willing to ask for what you want and be somewhat aggressive are really important characteristics of being an entrepreneur. People don’t want to fail. They don’t want to be told no. They don’t want to end up in some crisis.”

The other thing he learned in his career is that each crisis gets less. scary than the one before it:

“There are a lot things that really go wrong, and they feel like company-killing events. And they feel like there’s no way you’re going to survive because the crises are really bad. And the thing you learn is that you generally do survive these and the world doesn’t usually end. And even if in the moment something happens and you have no idea how you’re going to get around it, you eventually figure out a way. On the 19th major crisis, you’re like: ‘well, I survived the first 18. I’ll probably get through this one.’ And you kind of just do.”

Source: @ycombinator (Sep 2016)

[BowTiedBull.eth - Read Pinned or NGMI @BowTiedBull]

Good time for this standard reminder: If someone is clearly negative on you - cut immediately.

The effort required to turn them is never. NEVER. Worth it.

There is a 50/50 shot of someone liking you in the first place (look at the president). Move on.

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

"Until death, all defeat is psychological." - Marcus Aurelius

Refuse everything that would lead most people to give up.

Refuse it.
Rise from the dead 1000 times.
Commit to never stay down & never give up.
Everything you want is on the other side of struggle.

[Jack Altman @jaltma]

One of my deep-seated beliefs is that happiness is a choice.

Obviously there are some natural temperaments and life circumstances that make being happy easier or harder, but I think you have to tell yourself your happiness is in your control.

Even outside the big pillars of life like health, relationships, and work, we can have a lot of control on our daily internal experience with things like:

- choosing to reframe losses as learning
- being happy for others' success instead of jealous
- looking for the good instead of bad in people
- focusing on what we're grateful for vs. what we lack
- looking forward to good things vs. dreading bad things
- etc.

[memetic_sisyphus @memeticsisyphus]

There’s a funny thing that happens when you become a parent. All of your familial relations change rank. Your siblings are aunts/ uncles now, your parents are grandparents, your spouse is mommy or daddy, the new rank is of primary concern to you. It is how you address them most of the time now. Your reference frame shifts from your own POV to your child’s. Your perspective on everything even your closest relationships is altered forever.

[Hiroo Onoda @OnodaCapital]

Magnetar’s investment in CRWV is low-key one of the best investments ever? Put huge $ to work in the equity and debt and cashing out in <5 years

[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

If you have to smell old age, go visit an old couple living in a house, with their kids settled in other parts of the world.

The house is a museum, the dressing table is older than their kids age. No matter what time of the day, it’s always afternoon in the house. Quiet. Parents trying to trick their grandkids into talking to them on WhatsApp video, giving up, then covertly asking their offspring when will she pay a visit. No pressure. “Office is hectic” they understand. They keep the phone aside & sleep off. The Panchang calendar on the wall still shows last month, no urgency to turn it over. It’s the silence of an empty nest, broken only by the second hand of the wall clock. Almost ticking towards inevitability.

[EB (Derogatory, Respectfully) @EllliotttB]

nobody is going to remember your name, your generational wealth wasted by gen 3, the door to your professional career hitting your ass on the way out

You got a few good years to enjoy it in the moment with friends and family, make it count