Patrick Berzai

with the lights out, its less dangerous

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

I started a @Substack today in the lead-up to ‘Creditworthy: A Ledger Theory of History.’

You can use it to see how the framework shows up in the everyday.

The goal is to make the underlying patterns visible.

Once you see them, you can't unsee them.

https://t.co/oMWiR6G5Wc

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

@feelsdesperate That’s not how ads are bought.

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@WilliamHope1912 @pervitinyummy @ThomBrady5 Of course. But competencies should be evidence based in any way endeavor, namely medicine.

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@NormSanders This show set me up for a lifetime of disappointment because 3 year old me thought I would one day see a pterodactyl.

Still waiting.

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@NangoCine

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@plewisbaseball @rationalyankee Why would launch angle be taught in a velo environment like this?

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@Ducnghia16 One of Queen’s best.

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@hollywoodscifi Agreed. It had a sincerity that allowed the viewer to suspend disbelief.

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

Imagine just needing to go to the store to get some milk that day and all of a sudden all four Beatles are on the roof of a building and they want to sing for you?

[The Extreme Music Enthusiast @TheExtremeMusi1]

The Beatles - I've Got a Feeling (1969)

"All I've been looking for was somebody who looks like you"

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

@TheExtremeMusi1 Imagine just needing to go to the store to get some milk and all of a sudden all four Beatles are on the roof of a building and they want to sing for you?

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

@roddreher Can’t imagine any Tolstoy taking a short time.

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

Fenway is a cool park the first time you visit — the history alone is essential especially when you think about all the greats that roamed left field.

But as a day to day ballpark, it’s not the best…

[MLB @MLB]

For almost as long as there have been cars, people have made their way to Fenway Park in Boston 🚗

Join @askkaitt as she takes us on a Road TWIB to MLB’s oldest ballpark!

(MLB x @Goodyear)

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

@Tool_Being @ThomBrady5 This is emblematic of the noblesse de robe (ourcredentialed compliance classes).

All their slogans, -isms and -ologies that create and impose a moral user interface for the world, but underneath, at the source code, their motives are best described as anti-competence

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

@NJBeisner Note how she turns to the audience to mock and shame rather than answer the interviewers question.

She values truth functions which are discursive, not empirical.

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

Not a Starbucks in sight.

[Complex @Complex]

NASA just released this new photo from the surface of Mars 🔭

[📸: via/ NASA]

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

@FischerKing64 Counterpoint: watching kids play sports — like my niece or nephew — is to watch them love playing the sport and what it teaches them and all other kids, especially in team sports.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

We already ran this experiment. The App Store made everyone a mobile builder in 2008. Seventeen years later, the top 1% of publishers captured $154 billion in app revenue last year while the other 99% split $13 billion.

That is what happens every time the cost of building collapses. The supply of products explodes. The supply of attention stays exactly where it was. Every new builder bids for the same fixed pool of eyeballs, and the price of being seen climbs until most builders are priced out.

RevenueCat tracked new apps and found 81% never clear $1,000 a month.

Here is the part that should worry AI builders more. In 2008, when supply flooded, the discovery channels still worked. App Store charts, Google search, early social. You could grind your way to visibility.

This time the channels are flooding too. Search is filling with AI content, app stores with AI apps, feeds with AI posts. When anyone can ship a product in a weekend, shipping stops being a signal of anything. Buyers can't evaluate 100 lookalike tools, so they default to names they already trust.

Which produces the uncomfortable ending. A technology sold as democratization sends the winnings to whoever owned distribution before it arrived. Apple took 30% of the app boom without building a single app. The same toll booths are going up for this one.

The scarce skill in 2008 was writing code. The scarce skill now is giving anyone a reason to look at yours.

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

@90stalgic Those were great but eating ice cream took forever. Probably why McDonald’s no longer has ice cream machines that work.

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

The Jacobins erased all that came before, even rebooting time where weeks became 10 days, months renamed and year 0 began in 1792.

When you ask “how did such ridiculous things happen? How in the world would anyone agree?” remember that now people argue over what a “woman” is…

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

During the French Revolution, the Thermidorian (which was Jacobin July) Reaction, was where a counter revolt to Robespierre occurred, ending the Reign of Terror and the crazy things they’d implemented.

It’s important to note this didn’t end the Revolution — not by a long shot.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Gavin Newsom says closing California beaches during COVID was “insane, in hindsight.”

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

@timurkuran This is emblematic of the noblesse de robe (ourcredentialed compliance classes).

All their slogans, -isms and -ologies that create and impose a moral user interface for the world, but underneath, at the source code, their motives are best described as anti-competence.