Peter Cook

Work: Programmatic/Data Strategy. Interested in cryptoassets, corp strategy, ad tech, gov bureaucracy, transportation, & music

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

Never forget what they took from us

[Adam Singer @AdamSinger]

Leaked photo of SBF parent’s norcal home near Stanford used as collateral for $250M bail

[CBS News @CBSNews]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy presents a battle flag to the U.S. Congress while delivering remarks, calling it, "a symbol of our victory in this war."

"We stand, we fight and we will win because we are united." https://t.co/DOZgkf1Gcf

[Nabeel S. Qureshi @nabeelqu]

The bureaucracy feedback loop, green card edition:

1) overcomplicate the process
2) “we don’t have enough staff or resources!”
3) get more $$, grow
4) goto 1

Breaking this feedback loop is one of the great problems of our age.

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

@DavidSacks The problem is the way in which the policies were introduced, seeming to retrofit around Elon's views on very specific situations.

Basically "central planning as overfitting":

https://t.co/jS4GGMPINf

Good policy should be decided behind veil of ignorance first, applied second

[Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin]

Musk’s urge to humiliate his enemies (reporters, libs etc) and his countervailing desire to be praised and liked will be in deep tension for as long as he does this.

[Myles Younger 💡 @Myles_Younger]

I think every ad impression coming online in streaming services makes run-of-the-mill programmatic inventory (whether video or not) worth *that* much less. Streaming ad inventory is raising the bar for all of digital advertising. It's brand-safe, it's viewable, etc.

[M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray]

POD: Park-Oriented Development

[Loren Brichter @lorenb]

everyone’s all worried about paperclips but the real menace is ehow articles

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

Annual reminder that we’re all stuck to the edge of a floating ball

[Peter Cook @peterjcook]

@swodinsky Chasing those viewability metrics

[Quantіan @quantian1]

The mirror image of "why is rent suddenly so high" is "why is rental housing suddenly a great investment". Conveniently, mega-landlords like Blackstone are obligated to truthfully disclose this is in SEC filings and public statements, and they are 100% crystal clear about why:

[Hakeem Jeffries @RepJeffries]

We should settle for nothing less than economic opportunity in every single zip code.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

One of the strengths of the YIMBY movement is it delivers insights that can be embraced by people from both parties.

[Byrne Hobart @ByrneHobart]

Someone asked me to explain the difference between honest mistakes and fraud.

[rat king 🐀 @MikeIsaac]

imagining, like, hank paulson tweeting this 15 yrs ago

[Malcolm Harris @BigMeanInternet]

https://t.co/lvqXGFnCBD

[Peter Cook @peterjcook]

@Myles_Younger It’s crazy to me that this is a VERY known issue among the knowledge worker class and no big consultancies have done exactly this. All the aggressive solutions I’ve seen to the problem are at startups (Amazon memos, Shopify deleting all events every 6 months)