Radha Shukla

Crypto, culture, markets, progress

[Zohar Atkins @ZoharAtkins]

As Heidegger says, "All understanding is mooded."

[Neil @neilshroff]

my fav crazy thing about apple is that it owns the only successful non brainrotty social media app to exist today (find my)

[Radha Shukla @radhaerrr]

Open plan kitchens need to go

[Zhengdong @zhengdongwang]

I loved this description of Aubrey from @HenryEOliver 's interview with Ruth Scurr:

"Someone who sees himself more as a whetstone: a person who could help sharpen other people’s ideas. As a recorder, someone who treasured the details, the minutiae of the lives he encountered, and pass those details on to posterity...

He was the person who, when someone died, would go round if he could to their house and ask what was happening about the manuscripts. He’s particularly concerned, obviously, with his friends. So he had a close relationship with Robert Hooke and he wanted to make sure that Hooke’s many inventions and scientific contributions were recorded.

And he has this wonderful line in the life of Hooke where he says, “It’s so hard to get people to do right by themselves.”"

Aspirational!

https://t.co/bFa8hIyrZK

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

Think it's worth saying a bit more about the breadth of Tyler Cowen's accomplishments.

Each one of these alone would be enough to make most people's careers:

1. Marginal Revolution is the most successful econ blog of all time

2. Emergent Ventures has given grants to ~1,000 ambitious young people

3. Fast Grants awarded $50 million for COVID research

4. The Great Stagnation and other Cowen books continue to be influential

5. Conversations with Tyler has been one the best long-form interview podcasts for years

6. Between the e-learning platform (Marginal Revolution University) and the textbook (Modern Principles of Economics), he's one of the leading economics educators of his generation

7. GMU econ and Mercatus are vibrant intellectual communities and they wouldn't be what they are without Tyler

The list could go on and on (his work with Derek Parfit, his culinary contributions, etc).

But most of all, Tyler is a mensch. One of the most important things he does is "raise the aspirations of others."

He did that for me, and for countless others.

[Radha Shukla @radhaerrr]

@borjaneira_ I think liquidity quality itself has its own selection effects amongst not just allocator holders and this differentiation also impacts flightiness, somewhat independent of yield... could even lead to adverse 2nd order effects - superior liquidity infra attracts flightier capital

[Paul Graham @paulg]

@eve_silb I would guess it's similar to the distribution of mathematical ability. The difference is that people who are bad at math know it, whereas people with bad taste think taste is "subjective".

[Radha Shukla @radhaerrr]

@tamarawinter Godland - it's a visual treat, shot in a 4:3 aspect ratio evoking 19th-century wet-plate photography, which is also central to the story

[Zhengdong @zhengdongwang]

In my annual letter this year, I really try to get at what it means to "feel the AGI."

Featuring compute, inevitability, second-order effects, travel tips, Andor, and Isaiah Berlin.

https://t.co/tnamR3EWL0

[Radha Shukla @radhaerrr]

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny will always retain the soft place in my memory of being the last novel I read in 2025.

My favourite character in the book is Babita Bhatia. Amidst drowning in her own darkness, she is the first to point out to Sonia that if (more) darkness chases darkness, this must be true of lightness also.

Desai paints vividly through her the precise texture of hope, which at its heart, is felt most strongly with others.

[Radha Shukla @radhaerrr]

A trap I see a lot of ‘high agency’ people fall into is a tendency to do things when nothing needs to be ‘done’. Action creates knowledge yes, but so does the opposite sometimes. More so because you know more when the you who does the knowing is small/doesn’t exist.

[SPEAK UK @speakukorg]

Today, we’re launching SPEAK.

Every year, thousands of people in the UK are arrested for what they say online.

We’re going to change that. 🎥

[Radha Shukla @radhaerrr]

naming things isn't knowing them

this is why we have fiction

[Radha Shukla @radhaerrr]

@dcxStep @EigenGender .... Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all

[Radha Shukla @radhaerrr]

The first step in the stablecoin play is distribution — building networks across payments, exchanges, and crypto rails. But long term, the real moat will be stickiness: building the full stack to keep users and mints locked in.

[Zaheer @zaheerebtikar]

There will be 1-2 payments focused venture funds that pop up pretty soon, make no doubt about it.

Every large crypto VC is actively looking for their head of stablecoins / payments as well. The best talent for hire will matter a lot here.

[Radha Shukla @radhaerrr]

You’ve got to put the fires out first before you tell them the glories of water

[Radha Shukla @radhaerrr]

Systematic negation as a way of getting closer to truth seems underrated... thinking a lot about neti, which in Sanskrit literally translates to 'not this', a humble approach one can take to not knowing, but knowing somewhat, that is it not this

[Radha Shukla @radhaerrr]

@afederation Curious to see how these responses vary in women, perhaps the internal encoding that optimises fertility is a huge factor in changing genome/regulome response to stressors such as fasting

[Radha Shukla @radhaerrr]

@dylan522p @daniel_mac8 *Rotli

[Radha Shukla @radhaerrr]

But there is also this! 🥹

[roon @tszzl]

the first thing you notice when you get off the eurostar train from Paris’ Gare Du Nord to London’s King’s Cross station is that everyone and everything is fried, chopped, and busted in comparison