Ryan Parks

Former PE CIO, 2x tech exits, Investor, UChicago Econ, BJJ practitioner, skydiver, mixed gas diver, motorcycle rider. I once ran a marathon in Antarctica.

[Ryan Parks @rnparks]

Happy Independence Day. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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@CliffordAsness Surprised our “favorite” former economist’s name isn’t listed. Krugman must have been out of town.

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@stevemagness Such a great reference. Ryun’s 40x400 interval workouts I still find incredible.

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@shaunmmaguire The Wedge was cool but got too crowded. Point Mugu was better because it was like having a private surf spot because none military personnel / families didn’t have access to it and it f’ing pumped with the right tides / winds.

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@ptuomov @deep29jariwala Funny follow up. When I told my family that I was going to be an Investment Banker (my first job out of college) they thought I was a bank teller. They asked why I would want to work in NYC instead of getting a job at Wells Fargo and working in So. Cal. Life is funny.

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@ptuomov @deep29jariwala UChicago fit the bill for me. I wouldn’t say we were “poor” but having a single parent in the military we definitely weren’t rich. Chicago was a total game changer for me.

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@iQfightreels His single leg needs work but respect.

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@Jason Great point. I’d also add: who really wants to sit through a three-hour movie without a break? For a lot of people, it’s simply a better experience at home. You can pause whenever you want, relax in comfortable clothes, and avoid dealing with people that can’t behave.

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@Coach_Milly_ @stevemagness Check out the documentary “the super milers”. Sebastian Coe held the 800m and 1 mile WR at the same time on something like 35-40 miles a week. He did plyometric exercises and other things far ahead of his time.

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@BipolarRunner @stevemagness The 800 meter is the most brutal. There is a reason Sebastian Coe’s WR lasted for over 16 years. And I still think it’s the British record now (maybe wrong on this).

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@ptuomov @ShmuelLon Remember Stata? I was so happy to ditch it for R. Although all the kids use python these days.

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@pmarca I’ll give Ezra some credit. The big government crowd should care about government efficiency way more than the small government crowd.

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@benbstwits @compoundpapi I know. I misspelled it and looked like an idiot. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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William Dafoe being left behind and shot is a really powerful piece of cinema. Some years ago my family was in DC. My grandmother wanted a picture in front of the Vietnam Memorial. My grandfather quietly refused and was smoking a cigarette looking old school cool (don’t smoke kids). So my father walked over to talk to him and offered to take a photo with only the veterans of the family. At which point my grandfather said “I don’t need a fucking wall to tell me there was a fucking war”. And he walked away. Senior Chief John Parks. He never told war stories. Some years later (after his death) I ran into a guy that was on his ship and he filled me in on what they saw. Holy shit. And the most impressive part was he was such a happy tell jokes kind of guy. Different generation that didn’t fuck about.

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@avidseries I’m not a fan of reality TV but hard to imagine doing worse than Karen Bass and Company.

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@FightWithMemes Soldier of misfortune.

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@profplum99 Jamie is one of the rare breeds who is universally respected in a way few people in finance are today. Him and Warren Buffet are probably the only two at that level.

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@benbstwits @compoundpapi I don’t think Peter was “looking for a Jewish guy”. Our friends and colleagues come in all forms.

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@avidseries @SenWarren And the song sucks.

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The fact that we allowed this shit into the USA is disgusting.

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

Hello @AOC, while you smiled in a hijab at a New York event, I was in Federal Court facing the 4th hitman hired by the Islamic Republic to assassinate me, for campaigning for Iranian women to have the same freedom you performed for a photo op. Will you come to court with me in August when I face the 5th hitman? Or does solidarity only work when it doesn't offend the Islamic regime?

You wore hijab voluntarily in New York. Women are killed in Iran for taking it off.

You are the very woman who, at every opportunity, protests against violence against women, decries gender segregation, and champions "inclusion." Yet here you stand, smiling and wearing a hijab, at an event in New York, in the heart of the West, where men and women are strictly separated. To me and millions of Iranian women, this does not look like a choice. It is no longer "My body, my choice," but rather "My body for votes."

They who claim to fight for women's self-determination in the name of feminism voluntarily embrace an ideology that mandates our women cover their hair simply because they are women. They enjoy the prosperity, freedom, and privileges of the Western world, where they may live as autonomous individuals , yet they simultaneously accept that other women should not be afforded the same rights.

#LetUsTalk

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