Rob Olson

[Rob Olson @robolson]

@acrogenesis thank you for your Omarchy printable cheatsheet. Exactly what I was looking for!

BTW I had to print it with Chrome. The printable page does not render correctly in Firefox.

[mariana Z @mariana057]

I love the phrase "bear with me" because it can either mean "be patient" or "the zoo heist was a success"

[DHH @dhh]

The @FrameworkPuter Laptop 12 is pretty cool. Love the aesthetics. Performance not bad either. 4m13s on my HEY test, which is ~M4 pace. 500 on SP2.1. 28 on SP3.1. Geekbenches like an M2. All for under $1,000.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Apparently the government has the money to do a joyride at Daytona but is too strapped for cash to send a med-evac to a pregnant woman in an emergency.

[Rob Olson @robolson]

@VivekGRamaswamy Donald Trump is Zach from “Saved By The Bell” though.

[Aaron Levie @levie]

I’m going to lay out why I believe Kamala Harris is the better choice as president when it comes to fostering an environment for America to continue to be the best place in the world for business and leading in technology.

In one candidate —Trump— we saw four years of regular distraction for businesses with never-ending fights with the business community, supply chain disruptions due to antagonistic trade negotiations and tariffs, rhetoric and policies that reduced our competitiveness for much-needed high skilled talent from around the world, and in many cases clear misalignment with future technologies like solar, electric vehicles, and more.

If we didn’t have a short memory span, we’d remember that the frequency with which businesses had to stand together and call out ridiculous Trump policies and messages was unlike any other administration (one extraordinarily notable example being the Business Roundtable –made of up the country’s top companies– had to tell Trump to support a peaceful transfer of power after his presidency). Trump’s most recent debate performance was just another reminder of what those four years looked like.

In Harris, we have a potential president that is leaning into pro-business and pro-tech stances. At the debate this week, and in Harris’s published policies, we have a clear message on her positions on a variety of important business topics. 

First, it’s worth noting that Harris has been core to an administration that has created more jobs in four years than any other in modern history, enabled record solar energy production (while also supporting the record production of oil), continued to fund critical science research, embraced the need to lead in AI without overly-stifling regulation, created thoughtful approaches to antitrust to enable more startup competition, experienced a booming stock market, helped accelerate the on-ramping of more high-skilled immigrants to launch and work in US companies, and is bringing back semiconductor manufacturing to the US with the CHIPS Act. 

Now, building on this momentum as a presidential candidate, Harris has laid out a goal of 25M new small business applications during her presidency, tax deductions for new small businesses, less red tape for small businesses, and improved child care efforts to help working parents. She has also been unmistakably clear on the need for America to lead in advanced technologies like AI, clean energy, quantum, and more. Importantly, a core part of continuing to build on our economic leadership positions in nearly every field is the ability to recruit, retain, and enable highly competent government officials in a range of fields, which I believe Harris is more suited for compared to the revolving door we saw under Trump. 

Now, to be clear, I don’t agree with every viewpoint that the democrats espouse on business topics. I think the democratic party should shamelessly evaluate its positions and adjust when there’s a better idea (such as reduced regulation in key industries, or backing investment-stimulating tax policies). But I believe that Harris can build an administration that can work through these issues thoughtfully, and that we will have a competent administration that produces a more stable business environment. 

We need a president that believes in the unique role of startups in the economy, the amazing talent of immigrants, the need for continued research in the public sector, the need to lead in AI and advanced technologies and manufacturing, and someone who can thoughtfully coordinate with global partners. What we don’t need is a president creating a daily deluge of distractions and changing policies, initiating culture war fights that require unsustainable levels of attention, or one that is surrounded by conspiracy theorists that drain our collective energy and productivity.

[Rob Olson @robolson]

@y0y0y08 @McCoveyChron he seems to get some of the worst assignments though

[Rob Olson @robolson]

@jamesfarrier uh, Californication?

[Rob Olson @robolson]

I just finished watching Ozark and I'm reading the news about Nadine Menendez (wife of Senator Bob Menendez). Does Nadine Menendez remind anyone else of Wendy Byrde?

[Rob Olson @robolson]

@ulricmusset using iMessage on the Mac is much better than the WhatApp Mac app.

[Rob Olson @robolson]

Our remote work future is going to suck. This essay was published 4 years ago but it is worth re-reading regularly.

https://t.co/rXju1UYH77

[Rob Olson @robolson]

@allenmhc yes, but that’s besides the point. If you dominate the living room with a TV, children are going to ask to watch it—constantly.

[Rob Olson @robolson]

Me: I want my children to watch as little TV as possible.

Also me: buys a 75” TV for the living room 🤦🏻‍♂️

[Epic Maps 🗺️ @theepicmap]

Map of all the U.S. waterbodies

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Pad printing (also called tampography) is a printing process that can transfer a 2D image onto a 3D object

[Rob Olson @robolson]

I used to have this shirt! I say "used to" because it has since disappeared. I suspect my wife threw it away 😖

[Rob Olson @robolson]

@Gorintic pretty incredible! The voice really does sound like yours.

[Rob Olson @robolson]

husband of the year

[emily may @emilykmay]

We just joined a gym and they asked me to pick a 4 digit member number and I opened my mouth and my husband said, “I stg if you use your bank pin.”

I was, in fact, going to use my bank pin💀

[max seddon @maxseddon]

🚨 Prigozhin says Wagner is standing its coup attempt down and going back to Ukraine "according to the plan."

https://t.co/U7RmSorZV6

[Bruce Fenton @brucefenton]

When I was fooled by the narrative that there was a ventilator shortage, I kicked into high gear to source ventilators and distribute 3D printing files for key parts.
The New Yorker & others picked up on my efforts.
Pretty quickly I realized there was something scammy afoot. Despite Gov Cuomo of NY saying there was a shortage, the hospitals that we called said there was no shortage.

I also started very quickly hearing about scammy massive markups of ventilators by connected insiders who were buying ventilators for $600 and selling them back to the government for $20,000.

Most amazingly was talking to actual doctors and finding that many doctors actually thought these ventilators would make things much worse not better. Their voice was overwhelmed or even censored by the narrative.

Fairly quickly the situation became untenable and hospitals & medical professionals quietly walked back the earlier recommendations without explanation.

I’m convinced that at the very least we saw opportunistic scammy behavior to sell ventilators that cost lives. Maybe something even more sinister.