milesS

trader. angel investor. suburban dad in training.

[milesS @shilohssilo]

@KILLTOPARTY Absolute gem of a paragraph on extended adolescence

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

I would only tell a man's daughter one thing, that most men are profoundly lost, frightened creatures who do not understand themselves, let alone you. they arrive with their needs poorly disguised as affection and they are so sturdily convinced of their own sincerity that they will fool you for months, sometimes years. and this is not because they are evil, it is because they are unfinished. and unfinished men do terribly stupid things to the women that love them and then stand there baffled at the wreckage, as if some other man inside them did it all. that so the one thing i would tell her is this, you will not be able to tell the unfinished ones from the finished ones by their words. you can only tell by what they do when they are angry, or tired, or scared. that is where you see what you are actually working with

[milesS @shilohssilo]

@Tyler_Neville_ Choosing optimism is a noble, challenging, and rewarding practice

[HotSotin 🇫🇮🇺🇦🇪🇺△ @HotSotin]

This wouldn't have happened in the EU

[Max @minordissent]

This is a common perspective but it’s completely wrong. Executives are not stupid. The overwhelming majority of the time their IQ is much higher than the technical staff member who thinks they are retarded. It only appears otherwise because technical staff can rarely separate technical competence from intelligence, something most executives are bad at.

But more often than not, this is an intentional choice by the executive. The best execs used to be engineers, and usually the best ones. And they eventually decided to delegate and outsource their thinking on the technical details precisely because it is so easy to hire an engineer who can do that stuff (technical competence is a dime a dozen), while it is an order of magnitude harder to hire someone with good business acumen.

They want you to “treat them like a child” because spending 4 hours walking through the technical details is a genuine waste of their time. They do not care about perfect technical aptitude, thats what they hires you for, they care about time efficiency and information compression. They need you to spend 100 hours digging through all the details and then give them the 5 minute high level summary and 3 options so they can do the thing they are 10,000x better than you at: make good, risk adjusted decisions, quickly.

[Kyle Cordes @kylecordes]

At my previous organization, we served huge companies. At one point, I finally "saw the matrix": a substantial portion of everyone working at these companies is playing a kind of cooperative game by which to grab a portion of the cash flowing by from the core thing their company does. No ill will or misdeeds involved; they mostly don't even know.

[milesS @shilohssilo]

@TMTLongShort That Geopolitical Cousins ep was top notch, Marko on fire

[milesS @shilohssilo]

@buccocapital

[AFactIsBetterThanAnIdeal @leathers_d39971]

@nebgetaneh @WillManidis FullyAutomatedLuxuryComunism
All previous failed attempts lacked enough CapEx on compute.

[milesS @shilohssilo]

@LiebermanAustin @oasishealthapp @cormachayden_ New Oasis health challenge: take a shot of Jim Beam every time app or founder account rageplies to self-induced criticism

[milesS @shilohssilo]

@oasishealthapp @cormachayden_ @LiebermanAustin First, we go live!

Then, we growth hack to top 10 health on App Store while raking in expensive subs which we refuse to refund!

And then, then… We take responsibility!!!

[milesS @shilohssilo]

@cormachayden_ @johndurant did you put Masa on the map by ranking them below Fritos?

you led the charge on testing? you didn’t understand parts per billion. it may shock you but heavy metal and polymer assays existed before vibecoding!

[milesS @shilohssilo]

@cormachayden_ @LiebermanAustin @oasishealthapp Yeah bro it’s the users fault for misunderstanding your scoring algorithm

[Hon. Vickie Paladino @VickieforNYC]

Let's understand a few things about what's actually about to happen here if Zohran gets his way -- which he almost certainly will, unless courts intervene.

First and foremost, Cea Weaver and DSA 'organizers' will be unleashed with the full institutional and legal support of the city government to ramp up tenant complaints in targeted buildings. No complaint will be too small. No building will be too small. Everything will be treated as catastrophic. Full-scale demagoguery will ensue, complete with protests, rent strikes, street theater, and harassment of property owners.

Accordingly, the city buildings department will be weaponized to begin writing as many violations as possible in order to bolster the city's effort to justify a seizure. It won't matter how small or large the violations are, the total number will be breathlessly cited as evidence of mismanagement. It will be impossible for landlords to clear these violations in good faith.

The combination of a weaponized buildings department writing hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines, rent strikes, and constant threats and harassment against landlords by militant activists will make the situation untenable for any property owner to realistically fight back, and the city will seize the property. The landlord will be lucky to walk away without prison or being beaten to death in the street by an angry mob (as Zohran's buddy Hasan Piker referred to landlords -- 'let the streets run red with their capitalist blood').

But that's only the first half of the plan, and everyone needs to pay very close attention to the big picture here, because it's hugely important and has national implications.

The properties will then be turned over to nonprofits. This is no small detail. This is in fact the whole point.

The idea here is to build up Zohran's DSA-connected nonprofits with a multbillion-dollar portfolio of hard assets -- New York City real estate. This portfolio could theoretically reach into the hundreds of billions or even the trillions, depending on how aggressive they get.

Now these highly political nonprofits would become the new land barons of New York, complete with all the political clout, leverage, and reach that goes along with it. It would be a true nightmare scenario.

As it stands now, the nonprofits depend mostly on the largesse of grants, donations, and other third-party resources to stay afloat. They are lavishly funded of course, and many do hold significant assets, but it would all pale in comparison to simply handing them the keys to a New York City real estate empire, courtesy of Zohran Mamdani and the DSA.

The resources at their disposal would be immense. The organizing potential that goes along with those resources will have national implications. Every DSA candidate in every town and city in the country would be trained, funded, and staffed by organizers with ties to the NYC nonprofit empire backed by a trillion dollars in free real estate. And they would be shameless in leveraging those resources for pure political power.

That's the game plan here. That's the whole ball of wax.

Zohran isn't interested in making housing better for anyone. If he was, we'd be talking seriously about solving the NYCHA disaster.

Hell, if he was even remotely sincere about seizing these properties from 'bad landlords' for the 'public good' he'd be focused on turning them over to the city itself, as misguided as that would be.

No, this is about nothing more than consolidating political power for the DSA. Just like everything else these people do. Giving the DSA a massive war chest backed by seized real estate.

Once you understand that they have no interest in fixing anything other than elections, it all makes a lot more sense.

[Mr. Findependent 💰 @Mr_Findependent]

@SawyerMerritt Is this how you charge it?

[milesS @shilohssilo]

@GordonGekko @oceannvibe No no this obviously the Bayou

[Zack Strength @ZackStrength]

the bros running the now imploding oasis app are a microcosm of the online fitness and health space.

the barrier to the space is very low, hence a bunch of people playing dress up as experts. like dudes who know a little bit about sunlight or seed oils acting like experts in athletic performance, yet couldn’t make a college intramural sports team.

you can “reinvent” yourself or play a character on the internet, and that’s what many have done, but with little substance actually backing them up.

be careful who you listen to.

[milesS @shilohssilo]

It just gets better and better

[Austin Lieberman @LiebermanAustin]

Thanks to the @oasishealthapp I’ve switched from poisonous FairLife Protein Milk to Bourbon and I can’t even begin to explain how much healthier I feel.

[milesS @shilohssilo]

@cormachayden_ Do the world class engineers and scientists also get to work from a glass walled villa on an Indonesian island or

[milesS @shilohssilo]

@reallytanman @sportdrink @oasishealthapp @cormachayden_ absolutely spreedran the healthfluencer corruption arc. actually impressive.

IG fuckboi with a twist of fear mongering and a garnish of big food glazing