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Life is short, focus on what matters.

[〶 @trylks]

Meta-thread:

Over the years I may be learning to use Twitter. Recently I've started to make threads, although not posting all tweets at the same time. I recommend you link/chain yours too, if you want to find them later

For me, first the pinned tweets:

https://t.co/K5eq2HCV9o

[〶 @trylks]

Twitter, blogs, books, research papers.

I'm reconsidering the time I spend on Twitter.

[〶 @trylks]

Too usual anti-strategy:
1. We have to do something
2. X is something, X is a bad idea
3. No other ideas better than X
4. X is the best idea, we do X

Missing:
1. Time: read, ideate
2. Context, situational awareness
3. Why, purpose, goals, objectives
4. Communication, perspective

[〶 @trylks]

Tariffs are taxes politicians levy on their own people, disguised as burdens on those abroad.

[〶 @trylks]

Nothing says “doomer” more clearly than the idea that “everything is deteriorating for everyone everywhere” all the time (since sometime)
https://t.co/8hbocMhr2j

[Cognitiva 🗽🗳️📈🔬✝️ @cognitiva6]

@EvaVlaar Europe has been predominantly white for most of its history. It has done quite well during that time.

Now bureaucrats have decided whites should be a minority in Europe (moreso at a global scale).

Coincidentally, everything is deteriorating for everyone, everywhere, since then.

[〶 @trylks]

I might start a doomer mentality thread

[〶 @trylks]

https://t.co/njcO9CElO5

[JD Vance @JDVance]

“Whereas 40 weeks of the typical male worker’s income in 1985 could provide the middle-class essentials for a family of four, by 2022 he needed 62 weeks of income—a problem, there being only 52 weeks in a year.” https://t.co/fvPi08vzxt

[〶 @trylks]

@swardley @RemindMe_OfThis @RemindMeBot @remindmetweets $MSFT has the upper hand in AI and a chance at providing in Azure higher level services that small vendors build over AWS, taking both margins and staying competitive.

$AMZN could do more and better on the hardware/physical side, if
suitable for 2-pizza teams.

Time will tell.

[〶 @trylks]

@swardley @RemindMe_OfThis in 5 years
@RemindMeBot in 5 years
@remindmetweets in 5 years

[〶 @trylks]

Scheduled tweets, one of the best features in this decaying platform, now without bots (paid API) to schedule reminders [CHIRPBIRDICON]🪦

1. https://t.co/idX9sBfP8t

2. https://t.co/f5GJITOKtm

[François Chollet @fchollet]

You *can* define general intelligence rigorously, down to a mathematical characterization. Doing so helps clear up the immense confusion the term has been generating recently.

We have made epsilon progress towards generality so far.

[〶 @trylks]

I’m happy to have squeezed ~5 years more of value from Twitter [CHIRPBIRDICON]

This is a scheduled tweet,
What’s cool today?
Are @substack and @viamirror still alive?
Where’s the best stuff I’m missing out?

[〶 @trylks]

Twitter, blogs, books, research papers.

I'm reconsidering the time I spend on Twitter.

[〶 @trylks]

Communism cannot kill capitalism, but crony capitalism can.

[〶 @trylks]

@vrandezo @doughofstadter Coincidentally, I was reading that "yesterday"

I have scheduled this email to see the responses "in the future" (I have no answers on my own, but it seems interesting)

[〶 @trylks]

@timClicks @fireship_dev How did it go?

[〶 @trylks]

Twitter is changing

I do not know how to use it now

In fact, I do not want to use Twitter; I want something else

[〶 @trylks]

Meta-thread:

Over the years I may be learning to use Twitter. Recently I've started to make threads, although not posting all tweets at the same time. I recommend you link/chain yours too, if you want to find them later

For me, first the pinned tweets:

https://t.co/K5eq2HCV9o

[〶 @trylks]

@substack Is it, though?

[hagaetc @hagaetc]

So I tried to build a tech company from Norway and here’s what happened:

1. Two years of building without almost any money/funding, better part of a year without salary
2. Raise VC and become one of Norway’s first unicorns
3. Face unrealized gains wealth tax bill of many x my annual net salary. ofc the company is loss making and all the investors have preference shares so I can’t take out any money.
4. Call out publicly that this does not make sense. Independent of level, taxation needs to happen when you actually make money.
5. I move to Switzerland because no politician cares/listens.
6. I still don’t get any tangible and sensible answers to my criticism of unrealized gains tax, BUT I do get put up on the “wall of shame” at the socialist parties offices…

I’m Norwegian and I love Norway but the socialist politicians are taking the country down a dark path. It’s a real life Atlas Shrugged.

[〶 @trylks]

@brandonjcarl Interesting thought experiment, though.

1. Use all income to buy ₿
2. Use it as collateral. Borrow against it for all expenses
3. Nobody ever sells. ₿ price tends to infinity, allows ≈infinite borrowing
4. Infinite money glitch!!
5. Infinite inflation. Prices are stable in ₿

[〶 @trylks]

@PeterSchiff Poe's law. We'll never know.

[〶 @trylks]

Knowledge and productivity compound. Given two people of similar ability, the one who works more will outproduce the other exponentially.

The more you learn; the more you can do. The more you do; the more you learn.

[〶 @trylks]

What sells?

[〶 @trylks]

Local vs Asian imports.

[〶 @trylks]

Terrifying if true
https://t.co/kCIbfUOiLr

[〶 @trylks]

#YMMV
https://t.co/9uZ99pNr89

[〶 @trylks]

@hectorchamizo Ha ganado Trump: relief.

Ahora el ciclo entero dura un mes.