Jacob Hurst

I write, layout, and publish tabletop RPGs.

[Jacob Hurst @vyderac]

The Astro boy “Pero” story is 10/10.

[Jacob Hurst @vyderac]

New campaign map just dropped people! See you at murderfuck lake!

[PanzerWizard @PanzerMage]

@vintaddicted Assholia.
Its full of dickwolves and giant ticks.

[Dave Lee @daveleedwnundr]

Walt Disney’s Multiplane camera was impressive, but the Fleischer photograph process was next level…

[Teddy @WarnerTeddy]

i mounted a tiny microphone on my apartment balcony to listen for any birds passing by and built a site to collage them as they're heard

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am a Partner at a private equity firm and my job is to find the parts of your life you cannot opt out of.

The whole thesis fits on one slide. Identify demand that does not respond to price. Own the supply. Hold it through the cycle.

People assume we hunt for growth. We do not. Growth is a market that can walk away from you. What we want is the opposite of choice. We want the call you make when the house is already burning.

Take the fire truck.

Two dozen-plus companies used to build fire apparatus in this country. Family shops. County contracts. A pumper here, an aerial there. Then we ran the roll-up. Three firms now make eighty percent of them, and one of the three is ours.

Margins when we did the LBO were four, maybe five percent. That is the number you get when a business is run by people who think the product is a fire truck. We took EBITDA to thirteen. The four sits next to the thirteen on a slide, and when I show investors that slide they make a small noise I have learned to wait for.

Quality did not get us there. The wait did. A custom truck is four years out now. Backlog stands at four and a half billion dollars. We do not write "backlog" in the deck. We write "revenue visibility." A town that ordered a ladder this year is revenue we already booked. Their property-tax receipts are our annuity. The mayor files it under public safety. I file it under Tab 4.

Tab 4 is the dividend recap, and I will be honest, it is the work I am proudest of. We borrow against the company we just bought and route the proceeds to ourselves. Five hundred and thirty million out the door. A hundred and eighty of it the quarter before the IPO. The borrowed money rides on the fire truck company. The wire comes to the GP. We do not call it borrowing against a public-safety vendor. We call it unlocking trapped value.

Let me be exact about who is left holding what. We hold the dividend. The town holds the four-year wait. The company holds the debt.

Then I move to nursing homes.

Identical playbook, fresh captive. Five billion in the sector back in 2000. A hundred and four billion now. Fifteen hundred facilities. Demand here also ignores price, because the customer is somebody's mother and the alternative is her daughter quitting her job to do the lifting herself.

So we thin the staffing. Labor is the largest controllable line, and a woman named Dolores, eighty-one, who likes the crossword and rings the call button at two in the morning, cannot take her business elsewhere at two in the morning. Surgical patients at the hospitals we bought die inside ninety days at a rate seventeen percent above the ones we left alone. That figure is not in the model. The model stops at the distribution. What happens past the distribution is, and I am choosing the word carefully, out of scope.

A senator reviewed the whole arrangement and reached for the word heist. Professionally, I have to correct him. A heist is illegal and finished by morning. Ours is quarterly. Audited. We carry a compliance officer and a clean opinion.

One figure used to keep me up. The companies we buy go bankrupt roughly ten times as often as the ones we never touch. For an afternoon that felt like a defect in the model.

Then I found the row. The distribution clears before the bankruptcy. Every single time. The sequence is not a side effect of the product. The sequence is the product.

The company dies. The town keeps paying on a truck still four years out. Dolores keeps paying for the bed. And the loss, the real loss, settles onto the creditor, the nurse, the patient, the kid dialing 911 while the aerial sits in a queue in Wisconsin.

Years ago I typed one word into the addressable-market cell, and the firm has run on it ever since.

Essential.

It means you cannot leave. We modeled that part first.

[s🌺 @winifredrambova]

Last Days of May by Nell Brinkley, 1920

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[Jacob Hurst @vyderac]

This is *such* a good cyberpunk novel/short story premise.

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

NVIDIA is warehousing GPUs
https://t.co/xyDnMwtxYu

[Jens Claessens @JensClaessens]

Anyone know any good pixel artists?

[Jacob Hurst @vyderac]

Yay! This is such an amazing program. Congratulations!!

[Rick Brewster @rickbrewPDN]

I GOT THE DOMAIN! I FINALLY GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!1 🥳🎉

Paint​.NET is now at https://t.co/ZJTUII4bVG!

Well, it will be just as soon as I push all the buttons to migrate content and set up redirects from getpaint​.net etc. For now it's just a "hey go here" redirect page.

[Jacob Hurst @vyderac]

Space will require ☠️. Can we (humanity) handle the cost?

I really really think about this sometimes.

[Jacob Hurst @vyderac]

And may it always stay that way.

[kepano @kepano]

@supezen 估值就是买家愿意付多少钱而已。但 Obsidian 既没有投资人，也没打算卖掉，所以任何数字都没意义。

[Historical Chronicles @HistoriaJack]

HMS Erebus and Terror in the Antarctic (Detail)

[Archaeology & Art @archaeologyart]

Artistic reconstruction of the great temple of Karnak. By Jean-Claude Golvin.

[Vintage Maps @vintagemapstore]

Map of French Medieval Castles (Author: Jean Claude Golvin)

[Jacob Hurst @vyderac]

Top left is quite likely my all time favorite wallpaper. Always come back to it.

[Web Design Museum @WebDesignMuseum]

Digital Art Before the AI Era

Shadowness wallpapers in 2001

[Jacob Hurst @vyderac]

True.

[Ben @DungeonNoir]

“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” — Jacques Cousteau

🎨Frazetta @frazettagirls

[Jacob Hurst @vyderac]

🤣😭🫠

A comedy to those that think. A tragedy to those that feel.

[mersomas @mersomas]

Google is revamping its entire search engine to this btw