I have better ideas in San Francisco
Mondays are the best
SF is part of my karass
"It's a terrible thing that we made"
It’s good when things are bad
Spring!
AI vs. AGI vs. Consciousness vs. Super-intelligence vs. Agency
Fragile passengers
Will training data matter anymore for self-driving cars?
Two things have changed since 1990
What’s in and out for 2023
My experience Wednesday in SF
I forgot my laptop
My Kindle is dead
Decentralization is a narrative mirage.
Dark and dirty dorm rooms
Four years ago
Inside every brown take-out bag…
Acting like a Github recruiter
Radio, SF, and cultural stopgaps
Can I smell as well as a bloodhound?
Tailwind saved me from a coding ice age
Bierstadt and breakfast
Big vision, little start
Avoiding a bad day
2020 > 1924
The Needles, Canyonlands
To the next chapter
Unlearning school
Surprises generate smiles.
Shared Lyft to Dunkin’ Donuts
Pascal’s Scam
New one-mile PR
Personality is the force majeure of the internet.
“All You Need To Know”
Birds, Planes, And COVID’s Chokepoint
Don’t Judge a Substack By Its Cover
Timezones, power-ranked: Mountain, Central, Pacific, Eastern
Restaurant Revenue and Goodhart’s Law
Long email signatures
The High-Frequency-Trading Of News
Google blew a ten-year lead.
Picky Eaters, Philanderers, and Hamlet
Birmingham’s Original Sin
The coffee doesn’t taste any good.
I Am Nothing and Also Something
Stay, leave, or create a hacker house?
Late
What if I run out of things to say?
Patio11’s Law
The “Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t” Fallacy
I was tricked into thinking I had “grit”
Shaving and being human
Seatbelts and falling out of a Ford station wagon
Charlie Munger is slowly warming up to Elon Musk
Running, one year apart
Fruit flies and climate change
Bill’s Guide To Bread
Narrow band of intelligence
Learning to love (monitors) again
“Hey Alexa, Pause The Economy”
Whistler
~2,412 people in the U.S. have SARS-CoV-2 (as of 3/5/2020)
Working from home
Almost out of stock
The more “important,” the more engaging
Trekking in Kyrgyzstan
Being prolific
Constraints breed more than creativity
Will negative interest rates lead to Marxism?
Cocktail Party Entrepreneurs
“I Exist”
Organizing my thoughts
Bars need competition in order to get crowds
F-150 Mile Equivalents, “FME’s”
“The average American changes their healthcare plan every 2.7 years.”
“How did the human cross the road?”
From Idaho to Mars
Union Square
“It’s Vulnerability, Stupid”
Just enough to get into trouble, not enough to avoid disaster
Side hustle
It’s too late to collect sand
Everybody already knows
“Down” Market
“It’s Voluntary”
Inventions are memes
“I’ll finish that tonight.”
AIM and Identity
Annualized expenses.
Cigarettes, scotch, company, writing, and conversation
Hitchens in North Beach
E-commerce and iCommerce
The Efficient Market Hypothesis and equities
Fermentation Station
Where Are The Engineer’s Mansions?
Lyndon Johnson nearly killed himself running for his first Congressional seat when he was 28 years old.
Day 1
Munger, on Trump
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