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Once Upon a Time in 1969

The countercultural in the '60s was the hippies. We landed on the moon in July of 1969. Woodstock started three weeks later, and with the benefit of hindsight, that’s when progress ended, and the hippies took over the country. Today the counterculture is to believe in science and

California and Los Angeles Primary Voter Guide 2024: President, Senate, House, Props, District Attorney, State Assembly, Judges, School Board

Primary season is upon and it's time to remember you are an actual citizen of an actual country called The United States of America that is actually the greatest country in the world. Take pride in your citizenship here. For the USA to lose, that means humanity loses.

A Counter to Molly White's Review of Chris Dixon's Book: Read, Write, Own

I’m almost through Chris Dixon’s new book Read Write Own and think it’s awesome. I highly recommend it for those wanting to learn more about why blockchain technology has such potential. As Dixon argues, blockchain is not just “internet money”, it is a profound technological leap on

What I read this week...This is your brain on X

Slower week fam, trying to lower heart rate and recover my brain. Your brain on X is your brain on fire. Fire is good, but sometimes you need to step back. Reply to this newsletter directly if you have feedback for how I present the info. My homie Shawn Dog

What I read this week...Colorado Undermines Democracy in the Name of Democracy

"I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope, is admired by a large class of persons as a sage." - John Stuart Mill Me getting this out asap so I can return to the fam: "

What I read this week...Long Live The American Dream

I guess if I had to put it all simply it would be legalize conversation, legalize being wrong in the pursuit of truth, legalize technology, legalize building, legalize actual progress not "progress", legalize the best among us and the best within ourselves to make an impact on humanity

What I read this week VI...American post-tax income inequality has hardly risen at all since the 1960s

I recently torpedoed a dinner party arguing the fact that rising income inequality in the US is just not a real thing. This will break so many people’s brains. The system is working. You are being misguided by people who have a fundamental misunderstanding of the facts. I also

Should we pray to the DOD?

I was in a heated vinyasa yoga class and in the middle of it we took a break from the poses and the instructor asked us to appreciate this moment. Appreciate that we took time out of our day to give to ourselves. Appreciate how we came to be in

What I read this week...The Future Should Look Like the Future

I swear to god it saddens me so damn much how negative most people are about the state of the world and where things are headed. I'm bursting with optimism over here because I'm constantly reading about technology and how powerful of a driver it is

What I read this week...SpaceX Closer to Making Life Multiplanetary

“The next four days were a period torn out of the world’s usual context, like a breathing spell with a sweep of clean air piercing mankind’s lethargic suffocation. For thirty years or longer, the newspapers had featured nothing but disasters, catastrophes, betrayals, the shrinking stature of men, the

What I read this week...LONG LIVE SAM ALTMAN

Right as my quaint little weekly newsletter was going to press the biggest leadership change in tech since Jobs hit the streets. Sam Altman has been ousted from the company he built. Ousted by a non profit board of nobodies who, by all accounts, were so worried about "safety&

What I read this week...

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but

What I read this week...

Inspired by Chamath Palihapitiya, I want to start sharing things I read throughout the week that I found interesting. Let me know what you think. * A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor

Fear is the Mind Killer- Technology is the Answer

Read this description of how modern computing chips are made and I beg of you to even attempt to look me in the eye and tell me with a straight face that there is a single problem humanity can’t solve: An extreme ultraviolet lithography machine is a technological marvel.

AI: Let Tools be Tools Man

There is a moral panic around what AI should be allowed to generate. Why stop there? Why not restrict what can be typed on your computer, what your camera can take photos of, what you can write in your diary, what you can text, what you can read, what you

If You Want Peace, Prepare for War

The preeminent luxury belief is that defense companies are evil. I type this as our ally Israel is under attack by terrorist group Hamas. As our ally Ukraine is under attack by Russia. A basic truth that will always exist is the only way to ensure peace is for the

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Technology is Mother Nature’s Only Hope

Technology is Mother Nature's only hope against the extinction of life on Earth. Be it our sun burning out, an asteroid impact, a supervolcanic eruption, a gamma-ray burst–the natural course is death. Whether it’s hardening Earth, terraforming other planets, or building megastructures in space–all will

Texas: If we let them build, they will come

The surest way to create opportunity and a better life for all is to build. There is simply no substitute. Whether that’s building companies, housing, new tech, energy projects, roads, factories- all of it leads to a better standard of living. It’s the economy stupid. And it’s

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Crypto- I'm Not Leaving

There have been absolutely zero negative revelations around cryptocurrency and blockchain tech, or the teams building them, yet here we are, peak crypto FUD. FTX, as I’ve discussed, is not crypto. SBF and his band of low lifes were running a centralized and unregulated exchange. They were not on

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What Have You Built?

Your ethnicity, where you came from, your religion, and who your ancestors are don’t matter. Your gender, your sex, who you like to have sex with, and whether you’re vegetarian don't matter. Your taste in music, your favorite restaurants, how you dress, whether you have tattoos,

Career politician Karen Bass- using other people's money- beats out embodiment of the American Dream Rick Caruso

Edit: A previous version of this article stated Rick Caruso was an immigrant. He is not. However, his grandparents immigrated to the United States from Italy. Caruso became a billionaire in a mere three generations of his family being here. Only in America. Dear Karen Bass, I'm extremely

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Trump Will Return to Twitter

Trump will be making an announcement later tonight and it's expected he's going to officially announce his return to Twitter- jk he's probably running for president. This is on the heels of a poor performance from both election deniers and Trump backed nominees in

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China Will Invade Taiwan

China is a decaying nation with an increasingly boiling populace and a government with nothing to lose- war, as it turns out for China, will in fact be the answer. A little history- in 1949 Chiang Kai-shek fled China after losing a civil war against Mao Zedong and his communist

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A Failed Exchange is not a Failure of Crypto

Large crypto exchange FTX has shit the bed so people are asking if crypto is dead. An exchange is not crypto. An exchange is how you trade crypto and convert your fiat money to crypto, but it’s not crypto. Bitcoin is crypto. Ethereum is crypto. Uniswap, a decentralized exchange

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Binance and Tether will go to Zero

Given the solvency crisis crypto exchange FTX is facing (you can read statements from FTX CEO here and Binance's CEO here, and here is good rundown too), I'd like to say a few words. I've never trusted FTX or their CEO. An exchange that