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RT @Geiger_Capital: This is a pretty big deal… Trump on the defense prime contractors focusing on Wall St instead of production: "We’ll b…
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RT @pronounced_kyle: 28 — avg. age, Apollo 11 mission control 25 — avg. age, Manhattan Project scientist 22 — Isaac Newton invents calculus…
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From the @TPUSA straw poll on the question “what are the biggest threats facing America?” Technology/AI ranked last at 17th. Techno optimism is usually high among young people. Interesting to see this confirmed among politically engaged youth on the right.
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One of my America 250 projects is to read and study institutions that were truly built for scale, not companies. Nations, empires, the Holy Roman Catholic Church. You’d think there are many of these worth studying or understanding, but very rarely do builders think in time scales beyond their own lifetimes. It’s rare to actually start something with the belief it will outlast you, and to design an organization that makes you completely irrelevant to its long-term success. Anyway, accepting book recommendations!
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One of the best parts about going direct and all the channels that have enabled it is how much the form of media has changed. There are the big examples, like short form video or content clippers, but there are also small examples that have really made some information consumption higher quality. The most viral longform essay on X this month broke a cardinal rule of magazine writing by data dumping numbers and percentages versus “making them readable for the average reader,” something writers are taught to do at institutional outlets. Seeing so many numbers in a long form essay was jarring in a good way—any prestige publication would have cut them. The highly numerate would obviously prefer to see more data and make their own comparisons; that kind of writing really only appears on Substack and independent media, places where authors understand their readers’ capabilities. You often hear the argument that new media is making us dumber, but it’s making a lot of audiences much smarter, too.
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SpaceX was founded in 2002. If you remember watching this moment thirteen years later and thinking it would quell the naysayers as I did, we were wrong. Most of the world ignored it, even the tech world. I still remember how many smart people in 2019 and 2020 said Starlink was “impossible.” Not that it was hard, but that it would never happen. You will always feel late, but we are so, so early.
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