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Milton Friedman on 4 ways to spend money:
1) Your money on yourself (you’re careful about both cost and quality)
2) Your money on others (you care about cost, less about quality)
3) Someone else’s money on yourself (you care about quality, not cost)
4) Someone else’s money on others (you care about neither)
The last one is how government spending works.
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TBWA's new global visual identity feels like a direct response to enshittification / refinement culture / logo minimalism.
"The biggest design choice is that the visuals favor handcrafted details, signaling a commitment to human-centered creativity in the age of AI."
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The people who knew Russiagate was a scam were right.
The people who opposed lockdowns and mandates were right.
The people who opposed funding Ukraine were right.
The people who opposed funded Israel were right.
The people who didn’t want to invade Iran were right.
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The Economist had 90 minutes with an individual shaping the future of our country and the world.
This interview is a clear example of how trust in legacy media is broken. People want the opportunity to learn more about one another—not more division and polarization.
When given the chance to ask about giving the blind a chance to see, advancing humanity through space travel, or providing the disabled the ability to drive a car, the reporter chose clickbait questions meant to drive engagement rather than understand her subject.
Elon did an excellent job answering her questions and explaining his core values while making her look like a fool.
The world’s richest man sits down with The Economist economist.com/business/2026/…
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What happens when you die:
They divide up your shit.
They summarize your life in 500-1000 words.
People who knew you less say sorry to people who knew you more.
Everyone eats, drives home, and wakes up the next day and goes to work.
Whatever you’re worried about won’t be in those 500 words.
You can dare greatly or not at all, but you’re gonna die either way.
Might as well squeeze every motherfucking drop out.
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I’m in love with this sentence:
“The strongest version of you is buried under the habits you're afraid to break.”
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It's the screens
ban them. All of them. No smartphones, no chromebooks whatsoever. Paper homework only
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False. Just 15% of CA primary energy consumption comes from ‘renewables.’ More than 75% of CA energy consumption is from oil and gas — that’s higher than the national rate.
It is true that CA has embraced anti-hydrocarbon policies. The result?
CA has the highest electricity rates in the continental U.S., the highest gas prices, and the highest adjusted poverty rate in America.
I wouldn’t be bragging if that was my state.
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The US federal budget is $7 trillion.
There are 535 in the Senate and Congress.
They collectively allocate that money.
Specifically: 7000/535 = 13 billion per official.
Which means AOC is a political billionaire.
She allocates far more than any market billionaire.
Indeed she allocates ten billion liquid, per year.
A market billionaire has one billion, illiquid, per life.
So: AOC spends 10-100X what a market billionaire has.
It's not even close.
She's right about one thing, though.
AOC didn't earn the tens of billions she spends.
The state taxed that money, by force.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: You can't earn a billion dollars.
Ilana Glazer: That's right.
AOC: You just can't earn that.
Glazer: That's exactly correct.
AOC: You can get market power. You can break rules. You can do all sorts of things. You can abuse labor laws.
Glazer: Yup.
AOC: You can pay people less than what they're worth.
Glazer: Yup.
AOC: But you can't earn that, right?
Glazer: That's right.
AOC: And so you have to create a myth that -- since you didn't earn that, you have to create a myth of earning it.
Adam retweeted
In Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam, God's finger stretches fully outward, while Adam's finger is bent at the last joint.
This illustrates well the message Michelangelo wanted to drive: God is always present, but it is up to humans to take the initiative to connect with Him.
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Marcus Aurelius wrote this over 1800 years ago:
“What are you afraid of losing, when nothing in the world actually belongs to you?”
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“Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it.”
— Tim Cook
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Charles Eames advice for students:
Make a list of books
Develop a curiosity
Look at things as though for the first time
Think of things in relation to each other
Always think of the next larger thing
Avoid the "pat" answer - the formula
Avoid the preconceived idea
Study well objects made past, recent, and ancient but never without the technological and social conditions responsible
Prepare yourself to search out the true need - physical, psychological
Prepare yourself to intelligently fill that need
Adam retweeted
President Bill Clinton draws a giant zero on a sign as he and vice president Al Gore unveil the balanced federal budget in the White House, February 2, 1999.
Adam retweeted
The Tesla "T" logo comes from Nikola Tesla's original electric motor patent btw
Pretty cool.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The Tesla logo is a stylized cross-section of an electric motor but does not come from a diagram in Nikola Tesla's 1888 patent US381968A, which contains no such figure. patents.google.com/patent/US38196… electrek.co/2017/01/24/tes…