Writer, investor, father, friend. Author of ˋWhat Goliath can learn from David´ and 'Swiss Made'. All views owed to someone, somewhere and sometime ago.
Switzerland
Joined August 2010
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Was at the WH Correspondents dinner last night, a rare DC trip for me without a subpoena. On the positive side—was exciting, no one was killed, and ended early. I noted a new litmus for status among the gov’t elite—whether you were whisked away by secret service, or left to fend.
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BlackRock slashes another private credit loan to zero.
Three months ago it was valued at 100 cents on the dollar:
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It's crazy that a lot of thinking about American capital markets and indeed the modern economy was based on the idea that these companies specifically had very lean balance sheets and that they didn't do real capital investment
Almost unbelievable how much CAPEX has grown for the big tech companies in the last decade. Roughly 10x for each of these, and close to 20x for $META
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Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."
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Meet the Writers: @georginagodwin speaks with Swiss author @Breiding3 to discuss his latest book ‘What Goliath Can Learn from David’
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Extreme views are heavily over-represented on social media
Social platforms’ tendency to reward hostile content creates incentives that systematically reward simplistic messages and extreme positions ft.com/content/9251504e-c60e… via @jburnmurdoch
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They’re building the Hyperloop!
Good for them. We should do it in America.
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An amazing letter to @POTUS with greetings from 🇨🇭 thanks to @Breiding3
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🚨 BREAKING: Detailed list of all 44 people in Meta's Superintelligence team.
— 50% from China
— 75% have PhDs, 70% Researchers
— 40% from OpenAI, 20% DeepMind, 15% Scale
— 20% L8+ level
— 75% 1st gen immigrants
Each of these people are likely getting paid $10-$100M/yr.
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.@Breiding3 argumentiert, dass Europa angesichts technologischer Rückständigkeit und sicherheitspolitischer Schwächen dringend Reformen braucht – insbesondere durch Dezentralisierung nach Schweizer Vorbild.
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Either Europe starts having large families or it will keep dying
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The company that was already planning to lose $7b this year, is “reevaluating comp” to be more aggressive. Put that in perspective. 🤠🥳😎🙏
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In an ideal world we could ramp this way up and get rid of all the fire department driven building codes, street widths, setbacks, etc
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I don't think of myself as a particularly optimistic guy but my heart really swells when I think about Waymo. I feel sorry for people who haven't had the chance to use a Waymo. You should go somewhere that they have them and try it.
