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Uri Bram 🔍 retweeted
What feels broken to y’all about video chat?
I previously founded a Zoom competitor, and it didn’t work out, but I’ve started feeling pretty dissatisfied w video chat recently.
Uri Bram 🔍 retweeted
all armrests can be double decker if we just reject outdated ideas of “personal space” and embrace a new norm of arm stacking
Uri Bram 🔍 retweeted
It didn’t matter who played. Founders at Betaworks, game designers at NYU, defense officials at Chatham House, tech people in SF: all four rooms ended up dependent on America.
Think you can do better? Dead Reckoning launches today. It's free. GLHF!
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Uri Bram 🔍 retweeted
Asterisk's only trade school graduate is back with blue collar lifestyle piece!
Skilled trades are frequently thought of as a route out of poverty. But trades workers tell a different story.
@JesseTayRiver, a contractor who works in home remodeling, explains:
Uri Bram 🔍 retweeted
In 1956 Singer was losing to cheaper Japanese machines.
It decided to fight innovation with legalism. It bought a Swiss patent for $90,000 and then asked the President to ban every import it covered.
The Supreme Court called that an unlawful conspiracy.
Read in the first reply below 👇
weird how distressing it is to walk on a treadmill facing straight into a wall, versus a treadmill facing a window
Uri Bram 🔍 retweeted
The term virtue signaling is confusing. Wouldn’t we prefer people signal virtue over vice?
“Performative virtue” might be a more clear/useful term. Because there definitely are people who perform being virtuous but actually aren’t.
But merely signaling virtue groups in those who are actually virtuous!
Uri Bram 🔍 retweeted
One basic incentive misalignment in economics is that nobody gets rich by telling you:
Water, not Red Bull.
Index funds, not Robinhood.
Walking, not biohacking.
Sleep, not supplements.
Books, not content.
Customers, not strategy decks.
Checklists, not heroics.
Compounding, not excitement.
Boring is the new sexy.
I get that words mean whatever people use them to mean but shouldn't a Chief of Staff be primarily Chiefing Staff? Like, shouldn't it be a role that's mostly about managing tons of people, rather than mostly about assisting one person?
Uri Bram 🔍 retweeted
"If economics is so useful, why are there so few billionaire entrepreneurs or managers with a PhD in economics?" someone asks me.
Counterquestion: why are there so few lottery winners with a PhD in economics?
The point being: what makes the questioner think it's ex ante valuable to most people to pursue such a lifestyle/career? Certainly most people pursing a PhD in economics don't do it to maximize the odds to become exceptionally rich.
