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Divergent vs. Convergent Phases(chaseadam.com)
1 points by chaseadam17 8mo ago|0 comments
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by chaseadam17 8mo ago
If you assume this is true, what are the new high-status career paths out of college?
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VC-Backed Startups Are Low Status(mhdempsey.substack.com)
1 points by chaseadam17 8mo ago|1 comments
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Akin to believing light beer is a solution to alcoholism: My time at Patagonia(arestlesstransplant.substack.com)
4 points by chaseadam17 9mo ago|0 comments
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by chaseadam17 9mo ago
Personal site and blog: https://www.chaseadam.com/
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by chaseadam17 10mo ago
Agree it shouldn't be so binary. Only thing I'd add is that I believe it makes sense for schools to err towards restricting books until the upper age limit of "appropriate" because parents who choose to expose their kids
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by chaseadam17 10mo ago
Seems like most of the books deal with complex real-world issues like sexual identity, racism, school shootings, etc. and are banned due to "sexual" or "violent" content. My guess is these criteria can be selectively int
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by chaseadam17 10mo ago
How does structural change happen in a democracy?
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by chaseadam17 10mo ago
We are the levees in your metaphor and we have agency. The problem is not that one founder does something before another and gains an advantage. The problem is the millions of people who buy or use the harmful thing they create - and that w
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by chaseadam17 10mo ago
Agree with OP. This reminds me of fast food in the 90s. Executives rationalized selling poison as "if I don't, someone else will" and they were right until they weren't. Society develops antibodies to harmful technology
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by chaseadam17 10mo ago
Meta playbook. Netflix was a great product innovator for a long time but now that they're running out of ideas they're pivoting to acquisitions. I guess one big difference is that their direct competitors aren't startups - th
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by chaseadam17 11mo ago
If you live in a wealthy society it's possible to travel or move or get to know people in a different society and offer to help them.
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by chaseadam17 11mo ago
Man, EA is so close to getting it. They are right that we have a moral obligation to help those in need but they are wrong about how to do it. Don't outsource your altruism by donating to some GiveWell-recommended nonprofit. Be a human
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by chaseadam17 11mo ago
Why hasn't a social media platform with mandatory verification to prove users are unique humans taken off yet? Still too hard to break the existing network effects?
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by chaseadam17 1y ago
Dude, you've got to check every possible combination of departure and arrival dates from each different nearby airport then check everything again as one ways using different carriers then compare paying cash to using points then compa
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A Less Informed Citizen(chaseadam.com)
3 points by chaseadam17 1y ago|0 comments
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by chaseadam17 1y ago
I stopped reading all news except for a daily non partisan newsletter and it has made me much happier. One criticism I often get is that I’m not fulfilling my duty of being an informed citizen - but people forget that the benefit of being i
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by chaseadam17 1y ago
If you read Thiel’s internal emails with Mark Zuckerberg, it’s clear he thinks a lot about public perception and how to frame tech to the masses. The antichrist stuff strikes me as a debate tactic. Public sentiment has been trending toward,
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by chaseadam17 1y ago
Not sure if I “like” him but he has unique takes that help me think about things in new ways.
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by chaseadam17 1y ago
There are lots of ways… you could back it with a basket of real assets (eg gold, commodities, etc) or multiple currencies (eg to reduce the role any one central bank plays) or create a new process for delegating central bank authority (eg w
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by chaseadam17 1y ago
Sure small loans have higher rates but they are lower margin and less profitable. They require way more overhead relative to loan size and a drastically higher chance of default (I used to underwrite small biz loans, many times you can’t ev
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by chaseadam17 1y ago
Yeah, those tokens are not stable enough to use as a medium of exchange and I’m arguing that there are likely new ways to achieve stability that are better than how the US dollar is currently managed.
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by chaseadam17 1y ago
I think it's part of the reason Bitcoin has been successful - it's a store of value that governments/banks can't inflate away, similar to gold. But crypto has also made US dollar stable coins popular, which are arguably
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by chaseadam17 1y ago
When I search it I see the same thing as OP. Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/hlF6OoU
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by chaseadam17 1y ago
Yes, one $100M loan in isolation is risky (I was just giving an example), but my point was that a portfolio of a small number of large loans to big businesses is much more profitable than a portfolio of many more smaller loans to small busi
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by chaseadam17 1y ago
Great post. One lesser known factor that's contributing to this problem is bank consolidation in the US. * Big banks prefer to lend to big companies because it's more profitable to make one $100M loan than 1,000 $100k loans. * Ban
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by chaseadam17 1y ago
I frequently leave my phone at home and rely on my Apple Watch for the occasional texts, map, etc. I’d prefer a Garmin but not being able to use your existing phone number is a dealbreaker.
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by chaseadam17 1y ago
Here's another possibility: 1. There are fewer new products normal people want to buy, especially in tech. 2. Inflation is making the everyday things people need more expensive. 3. VC money for the most popular products ran out and com
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by chaseadam17 1y ago
Start a market on Polymarket that they go bankrupt in X years?
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by chaseadam17 1y ago
I disagree. I believe we’ve had far less progress in real world engineering in the past 50 years than the 50+ prior.

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