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by riverlong 6y ago
I'm 29 now, and will soon turn 30. While I did my very first few deals when I was 24, I became much more active as I got older. There are many small checkwriters like me.
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by riverlong 6y ago
I'll assure you I am trying to do my best on that front. I spend a lot of time listening to people who are being screwed. Trying to move the needle on polarization and climate change. On one hand, those are important movements. On the
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by riverlong 6y ago
That being said, I'm not sure that we're actually leaving our bull run. We keep getting more efficient. Sure, we don't have flying cars, but for example, we've connected the entire world via the internet, and it's o
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No More Bold Visions of the Future(jayriverlong.github.io)
51 points by riverlong 6y ago|59 comments
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Influencers as Tech Founders: Real Monetization at Last(jayriverlong.github.io)
1 points by riverlong 6y ago|0 comments
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by riverlong 6y ago
I think there's a solution in pseudonymity: it has the liberating effects of anonymity, while providing some accountability that there's a real human behind the digital face. For example, suppose there's some repository of
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by riverlong 6y ago
I'm worried that this situation is going to get a great deal worse. A flurry of disinformation and online noise is somewhat manageable so long as it is coming from humans, who may be paid by a state or an enterprise to drive engagement
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Stripe Atlas: Key to a $100B+ Company(jayriverlong.github.io)
2 points by riverlong 6y ago|0 comments
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Never Invest in the Business Model(jayriverlong.github.io)
4 points by riverlong 6y ago|0 comments
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For the Future of Work, Look at Gaming(jayriverlong.github.io)
4 points by riverlong 6y ago|0 comments
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Covid-19 is Turning Me into an Incel(jayriverlong.github.io)
1 points by riverlong 6y ago|0 comments
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SPACs, Micro-LPs, Substack: Disintermediation at Last(jayriverlong.github.io)
1 points by riverlong 6y ago|0 comments
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by riverlong 6y ago
In the rest of the world, you see whole families living in one room together because they are poor . Virtually no-one chooses to live like this. Case in point, as soon as such people get money, they upgrade to larger houses.
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by riverlong 6y ago
Definitely. The "premium mediocre" stuff has been on my mind a lot, and I'm sure it's conceptually related. "Downward mobility" is a good term here.
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by riverlong 6y ago
Thank you! The problem is huge in scope, and there are many potential solutions (with lots of smart people debating them). Land scarcity and cost is a core part of the intergenerational wealth divide. There, variants of Georgism[0] are beco
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Making Poverty Fashionable to Millennials(jayriverlong.github.io)
71 points by riverlong 6y ago|63 comments
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The Problem of Preference Falsification in Online Dating(jayriverlong.github.io)
4 points by riverlong 6y ago|0 comments
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by riverlong 6y ago
Very well put. I wish I had included that phrase in my essay.
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In a GPT-3 World, Anonymity Prevents Free Speech(jayriverlong.github.io)
86 points by riverlong 6y ago|79 comments
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No More Shampoo(jayriverlong.github.io)
6 points by riverlong 6y ago|1 comments
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by riverlong 6y ago
This was my experience as well. I had little in the way of actual withdrawal symptoms. My dependence was mostly psychological or cultural. Anecdotally, I think it's really interesting that people have radically different biological res
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by riverlong 6y ago
Part of it might be that coffee is very aesthetically trendy. A cup looks good, and lends itself well to photography. Lots of cafes are really beautifully designed. It's a cool vibe, just by association.
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by riverlong 6y ago
Absolutely, I totally agree in general. For coffee culture in particular it's strange, because what's the aspiration? To drink lots of coffee? Great, but I struggle to find a higher purpose in that. In coffee culture, there's
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by riverlong 6y ago
If it hadn't been for COVID-19, which was a logistically unbelievably stressful time, I would've probably purchased a coffee maker. (There was a coffee machine in my building that I used frequently, but the building made it inacce
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by riverlong 6y ago
Sugar definitely induces crashes, but caffeine by itself does as well. My flirtations with coffee/sugar monstrosities were temporary; I mostly drank espresso-based drinks without sugar or sweeteners.
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No More Coffee(jayriverlong.github.io)
97 points by riverlong 6y ago|126 comments
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Superstimulus in 2020(jayriverlong.github.io)
1 points by riverlong 6y ago|0 comments
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by riverlong 6y ago
Hey, I think I've fixed it. Want to try again?
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by riverlong 6y ago
Hey, thank you for pointing it out! I've hidden the Feed from the navigation bar for the moment. It's probably an issue with the Jekyll template that I'm using -- I've been trying to fix it. (As a stopgap, I do also post
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Cancel Culture in 1974(jayriverlong.github.io)
38 points by riverlong 6y ago|17 comments

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