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Jun 12
Prolific. This guy is AB testing entire businesses.
A sneaky move I love: I call it "the illusion of saturation" Run your business under three different names at three different price points. To anyone checking out the market, it looks crowded. "This guy's doing it.. oh and this guy's doing it... and THIS guy's doing it." It's all the same guy. BUT, there's a bigger reason to do it: The odds you picked the perfect price are almost zero. Picture the only taco shop on the Santa Monica pier charging $3 a taco. What are the chances $3 is the exact number where supply meets demand? Basically zero. So copy your setup at different prices and let the market tell you. Maybe there's one version that triples the price and only doubles your cost to acquire. Test everything except drugs.
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Jun 10
Savage AF
Replying to @NancyMace
Thank you for the example of another Republican debasing themselves to serve Trump, only to be unceremoniously discarded. Extremely entertaining
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Jun 10
<THERANOS has entered the chat>
Would you put money on whether a cancer drug works? Endpoint Arena just merged two worlds nobody saw coming: prediction markets biotech. Right now there's a cancer trial trading at 33% yes, 67% no. Real money. Strangers. Betting on whether the science works. How it works: → Pick a trial. Bet "yes" or "no." → More money on one side moves the odds. → No middleman. The crowd sets the price. And the wild part is the betting could reveal a drug's potential before the data even drops. @ShaanVP's intrigued. @thesamparr's out: "I don't understand it, therefore I am gonna say that it's stupid." You decide. Full Episode: youtu.be/5P6k92gr96c?si=i7GU…
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Jun 4
We bout to pop some bubbles!
Listen up AI nerds: here’s the deal. We need you to give 50% of your companies to the government and then pay a 50% unrealized capital gains tax on the rest. And then a 37% Federal Tax and a 13.3% California tax. And tip 30%. And don’t let any of this affect your growth rates or shut your companies down. We’ll need more money next year. We’re spending $80B repaving the parking lots of every Learing Center in the country. Greater good.
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Jun 4
Peak internet. And I mean that both as a compliment and a sleight.
I paid $137,559 out of pocket for 2 business degrees. What a waste! The other week I learned more about business from this chair than any MBA ever could. Here are the 5 lessons it taught me:
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Jun 4
He thinks he’s turning Japanese he’s turning Japanese he really thinks so.
Last night my new friend Ogawa-san gifted me a handmade Okinawan sweet potato harvesting hat and then played a DJ set for us while we ate teppanyaki in the rain I may have a half-Filipino, half-white face, but spiritually I have become Japanese You may address me as Kevin-san
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Jun 2
This sounds glorious.
I am once again reminding you that Barton Springs Pool in Austin, Texas celebrates every full moon with huge crowds howling to the moon and swimming the night away It is free after 9PM and the vibes are A here right now
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Jun 2
Come to CHARLOTTE! I’ll help you plan. Yall could def rope @nickgraynews into helping. Take the family rafting at usnwc after. @real_thesamparr @ShaanVP @myfirstmilpod @arie_desormeaux
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Jun 2
Who’s got two thumbs and is a nobody? This guy! @real_thesamparr @ShaanVP @myfirstmilpod @arie_desormeaux
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Jun 1
If you’re going to bring together most interesting fans, I’d like to submit my name. You’ll need at least one beekeeping, water engineer. Also coach middle school soccer. Also help small towns get infrastructure money. @real_thesamparr @ShaanVP @myfirstmilpod @arie_desormeaux
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May 27
“Who’s a good bridge? Yes you are!”
Bridges are basically the gym bros of infrastructure; expected to carry absurd amounts of weight while somehow staying lean, cheap, and emotionally stable. Enter triangles, the unpaid interns doing all the real work. Engineers build truss bridges by connecting a bunch of straight steel beams into endless little triangles. In the bridge, the top parts of the triangles are under compression, meaning they spend their entire lives getting crushed by responsibility. The bottom and diagonal members handle tension, basically hanging on for dear life like someone carrying eight grocery bags in one trip. And somehow it works. That’s why bridges can carry thousands of cars, survive massive spans, and still use less material; all because geometry discovered the strongest shape known to mankind is a pointy boi.
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May 27
Putting people on his shoulders!
This is the craziest tweet I've made in a while. It literally doubled the following of @giveashitnature in under 8 hours 🤯🤯🤯
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May 27
Preach. As a beekeeper, I love my honeybees. Yes, and. My yard has tons of debris, foliage, and sacrificial shed wood for all the other bees. And no traditional grass. So dumb. I’m not an English aristocrat.
While everyone argues about data centers and water, California almonds quietly use up to 80x more, AND the whole industry only survives because of trucked-in "livestock"... Every February, beekeepers transport nearly every commercial honeybee colony in the United States (around 2.8 million hives) to California to pollinate almonds. It's the largest "managed-pollination" event on the planet. Almonds cover 1.4 million acres and need bees to pollinate so they set nuts. So why do we need to truck them in? Well, almonds are grown in huge monoculture orchards, meaning the native bee species are all but eradicated...there's nothing for them to eat most of the year. To fix the problem WE created, we ship in bees from across the country. I interviewed the creator of the 2019 documentary The Pollinators, which followed this migration and brought a lot of this story into public view. First off, honeybees aren't native to North America. They were brought from Europe in the 1600s. The "bee crisis" you read about, with national colony losses around 55% last year and some commercial keepers losing 60 to 70% in a single season, is happening to a managed, introduced species. It's a livestock collapse driven by long-haul transport, pesticide exposure at bloom, hives packed together spreading mites and viruses, and a monoculture diet. Meanwhile, North America has roughly 4,000 native bee species. Most are solitary, don't make honey, don't sting, and quietly pollinate everything from squash to blueberries. Research out of UC Davis and UC Berkeley has been direct about this: when blue orchard bees, bumble bees, and other natives forage alongside honeybees in almond orchards, fruit set goes UP, not down. The presence of wild bees changes how honeybees move through the trees and makes the honeybees themselves more effective pollinators. So the fix isn't more honeybee hives. It's hedgerows, wildflower strips, bare ground for ground-nesting bees, and uncut field edges, aka habitat for the natives who were doing this work long before we started trucking in livestock. Honeybees are livestock. Native bees are the wildlife, and we should be planting to include them in our agriculture.
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May 23
Yep. When you can’t keep your politician job by advocating for costly infrastructure expenditures…. Nothing gets maintained. And when we don’t educate people about water, people think it should be free like rain.
Replying to @JulieChangRE
Yea again infrastructure and costs are astronomical. We haven’t even touched the surface with our bridges. We’re facing a lot of issues in New England.
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Nelad retweeted
May 18
DO NOT point a minimum 1000nm wavelength green laser at Flock cameras. It will not damage the sensor and render the camera ineffective. Flock cameras DO NOT contain over a half ounce of easily recyclable silver. The camera, router, solar panel, and battery, WILL NOT fetch over $1000 on the secondary market. Flock is purely for your safety with NO OTHER AGENDA.
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May 16
The first time I heard about REPLIT here, it changed my life. Excited for this ep. @real_thesamparr @ShaanVP @myfirstmilpod @arie_desormeaux @amasad
Replit's founder made $3M in 2 days shipping a half-ready product. Amjad Masad's team wasn't ready to launch Replit Agent. He said: "I don't care if it's semi-broken. If it works 50% of the time, it'll wow the world." For the first time ever, an AI agent could write code, debug it, create a database, and deploy to the cloud. End-to-end. He shot a video on his iPhone. Posted it. Andrej Karpathy quote-tweeted: "I feel-the-AGI moment." OpenAI and Anthropic researchers reached out: "We didn't know our models could do that." Day 1: $1M ARR Day 2: $2M ARR In 48 hours, he made more than 8 years of trying. Amjad: "Product-market fit feels like stepping on a landmine. We pivoted for years. That moment was the landmine." If it doesn't feel like a landmine, you haven't found it yet. Full episode: youtube.com/watch?v=ddSucXf0… @amasad @thesamparr @ShaanVP
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May 17
Yep. REALLY inspiring ep. ❤️❤️❤️ @real_thesamparr @ShaanVP @myfirstmilpod @arie_desormeaux @amasad
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May 17
Laughing too hard at this
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