Writing the book (a book?) on what exited entrepreneurs do with the rest of their lives. (Also, AI compliance).
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The flip side to “every generation thinks the last one is lazy” is “every generation thinks they have it worse than anyone in history.”
1 Aug 2025
If I we’re 20 years old in 1945 there’s a chance I’d have 4 confirmed kills in the Pacific Theater.
Each generation carries a burden. But man we do have it good today compared others.
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I’m starting all of my tweets from now on with “I won’t punch down.” Amazing power move
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I grew up in Topeka and we definitely thought this
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Me posting memes to my text chain
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This is exactly right. We either believe in free speech on campus (and the right for faculty and students to say awful things) or we don't.
The problem is that universities have gone out of their way to control speech in every other context.
6 Dec 2023
As a professor who favors free speech on campus, I can sympathize with the "nuanced" answers given by U. presidents yesterday, about whether calls to attack or wipe out Israel violate campus speech policies.
What offends me is that since 2015, universities have been so quick to punish "microaggressions," including statements intended to be kind, if even one person from a favored group took offense. The presidents are now saying: "Jews are not a favored group, so offending or threatening Jews is not so bad. For Jews, it all depends on context." We might call this double standard "institutional anti-semitism."
University presidents: If you're not going to punish students for calling for the elimination of Israel and Israelis, it's OK with me, but ONLY if you also immediately dismantle the speech policing apparatus and norms you created in 2015-2016. Please read The Coddling of the American Mind. @glukianoff and I laid out exactly where the oppressor/victim frame came from (ch. 3), how it spread out of a few departments to gain power over administrators and campus culture (chapters 4 and 5), and how it drove the creation of the bureaucratic structures and processes that now have us all teaching and learning on eggshells (ch. 10). In chapter 13 we offer advice to leaders on how to to return universities to their academic mission and regain public trust.
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My 6 year old son asked for "a security camera on wheels with a remote control" for Christmas. I asked ChatGPT, it went to Walmart.com (?) and figured it out instantly.
Amazing.
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One thing that's really hard and surprising for second-time entrepreneurs is to see a project fail. After the combo of hard work get lucky the first time, they expect the luck to continue.
Often, it doesn't.
Part of the reason is that second-timers often choose a much harder business the second time around -- less proven demand, worse cash conversion cycle, higher upfront investment.
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