Life is short, focus on what matters.
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Over the years I may be learning to use Twitter. Recently I've started to make threads, although not posting all tweets at the same time. I recommend you link/chain yours too, if you want to find them later
For me, first the pinned tweets:
x.com/trylks/status/92865421…
Twitter, blogs, books, research papers.
I'm reconsidering the time I spend on Twitter.
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Too usual anti-strategy:
1. We have to do something
2. X is something, X is a bad idea
3. No other ideas better than X
4. X is the best idea, we do X
Missing:
1. Time: read, ideate
2. Context, situational awareness
3. Why, purpose, goals, objectives
4. Communication, perspective
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“Whereas 40 weeks of the typical male worker’s income in 1985 could provide the middle-class essentials for a family of four, by 2022 he needed 62 weeks of income—a problem, there being only 52 weeks in a year.” americancompass.org/rebuildi…
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Nothing says “doomer” more clearly than the idea that “everything is deteriorating for everyone everywhere” all the time (since sometime)
x.com/cognitiva6/status/1844…
10 Oct 2024
Europe has been predominantly white for most of its history. It has done quite well during that time.
Now bureaucrats have decided whites should be a minority in Europe (moreso at a global scale).
Coincidentally, everything is deteriorating for everyone, everywhere, since then.
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Scheduled tweets, one of the best features in this decaying platform, now without bots (paid API) to schedule reminders [CHIRPBIRDICON]🪦
1. x.com/ProfNoahGian/status/17…
2. x.com/fchollet/status/170428…
19 Sep 2023
You *can* define general intelligence rigorously, down to a mathematical characterization. Doing so helps clear up the immense confusion the term has been generating recently.
We have made epsilon progress towards generality so far.
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I’m happy to have squeezed ~5 years more of value from Twitter [CHIRPBIRDICON]
This is a scheduled tweet,
What’s cool today?
Are @substack and @viamirror still alive?
Where’s the best stuff I’m missing out?
Twitter, blogs, books, research papers.
I'm reconsidering the time I spend on Twitter.
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Twitter is changing
I do not know how to use it now
In fact, I do not want to use Twitter; I want something else
Meta-thread:
Over the years I may be learning to use Twitter. Recently I've started to make threads, although not posting all tweets at the same time. I recommend you link/chain yours too, if you want to find them later
For me, first the pinned tweets:
x.com/trylks/status/92865421…
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So I tried to build a tech company from Norway and here’s what happened:
1. Two years of building without almost any money/funding, better part of a year without salary
2. Raise VC and become one of Norway’s first unicorns
3. Face unrealized gains wealth tax bill of many x my annual net salary. ofc the company is loss making and all the investors have preference shares so I can’t take out any money.
4. Call out publicly that this does not make sense. Independent of level, taxation needs to happen when you actually make money.
5. I move to Switzerland because no politician cares/listens.
6. I still don’t get any tangible and sensible answers to my criticism of unrealized gains tax, BUT I do get put up on the “wall of shame” at the socialist parties offices…
I’m Norwegian and I love Norway but the socialist politicians are taking the country down a dark path. It’s a real life Atlas Shrugged.
15 Nov 2024
Here’s how insane things have gotten in Norway:
The Socialist Party has a “wall of shame” in their office with “rich people who have left Norway” - due to the outrageous taxes they’re now being charged.
Who do you find on that wall?
Startup founders like @hagaetc - who was forced to leave the country because he was paying ALL of his income (!!) in taxes.
When the Soviet Union is becoming the role model of your country, time to GTFO.
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IDK who needs to hear this, but:
1. Normally, you should have at least the equivalent of 6 months of your regular expenses in your bank account, unless you used them for a good reason — exceptional situation.
youtube.com/post/UgkxhoMnV2B…
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This is all basic knowledge everybody should have.
Do everything you can to avoid living paycheck-to-paycheck, more so on credit (exceptions apply). Do not normalize being broke.
youtu.be/YFA8AS5Cu2w
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