Will Barr

@partners_road I think some other schools did too

Bowdoin College in Maine issued 100-year “century bonds” in 2012 at a 4.69% fixed rate. Who made that call? Stan Druckenmiller, who is in charge of Bowdoin’s endowment. One of his best “trades.” Every other top college should have followed his lead.

@soultraveler @shikhr_ @sama wonderful read, thanks for sharing!

@will_barrcode @shikhr_ @sama paulgraham.com/hp.html

I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extremely complex software character-by-character. It already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took. Thank you for getting us to this point.

@sagharborcap MIT ocw exists

The saddest thing about all the AI stuff is that it’s rendered the Khan Academy guy’s life’s work totally obsolete

@shikhr_ @sama Code can be elegant but it’s not art

@sama Also thank the artists who painted complex images stroke by stroke. It already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took. Thank you for getting us to this point.

@ramez Must be driven by empty luxury markets

Indoor living area per person has roughly tripled in the US since 1950.

this is what actual national suicide looks like btw

@ajhodls PhD at its best should be about merging expertise with the founder disposition. It's just a bit too easy after too much research to believe that there's nothing new under the sun

PhDs and professors lack founder disposition, that’s why they stay in academia for so long

@champtgram Someone has got to teach the covid generation how to dance omg

going out drinking is so funny cause it’s just a bunch of sweaty people yelling small talk at each other over loud music with increasingly slurred speech utill they either get laid or order mcdonald’s on uber eats

Saw some parked in Everett the other day. Greater Boston is the holy grail for this tech

@ShahramSN @CivilizationVC @JohnCendpts @endpts Congrats!!!

Honored that @CivilizationVC — the fund I founded barely 8 years ago as a solo GP in the heavily conservative #lifesciences space — has now cracked the Top Quartile as a force in #biotech! No other firm of our size + vintage came even close. Thanks @JohnCendpts and @endpts for the analysis. OrbiMed jumps to number one on the top 100 list of biotech venture investors - endpoints.news/orbimed-jumps-…

Are we the stewards of silicon life or vice versa? Or is it dynamic equilibrium at this point

@katclone Simulation popping offff

foot traffic out of control

@NikoMcCarty “The best thing you can do for the audience is ignore them” I look forward to the day when mass appeal is back in line with authentic individual expression

I think that writing deep, important, and enjoyable things demands a sort of Prestige Death. When I worked as a scientist, the most prestigious thing to do was publish in Cell, Nature, or Science. But I didn’t enjoy this. It forced me to always think about what other labs were doing, or what particular editors wanted to see. It made me think about how I could tell an artificial “story,” rather than just do the experiments that seemed most interesting to me. Then, I became a science journalist. I was taught that writing for, say, Scientific American was the pinnacle of prestige. (Haha.) But then I did that, and realized that I didn’t enjoy it at all. The editors skimmed off all the technical details, to the point where my explanations became shallow and weak. Mechanistic details about the biology were cut out. The goal, instead, was to write a piece for mass consumption; something anybody could understand. But this is generally not a good thing if you're deeply serious about using writing as a vehicle to understand something! So I started a blog, and began publishing 90% or more of all my writing there. A blog is probably the least prestigious thing you can do as a writer. My journalist friends thought it was foolish, because blogs do not pay bills. But I’m convinced it was basically the *only* way that I could be fully, unapologetically true to my own writing style and interests. When you write your own things — without consideration for editors or “mass appeal” or “prestige” — I think you will be more creative. Your writing will be deeper, more comprehensive, and more enjoyable! In other words, I think that to do your best work, it's sometimes helpful to separate what you do for prestige vs. what you do for yourself.

@srikosuri @MIT Sad I missed you!

Have some time to kill @MIT. Hanging out at Stata cafe; what should I do?

@pyroov8 And the person who demands you "just listen" will accuse you of being self-centered 🤡 Both are valid ways of nurturing empathy

society has us convinced that trying to empathize by giving examples of how you relate makes you autistic

@AlecStapp Far from an expert, but seems like more speculative "real" estate assets as investment vehicles are not the solution in the same way that adding extra lanes to highways does not reduce traffic. Everyone knows how much empty housing stock exists in NYC

London has almost completely stopped building new housing. Makes NYC look like a YIMBY utopia by comparison.

This has gone on for decades with barely any serious pushback. Fleets mass near the Galápagos and along the edges of Alaska & Canada, right on America’s doorstep This is one of the biggest silent crises happening in the world right now. Long overdue for real US policy action.

The giant Chinese fishing ship swarms are brighter than all the cities in the southern half of South America combined! China operates more than 500,000 fishing vessels, and at least 50,000 overseas fishing fleets that wipe the oceans clean on their path! Collectively, they probably consume more petroleum fuel by volume and emit more CO2 than all the cars in Europe combined, let alone the global scale environmental and ecological mass destruction. Never saw @GretaThunberg, @Greenpeace and other UN and WEF puppets protesting against the Chinese deliberate destruction of the marine ecosystem all across the world. @CyrusShares

@xsphi Same

ANYWAY IF YOU WORK FOR A HYPEROBJECT TENDRIL AND ITS HIRING, LMK

> ASK POTENTIAL EMPLOYER IF THEY'RE A SLOP FACTORY OR A TENDRIL OF THE HYPEROBJECT AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE REACHING BACKWARDS THROUGH TIME TO ASSEMBLE ITSELF > DON'T UNDERSTAND > ILLUSTRATED DIAGRAM > "GOOD SAN FRANCISCO STARTUP" > SLOP FACTORY

@WillManidis Overton window on the definition of humanity is about to go off a cliff

typos are increasingly proof of work for humanity