Julie Fredrickson

Thinking about what makes me a good fit as an investor or advisor to companies and it boils down to being weird

@sadarlo1 What in the banana hammock

I don’t know to why this is both manly and it’s also giving major cunt. Landsknecht are history’s himbos and I adore them so much. OG pick up artists like Erik von Markovik knew that girls and boys cant’t resist a good peacocking.

@geoffrey_cain He knows his stuff. Excited for it!

This means a lot. David Senra has read more founder biographies than just about anyone. Out Tuesday!

@anistotle_ I’m trying to help them with framing so they don’t fail at winning over people. Not arguing against it.

@AlmostMedia @binarybits @dylanmatt @SnehaRevanur @davidshor @katz_morris @StefFeldman @maidinoff But learning a new skill is not a guarantee of anything - you can learn to use Claude, but if it's due to getting free time since you've been laid off w no steady income + increasing COL? Not sure how this frame would help a person esp if they become unhoused as a result of loss

Very excited to launch a project I've been helping out with the last couple months.* The Center for Shared AI Prosperity is an attempt by an, other than me, very impressive team (so far including @davidshor, @katz_morris, @StefFeldman, @maidinoff, Lindsay Lamont, Jesse Stinebring, @joshhendler, @goldman, and Lilah Penner Brown) to force DC policy elites to take the impending economic impacts of advanced AI more seriously. We do not think this is a normal economic shock, though we are deeply uncertain about what kind of economic shock it will be. We could be left with a world of extreme power and wealth concentration, increasing political instability arising from that growing inequality, and deep questions about how to fund governments that have for a century-plus relied on income and payroll taxes. Our main purpose as an organization is to surface tractable ideas to reform and grow the safety net to meet the moment; to restructure the labor market so workers are still valued and fairly paid; to remake the tax code so that the gains from AI are shared widely; and to experiment with ways of giving average Americans concrete shares in the AI surplus. To that end, we're running a Request for Ideas, and we're offering $3,000 for the best proposals. Top ideas will get rigorous polling from Blue Rose Research to see how Americans feel about them. We are trying to solicit submissions from a wide pool, and purposefully don't want to just ask the usual think tanks, economists, academics, etc. (Though we want them too!) If you have ideas that you think could be useful, please don't hesitate to apply. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions about the program. Read more here: csaip.org *Obligatory disclaimer: I'm doing this on my personal time, not in my capacity at Coefficient Giving. Nothing I or CSAIP say necessarily reflects CG's views.

@TaylorLorenz This is the most Charles Stross coded thing I’ve ever seen. I’m waiting to see a gibbering horror from another dimension emerge

Group AI psychosis sesh in black tie attire at the local castle

@SoniaBaschez I figure it’s up to us now. I’ll keep writing every single day as long as it seems relevant. Maybe it helps

@AlmostMedia We need to maintain standards for the written word!!

literally a skill issue!

@lukeburgis Ship it Leo! The world is waiting with bated breath

I will probably have to reschedule a hotly anticipated Monday afternoon event with hundreds of registrations because Pope Leo's encyclical is delayed. I had a vision of a bald man with glasses suddenly approaching the Holy Father quietly with his bloodless, aged lips which were yearning for a kiss, who grabbed him by the ears to lean in and whisper, repeatedly: "Ship your work...ship your work...ship your work..."

@huntryerson If they’d have me you know I would.

Be the face of the American Empire.

@sadarlo1 Imagine the delight of the nice autist who shares a similar fixation at finding this young woman. My family lore says my great grandmother Adele fled Vichy France with my grandmother to Puerto Rico. So I’m someone who sees the value of preserving this history

Okay that’s a friggin weird fixation I said sotto voce say as I clutch my Landsknecht plush and my umpteenth books on Renaissance warfare.

@0interestrates @johncoogan @jordihays Finally the bros are back on my timeline.

seated at the chud table

@swyx @Gavriel_Cohen Imagine if we paid American politicians well enough that they treated governance as their calling. Perhaps we might get this result. Extremely cool

holy shit lmao @Gavriel_Cohen he's seriously using this thing for conducting the foreign policy/parliamentary affairs of singapore - and sharing his stack on how he is hacking around WhatsApp and doing graph memory on SQLite wtf is this vibecoded country man

@lukeburgis I have a certain set of skills 😬

Or you could look at your career not as a "portfolio", but as a personal vocation, a calling—a single thread of personal conviction and pursuit that runs through whatever specific work that you might engage in, which guides the choice of work in the first place; which admits a transcendent dimension; and which doesn't reduce everything to the economic and the banal. The Human Worker—the @ClunyInstitute's new publication—is coming this summer.

@barakgila I hope you find your person!

shooting my shot: I'm dating again! I'm a 31-year old eng in SF, mostly nerdy (into local politics, the economist, a24, Ellsworth Kelly) also reasonably outdoorsy (running, skiing) and I cook you should be a 25-35 guy who wants kids, is intellectually curious, and lacks chest hair

@psukhopompos @Bonecondor Nothing hits quite as hard as the right antibiotics. And if it’s viral better to know what strain as that opens up other options too

@AlmostMedia @Bonecondor this, dont wait for your lungs to tell you

chat, i am so sick??? i’m vit c, magnesium, zinc maxxing, i’m in my weird peruvian bronchial tea mixes w/ wildflower honey, pollen, royal jelly, propolis, and dried chinese lemons era, i’m a raw garlicel and a vicks on my feetchud and i’m still down bad

My husband and I are both “only” children in that we have 10 and 8 year older siblings so raised functionally alone. I don’t really know blood cousins as my parents didn’t maintain ties with their siblings (each had a sister) but we have a large adopted family from remarriages & also ties that form when American service members deploy to a conflict zone (rocky mountains have very high levels of service) so I feel like I spent a lot of my life around children just not any related to me by blood. It’s almost bizarre how rare it is now for people to dislike children so much. Children are such a delight at every age

I’m an only child. My husband is an only child. My father is an only child. Our child was the first grandchild born in our direct line in over 30 years.

@JoshConstine Didn’t GC literally just release a video about how they take ethical responsibility so seriously 😐

Imitation is flattery. Luel copying Kled’s entire site design, fonts, colors, illustrations etc shows an abject lack of taste and ethics. Not who I’d want holding my personal data.

@InquisitiveUrsa My hope is that by being right in this moment we edge our world back to where it is wrong by investing in the right things that bring us back from the entropy brink. More abundant renewable energy, more compute, decentralized rails for running machine to machine transactions

@AlmostMedia I'd prefer that as well. And you may still be largely wrong. But it does seem that things are moving further in the general direction of more chaos.

Day 1961 is about how everyone talks about accelerating chaos now (epic Julie win?) but we risk careening headlong into the Thucydides trap 🪤 jfredrickson.com/day-1961-and-t…

@PezeshkiCharles I’d still like a sentimental cow and I bet I could make that happen. Dreams do come true

This is important information.

@InquisitiveUrsa It does seem to help. I’ve got the temperament and tolerance for it thanks to nature and nurture. I’d much rather be wrong about my thesis though. Alas fourth turning is here

@AlmostMedia Perhaps an epic Julie win; but I think the bigger win is that you are more comfortable dealing with chaos than many of us.