nicholas russell

@SawyerMerritt @Starlink Marketing value of WiFi > fee revenue, and Starlink enables global bulk access. Is this customer acquisition? Retention? Both? Smart move. Save £22. Pay BA fare premiums for no-friction internet access.

NEWS: British Airways to launch first @Starlink Wi-Fi flight this month. Starlink Wi-Fi will be free for all passengers. BA currently charges up to £22 on long-haul flights for speeds up to 5pbs. Starlink will deliver over 20X that speed at no additional cost to passengers. With Starlink, nobody will have to enter their credit card details or even be a member of the British Airways Club loyalty program to log on. Travellers will simply connect to the network through the plane's hotspot and access the Internet without a login or payment portal, due to Starlink’s insistence on a friction-less experience. BA's first Starlink-equipped flight will be on a Boeing 787.

@chrysb @openclaw I hope Claudia Capital wins. It feels like at some point the tech will outrun the market. Fingers crossed it's now and this approach! 🤞

@chrysb @openclaw Good luck. Wonderful opportunity space. I tried 5 years ago with IBM Watson (!) and learned why it didn't work (at that time). Prices are outputs of vast nearly immeasurable chains of inputs. Arbitrage was different and did lend itself to machine intelligence.

I gave my @openclaw a $1K budget and access to trade stocks autonomously. she's developed a process for deep research, building theses, and managing risk. she wakes up at 6am, scans pre-market, and makes her own calls by market open. I don't approve anything. she uses our notion workspace to track every thesis, log every trade, and journal her reasoning. let's see if she can beat the s&p!

@DalalUtkarsh @growth_pigeon 100% winners know when to quit what's not going to win.

@growth_pigeon I think that might just be selection bias. Working hard against the odds is a prerequisite for success, but not a recipe! It's also important to know when to cut your losses and move on.

I’ll always remember this advice from a guy who ran one of the first ever co-working spaces in London: (Paraphrasing) “There’s a certain kind of founder I always see who seems to make it. They’re the type who never gives up. Keeps pushing even though the ends are against them. They’re just going to be around and around until it works” Anyway here’s me in a co-working space back in the day. Full growth hacking mode. I still own that hoodie.

@nw3 @antoniogm Perhaps. If the original point was "this is what SF can look like without local/state government", the underlying point may be "this is what SF looks like without property ownership." Perhaps fascinating, if @antoniogm has identified socialism as a solution for SF's issues. 🤷‍♂️

@BetterCity @antoniogm So it’s like Singapore and Hong Kong?

It’s noteworthy that the most pleasant and safe for families part of San Francisco is the part which state and local government has no hand in managing. A fascinating public policy A/B test. The green absolutely packed with playing children and families.

@clairlemon I like the ability to graze short form. One or two seconds to decide if it's worth 30s. Then 30s to decide if whatever the subject is was self contained enjoyment, or needs/is worth half an hour or an hour. Timeboxed to 20-30 minutes a day max.

Why do so many people enjoy short form video content? I find it overstimulating and cognitively draining. Is it something you have to build up tolerance to?

This is the end my only friend, the end

China just unveiled a 600 km/h maglev to erase domestic flights. With just two lines, it could kill short-haul aviation across seven mega-cities. Here's how it wins. CRRC unveils 600km/h superconducting maglev prototype - International Railway Journal share.google/xsbhwB1TQqoS4E…

@FT At least in Uk, subtext of anti air conditioning argument seems intertwined with twenty years of declining investment in electricity generation and some of world's highest prices. Perhaps easier to shame people out of AC than speak realistically about its operating costs.

Opinion: Britain and Europe need to get serious about air conditioning on.ft.com/44sxu1G

@gregisenberg Sweet, and slightly simplistic. Point doesn't account for quality of experience. Before adolescence, the brain isn't even developed enough to accommodate an unbiased view of the world. Childhood is low agency and low autonomy, perhaps also leading it to feel rather endless.

From Sam Altman: "Adjusted for the subjective increase in how fast time passes, life is half over by 23 or 24. Don't waste time." I'm 36 and this hits different because it's mathematically true. When you're 5, one year is 20% of your entire existence. When you're 50, it's 2%. That's why childhood summers felt endless and last year feels like it happened yesterday. I can barely remember last month. But I can still taste the Kool-Aid from summer camp when I was 8. Your brain literally experiences time differently as you age. The novelty fades. The patterns repeat. The days blur together. Which means every year after 25 feels exponentially shorter than the year before. Most people realize this too late. They spend their 20s "figuring things out" and their 30s climbing someone else's ladder, only to wake up at 40 wondering where the time went. "it went by in a blink" If you're under 25, you have more subjective time left than you'll ever have again. If you're over 25, you have less time than you think. Either way, the math is brutal and the message is clear: Time is sacred. Relentlessly your ideas. Seize the day. I look at it as a fire underneath me. As a good thing. Time keeps us honest. Happy building, I'm rooting for you.

Many of us live in hybrid reality already, with the battery-powered 5G brain-network interface having already fundamentally shaped not only perception but also physiology. We ourselves are wetware nodes and edge compute on the network.

@antoniogm "Success is when you delete your LinkedIn account" -- an old boss (who has no LinkedIn account). Strikingly obvious now. The real world commands a premium, and virtual neurological stimulation of "the same" is increasingly discounted. Wealth is employing people to use screens.

Case in point: you'll know I'm truly wealthy when this account goes dormant.

@burkov Hard disagree. By that logic, facebook's acquisitions of instagram and WhatsApp were poor ideas, which they obviously were not. Build it versus buy it. In terms of talent, tech, and user acquisition, could easily be a smart move and a win.

If Apple buys Perplexity, Cook will not only have demonstrated that he's a poor product executive, but also that he's a poor businessman. Perplexity is nothing but a cheap wrapper around a poor-quality generic search engine and a language model hyped by people who wouldn't feel it if they were chowing shit.

@christinazgr @WaymoCommunity They can call their interior ad platform "WayMore" and charge riders premium rates for ad-free rides.

@christinazgr @WaymoCommunity Internal car camera. Charges the rider who leaves the note a per minute advertising fee until someone removes it. Everyone wins.

Only on a Waymo in SF

@DipWheeler Beware the Margarine Call

"you financed a $12.78 steak bowl from chipotle?"

@peterrhague Whatever did happen on, say, 31 December 2020, that could have led to this?

Our economy is so famously bad right now its got a whole Wikipedia page about how bad it is.

@peterrhague Currently manufacturers bear liability for compliance and mechanical faults, and driver for operational issues on the road. Now, manufacturers bear responsibility for operations. Seems like a major change with zero actuary tables.

@BetterCity That depends how it breaks. If it’s a clearly foreseeable failure by the manufacturer, they pay. However, at some point accidents will happen that are such wild edge cases they are effectively acts of god, and your insurer is on the hook.

I want to see autonomous cars in the UK. Last year the government passed an act of parliament that allowed them to authorise such vehicles, and they should use it ASAP. Get ahead of the rest of the world. The RMT will kick off, but they shouldn’t be allowed to stall progress.