Erica Nemser

@RichyCraven @JigarShahDC Amazing storytelling!

@wolfejosh Great paper. Congrats. Cool follow on: explore the same Qs with conditionals on gender and access to capital: do women make the same choices in the same circumstances & is this mediated by K, consistent with the market equilibrium we see today among women entrepreneurs

12/ Source paper from friend Deepak Hedge @ NYU Stern ssrn.com/abstract=25968…

1/ Here are some REALLY interesting findings from a controversial empirical paper asking: *WHY do some people become ENTREPRENEURS?* Of the many findings + hypotheses, a few stand out -SIGNALING theory -REJECTING a system that REJECTS them...

@kearney_melissa You are an inspiration. Keep on saying and doing the real and hard things. They matter.

The problem with my Twitter feed being mostly left leaning academic types is that it is pretty upset with me right now… Anyone have a right leaning Twitter feed I could lurk on for a little bit? Maybe I’m less loathed over there this week… 😳

@stats_feed How about by passengers and not flights?

The world’s top 10 busiest airports: 🇺🇸 Atlanta, ATL: 2,231 🇺🇸 Chicago, ORD: 2,090 🇺🇸 Dallas, DFW: 1,942 🇺🇸 Denver, DEN: 1,844 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, LAX: 1,678 🇺🇸 Las Vegas, LAS: 1,618 🇹🇷 Istanbul, IST: 1,612 🇺🇸 Charlotte, CLT: 1,524 🇺🇸 New York, JFK: 1,411 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, AMS: 1,407 *average daily movements

@historyinmemes Even so, thanks for highlighting the WASPs

@historyinmemes 1942 is during WW2 and not WW1

During World War I, Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) played a crucial role. In 1942, the United States faced a severe pilot shortage, and leaders initiated an experimental program to train women to fly military aircraft. This allowed male pilots to be released for combat overseas. The group of female pilots became known as the Women Airforce Service Pilots or WASP for short. Over 1,100 young women, all civilian volunteers, flew various military aircraft, including B-26 and B-29 bombers, as part of the WASP program. They undertook tasks such as ferrying new planes long distances, testing overhauled aircraft, and towing targets for ground and air gunner training with live ammunition. In total, they covered over 60 million miles, transported every type of military aircraft, towed targets for live anti-aircraft gun practice, simulated strafing missions, and transported cargo. Tragically, thirty-eight WASP members lost their lives, and one disappeared while on a ferry mission, with her fate remaining unknown as of 2019. In recognition of their World War II service, the members were granted veteran status in 1977. Additionally, in 2009, President Obama awarded them the Congressional Gold Medal.

@AuschwitzMuseum Happy Birthday!!

3 September 1919 | A Polish Jew, Sam Weinreich, was born in Łódź. His mother and several siblings died of hunger in the ghetto created by the Germans in the town they renamed Litzmannstadt. In 1944, Sam was deported to #Auschwitz. He survived. Today he turns 104. Join us and @ABMFusa in wishing him happy birthday!

@drgurner My experience is that it’s solitary but it’s not actually lonely. I don’t lack for human interaction, team, and companionship - sometimes I am drowning in those, actually. But much of the work is mine and mine alone: the internal work and the leadership

Leadership is lonely. Ambition is lonely. Building is lonely. Even if you have a great company or great spouse, a lot of the journey is internal & you're on your own. It's really hard to bear, and people will drop out over time. You have to want it in your core.

@galeforceVC Thanks for sharing

I no longer answer cold pitch DMs. Why? Regular attacks on my character and time. I don’t like to talk about how hard it is being a woman in startups and VC - makes people (men) uncomfortable. But I had to share this one because it’s just so blatantly wrong and WTF, it’s 2023.

@JofallT7 @GHogie69 @theraleighwill @SMB_Attorney The arrival fallacy. Lots of people fall into it

@GHogie69 @theraleighwill @SMB_Attorney You convince yourself you don’t really hate it and if you just make it a few more years, it’ll all be great

The smartest guy I knew from law school is miserable and makes way less money than he should and he wants out. Here is how he went off the rails (his words not mine) and how you can avoid it. Its about understanding the cost of optionality. 🧵

@drgurner Yes. A very small group of people actually matter. And naysayers are rarely in that group.

Being fine with periods of solitude, working alone, pushing things forward without others cheering you on...that's a superpower. The ability to run your own race, despite what the world is doing, initially looks behind - but puts you out front.

A million thanks to those that helped along the way. @climatetech_vc @EnergyImpact_ @posamentier @mcjpod @Third_Deriv Too many to mention

🎉 Closed the Series A! 🏭 #CCUS here we come! 🙋‍♀️Add us to the list of women closing oversubscribed rounds 🙏to the amazing ⁦@PangaeaVentures ⁦@SolvayGroup⁩ ⁦@Chevron⁩ ⁦@TechnipEnergies⁩ GCVentures More 👇 compactmembrane.com/seriesa/

@GraysonSchool sees that value and does it well

@lrpeck @david_perell Me too

@david_perell My children go to a school that segments based on skill and I’m a big fan.

If schools were serious about learning outcomes, they’d segment kids by skill-level instead of age-level.

@areyousure77 @VeryBadLlama That why they have the license plates….to remember

USA: our airport codes are shorted versions of the city’s name, or an abbreviation of the airport Europe: our airport codes are shorted versions of the city’s name, or an abbreviation of the airport Canada: EVERY AIRPORT CODE IS THE LETTER Y PLUS FRIENDS

@CarbonHerald @compactmembrane So thrilled to have another great partner decarbonizing with our technology! #Decarbonization #CO2

RHI Magnesita is pleased to announce its partnership with Compact Membrane Systems (CMS) to launch a new carbon capture pilot project. @compactmembrane #carboncapture bit.ly/3O5iSeZ

@straightclimbi1 @drgurner Oscar Wilde

Just be whoever you want to be - Other people will adjust.

@charlesdbecker @jposhaughnessy @david_perell The Painted Bird Jerzy Kazinski

This is a really solid list. Which are your favorites? I’d include Never Let Me Go instead of or alongside Remains of the Day. I’d also include, for fiction: Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez) A Confederacy of Dunces (Toole) The Color Purple (Walker) Winters Tale (Helprin) Gilead (Robinson) Beloved (Morrison) The Overstory (Powers) Non fiction: Selfish Gene (Dawkins) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Angelou) The End of History (Fukuyama) The Power Broker (Caro) Thinking Fast and Slow (Kahneman) The Year of Magical Thinking (Didion)

Spent the week with a guy who refuses to read anything written in the past 50 years.

@TravelsCharlie @historyinmemes Wow. Thank you for sharing

On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was on board TWA flight 2, bound for Hawaii with a stop in St. Louis. The wheels of my plane left the runway of JFK airport at 08:45 AM. On the flight with me was my brother Jim at a window seat. Jim witnessed the plane crashing into the north tower of the World Trade Center moments after we were airborne. About forty minutes into our flight, our plane slowed dramatically and lost altitude. The maneuver caused me to rise off my seat an inch or two and bump into the the back of the seat in front of me. Then the fasten seat belt sign came on. The Captain eventually announced we were being diverted to Dayton, Ohio due to a national emergency. That was the only announcement. A somber flight attendant nodded her head yes in response to my question about whether our diversion was due to what we had witnessed taking off from New York. The flight attendant said she had no other information. Myself, my girlfriend Kate, and brother Jim concluded correctly there had been a terror attack. Now why were we being diverted? Kate and Jim concluded all planes in flight must be landing - a notion I dismissed. I am a bit of a flight buff and knew there would be thousands of planes in flight early on a Tuesday morning. In fact, Jim and Kate were correct. It was a bold and courageous decision by Ben Sliney, the Federal Aviation Administration’s Operations Manager. And it was Ben’s first day on the job. Well done Ben! However, I believed our plane must have some connection to the terrorist activity we witnessed upon take off. I thought very likely there could be a bomb on our plane. When Jim and Kate asked me what I thought was going on, I simply said I did not know. Sometimes the better part of valor is to remain quiet. I then sat quietly and reflected. I was fifty-two. My two daughters were grown and successful. My affairs were in order: I had no debt, some money in the bank and life insurance. I had lived a very productive life full of adventure and contribution. My only option at that point was to care for the people I was with. I turned to Jim and Kate and made small talk. I was not happy, but I was at peace. It was an extraordinary experience I think about often. After we landed in Dayton we discovered the reason for our dramatic maneuver while airborne was our pilot was avoiding a mid-air collision with flight 93, the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania that day. Flight 93 took off from Newark airport following an east to west air corridor. Our flight fell in behind flight 93 which turned back toward us after being hijacked. The ultimate irony here is I had just ended my twenty year career as a Firefighter and Lieutenant with the New York City Fire Department. I had been an officer in charge of Engine Company 5 in Manhattan’s East Village and September 11, 2001 would have been my next work day had I not chosen to retire. The officer that replaced me was among my 343 colleagues killed that day.

On September 11, 2001, Andrea Haberman started her day with a playful ritual she and her fiancé shared whenever they were apart: whoever called the other first thing in the morning won the competition. That day, Andrea won. She took advantage of the time difference and called from a desk in the Carr Future offices high in the North Tower, deciding to arrive early for her 9:00 a.m. meeting. About 40 minutes after she hung up the phone with him, a hijacked commercial airliner crashed through the building a floor above her. Escape was not possible. Months later, recovery workers discovered some of Andrea's personal items in the debris pile at Ground Zero. Among them was the cell phone she used to call her fiancé for the last time. This and some of her other belongings are now part of the 9/11 Memorial Museum's collection.