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The ultimate irony of the FIRE movement is that the personality type required to achieve it makes actually retiring impossible: if you possess what it takes to accumulate enough capital to entirely exit the economy by age forty, you are definitely not the kind of person who can spend the next four decades sitting quietly on a porch doing nothing. You are simply substituting the corporate hamster wheel with an ascetic religion of extreme frugality, trading the best years of your life for a hypothetical future, while completely ignoring the structural reality that increasing your income is infinitely easier than cutting your baseline expenses to zero. Money is only useful when spent.

There’s hope in hard questions.

This tweet posits that authors are mad because, among the 1% of authors who write sci-fi, 1% of them imagined AI less-capable than Claude. And people are like, “yeah, seems right!!” The echo chamber is WILD on here. I really am going to have to make this video aren’t I?

Jaylen Brown says players should be able to own equity in teams because they help increase the value of NBA franchises “Players should be able to invest alongside ownership groups and business opportunities. I don't understand why that’s ever been a thing. It's like you’re an athlete and they make it seem like they can control how much wealth or growth that you could actually accumulate. I think that's wrong” “I also think that any other major corporation, if you work for Apple, Nike or anywhere, if you're a CEO, if you're someone who has been on a board for a large amount of time, you get equity in a company at some point. You are part of it” “I think athletes should be looked at in the same way. You played for the Celtics for 20 years, you should get a piece of equity because you helped accumulate the growth. That's the part that gets lost in translation. The sweat equity you put in. You get compensated for doing your job, but you don't get compensated for the growth. At major corporations and companies you do, or at least some of the big ones”

I once found this interesting paper on functional analysis, and combined it in a basically trivial way with a separate construction from my PhD research to get a more general result. wrote it up in a weekend, published it in a surprisingly good journal, it’s at like 50 cites now.

A very nice proof! A thread with a couple of comments:

I fear the general progressivism of American Muslims is a bit overstated in leftist circles. They disapprove of gay marriage, for instance, by more than any other religious affiliation except Jehovah's Witnesses. Only 33% approve.

a major advantage Texas has over California is that its property taxes are higher and income taxes are lower

Last week I talked to a guy who graduated with an ML PhD from a very good university and is now working at a 1st tier place as a QR. He hates his job, doesn't get to do any ML, just doing grindy data cleaning. They bait-and-switched him on the job.

Wembanyama decided on the 25% maximum instead of the 30% supermax escalators to $303M, after he and the Spurs went through multiple frameworks. A major decision for the All-NBA star and Defensive Player of the Year entering his fourth season. San Antonio worked in close partnership with Wembanyama and his representatives, offering the full super max and different variations of extensions. But Wembanyama ultimately chose a contract sacrifice rooted in giving him and the organization increased ability to build a sustained title contender around him.

Bob Myers defends Jaylen Brown after Max Kellerman said analytics don’t favor him. Myers points out, “You know who else analytics didn’t favor? Klay Thompson. Analytics doesn’t value the nuances of the game like shutting down the opposing teams best player