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@ramit Ramit this course looks great. I just signed up. You mentioned you had worked with a coach, and I think that would help accelerate putting this into practice and getting quick feedback. Anyone great you’d recommend as a coach for this?

How To Talk To Anybody includes how to stop rambling, how to tell better stories, and how to stop using filler words iwillteachyoutoberich.com/how-to-talk-to…

You can learn to speak without "ums" in 6 months If you're extremely driven, you can master this in a single month I learned this on my own + from coaches, and now I've coached my students + coworkers I have a course on social skills below, which I rarely share publicly

@indeed @cojobrien 6/ 3 examples of sectoral displacement: China shock post 2001, shale bust in 2015, the "retail apocalypse" of 2017-2019. In all of these, sectoral employment fell, but aggregate employment rose, because these shocks raised real incomes for everyone else.

@thogge You were right, the former PMs tweet was lame. This tweet of yours however, totally badass and not at all lame.

Noticed this tweet from a year ago is getting some action Wonder why See that the White House quote tweeted it with a bald eagle strangling a goose L F G

U.S. trade with Canada is in the headlines, so it's good to review the facts about this mutually beneficial relationship:

Our President is such a whiner.

Question: If Canada came to the US and said, 'We're going to 0 tariffs on the US, all of them are off,' would you and the president go to 0 tariffs and let Canadian companies and American companies compete on a level playing field? Bessent: Absolutely not

@bgurley @rohanpaul_ai Thinking back to Uber about 10 years ago

@rohanpaul_ai Most companies that are supply constrained raise price. This would balance everything. Yet that isn’t happening. Why?

"Anthropic is making great money. OpenAI is making great money. If they could have twice as much compute, the revenues would go up 4 times as much. These guys are so compute constrained, and the demand is so incredibly great." ~ Jensen Huang on CNBC

@AIHighlight @briannekimmel The left one is Hitch

Unbelievable. This is just a 3 years difference in AI progress

It turns out ACLs are more of a “nice to have”

Waiting for Bessent to explain why this is totally normal and Canada “shouldn’t escalate”

Bessent: How dare you publicly articulate what we are doing. Stop picking fights with us!

Mark Carney this morning: "To be absolutely clear, and I said this to the president, I meant what I said in Davos...It was a broader set of issues, and Canada was the first country to understand the change in U.S. trade policy that he initiated, and we're responding to that."

Did they lose their copy of Swan Lake or

@AnnikaSays AI reduces the marginal cost of producing content….we get this

Why is this news

@wolfejosh Josh you have a strong record of calling out bullshit when others won’t. What do you make of the administrations misinformation campaign about this incident? Seems like the most concerning signal in all of this on a systematic level

further 1 I don't have an issue with ICE. i have an issue with the excessive violence or lethal force of ICE. no need. 2 it was definitively too violent + excessive lethal force from ICE. nothing required guns. even if he had a gun, there were 4+ ICE agents on him with bulletproof vests trained to disarm + disable assailants even shooting in leg OK nothing required lethal force shooting to kill. 3 on protestors: i also dont know why the noise/whistle blowing provocations. it is ONLY going to cause blowback. ICE agents were WRONG to use lethal force but whoever was following ICE agents around and blasting noise in their face/ears is NOT peaceful protest. it is provocation/incitement hoping to get a reaction. be angry. be vocal. protest. but do NOT put yourself in harms way or incite or provoke.

ICE sucks. Their tactics are 100% excessively violent + uncessary AND civilians should 100% be smart + protest peacefully + NOT physically engage local, state, federal law enforcement. That is a terrible idea that almost always ends in tragedy 1 person dying is too many 43,000 murdered in Iran also deserves more outrage

Bessent continues to play chief sane-washer

@therealjared100 @jam_croissant @swb427 @OAlexanderDK Now you’re the one playing word games. “Attacking” = “Not complying” I see a guy protecting himself as he gets attacked from behind. That’s about as compliant as I can imagine someone being in that situation. If you think you would have gone limp faster, good for you, I guess

This is even worse than I imagined. The victim was trying to help a person pushed to the ground by the agent when he was maced, wrestled to the ground and then shot and killed. No justification for this shooting.

@hughhewitt Strong ad-hominem response. It seems you don’t like hearing how others are seeing things shaping up, and you’d rather not engage on the substance.

Make time to listen to Canadian PM Mark Carney’s speech and Q-and-A at Davos. It is quietly but quite definitely anti-American. Thoroughly so, though cowardly in its avoidance of naming us or President Trump. The former banker got a standing ovation from the bankers annual pep rally. Of course he would. But as you listen, keep in mind some facts. First, Carney purports to speak for the “Middle Powers” —a variant of the non-aligned nations of the Cold War. Which is odd since Canada depends almost entirely on America for its national defense and for freedom of the seas that allows it to sell its oil. Second, Canada has 42 million people and a GDP of 2.4 trillion but doesn’t even spend 2% of that GDP on defense. (It promises to reach 2% by 2030. Right.) It is not a “Middle Power.” Carney says he stands with Greenland and Denmark (against whom he doesn’t say because in a uniquely cowardly approach to rhetoric he doesn’t name @POTUS or the U.S.), but when asked in the Q-and-A if there’s an “off ramp” on the subject, Carney is hopeful about the “discussions which have been catalyzed in an unusual way.” Carney talks about the need for Europe and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (which doesn’t exist) to expand so as to counteract the “hegemons.” Yes, really he did. China and the U.S., just two hegemons. No differences at all. He doesn’t mention the $62 billion trade surplus Canada has with the U.S. In fact his speech is free of the reality of hard facts. (He does mention that Canada has submarines. It does. 4. The newest was commissioned in 2015. The other 3 were commissioned in 2003 (2) and 2000 (1).) Canada has a standing military of 68,000. Unlike Poland and Finland which are also frontline states with Russia, Canada doesn’t actually have any ability to repulse conventional incursions from Russia without the U.S. to quickly back it up. In short, it is a cowardly bit of theater by a banker for bankers, an anti-Trump speech by the fellow who just got back from warmly embracing Xi. (The genocide of the Uyghurs, the crushing of Hong Kong’s freedoms, the ongoing threat to Taiwan, Jimmy Lai’s imprisonment —none of that distinguishes the “hegemons.”) The truth —the real, hard facts of the world— is that Canada is not a “middle power.” It’s a small power blessed to live under the security umbrella provided for the past 80 years by the U.S., and to earn its excellent standard of living because of the freedom of the seas guaranteed by the U.S. When you hear Carney declare Canada to be an “energy superpower,” ask yourself to which countries does it sell its oil and to which countries could its oil be sold should freedom of the seas be contested? Justin Trudeau was a clown. Mark Carney appears to be a vain banker from Tom Wolff’s Bonfire of the Vanities —a “master of the universe” in an imaginary world. Of course he got a standing ovation at Davos for his “Middle Power” chest thumping. What did Canada do to itself since the days of Harper and Mulroney? The link to the speech is in the replies. Listen to it all. I hope @POTUS does.