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Sondre Rasch

@SRasch

Co-founder and CEO @SafetyWing (YC18), building a global social safety net. Tweeting about remote work, philosophy, and the future.

San Francisco, CA Katılım Nisan 2009
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Local government is like an appendix in governance history. It was never intended. After the American Revolution everyone copied the Constitution into each municipality. But many towns don’t have enough people to support that structure. You get a loose checks and balances system where no one is paying attention - ripe with corruption and poor management.
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This is the age of building new cities. Digital nomads are the first target audience: the most mobile early adopter segment of society, almost mobile by identity. @gmcbhutan love your project, would love to chat if we can participate!
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Gelephu Mindfulness City l Bhutan@gmcbhutan

Bhutan has announced a landmark Bitcoin Development Pledge, committing up to 10,000 BTC (≈ USD 1B) to support the long-term development of Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC). Guided by the vision of His Majesty King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, the pledge reflects a values-led, responsible approach to using digital assets for national resilience, jobs, and youth opportunity. Read more: gmc.bt/pledge

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@fgenstart I agree, I suppose there is a worry you are giving people a peak into your subconcious and might share something you yourself did not even understand
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@SRasch sharing dreams feels weirdly personal sometimes but theres some wild stuff in there
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I don't know why more people don't share their nightly dreams. Their symbolic insights communicate things hard to put into words otherwise.
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@simixn Great, I actually did not know. That said, Norway still has it, and where i now live in California just a proposal of one is causing capital flight, so highly relevant still
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This is the death throes of large welfare states in 2026. I was so motivated to stay a tax resident in Norway that I paid the wealth tax out of pure nostalgia and loyalty (I lived in the US). With an early stage startup, that was not liquid, my accountant eventually gave me the choice between bankruptcy and leaving back in 2019. And when the damage is done, it isnt easy to reverse. People will move, buy a house, and settle down a new place. They're not going to move back. You're going to miss a generation of entrepreneurs, and reduced long-term growth.
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NETHERLANDS HOUSE PASSES 36% TAX ON UNREALIZED GAINS As expected, the Dutch House of Representatives has approved a 36% tax on unrealized capital gains, with only forward loss offsets permitted. The proposal now moves to the Senate, where parties that supported the bill also hold a majority, making final approval likely. Critics warn the measure could disrupt long term investment strategies, weaken compounding effects, and encourage capital outflows. Several right leaning parties had publicly criticized the proposal in advance, but most ultimately voted in favor, citing fiscal constraints and the cost of delaying or revising the plan, stating "we don't like it either but we have to".

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Dubai is the shining city in the desert. It is incredibly unique, and a symbol of ambition that draws people from across the Middle East. It will bounce back from this because of its optimism and willingness to build. 100% guaranteed.
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In a real company town there are benefits no local government can match. If the town is run by SpaceX or Google, the friction of living there goes down. A lot of people, if they are being honest, don’t care about ideology in local politics. They care if roads are maintained, electricity is flowing, and service quality is high. People are perfectly fine with their community run by a company if it’s run excellently.
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Phones and social media are where cable TV was in the 80s. 8 hours of Cartoon Network, TVs in the bathroom and the kitchen. This technology is incredibly addictive, full of crap, and we are almost certainly overusing it. We need norms, rules, shaming, blockers, maybe whitelist only internet to reach a healthy level of use.
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Local and state government is often poorly run. Not because people want bad outcomes, but because of incompetence. The job is poorly paid, publicly criticised, and not prestigious. At best some see it as a ladder to national politics. There are exceptions, idealists with high competence. We need to turn this around and headhunt a lot more great people to these if we are to have great communities in the future.
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The internet is transforming smaller states into something like master planned communities. Governments should embrace that. Even if there is more to a state than that, it's a healthy incentive to treat citizens more like choosy customers. Focus on rent to income, new construction, building new towns and cities. Also:
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There’s an exploration upside to social media, but there’s also a cost. Low quality inputs will affect your output, even if you’re a healthy transformer of information. You can’t stay plugged into external inputs all day or your sense of self evaporates. You need to develop autonomy by thinking by yourself, journaling, and reading old books.
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Internships are underrated, they are a remnant of the apprenticeship. Apprenticeship is part of education. We should do a lot more apprenticeship, and a lot less formal education.
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Loneliness is a human need that points towards a real problem that needs to be solved. Human connection is necessary to doing something good together. Hack it and you're making it worse, not better.
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Trying to fix loneliness by monetising it is like trying to fix fertility by subsidising pornography.
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With a new field, old knowledge and experience isn’t worth as much. Energy levels and willingness to try new things matters more.
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There is a danger of empty learning with social media and AI. I feel like I’m learning, but nothing seems to stick. I try to constrain my use, think for myself first, always write after. What else works?
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Play is step one of learning: to explore an area before you figure out what you optimize on.
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You can become an expert in six months if you go to the frontier.
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You do learn something having a job, working for a company, especially working in an early stage startup. But that wasn't really an option when I was 18.
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Taking a "career job" is deadly if you want to start a startup. They are so tempting to continue that they become traps.
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