@KelseyTuoc Which is a shame. I think there’s a lot of appetite for something better. Kudos for trying to build it. Hope it succeeds!
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Michael Douglass
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@KelseyTuoc Yeah *feels* like there hasn’t been a whole lot of “here’s what a good education looks like” discourse for a while, most stuff just rehashing old arguments circa NCLB/charter schools/thiel fellows/etc.
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I disagree with Alpha School's approach on some stuff but my agreement on this is very very strong and getting this right is important enough to cover for many other mistakes
MacKenzie Price@mackenzieprice
I don’t think we’ve ever had a kid whose knowledge level matched their grade level across every core subject. That’s why fixed grade levels don’t work. A kid should be allowed to do 7th grade math and 4th grade writing at the same time.
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@KelseyTuoc (To our values, that is. Thanks twitter for the short reply lengths for us freeloaders.) Lots of good stuff here for us to chew on - and the only critique of alpha school I’ve read that felt practical instead of being ideological (“AI bad, end of story.”) Appreciate it.
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@KelseyTuoc Great framework. My spouse and I have struggled with how to educate our children after their play/nature based coop preschool (oldest is heading to first grade, public school because its NoVA and the private schools are ridiculously expensive and are at best only a partial match)
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@girdley Yeah, and not just for restaurants either. My church has really strong social bonds, big piece of that is - fellowship hour has good food and can replace lunch maybe 40% of the time. People stick around, eat good food, get to know each other better, flywheel etc.
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@Workingnowpleas "Make good food" needs to be somewhere near the top.
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Private equity bought beloved Texas burger chain Whataburger in 2019.
Customers have complained about a decline in burger/fry/drink quality and service since.
PEs answer?
Franchising and menu expansion.
You see this pattern across business.
“We aren’t growing? Let’s add a frappuccino machine!”
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Makes me think of Domino’s and their turnaround last decade.
They focused on fixing their pizza (it was bad) and ease of ordering (online/app).
I have snobby friends that say “Dominos is good pizza” now.
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It’s easy to dance around the core problems facing a business.
And kid ourselves about what’s really wrong.
It’s often that a business has lost sight of what made it successful in the first place.
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Polite White Supremacist and failson of famous actor belches, again.
Ben Dreyfuss@bendreyfuss
I don’t want to get hysterical about one primary night in one very blue city but Chevalier is genuinely embarrassing.
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@bhalligan @DrivinLuke Because truth is inherently kind. You speak it with the person’s best interests at heart. Perpetuating a situation that’s not working is not doing them a kindness.
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@DrivinLuke Violently agree. How you give unkind truths matters a metric ton.
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Like Mom always said; " It's not just what you say so much as how you say it. "
Tone and content are critical for effective and constructive conversation.
Brian Halligan@bhalligan
I don't remember where I found this, but its spot on.
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@KelseyTuoc @tenobrus And all seemingly without a moment of introspection or self-awareness. Just momentum all day every day.
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@tenobrus people get bored and so decide that the old stuff is uncool and the new stuff is cool. they'll cycle back in another six months and be incredibly impressed with themselves for their savvy the whole time.
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when did "the mandate of heaven" start meaning "whoever twitter likes more that week"
Lisan al Gaib@scaling01
this is more fitting than ever anthropic is losing the mandate but they are completely unfazed and in a complete social media blackout
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Michael Douglass retweetledi
i can still live another 50 years if @Mike_Pence has the courage
Mike Pence@Mike_Pence
Profoundly Moving. Start to Finish. Thank You @BenSasse for Your Personal Courage and Showing What it Means to Love Your Family and Love God🙏🏻
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@KelseyTuoc @G31020330 I will never understand why people use twitter to vent their weirdly personal hatreds, publicly.
Wishing ill on others has never made my life better. Has it ever improved anyone’s?
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@G31020330 Someday you'll look back on this tweet and feel incredibly deeply embarrassed. The world isn't ending; we will all continue to live in it; and our lives are really incredibly joyous, meaningful and good.
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The end is coming for us all, but I pray to god I get to live long enough to see people like this cry tears of blood and choke out the phrase 'suboptimal' with their last agonized breaths. Please god let the calamity take them first and let their pain be prime time viewing
Kelsey Piper@KelseyTuoc
Suboptimal policy and business decisions have costs measured in human lives. But if you use the standard 'you could easily have done something different to save a life, and you didn't', 'being a person in the US with $10k and not donating it to GiveWell' is social murder.
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Founders who can write clearly are rare and worth paying attention to.
Dan puts Dario in the same class as Bezos.
The only signal that mattered early in Amazon was the '97 shareholder letter.
Patrick OShaughnessy@patrick_oshag
My conversation with Dan Sundheim (@dsundheim). He is the founder and CIO of D1 Capital Partners, which manages over $30B across public and private markets. There's no one as passionate about investing as Dan. We had a really wide-ranging conversation and discuss: - Public vs. private markets in 2026 - Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX - How Dario reminds him of Jeff Bezos - The future of hyperscalers - The software selloff and what comes next - GameStop and the LP dinner that followed - China vs. US: the risk of Taiwan Enjoy! Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:05 Public vs. Private Markets 9:10 LLMs as a Business Model 23:23 The Future of Hyperscalers 27:45 AI's Impact on Traditional Software 36:31 Surviving the GameStop Short Squeeze 49:54 Big Private Bets: Rivian and SpaceX 54:26 The Art of Short Selling 1:04:28 Early Career 1:17:11 Geopolitics and the Semiconductor Collision Course 1:22:05 Traits of Great Leadership 1:23:20 The Kindest Thing
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