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Brandon Brown

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Software Architect | Investing | 🐮 Yak Shaving | Writing @ https://t.co/qrFOGbweUD | Here for ideas - DMs open

Colorado Springs, CO Katılım Mart 2013
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Brandon Brown
Brandon Brown@_brandonbrown_·
Hi there! 👋 Quick intro: 💻 Engineer & TPM at FAANG 🧑‍💻 Solo Dev building side businesses 💰 Building wealth and investing ⛰️ Living in beautiful Colorado ☕️ Coffee connoisseur ✍️ Write occasionally Follow me for thoughts on any of the above!
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@Austen Except the entire article was written based on the misstated name
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The Rational Animal 🤔
The Rational Animal 🤔@theobjectivist·
The average American today lives better than John D. Rockefeller did in 1926. That is not an exaggeration. It is a fact. Rockefeller could not fly across the country in five hours. You can for $200. He could not video call his family from another continent. You do it for free. He had no antibiotics, no MRI, no air conditioning in July. He could not carry every book ever written in his pocket. You are reading this on a device that does all of that and more. Americans throw away 30-40% of their food. Not because they are wasteful, but because food is so abundant that waste is affordable. Your car has climate control, navigation, and safety systems that did not exist at any price a century ago. Your home has heating, cooling, refrigeration, and entertainment that emperors could not have imagined. None of this was voted into existence. None of it was redistributed from the rich. It was created by free minds operating in what remains of a free market. Every comfort you enjoy today is the product of a man who thought, invented, produced, and traded voluntarily. This is what the remnants of capitalism still deliver, even while it is being dismantled. Imagine what a fully free society could build.
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Brandon Brown@_brandonbrown_·
@Shpigford I've had no issues with it. Genuinely want to know what im missing?
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Josh Pigford
Josh Pigford@Shpigford·
i've spent 3 hours this morning working with GPT 5.4 in 🦞 and have absolutely nothing good to say about it
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Brandon Brown@_brandonbrown_·
@bcherny Why did it take you like 3 months to clarify this?
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Boris Cherny
Boris Cherny@bcherny·
Starting tomorrow at 12pm PT, Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw. You can still use these tools with your Claude login via extra usage bundles (now available at a discount), or with a Claude API key.
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Brandon Brown@_brandonbrown_·
1. the court already upheld the unconstitutional capital gains tax as not "income tax" even though this is how it is treated at the federal level. 2. the governor has stated he will sign the bill 3. always harder to repeal than to pass, plus it's not a broad income tax, just at the millionaire level which is more popular. 4. wealthy people plan years ahead, so would likely make the decision relatively soon 5. WA is going from 0 -> 10% overnight, where as CA residents have always known the deal (and often justify it for the weather). Many techies specifically moved from CA to WA for the no income tax and would move again for tax reasons. Wealthy people aren't waiting around to see what happens, they just look at the expected cost and make decisions. Just look at the CA wealth tax proposal - enough to make the wealthy start moving regardless of whether it passes. I don't think it's going to be an "exodus" level event, but certainly going to be a larger migration than average.
Daniel Vassallo@dvassallo

I don’t believe anyone is moving out of WA because of the millionaire tax: 1. The tax is almost certainly unconstitutional and will be struck down by the court 2. The governor hasn’t even signed it yet 3. Can be repealed by citizen initiative and voters have already voted against income tax 10 times, most recently in 2010 4. Even if it passes, it only takes effect in 2028 5. California, as almost every other state, has an even higher millionaire tax and it seems like plenty of millionaires stay there If you’re wealthy, why would you uproot your life and family on something that will very likely not happen and if it happens you have 2 years to react?

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Brandon Brown
Brandon Brown@_brandonbrown_·
Tried the new claude computer feature and asked it to download some invoices from a website that i had opened for it. Burned through my usage limit in about 15-20 minutes and kept asking for permissions even after I (thought) turned on yolo mode. Then it kept losing connection to the extension. After we got past that, it was simply unable to hit the download button and started writing random js scripts to run, and gave up by writing a python script and telling me to get an API key. AGI is not here folks
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Brandon Brown
Brandon Brown@_brandonbrown_·
@micsolana really weird that some women just want to bring life into the world instead of grind in tech
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Mike Solana
Mike Solana@micsolana·
my sense with all of this is just like, we've been beating the "lean in" drum for a couple decades now and I think the average american just doesn't want to be sheryl sandberg, which is fine actually
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Brandon Brown
Brandon Brown@_brandonbrown_·
@Shpigford @nikitabier Ha, I do appreciate it, just don't really like using QT for everything because most other people in the discussion won't see it.
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Brandon Brown
Brandon Brown@_brandonbrown_·
@SawyerMerritt Ah yes, those regulations are to thank for giving us the first successful EV
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Sawyer Merritt
Sawyer Merritt@SawyerMerritt·
Gavin is acting like the leaders in California didn't have a heavy hand in driving Elon away.... Gavin Newsom on Elon Musk in new interview: "One of the great disappointments. It breaks my heart. I got one of the first Teslas off the line. I've been one of their biggest proponents. It was regulation that created the conditions that allowed him to take the risk to become the multi-billionaire, or trillionaire, that he's become." In May 2020, then-Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez posted, “F*ck Elon Musk,” to which Elon replied, “Message received.” Tesla started building their Giga Texas HQ soon after.
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Brandon Brown@_brandonbrown_·
@RyanDanz Wow, thanks for taking the time to write this up and share. Great info
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Brandon Brown@_brandonbrown_·
@gas_biz I'm more surprised that the Porsche is that cheap to insure. I thought sporty cars carried higher risk
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Shawn Gorham
Shawn Gorham@shawngorham·
Remember the kid at church who bought a flip at 20? He closed on Friday Walked up to me a church, handed me a hand written card with a coffee gift card Friends - the kid is 20 His future is so freaking bright btw - I hate that he got me a $100 gift card, I am trying to get better at accepting gifts
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Shawn Gorham@shawngorham

Action: A kid (I think he is 21) asked me about flipping homes one Sunday after church. I dont really know him. I answered all his questions, gave him my number. He followed up with a couple text questions. Two month later he bought a flip, he told me after he bought it. Last night he sent me the Redfin listing. HE FLIPPED IT (rehab) IN 3 WEEKS - kitchen, 2 bathrooms, flooring, paint, doors, electrical panel. WITH PERMITS It looks really good too. My advice to him? Bro stop flipping houses right now and go build a trades business He has the goods I am so impressed.

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Brandon Brown@_brandonbrown_·
@jackusherr I agree. If you are always planning contingencies in marriages, it tends to become a self fulfilling thing. If you can't go all in, that's a signal that maybe you shouldn't be going into it at all.
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Jack Usher
Jack Usher@jackusherr·
Big fan of Nick and his blog. This is one area where I strongly disagree with the recommendation. You'll save so much mental and emotional energy by going all in on shared bank accounts and building on a foundation of trust and honesty.
Nick Maggiulli@dollarsanddata

There's a simple solution to this: -Joint bank account (all income goes in, all shared expenses come out) -Each spouse keeps separate account -Any surplus (in joint account) gets split (50/50) and sent to separate accounts -For big purchases, each party deposits back into joint

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