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@owl_posting counterpoint: x.com/adencle/status…

coming to san francisco and seeing the ridiculous abundance of good weather has radicalized me. we need to terraform the new york metropolitan area. it can be done. what happened during the winter of 2025 can never be allowed to happen again

There is a specific kind of intelligence that is almost never celebrated but is consistently effective: the intelligence that recognizes when the game being played is not the game worth playing.

@paulg x.com/adencle/status…

The Brand Age: paulgraham.com/brandage.html

california is a paradise, which is the only reason it's not one; the ppl here haven't suffered enough. i propose we designate 30 days/yr for a geoengineered winter in which we learn to face the elements, shovel our neighbors' sidewalks, & rediscover the true meaning of Christmas

good writing does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes

Imagine one day, this chart will be about housing. How me made it abundant and cheap, only a small fraction of your income goes towards it. This is the YIMBY mission.

@bumbadum14 it’s new york, which makes it slightly scarier

San Francisco is hell on earth

@dagsen ive been trying to tell people this

FISHBACK WAS THE HEAD OF MACRO???

@apralky econ ? as the 3rd elite career path ? getting econ tenure at an influential institution is a multi decade humiliation ritual for anyone short of genius lvl intellect

There’s an interesting triangle of insecurity among the only 3 remaining careers in the West (tech, finance, econ) The tech people think the finance/econ people are “higher taste”/”higher class” (their taxonomy not mine), more serious in white shirts and what have you, both with probably better access to policymaking bodies, and the sexual market for the former The finance people are obviously kinda jealous of the tech people’s spiritual youth and illiquid dollars, and of the econ people’s license to opine and legislate on broad phenomena Then the econ people are obviously jealous of the others’ money If one is somewhat at the intersection, one can probably “monetize” these things? One acts youthful and namedrops the tech side around the finance boomers, one goes “little st james mode” around the econs, wears a white dressshirt in san francisco, and so on

in a world where stumbling upon a new school of thought is as easy as opening x / substack, the advantage lies not in the rigor of the one selected -- doing this well is straightforward -- but rather in the faithfulness of your devotion

@john7rho why would u give up a place near the best restaurant in sf

I just published "Sovereignty Gaps" — don't make something people want, make something the system needs: docs.google.com/document/d/1eF…

love trash day. love hearing that truck. humans getting stuff done. cooperation. logistics. municipal services. civilization.

many are saying the lower mission around precita park is the most underrated neighborhood in sf

@rtwlz broke: neet woke: recent exile from the world of work

I scraped transcripts of San Francisco's gov meetings and found every time someone said "As a..." or "I am..." walzr.com/sf-identities

My very first hackathon why am I the only woman here is that normal

It’s genuinely crazy how good Elon Musk’s PR was before 2018-2020 among. I knew people who despise him know call him a “real-life Tony Stark” back in like 2016

@juliechentweets @alexalosey top tier idea, this is what consumer ai is meant to look like

What if every place you walked into remembered you? A record owner who pulls out the limited-edition Daniel Caesar record Shan's been hunting for. A Barry’s instructor who congratulates @alexalosey on her 100th class and adjusts the workout for her injury. A hotel receptionist who brings @benjaminokeefe his favorite espresso martini before he even checks in. That’s the future we’re building with Magic — hospitality that feels personal again.