Kevin Stealey

While our wonderful president was out playing golf all day, the TSA is falling apart, just like our government! Airports a total disaster!

@business Just BAN THEM! Use the crisis as a perfectly great moment to kick a habit that is killing America.

The Trump administration has moved to locate backup sources of fertilizers for American farmers at the start of the planting season after the Iran war shut down a key source of supply. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@BigBrainBizness We learned this in package goods long before bezos did. There is a physical planogram and 1 major reset and 1 minor reset a year. We had more ideas than we could sell in so we had to focus on executing with excellence. The tech world thought we were just “slow”.

Jeff Bezos on why too many ideas can destroy a company, and the discipline that built Amazon's inventive edge: "Jeff, you have enough ideas to destroy Amazon." That's what senior executive Jeff Wilke told Bezos after just one year of working together. Bezos was confused. He pushed back: "What do you mean?" Wilke was a manufacturing expert. He explained it simply: Every new idea Bezos released created a backlog. Work piling up, adding no value, creating distraction instead. The fix wasn't to stop having ideas. It was to control when they came out: "You have to release the work at the right rate that the organisation can accept it." So @JeffBezos changed how he operated. He started keeping lists, holding ideas back, and waiting until the organisation had the bandwidth to absorb them. But then he flipped the problem entirely. He asked: "How do I build an organisation that's ready for more ideas?" His answer was structural: get the right senior team, give leaders real executive bandwidth, and build a company capable of running multiple bets at once. And there's a benefit he didn't expect. Slowing down made the ideas themselves better: "If you are releasing the ideas through time, it forces you to prioritise them better. You end up sharpening the ideas better." The constraint becomes a filter. The ideas that survive the wait are the ones worth acting on. The result? Faster execution, less distraction, and better ideas.

@nntaleb Might it be a “skin in the game” concept. I. E. You can complain about the regime all you want until you actually get bombed. War tends to unify. Just a thought.

A perceptual bias: because the Iranian diaspora is naturally more heavily anti-regime than residents of Iran (people vote with their feet), some decision-makers may overestimate potential domestic support for the strikes.

@MarioNawfal Jimmy Carter would fly Delta out of Atlanta at times. I was on a flight with him once. They drove him directly to the plane for boarding a la Delta ONE. Great human. Amazing Empathy and Humility.

🇺🇸 Biden just flew commercial to South Carolina. This is being framed as contrast with Trump's private jet. The "leadership doesn't need a chandelier in the sky" angle. But here's what's actually notable: Ex-presidents almost never fly commercial. Security concerns. Secret Service protocols. Logistics. Clinton doesn't. Obama doesn't. Bush doesn't. Carter did occasionally but he's the exception. Biden flying Southwest or Delta or whatever is genuinely unusual. Either he wanted the optics or he's just done with the presidential bubble. @allenanalysis @krassenstein

@BillAckman Just who you voted for Bill. A lying, cheating, covering up for pedophiles president. Anyone associated must pay the consequences until they use their power to drive transparency and justice.

Th Epstein Files have reached the McCarthy-era stage where innocent people are being slandered. We need to distinguish between evildoers and those who ‘appear’ in the Epstein files, but have done nothing wrong. I am hearing of totally innocent people being forced to resign from boards etc. because their name appears somewhere in the documents. Let’s return to a world where people are presumed innocent until they are proven guilty.

Lying is destroying this app. What was celebrated as truth and transparency has become lying and spin doctoring. Just by a different set of members this time.

@paulg I think a comments section of 1,001 @grok what does this mean is the true demise........

I used to think woke mobs would be the death of Twitter. Then it seemed like right-wing goons would be. But cheery, vapid AI-generated replies seem more dangerous than either of them.

@Iamivy05 Thank you for your kindness, empathy and example of the leadership we can all aspire to. The world’s better because of your actions.

crazy thing i did in my 20s. i dated a guy who had a lil boy. he used to have him every weekend when the mom works. he never really watch the kid; just dropped him to me. fast forward 9 months later and he cheated. we broke up. then i got a call from his ex crying and begging me to watch him so she could work. if she can’t work then she would have to drop out of nursing school. i said yes. continue watching him for like 8 months for free. he’s graduating high school this year and i’m invited

@JamesSurowiecki Charlie Munger had nothing to do with Costco's Membership fee. The fee was initiated at concept in 1983. Charlie joined board in 1997. The very essence of Costco is/has always been as a membership driven co-op to pass bulk buying to consumers.

I love Charlie Munger, but this particular argument for why Costco charges membership fees always seemed deeply implausible. What person who's going to regularly steal stuff from a store is unwilling to pay $50 a year for the opportunity to access a cornucopia of consumer goods?

@mattvanswol I read an overwhelming number of “trades” comments. If AI wipes out white collar roles - we won’t have trades jobs either. We will all just learn to fix it ourselves.

I could use some help. My kids (middle/high school) are already thinking about college and life after graduation. Looking 5–10 years out, it’s hard to find a path that doesn’t look like AI could replace it. If you were them, what would you study or do after high school?

@JJeffrey100 @PaddyPhilly @billbrextoncpa And that’s why this behavior never stops. Leaders have standards and don’t drop them when it’s hard and inconvenient.

@PaddyPhilly @billbrextoncpa It was actually a closed session discussion. He had leverage. Series B was highly competitive so he got favorable founder voting rights. So, really couldn't fire him without cause. To show cause, we'd have to get the authorities involved. None of us wanted to ruin his life.

VP of Sales submitted an expense report for a client dinner. $800 for three people to "celebrate the deal." They ordered sushi and drinks. I asked if the sushi was flown in from Tokyo. He laughed. I didn't. Expense denied. He asked how he's supposed to cover the cost. I told him the same way he covered his decision to order $240 worth of sake. Personally.

@brian_armstrong Golden rule: If the ceo has to come out afterwards to explain the ad and why it was good…….it didn’t work. Not the first. Won’t be the last.

I loved the idea for our Super Bowl ad as soon as the team showed it to me. It's unique, just like our QR code ad in 2022. Most people half watch commercials (buzzed, in a loud room, with lots of people). It takes something unique to break through. Turning 100M+ screens into karaoke, so the whole U.S. (and many around the world) can sing in unison, is an antidote to polarization and just plain fun. Everybody deserves economic freedom.

Leadership. - Look out ahead. - Drive awareness. - Set an expectation. Michigan will keep winning.

@INFLUENCESUBCON Well stated analogy. In the lab I’ve seen a skin cell>stem cell>heart cell under a microscope. The cardiomyocytes had an electro field that made them beat. And they started to beat in unison. It was both beautiful and reminder that we can learn a lot from biology.

The 2 question antibody test

The more I learn, the more I understand that we know very little about biology at this moment in time.

@pythianism I see the latter as well. We have been using AI to guide new targets with a novel delivery. 1) We lack the bio data/understanding, and 2) biology is not as linear as chemistry. Net, the extrapolations from a highly limited data set aren’t very useful.

One of the more interesting divergences of perspectives Friends at SF AI labs are near 100% conviction on AI drug discovery being revolutionary Friends at NY healthcare HFs are near 100% conviction AI for drug discovery is a zero So far I am more convinced by the latter

@jaltucher I hope to one day running into you in a cafe! I tend to let famous people have their peace. But now you have open the door I can hardly wait. Coffee on me. Cheers.

At the cafe in the morning, when I switch on the "personal hotspot" on my phone and then turn on "Allow others to join", I wish sometimes it was an invitation to join my table and say hello to me.

@johnkonrad The school is not believing her . A 5.0 is impossible unless every class (including PE, electives) was an AP, which is super unlikely. Get help calculating what the actual gpa would be (will likely fall between 4.35 and 4.65 depending on the %of AP she took.)

My liberal 4.0 daughter got into a great school, then was told the honors program might be tough with “just a 4.0.” They asked for her weighted GPA. Also 4.0. “Not good enough on a 5.0 scale,” they said She replied: my GPA on a 5.0 scale is 5.0 What’s wrong with these people?

@BillAckman @NYCMayor You should have stopped after you wrote …”an investigation is needed to figure out all the facts.” This is not your determination to make. Just be a better leader. “With great power comes great responsibility.”

I should not have said ‘It is clear’ as an investigation will be needed to figure out all of the facts, but I think we can agree that this was by no means ‘murder.’ By accelerating into the officer whether she intentionally wanted to cause him harm or not, he perceived in that split second that he was at risk of being killed and used his weapon to defend himself. One should never threaten an officer, particularly one carrying a gun, by accelerating your vehicle towards him regardless of your intent. It is guaranteed to not end well.

This morning, an ICE agent murdered a woman in Minneapolis—only the latest horror in a year full of cruelty. As ICE attacks our neighbors across America, it is an attack on us all. New York stands with immigrants today, and every day that follows.