Thomas McLaughlin

Beautiful day at Trump Bedminster 🇺🇸⛳️

“Everything tells me I shall succeed.” - Napoleon Bonaparte

Overly simplifying but I think AI ends up being a massively deflationary technology, in same vein as industrial revolution. Everyone gets richer in the long term as labor shifts into more productive opportunities.

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@azaztrader01 One of the harsher wordings in the scriptures. Starts with pausing and reflection for sure!

@tmcg89 It's a sobering list, one that makes you pause and reflect. Living up to that standard is a daily challenge for sure.

“Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived… nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.” 1 Corinthians 6:9-10

I'm still digesting the data but $STRC seems to be the credit expansion vehicle for $BTC this cycle. Similar to $GBTC in 19'/20' and $MSTR Premium ATM issuance in 23'/24', this brings in massive inflows of cash to buy spot BTC. Right now, you have ~$3.50 of BTC for every $1 of debt and preferred stock at Microstrategy. Compared to the HY bond market, I think this is pretty attractive and wouldn't be surprised to see $50-100bn of inflows over the next 18-24 months. If there are no other bidders, MSTR's size (% of overall supply in one entity) becomes a liability to Bitcoin as a network. The trade desks will run for a while is borrow cash cheap and deploy into $STRC for 11%+. Saylor can refinance, extend and pretend for a while. But ultimately will need his BTC (in $ terms in liquidation value) above his debt liabilities. Exciting times ahead, think we double in price over next 12-18 months.

@PsychedelicBart @chibbs_1 @NBA Yeah defininitely right move for maximizing the franchise - lots of sentimental value for the Nets teams of my youth though

@chibbs_1 @tmcg89 @NBA Lol Nets had negative amount of fans in NJ. It’s way better for Nets to be based in Brooklyn.

I wish the New Jersey Nets never left New Jersey @NBA

You must learn to proceed without certainty

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Crypto has had a rough year. Maybe we should launch something to fix it.

When people ask me why I own Bitcoin I just send them this video of Kamala Harris explaining how to fix inflation.

Napoleon on Imagination: "What a thing is imagination! Here are men who don't know me, who have never seen me, but who only knew of me, and they are moved by my presence, they would do anything for me! And this same incident arises in all centuries and in all countries! Such is fanaticism! Yes, imagination rules the world. The defect of our modern institutions is that they do not speak to the imagination. By that alone can man be governed; without it he is but a brute."

Engineering is real magic

when spacex was getting started, the first and last men to walk on the moon testified before congress against it. gene cernan told congress commercial space companies "do not yet know what they don't know." he said the boeings and lockheed martins were "the folks who have been working on everything we've done for the last 50 years. they know how it can be done." neil armstrong said he was "not confident" the newcomers could achieve their goals. together with jim lovell they warned it would put america on "a long downward slide to mediocrity." spacex now launches more rockets than every country on earth combined. the experts will always tell you it can't be done. build it anyway!

@toddsaunders I’m interested 👍🏻

I want to get the most AI pilled folks in NJ for a meetup in Westfield. I have no idea how to source or find these people so please X do your thing!

Plaxico Burress and the Giants had the ultimate swagger going into their first Super Bowl against the Patriots 😤 🍿 Super Bowl LXI is on ESPN and ABC on Feb. 14, 2027.

Holy cow. I’ve been reading the Rockefeller archives, and found this gem, where John D. Rockefeller comments on Napoleon Bonaparte. "It is hard to imagine Napoleon as a business man, but I have thought that if he had applied himself to commerce and industry he would have been the greatest business man the world had ever known. My, what a genius for organization! He also had what I have always regarded as a prime necessity for large success in any enterprise - that is a thorough understanding of men and ability to inspire in them confidence in him and what is of equal importance, confidence in themselves. See the men he picked as Marshalls, and the heights to which they rose under his inspiration and leadership. It is by such traits as these, that men get the world of the world done. It is all a battlefield. Bonaparte, without the able marshals he had about him, would not have been the master of his age. he went into a battle with the knowledge that his marshals could be depended on - that in a given situation they could be relied upon do to the necessary thing. Their devotion to him, coupled with their enthusiasm - that’s another great attribute - and the qualities which his influence upon them brought out, won the fight. Another thing about Napoleon was his virility - his humanity. I mean humanity in the broad sense, of course. He was a human being, and virile because he came direct from the ranks of the people. There was none of the stagnant blood of nobility or royalty in his veins. There’s where he had the advantage over the the monarchs of Europe to begin with. He could think quicker and along more individual and original lines than any of them. And being from the people, he was in close touch with the people. The men with whom he had to combat didn’t understand either him, or the people and it is always hard to successful control what you don’t understand. Napoleon didn’t play the game, as the saying goes, as they understood it. And then, coming direct from the people he had the sympathy; he appealed to their imagination; Europe had not yet been education to the fact that it could get along without any kings at all, and the French people, I believe, reasoned that if they have to have king to rule them, it was better to have a king of their own kind and from their own ranks, than from the breed which had ruled them for a thousand years. In an age when the people had been but recently released from slavery and had not acquired the art of governing themselves, leaders of their own kind were few, and that made it easier for Napoleon to rise to the heights which he attained. A Napoleon would be impossible in our day. Democracy has educated us away from such a think. There are too many able and ambitious rivals to hold in check one who aimed too high."

@tekgeekartfreak @BenWilsonTweets Very valid point and perspective - thanks for pointing out 👍🏻

@BenWilsonTweets @tmcg89 This makes sense if you are a billionaire or someone with a degree from Harvard. But it can be really difficult to find a job. I have been unemployed since November. I would happily put up with shitty coworkers for a paycheck.

Peter Thiel on Working With People You Don't Like: “Many seem to think it’s a sacrifice necessary for making money. But taking a merely professional view of the workplace, in which free agents check in and out on a transactional basis, is worse than cold: it’s not even rational. Since time is your most valuable asset, it’s odd to spend it working with people who don’t envision any long-term future together. If you can’t count durable relationships among the fruits of your time at work, you haven’t invested your time well—even in purely financial terms.”