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Patrick Atwater

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I like the traveling band framing! Reminds me of semi nomadic societies like the Mongolian empire Where is the proverbial Xanadu within that framing
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List of high-net-worth people on holy wars with varying quixotic factor (QF) levels Musk: "Woke mind disease" (QF: 5/10) Pmarca: Pessimism (QF: 7/10) Ackman: Higher education (QF: 5/10) Thiel: Democracy (QF: 7/10) Balaji: Nation states (QF: 6/10) Bryan Johnson: Death (QF: 9/10) Who am I missing?
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“The feral middle children of history” 😂😂😂😂 👌
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I mean do you want to do it? Web3 isn't the end all be all
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Nice Very shiny website.
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"But that means doing the difficult work of reforming existing institutions that aren’t going anywhere. You can’t sidestep the existence of the government, as too many in Silicon Valley want to do. You have to engage with it. You have to muster the political power to rebuild parts of it. And then you need to use the government to make markets competitive again." https://www.vox.com/2020/4/22/21228469/marc-andreessen-build-government-coronavirus
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""" “Every step of the way, to everyone around us, we should be asking the question, what are you building?” He writes. “What are you building directly, or helping other people to build, or teaching other people to build, or taking care of people who are building? If the work you’re doing isn’t either leading to something being built or taking care of people directly, we’ve failed you.” I don’t think that’ll be enough. So let me end with my answer to Andreessen’s question: What should we build? We should build institutions biased toward action and ambition, rather than inaction and incrementalism. """ https://www.vox.com/2020/4/22/21228469/marc-andreessen-build-government-coronavirus
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Enough_at_Last
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What are good tips for picking up gigs on Farcaster Asking for a fren
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Some aspire to wordl guess efficiency I aim for sui generis
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“Figure of the day: 90%, the proportion of American voters who live in counties where Donald Trump’s vote share in 2024 increased from 2020.” Whoa!
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"Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself." - G.K. Chesterton
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Any sublime users? What's the purpose of something like that rather than notion or something basic? https://sublime.app/
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The Colorado River Aqueduct is a more critical innovation than the Google
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What would be your IKEA protocol ized company name? Mine would be PALC
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Met built the CRA with numerous innovations in integrated pumping and hydroelectric systems, modular construction across the aqueduct, tools and techniques for a 13 mile tunnel and novel workforce organization, including the antecedents of Kaiser healthcare.
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well festivus is a redeeming lulz I suppose
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Oh wow Kudos to you for digging that up Elon really is in the late Henry Ford I'm going to charter a ship to end the war era of hubris disconnected from reality Like the "portion of $800B" really just takes the cake
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