This US election won't be about Ukraine, Israel/Palastine, Inflation, economy or border security. It will be about abortion & Reps are letting the evangelical hardliners dictate their position. Tail wagging the dog. Great for Dems if they double down on the opportunity.

💵 Employee equity is a crucial tool to motivate and align a team

🔉 But communicating the risk adjusted value is complicated

📬 Check out my post on the matter complete with a Google Spreadsheet tool to illustrate the theory

startuppragmatism.blog/p/employee-equ…

🤺 I like constructive conflict.

🎭 The culture has to promote it, while providing cognitive safety.

⬇ Otherwise most of the company's direction will be determined top down & human capital will be wasted.

📬 Check out my post below

startuppragmatism.blog/p/constructive…

📬 I like advising early stage startups. If you do too, check out my new post.

📣 I cover why you should advise, how to build a funnel, what the right agreement is, what the right amount of equity is, how to advise well and more.

startuppragmatism.blog/p/early-stage-…

📬 I wrote an essay about how the world of matter gave rise to the world of ideas.

🙏 The post is influenced by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Rene Descartes, Noam Chomsky, Joscha Bach , Nick Lane and David Deutsch.

thefullspectrum.blog/p/res-extensa-…

Christmas came early with this J. Cole & Drizzy track! 🔥🔥

Stop teasing and drop a collab album already!

open.spotify.com/track/2ut4BOQS…

Join me in supporting ClientEarth use power of the law to tackle climate change. They lobby governments to strengthen environmental laws and enforce those laws to hold governments and big polluters accountable. act.clientearth.org/page/138662/do…

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In a world bombarded by incessant digital noise, we risk becoming prisoners of the present, losing the depth and wisdom of our past. It's time to blend the historical with the contemporary, resisting shallowness and embracing the full narrative of humanity.…

Rest in Peace Mr Feeney. Thanks for being a Mensch. nytimes.com/2023/10/09/bus…

To those folks who pick the busiest spot in the #gym to do loudest most inconvenient exercise for everyone else: we understand that you need to fill the void within with cheap attention tricks. I do picture a crying #toddler when I see you and I immediately have empathy. On the…

Marcus Aurelius already knew 2200 years ago that dwelling on all this algorithmically reinforced rage porn on social feeds is going to backfire.

Love these two dudes

I had never heard of the Mercator projection until I saw that West Wing episode.

In essence you can't project a 3d sphere on a 2d plane as a rectangular map without skewing. There are different ways to skew or project. Mercator is a cylindrical projection that stretches regions…

Love the idea of making X a prediction market.

As a matter of fact, my play money balance for correct projections is a much better vanity metric than (rag)engagement metrics.