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People in tech need to become radically more skilled at interfacing with government. To the extent that we have some manifest competency issues in government right now, we can't simply sit out here and gripe about this on podcasts, etc. We've got to go out and do something about it.
I think it's been reported that there was a meeting among tech leaders early in the vaccination effort where a bunch of people got in a room and were like, "this is going terribly. I hope someone fixes it." "I hope someone fixes it" is no longer a realistic alternative. We have to be part of the solution.
Patrick McKenzie - How a Discord Server Saved Thousands of Lives
Dwarkesh Patel
He is making multi-year, illiquid, unhedgeable speculative investments in brand-new crypto protocols because he thinks “the market’s going up” and because he hopes that those protocols can hire people and build value. This is a venture capital investment. And he describes it as an *arbitrage* .
Fwd: Money Stuff: Crypto Had a Credit Bubble
Josh Beckman
So the camera's tilted at an angle. Is it because you're not looking through, you're looking at him?
> Yeah.
Because you don't want him to feel like he's behind the lens, is that why?
> more importantly, I can still hold the camera at the side of my head perfectly steady. But I need the audience to know that I'm paying attention to him, not the camera. What do they call that? A something tilt?
Yeah. Dutch.
> A Dutch tilt. It's a way of letting the audience know that I'm not paying attention to the camera.
Casey Neistat's SECRET to Filmmaking
Digital Spaghetti
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