Paul Tokeler

5:31 PM: Facebook lead arrives. 5:32 PM: My AI agent CALLS the homeowner. 5:33 PM: Appointment confirmation sent by SMS. IN TWO MINUTES, DUDE! GrokBot + Quo. No humans involved in the follow up. If you're spending money generating leads and your team calls them the next morning, you're playing a different game. 🤡

Imagine the most racist way for Jesse Waters to pronounce Abdul’s name and I promise you it’s even more racist than that.

This is Gene Wu, the new Majority Leader of the Texas House of Representatives.

ya dude, you should totally start a small business it’s going great

I have refrained from statement on this - probably for my own good. However, I think we've got enough information to call out the nonsense that is floating around. First, DEI hire - nope. That girl made flying her life - as I see among only the most passionate pilots. My dad being one of them. Her boyfriend was also a pilot - both of them were absolutely in love with flying. Now, what seemed to have happened - as I was watching the weather most of the day. First, we get pretty bad storms, I have screen shots of ceilings at FL300 - 30,000ft - manageable. You fly over them. Then, we get a single cell that rapidly - faster than I've noticed (abnormal, but not recordbreaking)- grows in size from low pressure and heat below go from 30,000ft to 48,000ft in under ~11 minutes. So imagine this, you're flying - you're 20-30 minutes from destination and descending is part of the flight plan, at radio check in you're scheduled to be 6,000ft above any weather issues in roughly 9 minutes. After 5 minutes, you're 3,000ft above weather issues, by one minute out, you realize safety margin is rapidly shrinking and request climb, which is granted. By the the time you're over it, you're in the middle of it - where any pilot would avoid any sharp maneuvering mid storm. All things considered here, I would've loved to see them avoid the entire cell all together, they did ask for a better ride (meaning a different route) - however in the minutes leading up to the loss of control, everything "seemed" avoidable and within safe operating capacities. Mind you, this is from where I sit. Of course more data will come out and the @NTSB has been on point with their discovery in the past. Some things to keep in mind: The information provided here is loose observation, not data science from where I sit - just an aviation expert's 30 minute take on what may have happened. Weather Radar is often delayed - there is no definitive way of being precise in time or type for weather - which is why tolerances exist. Your pilots, both of them, worked for an ARG/US rated company - well audited, regularly, for safety. Tragic, close to home, and I know the operation behind it - they have always done a wonderful job. FWIW - I was in the cockpit at 12 and several times before I even drove a car. Naturally, people will always bring up the safety in flying private versus commercial - I'll revitalize the metrics that I have kept track of throughout the years and publish that in the coming days.

savage self-criticism, as he's likely one of top operators in his state's industry already. very scary for people like me coming into search from stock spreadsheet world. even self-reflective PE guy with good experience in real companies starts at D- level for years apparently.

I am instantly bearish on anyone that name drops pedigree to establish legitimacy. If you anchor your capability on a group identity, I’ll just assume you are the worst of your cohort. The worst financiers / lawyers / executives / techies I know are the ones that drop their Wall St / White Shoe / MBB / FAANG backgrounds on the first meeting. The best don’t draw legitimacy from their former colleagues.

A University of Saint Thomas student was caught on camera shouting 'Go back to your own country, b***' at a protester outside a Turning Point USA event trib.al/W4WIJZe 🔗

Just in case anyone is wondering: I live in Paris; if I didn’t have X dot com I would have no idea there are riots in France.

I would not say it’s about age but as you get older you eventually realize that there is no man behind the curtain. There are no adults in the room. The first time you make a decision that matters in an institutional context you see it

The problem with a lot of AI assistant use cases is that specifying the work to be done in sufficient detail actually IS the work.

I was the other guy in question here Turns out I’m South Indian and I don’t speak Hindi. How would you have liked it if I expected you to speak Tamil and then tweeted about it after

Your kid's birthright is to have no competition getting into college? Oh, well my kid's birthright is to live in the country that all the nerds move to because it's the place where nerds can get rich.

If your plan involves making people miserable in hopes they join your team you're going to lose. Revolutionaries who are successful don't hand over power in hopes that enough people eventually agree with them. You have to sell people a version of the future that is better or you will lose. Communist aren't going to create to conditions for the far right to win. That has never happened.

I think ppl working in the technology industry should understand that middle America is starting to hate us in a really visceral, potentially unrecoverable way It’s totally self-defeating and irrational on the part of middle America, but it’s very real and getting worse fast

I’m going to admit here to something that I find a little shameful, something I never thought I’d do, something I’m kind of embarrassed to admit. I recently let a $3000 medical bill go to collections because there are zero consequences for this in my state and I know that it will let me negotiate a lower price. Do you know how demoralized you have to make me to get me to behave this way? Do you know how badly you have to derange the incentives to turn me into this?

At some point farmers are just gonna have to be told no right? Using 80% of the water but only accounting for 2% of GDP can’t possibly be a thing states can accept when the 90% of voters in urban areas are going to have to inevitably be put under extreme water restrictions.

The war is just a crazy game of cat-and-mouse. Constant innovation. Innovations to beat innovations.

People in our sphere who spread this totally fabricated 100 million number are doing an enormous disservice to our side. 1/3 of our country being illegal is not a problem you can solve. The audience we want to reach will just shrug their shoulders and stop caring