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I have grown up in SV my entire life. I know many of the guys who built the computer revolution going back to the 1960s. For decades. Countless old guy back in the day stories I have sat and listened.
I say this with zero reservation, Chamath and his contemporaries consumed the culture of Silicon Valley to get rich.
Did they “pass it on”? Mentor? Build stuff for fun? Contribute to the community? No, nothing.
They did nothing but take. They are takers. And therefore are losers.
Chamath is a loser. And if you met him, you’d know that he knows it too.
Chamath says Silicon Valley lost what made it great and only cares about money now
"Silicon Valley has completely lost what made it great. It was a place for weirdos, for people at the fringes, for people that really were idealistic. And it has become something that's far from that now. It is the equivalent of what Harvard used to be. It's a credentialing place."
"When we came, we used to aspire to meet the Bill Campbells of the world, Mike Moritz, John Doerr. Those folks are gone. We used to aspire to work for Steve Jobs. He's not here."
"And in that breach, all we have done is focused on making money in every single way that we can, hand over fist. And there's nothing wrong with that. Except now it’s at a point where we need to do a better job of acknowledging it and trying to do a little bit better.”
“Every time we don't, and we're given a chance to be better, and we're not, the hatred builds, the animus builds. And that's what we're seeing now."
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Canadian man challenges those who attribute Canada's problems to immigration to think of what happens if Canada closed its doors to immigration.
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AG1 is one of the lowest value health products in the world despite being the most heavily promoted.
They flood podcasts by paying influencers up to $60 per new subscription and a $30/mo recurring kickback. Plus AG1 gives them equity in the company.
Retail price $79
Ingredients ($5)
Packaging ($3)
Manufacturing ($4)
Shipping ($7)
Total costs ($19)
Gross margin $60
Gross margin% 75.9%
Why does this matter?
McDonald’s openly taunts you “I’m lovin it." They prey upon your compulsive instincts and don’t try to hide it.
AG1 lures you into a false state of confidence by leveraging people you trust and hiding behind a “propriety blend”.
The bulk of the 12g scoop is cheap greens and emulsifiers. They include on the label high-value ingredients but only include trace amounts to lower their costs. That way you think you’re getting the good stuff but you’re actually not.
AG1 is bad for the world.
Overpriced.
Underdelivers.
Science shows it has no clinical effect.
They’ve induced good people into violating their own standards of trust.
They pretend to be something they’re not.
They create confusion for consumers who are genuinely trying to make good life decisions.
They erode trust.
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When you sexualize a conversation early, you’re not just flirting or testing the waters. You’re fundamentally reframing what kind of interaction this is. And the other person has to decide, right then, whether they’re willing to operate inside that frame. If they were interested in you as a person, curious about your thoughts, drawn to your energy, maybe even attracted but not ready to make it the center of everything yet, you’ve just asked them to skip about seven steps.
Most people won’t tell you that you’ve done this. They’ll just drift. They’ll match your energy for a bit out of politeness, or awkwardness, or because they’re trying to figure out if they misread you. But the curiosity is gone. You’ve answered a question they weren’t asking yet.
I think this happens because we confuse attraction with urgency. Like, if you feel it, you have to do something about it immediately, or the moment dies. But real attraction doesn’t actually work like that. It builds. It breathes. It happens in the margins of normal conversation, in the way someone laughs at your joke, or the fact that they remembered something you said three days ago, or the split second where you both go quiet and it doesn’t feel empty.
There’s this idea that if someone’s really into you, they’ll match your sexual energy right away. That anything else is just performance or playing games. But that assumes everyone experiences desire on the same timeline, in the same way. Some people feel attraction as a slow burn. It starts as intrigue, then comfort, then one day they look at you differently and suddenly it’s there. For them, leading with sex isn’t authentic, it’s disorienting. It doesn’t feel like honesty. It feels like a test they didn’t know they were taking.
When you sexualize too soon, you’re collapsing all of that into a single transaction. You’re saying, “I want to know if this is going somewhere now.” And maybe it was. But now they have to wonder if you were ever interested in them, or just interested in what they represent.
The fumble isn’t that you expressed desire. It’s that you made desire the whole conversation before there was anything else to hold it up.
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India is a strange country
We fail spectacularly at the macro level. Our roads are pathetic, cities almost unlivable, pollution and corruption are everywher. We are bad on most parameters for hygiene, water and civic infrastructure
But for some reason, we are wildly successful at a micro level.
Like retrieving an iPad from a crowded train. Moving and entire polling booth for one voter. Ensuring food is supplied across seven rivers, three jungles and one active volcano for one kid.
We are bad where we are supposed to be good.
We are good where people assume we will be bad.
LORE UPDATE:
I forgot my IPAD on a train to bhopal (Dakshin Express, 28.12.25)
Realised an hour later,
between all the chaos (and lots of crying 😭) we called #139 and registered a report on #RailMadad app.
Amazingly, within minutes we got a call from the helpline, a quick follow-up with RPF + the TTE on the train, and staff at the next station, Itarsi.
The iPad was recovered!!
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It's quite telling how many wealthy Dubai bros' are so open in there complete lack of regard for human life when they gloat about moving to Dubai.
You pay 0% tax because many of the workers live like this.
You want the same here in the UK.
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If Hitler came back and saw that the modern U.S. leaders of his hate movement are a gay Mexican fed, a mentally ill Black woman, a non-Christian ex-fighter with CTE, and a Sudanese weirdo with an IQ below room temperature, he would probably just kill himself again.
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Someone should make software that allows you to easily play all these songs on your phone, make playlists, and share music with friends
I bet a lot of people would happily pay $10/month
Could even give artists a rev share
