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I don t recall the exact particulars, but Seat 1 was all-in pre-draw. Seat 5 promptly called, both discarding one. The dealer announced, One, one, and slid each a new card. Seat 5, without ceremony, flipped it over and made his hand. A rough 9 low. Ah, Seat 1 nodded sagely. So I need a 6, [ ]
Today, one could believe that knowing many things, but only a little in each thing, is not studious. Founders are more specialized, starting earlier to go deeper. Younger founders, on the whole, are betting on the idea that the ones that go far tend to be the ones that lose themselves deeply into one thing. [ ]
Paul Thomas Anderson s latest film felt like a spiritual successor of Inherent Vice (2014) of a man holding a joint fumbling from one problem to the next. SPOILERS AHEAD. Was there anything redeeming about the characterization of the police, military, and immigrant dystopia? The French 75 killed, blew up buildings and the power grid. Everyone [ ]
No, thank you, Manager. You re as kind as ever. But I like this spot. And I have my memories to go through and place in the right order. To inspire my thoughts around AI, Klara and the Sun was high on my must-read last weekend, and I m glad I did. I d seen before a couple [ ]
Special thanks to Mel for reading drafts of this!
My technical training consists of one summer in my youth pouring over a C++ course book and an in-person San Francisco Ruby-on-Rails intro course. I am as non-technical as any NPC you could ve picked. It s a low bar, but I just spent two hours vibecoding a weekend project tool that can pull from 8,000 weekly [ ]
Whenever I debated about crypto, I always ended with stablecoins in context of Fed s 2021 white paper. It s the most obvious utility of crypto that will impact daily financial activity in this country. To quote Stripe s annual letter, stablecoins are a new branch of the money tree. Such transitions occur with some regularity over the [ ]
I didn t find as many strategic ideas this year, only the more I study chess, the less I feel I know. Nonetheless, here are some noteworthy points! Any live chess event is better than none, people! BONUS: Classic Nepo face during the Play-Ins.
Eating through the 2010, 2011 7 7 Big Eat lists and almost 200 burgers later, I ve put a lot of miles on my body through San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles. At 50 LA burgers, my burger blogger career comes to a close. Please enjoy my final tried-AND-tested favorite burgers that Los Angeles has to [ ]
In August 2014 two wonderful things happened: I married Mel, and Square announced its acquisition of Caviar. As they say about dinosaurs moonshots, we were so preoccupied with whether or not we could, we didn t stop to think if we should. The day-to-day street fighting with GrubHub, Seamless, Postmates, eventually DoorDash and Uber Eats turned [ ]