# hard truth (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover hard truth. Page: Feed: --- ## [Temu Capitalism](https://credistick.com/temu-capitalism/) _2026-06-22 · @credistick · Credistick_ The technology industry has always celebrated scale. From the industrial revolution to the moving assembly line, the rise of computing, and onward into the cloud. Technology and scale have become synonymous. In many ways, that s worth celebrating. Scale enables otherwise unworkable economics, allowing solutions that can benefit a much greater share of the population. But \[ \] The post Temu… ## [Don't Wait to Rediscover You](https://michelleshawuk.substack.com/p/dont-wait-to-rediscover-you) _2026-06-03 · Michelle Shaw · Michelle’s Substack_ Reconnecting with the people, places, passions, and possibilities that make you feel most alive—before life forces you to stop. ## [The 3-Second Memory of a Mother](https://michelleshawuk.substack.com/p/the-3-second-memory-of-a-mother) _2026-05-05 · Michelle Shaw · Michelle’s Substack_ On memory, erasure, and trying to build a life from what was never held ## [When Shared Goals Aren’t Shared Reality](https://michelleshawuk.substack.com/p/when-shared-goals-arent-shared-reality) _2026-04-26 · Michelle Shaw · Michelle’s Substack_ How unspoken expectations, late diagnosis, and unmasking change everything—and what happens when only one of you sees it. ## [Consensus Is a State, Not a Spectrum](https://credistick.com/consensus-is-a-state-not-a-spectrum/) _2026-04-25 · @credistick · Credistick_ The importance of a common vocabulary in venture capital Many of the debates within venture capital are driven by nothing more than the lack of standard terminology. Investors will argue over ideas with no hope of reconciliation, because they simply do not share a common definition for the concepts involved. Worse still, these shifting definitions \[ \] The post Consensus Is a State, Not a Spectrum… ## [Narrative Shackles](https://credistick.com/narrative-shackles/) _2026-04-21 · @credistick · Credistick_ Venture capitalists have a bad habit of overanalyzing the status quo and plotting their strategy around new normals . This is self-defeating behaviour, for a number of reasons: Here s a simple truth which may spare investors some time and anxiety: Temporal market perspectives are worthless. They are either well-intentioned but misdirected or they are being used \[ \] The post Narrative Shackles… ## [🔥 You Don’t Get to Burn Yourself Out and Call It Responsibility](https://michelleshawuk.substack.com/p/you-dont-get-to-burn-yourself-out) _2026-04-19 · Michelle Shaw · Michelle’s Substack_ At some point, choosing work over your health stops being admirable—and starts costing you everything. ## [The Tyranny of Revenue](https://credistick.com/the-tyranny-of-revenue/) _2026-04-18 · @credistick · Credistick_ Private markets have inherited the curse of myopia It s a long held belief that public markets may be a poor environment for innovation because of the short-term focus driven by meeting quarterly targets. However, there s an indication that this has reversed. Research from the 1990s and early 2000s did indicate that public companies invested less, \[ \] The post The Tyranny of Revenue appeared first… ## [💔 The Hard Truth About Separation](https://michelleshawuk.substack.com/p/the-hard-truth-about-separation) _2026-04-15 · Michelle Shaw · Michelle’s Substack_ Sometimes the distance begins long before anyone leaves ## [💔 The Hard Truth About Love (That No One Really Says)](https://michelleshawuk.substack.com/p/the-hard-truth-about-love-that-no) _2026-04-12 · Michelle Shaw · Michelle’s Substack_ When love is real… but the relationship isn’t safe ## [Every Channel. One Login. (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/1R4Uo2asdLnm) _2026-04-12 · **Sponsored**_ 17,000+ live channels, movies and sports on any device. Free trial, no IP lock. ## [When You’re Expected to Lead Without Ever Being Shown How—or Held Along the Way](https://michelleshawuk.substack.com/p/when-youre-expected-to-lead-without) _2026-03-27 · Michelle Shaw · Michelle’s Substack_ Rebuilding yourself in midlife when the roles were expected—but never modelled ## [Relational Self-Defence: The Skill No One Teaches You](https://michelleshawuk.substack.com/p/relational-self-defence-the-skill) _2026-03-22 · Michelle Shaw · Michelle’s Substack_ Not how to fight people — how to keep your sanity and protect your energy around them. ## [The Macx Threshold](https://credistick.com/the-macx-threshold/) _2026-03-20 · @credistick · Credistick_ The future will be funded by solo techno-capitalists It’s night in Amsterdam, morning in Silicon Valley. Today, fifty thousand human babies are being born around the world. Meanwhile automated factories in Indonesia and Mexico have produced another quarter of a million motherboards with processors rated at more than ten petaflops—about an order of magnitude below \[ \] The post The Macx Threshold… ## [Diseconomies of Scale](https://credistick.com/diseconomies-of-scale/) _2026-03-15 · @credistick · Credistick_ The megafund narrative of the last few years has been that these firms provide a solution to the big institutional LP allocation problem; you can park a huge pile of cash and get private market exposure with returns above the cost of capital with minimal stress. It s a reasonable premise, and in a world where \[ \] The post Diseconomies of Scale appeared first on Credistick . ## [The Paper Ceiling](https://credistick.com/the-paper-ceiling/) _2026-03-06 · @credistick · Credistick_ Debunking the supply constraint of great founders Increases in venture fund-raising which are driven by factors such as shifts in capital gains tax rates appear more likely to lead to more intense competition for transactions within an existing set of technologies than to greater diversity in the types of companies funded. Short-Term America Revisited? Boom \[ \] The post The Paper Ceiling appeared… ## [Traumasking: When Survival Becomes a Personality](https://michelleshawuk.substack.com/p/traumasking-when-survival-becomes) _2026-02-27 · Michelle Shaw · Michelle’s Substack_ The structural relationship between trauma, masking, and identity continuity. ## [Mapping Venture Capital to Reality](https://credistick.com/mapping-venture-capital-to-reality/) _2026-02-19 · @credistick · Credistick_ Polish-American scientist and philosopher Alfred Korzybski is remembered for his statement, the map is not the territory . The map-territory concept, which runs parallel to Baudrillard s concept of hyperreality, reminds us not to confuse the abstract with the actual. The map is not the territory. The menu is not the meal. The words are not the \[ \] The post Mapping Venture Capital to Reality… ## [ICE is Not Leaving Minnesota](https://jollygoodginger.substack.com/p/ice-is-not-leaving-minnesota) _2026-02-17 · Jolly Good Ginger · Jolly Good Ginger_ Don't believe the hype, believe the people ## [Books — and dreams — don’t have expiry dates 📚✨](https://michelleshawuk.substack.com/p/books-and-dreams-dont-have-expiry) _2026-02-10 · Michelle Shaw · Michelle’s Substack_ A story about second attempts, real conversations, and why creative work doesn’t expire ## [The Trap of Performative Success](https://credistick.com/esoteric-knowledge/) _2026-02-07 · @credistick · Credistick_ Accelerated payoffs incur a debt against the future Serendipity is not always about a single incident at a particular point in time, but requires tenacity, resilience, and the ability to see the bigger picture. Dr Christian Busch If you believe that AI is the next great leap in the story of humanity, you may also \[ \] The post The Trap of Performative Success appeared first on Credistick . ## [Realtime AI Arbitrage Terminal (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/xEyV48AiczTJ) _2026-02-07 · **Sponsored**_ Realtime auto-trading across exchanges with scored setups, backtesting, and risk controls. ## [Hard Truths](https://credistick.com/hard-truths/) _2026-02-02 · @credistick · Credistick_ Checking in on the health of venture capital Yesterday, a prominent former-VC posted a reponse to data from Beezer Clarkson, questioning how we understand the health of the venture capital industry. His suggestion was that number of active funds may not be the right lens, and that the fall may be a natural result of \[ \] The post Hard Truths appeared first on Credistick . ## [No Bullshit Bulletin: 10/14/25 Democrats are fighting back....maybe?](https://jollygoodginger.substack.com/p/no-bullshit-bulletin-101425-democrats) _2025-10-14 · Jolly Good Ginger · Jolly Good Ginger_ I'm not saying the Dems have grown a backbone but.... ## [While the World Focuses On Trumpstein, The Planet is Silently Burning](https://jollygoodginger.substack.com/p/while-the-world-focuses-on-trumpstein) _2025-08-12 · Jolly Good Ginger · Jolly Good Ginger_ Never stop talking about Epstein, but also we gotta multitask ## [ICE Is Expanding While You’re Distracted](https://jollygoodginger.substack.com/p/ice-is-expanding-while-youre-distracted) _2025-07-20 · Jolly Good Ginger · Jolly Good Ginger_ Donald Trump is spiraling but not the system he empowered. ## [I debriefed North Korean Defectors: That's what scares me about MAGA](https://jollygoodginger.substack.com/p/i-debriefed-north-korean-defectors) _2025-07-18 · Jolly Good Ginger · Jolly Good Ginger_ Is America really like North Korea? Well as a former intelligence collector, I can talk about that. ## [Hard Truths](https://jollygoodginger.substack.com/p/hard-truths) _2025-07-18 · Jolly Good Ginger · Jolly Good Ginger_ A recording from Jolly Good Ginger and Michael Cohen's live video ## [Day before election with Deja Foxx in Arizona](https://jollygoodginger.substack.com/p/day-before-election-with-deja-foxx) _2025-07-15 · Jolly Good Ginger · Jolly Good Ginger_ Final push for a new progressive leader! [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/168343613/1e1c14f96cef1cb4f1a53357519617b1.mp3) ## [Inside Alligator Alcatraz: My interview with Represntative Maxwell Frost](https://jollygoodginger.substack.com/p/inside-alligator-alcatraz-my-interview) _2025-07-15 · Jolly Good Ginger · Jolly Good Ginger_ A concentration camp operating in the Florida everglades ## [Live with Deja Foxx for Arizona](https://jollygoodginger.substack.com/p/live-with-deja-foxx-for-arizona) _2025-07-14 · Jolly Good Ginger · Jolly Good Ginger_ A recording from Jolly Good Ginger's live video [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/168248833/efe28ff8bb47c106802ac7ba0c53ecfe.mp3) ## [Watch the Fire, Not the Smoke: Trump is King of Distractions](https://jollygoodginger.substack.com/p/watch-the-fire-not-the-smoke-trump) _2025-07-14 · Jolly Good Ginger · Jolly Good Ginger_ The MAGA meltdown is amazing to watch, but America is still on fire. ## [Zero-Persistence E2EE (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/8kg7v5QApZ2j) _2025-07-14 · **Sponsored**_ End-to-end encryption with client-side WebCrypto and volatile memory. ## [What if the Work isn't Mysterious, or Important?](https://mustefa.substack.com/p/the-work-isnt-mysterious-or-important) _2025-05-18 · Mustefa ْجوشَن · Mustefa's newsletter_ 3 levels removed, and why it's impossible to escape.