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If you want to be the boss, it helps to have mild cognitive impairment from prenatal exposure to toxic waste
He Would Have Graphed
Be the boss; pay no costs
Acróstica? We hardly even…
‘This is a sensitive trade-off that has not always been well managed in the banking industry’
The lawful good to chaotic evil of assets vs liabilities
Longer lives; stablecoins; investor types; computers; Fake My Run; trading; the US dollar; and shorter lives
Ground zero for the global duration dump
Well, kinda, maybe, maybe not
Good regulation 🤝 free caffeination
Tee-34
She’s Gen Z, she’s Scottish, and she’s our only hope
Defence tech; Waffle House; AI movies; Tories; GEO; corporate speech; Anthropic; English majors; and OpenAI
Rubbish; Uno; schools; birthdays; US Marines x Skynet; hobby computers; and cod
America; men; AI; people; gaming; Tim Cook; and man
How to lend money and influence people
Tom Cruise; opinions; Altman x Ive; homo sapiens; macroeconomics; freelancing; airports; Norway stuff; and sudden infant death syndrome
I care not when you call me big poppadom
The dumbest PE performance metric still bamboozles some investors
The chart of seduction
Optimal onion-slicing; NYC tycoons; perfect soy sauce; Trump Inc
Who cares what the papers say?
The return of the bond vigilantes . . . in Japan?
Joined up thinking
Strive Asset Management + some Discord servers = “Berkshire Hathaway of Bitcoin”?
RIP George Wendt; Bluesky; safe assets; LinkedIn magic
He who understands it, earns it. He who doesn’t, pays it
Ipsos facto
How then shall we live?
Someone alert WallStreetBets
Demonology; Cruise & McQuarrie; US trade deficit; AI slop snafu; oncology 101
It’s not just a lifer issue
Struggling club risks ending up nearly a yard offside
‘We are pulling apart our own regulatory foundation — block by block, case by case, and rule by rule’
Food criticism; deal criticism, photography criticism; Alexander the Great criticism; and mirror image criticism
It’s just, like, their opinion man
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