Here's a clue: in a democracy where only about 10% of the population ends up paying for virtually all of government spending; where government (at all levels) equals 40% of GDP; where federal government transfer payments are the largest source of income in 53% of the counties;

A lot of people have asked me if I will get involved in the NYC mayor race by supporting a candidate that can defeat Zohran Mamdani. TBH, I’m torn and undecided. Like every other city run by democrats, NYC is a broken kleptocracy. Taxes are astronomical and services are pathetic

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jordan peterson’s ’clean up your room’ became a huge joke but no one ever mentioned that his second step was to try to make the room beautiful, because that involves committing to something, putting yourself out there, and engaging with beauty on your own terms as an individual.

De Gaulle said it best: "In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant"

Good thread from the x.com/pelositracker_ team.

youtu.be/oHlpmxLTxpw w/a great comment: "This video gets at part of why the ‘college experience’ is so romanticized in the US. Kids haven’t been independent their whole lives, and when they are it’s mind-boggling." "Bus Dad" B.C. case quoted is 📷: 5kids1condo.com/we-won-common-…

🚨The world stock market is dominated by the US: The US is less than 5% of the world’s population but ~50% of global stock market value, similarly to the 2000 Dot-Com Bubble. The EU has 9.1% of the population and just 9.8% of the global market cap.👇 globalmarketsinvestor.beehiiv.com/p/buy-now-pay-…

German energy madness caused two things: 1. It decimated its existing industry 2. It made it impossible for Germany to participate in the energy intensive AI revolution shaping the future German dogmatic ideology & political amateurishness ruined one of the strongest economies

I discovered my neighbor was stealing my WiFi. Most homeowners would change their password. I saw an underdeveloped revenue channel. He was using 847GB of bandwidth monthly. I saw 847 opportunities for monetization. I didn't block him. Instead, I set up a man-in-the-middle

Complaining (aka raising awareness) ≠ Doing something useful. It’s one of the false allures of “democracy”… And it keeps so many otherwise good people unknowingly in stasis. freemansperspective.com/right-time-wil…

A dark theory for the evening. Let's talk about Russian strategy in Ukraine.⬇️ Looking at developments lately, specifically: (1) the Ukrainian casualty leak showing an astronomical 1.7M KIA/MIA; and (2) the Ukrainian collapse north of Pokrovsk - I thought should revisit a dark

Key excerpt on Trofim Lysenko in the photo.

See “The Architect of Trump’s Reset” section in internationalman.com/articles/trump… for more on Triffin’s Dilemma.

Excellent mental model from Julio - Julio Froment - in his latest Substack piece: "Often times when you're having a difficult time making a decision, it's because you're conflating the decision itself with the implementation of the decision." littlealmanack.com/p/how-to-make-…

Fabulous new TED talk from Lenore Skenazy. She shows that the cure for rising anxiety among kids and rising anxiety among parents is the same: Let kids develop competence through independence, and through (device-free) unsupervised play, as they used to ted.com/talks/lenore_s…

Key part:

Not many Americans understand the correlation between soaring government debt & spending and the rise in violence, radicalized politics, and all kinds of social "weirdness." Inflation undermines the stability of civil society because it erodes the incentives for hard work,

These statistics from the article below are 🤯

Nice framework from Nassim Nicholas Taleb on what he calls the "ludicrousness of scale-free political universalism" (i.e., how political ideologies don't translate uniformly across different scales of governance and social organization): goodreads.com/quotes/9746792…