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🔗 Simple Advice for Junior Folks in Venture Capital

Don’t Be a Generalist. Do One Thing Really Well for your GP and One Thing Really Well for Founders.

💬 Hunter Walk

I know what he’s trying to say .. and it is ‘simple advice’ that is said a lot - not just VCS.

BUT if everybody does this - without exception - who will;

• Connect the dots
• See the ocean
• Provide the context
• Understand the big picture
• Make the leaps

I worry that the continual cry to double down on specialisation is going to mean that we miss a lot. Too much even.

Which Is Why

I thought it was quiet - 🔗 Sill disappeared. It’s back.

🔗 The Braindump Blog reporting that Twitter (sic) is blocking ‘Signal.me’.

Signal has been especially important over these past few weeks as federal employees have reached out to journalists to blow the whistle on what Elon Musk’s DOGE have been doing with access to data within numerous government agencies.
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An astonishing coincidence I’m sure.

💬 Braindump

First it was Deepseek - and now it’s cars. 🔗 Looks like China are doing it again. … via The Information.

But Stiglitz suggested the only way the president’s policies would positively contribute to that goal was by running the US into the ground. “The inflation from the tariffs is going in the wrong way, and the only thing that is going in the right way for Bessent is his efforts to crater the economy,” he said.

“In supporting Trump’s economic policies, Bessent is helping to get the yield curve down by crashing the US economy – not a good policy, I would say.”

🔗 Trump policies make US ‘scary place to invest’ and risk stagflation, says Stiglitz

🔗📸 Well. Who knew? - and ‘just’ down the road apparently.

David Frum is not wrong …

🔗 The ‘Gulf of America’ Is an Admission of Defeat

If someone wants to unlock a stolen phone – or retrieve money from an ATM – and only have five guesses, this data suggests they still have a one-in-eight chance of guessing correctly.

💬 Nathan Yau - Flowing Data

🔗 The Complete Article

🖇️ Me back in 2016 - commenting on a post by Doc Searls - including an early start to the ad / tracker blocker dialogue

Fresh into the feed today - Doc on the difference between 🔗 Blocking Tracking and Blocking Ads

Its amazing how after all this time they are still conflated (I think mainly because it suits the advertisers dialogue- and ‘ad blockers’ rolls off the tongue better than ‘tracker blockers’)

🔗 Hiding data in an emoji

.. sharing - and understand - not sure I could do it.