💬 Quotes
I do like JP’s journies. This one from 2022 - 🔗Thinking lazily about capacity and constraints
An aside. The Beat Generation’s William S Burroughs was a grandson of William Seward Burroughs, the founder of Burroughs Corporation. The author of Naked Lunch is correctly referred to as William Seward Burroughs II, while his grandfather gets called William Seward Burroughs I.
💬 'JP'
About Those PE Companies
If you are a regular reader of this blog - you will know that I am no financial expert. I never even played one on TV - BUT - fascinated by it since the people in finance are (too?) often the one that dictate the funds available to do what I think businesses need to do. Today’s topic - PE. Which is NOT the same as VC. Not at all.
When I was a lad in the UK there was this thing in the news called the ‘Brain Drain’, where people left the UK and went West. Yes America - but also Canada.
Who would have predicted that it would only take half a century and the most stupid president to have ever walked the earth (not just the US) to 🔗 reverse that.
Poaching U.S. talent “needs to become a strategic priority for government.
💬 Paul Nurse
Paul is head of the Francis Crick Institute.
Not to put a damper on things - but the government needs to move fast.
Oh well. We can dream.
I presume that The UAE has ‘taken one for the team’ and has become the 51st state and Canada is safe (at least until the clown decides we need a 52nd).
This is the only explanation after learning today that the ‘500Bn Stargate initiative’ that Tяump announced 40 years ago just 4 months ago and was …
focused on spending $500 billion on new facilities in the U.S. to help OpenAI develop advanced AI.
💬 Anissa Gardizy - The InformatIon
Thank you to UAE for helping to Make America Great Again.
Next Stop - Saudi America (sic).
About Isaac Asimov
Prompted by a William Gallagher post, A short take on Asimov, memory, and how storytelling evolves. “it’s not the colour of the pill, but the effect”. … A reflection on reading, writing, and what still holds up.
🔗 Why Today April 30th Should Be a National Holiday
The question used to be: ‘Might it be possible that we were on the wrong side in the Vietnamese War?’ But we weren’t on the wrong side. We are the wrong side."
💬 Daniel Ellsberg
Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
💬 John Maynard Keynes
(Via John Naughton)
🔗 Business Insider may have published the dumbest article of the year | Salon.com
My working theory has always been that both things can be true: Henry Blodget really is an idiotic jackass ..
💬 John Gruber
I don’t always agree with Mr. Gruber but I do always read him and that quote right there is one of the reasons.
Brother from another mother.
💬 Not sure how far back this quote goes. But on investment - even today, the unspoken request lurks … when are you moving here? If you happen to live outside the US .. good luck with the visa.
