Capital Gains that haven't been turned into cash yet

Martina Lauchengco: I’m a great director of marketing. Why am I not a VP? Years ago, I watched a talented director of marketing take a high-profile startup from stealth to launch to millions in revenue (more)

David Gerard: Crypto is going great: KuCoin busted, how Kickstarter shot itself in the foot with blockchain, Tether goes AI. (more)

Why Ben and Felicia Horowitz made a shocking political U-turn. In July 2018, at one of Ben Horowitz and Felicia Horowitz’s annual star-studded backyard barbecues at their Atherton estate, Black entertainment and media luminaries Gayle King, Tina Knowles, Terry Crews, and Van Jones mingled with Silicon Valley royals Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan... These kinds of gatherings — of liberal politicians dancing and partying with left-leaning celebrities and tech moguls — were typical for the Horowitzes, who became Silicon Valley power players through Ben’s role in the influential venture capital firm Andreesen Horowitz. And their guest list made sense: The Horowitzes were committed Democratic donors. Flash forward to today, and Ben Horowitz has publicly endorsed Donald Trump and — in partnership with co-founder Marc Andreessen — plans to give a “significant” amount of money to his campaign. (more)

Dave Troy: We mapped Jeffrey Epstein's social network. Here's what we found. ...we performed such an analysis, focusing on five characters central to the current controversy: Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Rupert Murdoch. We included Epstein's entire, unredacted “black book,” as well as the flight logs for his private jet, the Lolita Express. (more)

Andreessen-Horowitz co-founders explain why they're supporting Donald Trump. ...boils down primarily to one major issue – he believes Trump’s policies are much more favorable for tech, specifically for the startup ecosystem. (more)

How Saudi money returned to Silicon Valley. It was in late March that Silicon Valley decided that it’s no longer shameful to accept massive investment dollars from Saudi Arabia. (more)

Casey Winters: Fire Every Bullet. In crisis situations, a new style or management and prioritization has to occur. Andy Grove famously called this “wartime”, and he and others like Ben Horowitz have described what it’s like to be a “wartime” CEO. I haven’t ever seen anything written about being a wartime CPO though. (more)

*In social science generally and linguistics specifically, the cooperative principle describes how people achieve effective conversational communication in common social situations—that is, how listeners and speakers act cooperatively and mutually accept one another to be understood in a particular way. The philosopher of language Paul Grice introduced the concept in his pragmatic theory: (more)

Mattermost is an open-source, self-hostable online live chat service with file sharing, search, and integrations. It is designed as an internal chat for organisations and companies, and mostly markets itself as an open-source alternative to Slack.com[9][10] and Microsoft Teams. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattermost (more)

W David Marx: Only Fads: A Culture (and Economy) of Labubu. Fads are nothing new, but an online-first culture has made raw trendiness the primary cultural value, which is moving the base of cultural production away from the U.S. (more)

Default Friend: Not Right, Not-Left, Just Online. The story I can’t get out of my head today is the one every other newsletter is talking about: the launch of The Argument, former Atlantic writer Jerusalem Demsas’s new media project that promises not just to “diagnose problems” but “persuade people of solutions.” (more)

Derek Thompason on 1910: The Year the Modern World Lost Its Mind. “Automobilism is an illness, a mental illness. This illness has a pretty name: speed... [Man] can no longer stand still, he shivers, his nerves tense like springs, impatient to get going once he has arrived somewhere because it is not somewhere else, somewhere else, always somewhere else.” - Octave Mirbeau, French novelist, 1910 (more)

not ideal, but possible/pragmatic (solution) (more)

Culture meta-GameRule/Value of Tolerance toward SubCultures (outgroups?) co-existing and interacting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_pluralism - live and let live (more)

lack of Diversity (of thought, species, whatever) (more)

BrainTrust series of novels by Marc Stiegler - ASIN:B086RX2Y2Z (more)

Dan Hon: s17e09: What does it take to trust?; The Young Lady’s Illustrated Tour Guide (more)

Adrian Hon: A Thousand Primers, Not Just One. Andy Matuschak’s essay, Exorcising us of the Primer, highlights the limitations of Neal Stephenson’s influential The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer. (2024-07-10-Matuschak ExorcisingUsOfThePrimer) (more)

Dan Hon: s14e03: Success Criteria; Chat. 1.1 Another thing that stuck in my head from Tim Bray’s essay about search on Mastodon was his section on success criteria. Here’s the first para, but I encourage you to read the rest..... (more)