1/ The BEST thing about GOOD mental models and frameworks is their generalizability.
Are they USEFUL to advance understanding issues and find solutions?
2/ Readinf @slatestarcodex excellent piece on whether psychiatric conditions are clearly distinct CATEGORIES (in the way rabbits are rabbits + humans are humans) or DIMENSIONS (where people fall on spectrum with no clear demarcation line)...
3/ Found it useful in thinking about how we think about RACE, clear categories or spectra: light white to dark black, eye colors, hair textures, origin stories, group identity, family lineage, geography, rights, status, income, victim, pepetrator, justice, injustice...
While retail speculators + those egging em on
for playful prank-like bloodsport inciting seige on “Capital”
resentful of short sellers remember a few things...
2/ Remember value investors and short sellers may not be VIRTUOUS but the EFFECT of their activity is MORAL as they seek to give money to those companies allocating it intelligently + take it away from those that are not so it can be redirected for higher + better use...
3/ Just as MOMENTUM investors + SPECULATORS play a MORAL role in providing capital to futuristic companies (MOST of which fail and a FEW which have historic impact) that have no cash flow or profits and cannot get the fuel unless its provided by someone...
1/ Lux likes to “BELIEVE before others UNDERSTAND”
Lux partner @zacktrak was a table-pounding true believer in Luke Schoenfelder @LASchoenfelder and the vision for @latchaccess from Day 0. Zack repeatedly said: “there is something special about Luke”.
Boy was he RIGHT...
2/ Lux partnership is always trying to find an angle, the variant perception others might not see. When Latch was founded there were many *direct to consumer* door-lock or doorbell players like August or Ring.
Luke insisted on NOT going direct to consumers—but developers—SMART.
3/ We learned a lot from Luke’s culture of “humble excellence” that touched everything from inside DESIGN (reminding us of stories of Steve Jobs wanting what couldn’t be seen to be perfect) to cutting-edge TECH hardware + software to the strategies of PARTNERING + DISTRIBUTION.