Most people didn't understand my point (which was not well articulated) and thought that I was suggesting that spending over $1mm/year was not extravagant.
And the guillotines came out.
At first I interacted with some of the replies, but with 1000s of them I decided to mute the thread...
But, that didn't really work because the "eat the rich" people started clicking my profile to reply to my other tweets.
I got pissed off with this guy because I didn't like how he brought my company into it.
So I tweeted the below, calling some of the people attacking my timeline tweets butthurt losers.
Up until this point I wasn't too bothered by the situation.
I can deal with people saying I'm a piece of shit or saying "I huff Jeff Bezos' farts" (because I must love Amazon because we sell on Amazon haha).
Guillotining me was cute, and shout out to the guy who said he'd put me in a wood chipper, but from there the threats started to get a little bit more specific like "When I see you I'm going to stab you" and "I'm going to kill you."
But I'm still not freaking out at this point.
All that changed when a new account that had never tweeted before replied to my climate change tweet with my personal address.
After I blocked and reported the account, he made another called @molsonhartt
I responded by saying that I would get a restraining order.
Those who know me, know I follow through.
Around this time, I got a facetime call from my wife.
I turn it on and she's hold my pistol with the magazine separated.
"How do you use this?"
This whole time I was on a business trip, so while multiple accounts were threatening to kill me and one published our address, my wife and newborn son were at that address alone.
Fuck that.
This is what made this absolutely terrible.
I felt powerless to protect my family because I was 3 hours away.
And I felt like a fucking cunt for putting them at risk by...tweeting.
"This isn't worth this." I thought.
Wife: "Delete the tweets."
Me: "If we do that, they're just going to come harder. They'll celebrate how I deleted the tweets."
Wife: "Just do it."
Me: "If we do that, they win."
I didn't delete.
No one slept that night.
My wife was scared with my pistol by her side and I paced around my hotel room trying to figure out what I was going to prevent this from EVER happening again.
Happily, the next morning Twitter e-mailed me to say that had suspended multiple accounts that had threatened to kill me and the one that published my address
And even better I got this unsolicited e-mail from the person who said they were going to stab me
We had a back and forth...
Turns out the guy who threatened to stab me when he saw me also was the guy who published my address with a different account.
And I agreed not to go after him because he apologized.
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Economies and diseconomies of scale in management.
0 Employees.
With no one to manage, there is no one with whom to communicate. You will never be more efficient.
1/n
1 employee.
You now must communicate what, how, and why to the employee you manage. Efficiency falls from this communication. However, accountability is high because everything that happens in the department can be attributed to the one person.
2/n
2 employees.
Huge dropoff in efficiency, because, not only do the two employees need to communicate between themselves and you, but you need to know who is responsible for what. You must observe closely to reward fairly or no one will work hard.
I tweeted about how much it costs to live in Manhattan and in between threats to guillotine me (someone even suggested a wood-chipper!) someone posted an interesting graph from the Fed showing wealth by percentile group.
Throw a little bullwhip inventory effect, price reflexivity, fomo, human psychology, and tons of debt in there.
And I don’t see how this doesn’t lead to a subprime like economic crisis.
2/2
Bonus: What’s crazy about this is that you also have shortages and government issues like infrastructure and the debt ceiling (did this get fixed?) that I didn’t even mention.
I just don’t see how we get through this without a blow up 🤷♂️
I’m starting to really freak out now about inflation more than ever.
I thought inflation was coming because a) we printed money and gave it to people which is different from QE b) shipping costs were exploding c) I saw some wage pressures in the usa
But what I didn’t see
1/2
Was raw material spikes in China. We saw them in the USA but they mostly could be explained by weird covid supply shocks like mills and meat plants not being able to operate because of social distancing.
Now we are seeing raw materials spike in China.
2/3
Three different suppliers have not only complained about this but are really bearish about the future.
One also has not had power for 3 days…
When you throw raw material increases on top of everything else, it gets bad.
If people and businesses start buying ahead of time
3/4
It still feels to me that people are really underestimating the price increases and shortages they are going to see on imported consumer goods.
People are saying “they’ll just buy software and gift cards instead.”
1/2
I don’t think people will trust gift cards amidst rising prices. I mean…would you? We’re going to see big price increases online and empty shelves online. “Oh well, here’s a gift card that won’t be usable for months and when it is usable it’ll be worth less”.
2/3
I don’t see that happening. The people who hoard toilet paper whenever there’s a shortage ain’t going to trust gift cards.
And as for software, grandma has no idea how to gift that. Neither do your parents.