Prediction: average venture returns for investments made in the 2020s are going to be much worse than those from the 2010s.

There's a flood of capital, and I have never heard so many price-setting VCs openly say they're willing to accept much lower return targets.
(Which I guess is sort of what is supposed to happen as the investing marketplace equalizes--the outperformance was just too dramatic.)
Also, let me just simp for a second and suggest that web3 might still have 2010s-like returns.

(But most VCs will miss it.)
(If inflation rips, the way VC fund carry works, GPs will still do great even if their investments don't outperform!)

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9 Nov
There are two ways to reduce economic inequality—you can work to lift up the floor, or work to lower the ceiling.

(Notice the extreme streak of authoritarianism that often accompanies the latter.)
Said another way, you can either believe

1) the pie can grow a lot (and so, e.g. we should encourage trillionaires and the creation of far more wealth), or
2) it can’t (and so, e.g., we should abolish billionaires and divide up everything we have now equally).
The former leads to continual improvement in quality of life for most people; the latter is a one-time improvement for most people and then ongoing stasis where we sacrifice long-term excellence in the name of short-term equality.
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8 Nov
One of the most important career decisions you make is prioritizing status or substance.

Substance compounds and status decays.
Prioritizing status delivers quicker rewards but hits an early ceiling. Prioritizing substance often has a painfully slow start but no ceiling.

(The hard part is often taking an honest look at which is which.)
If you focus on substance, in the long-term you get status too. But it doesn't work the other way around.
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23 Oct
No matter what you think about Worldcoin, I think some of the ideas in here are likely important to the future of privacy: worldcoin.org/privacy-by-des…
I think Worldcoin is more privacy-preserving than centralized services we use today. All Worldcoin, or anyone, could ever tell is if someone has already signed up for the service.

The hash is cryptographically decoupled from the wallet and all future transactions.
Experimentation with new approaches to privacy and identity seem good to me. Everyone can decide what they want to use and not use.
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23 Oct
Imagining an AI future (with some amount of redistribution) is an interesting lens for the Great Resignation.
Less people will have to work in the traditional sense and people will be less willing to do jobs they don't like.

People won’t have to work to survive, and we will have to pay more for less desirable jobs, or automate them, which seems great all around.
I predict that it will turn out that, contrary to think tank wisdom, people can be happy and fulfilled without a "traditional" job. There will be plenty of new things to do and new ways to get status.
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22 Oct
After 9/11 (3k US deaths), we got so much societal change and spent trillions of dollars.

After COVID-19 (700k+ US deaths), we seem to be getting very little change, and spending very little money.
I felt confident we'd get real change–competent planning for future pandemics, severe regulations on gain of function research, FDA reform, rapid-response vaccines for new viruses.

We are struggling to commit even a few tens of billions.

What's gone wrong?
I'm quite nervous about the next pandemic–it could be much worse and it doesn't really look like we're going to prepare.
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3 Oct
Spoke to some really smart college kids recently.

Almost universally, they had a belief that climate change was an unstoppable disaster and the most pressing issue of our time.
The surprising thing was not one of them believed they could or should do anything about it; there seemed to be a total lack of belief in the ability to change the trajectory of the world.
Something has gone wrong here—these are the people who should be taking on the challenge, and they instead are declaring that they’re not going to have kids because the problem is so bad.
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