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Feb 15 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I wish I had more energy to talk about this tonight. There are a lot of questions to ask.
I assume a lot of people are going to react like this. It's understandable.
But what Breslow is describing is a very real problem in the tech startup ecosystem. And we have to pay attention. Because this particular mechanism is at the core of whether employees get to participate in the wealth that is generated by this industry.
There is no simple answer to this. There are many different ways to structure equity in a company. Most early stage startups avoid RSUs. They're considered taxable assets. So they don't make sense if the company valuation is still expected to change a lot.
Like I said, I don't think I can do this topic justice tonight. I may try tomorrow. It's worth talking about. Not only because of this particular hype thread that Breslow is on. (This has definitely been done before btw.)

But because we need to start talking about getting paid.
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Feb 12
The real hack for fewer meetings is to lean into them and make sure the reason you were invited actually happens. A lot of meetings are tedious because they're repeats. The last time you met, the thing that needed to happen didn't happen.
Dan's answer is 100% legit. All meetings aren't terrible. *Other* people's meetings are terrible. When you need something from somebody else, a meeting is just you doing your job. We can all do our part by helping other people's meetings be successful.
In a lot of corporate work environments. It's not always obvious *what* we need from each other. People call meetings to try to figure out what they need. It can feel wasteful, but there's actually no good way around it. Figuring out why we're meeting is a superpower.
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Feb 8
Oh. marketwatch.com/story/feds-arr…
Some choice quotes from the article:

"When the hack occurred, the bitcoin was worth approximately $71 million. Today, it would be worth $4.5 billion, they said."

The level of speculation that has occurred around Bitcoin is wild.
"Prosecutors said they would ultimately move to return the seized money back to those it was stolen from in 2016."

Imagine getting $100 stolen from you and then 5 years later they return you $6500. That's more or less what this means.
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Feb 8
This is a weird conversation. I get why people are having it, but I'm having a hard time with it. And I think it's mostly because my own politics have shifted a lot and no longer align with most mainstream thinking.
If I understand things right (I may not), the issue is half of the graduate degrees from American Universities go to international students. People view this as a problem. Presumably because that talent is not staying in the US to participate in our economy. I think I get that.
I think I'm having a hard time with it for 2 reasons.

1) In a bunch of other areas of economics, people keep saying that everything is globalized now, and that's a good thing.

2) I don't view education as a national asset that we should be guarding jealously.
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Feb 7
Okay I'm ready to ask my tech followers for beginner resources. This would be targeted at some people close to me who are college age and trying to figure out how to get started. I have two needs that I'll describe in the next couple of tweets.
The first need is for someone who hasn't had any exposure to coding and wants to get some. What are some resources to get started with examples? And then resources to talk about how to think about coding. The goal here is to enable them to ask me more targeted questions.
The second need is for someone who is figuring out how to understand different jobs. They have done some programming in school. Taken classes on things like app development, data analysis, and marketing. How would they get oriented around different job descriptions?
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Feb 4
Shockingly I agree with the second part. Black people's optimism that America could actually be the nation it says it wants to be has always been treated as radical.

The first part is pure bullshit though, so YMMV.
This is the problem with an ideology like this. "Most people want more and better" is a fiction based in modernity. We have been conditioned to want more. And we no longer question where that all-consuming voraciousness comes from.
Most people do want "better". But we have better and won't give it to them. People aren't asking to go to the Mars. They just want a house. Telling them you have to go to Mars and eventually it will result in them getting a house... maybe. That's where this bullshit falls apart.
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Feb 4
People are still sheepish about saying they see a therapist. It's slowly changing, but every time somebody says it in a way that sounds like they are embarrassed I get sad.

Therapy is great and you should do it.
I was very resistant to therapy at first. I was conditioned by my upbringing and my hubris to assume it couldn't really do anything for me. I was very wrong.
The problem is that as this stigma slowly lifts, we're gonna need a lot more therapists.
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