Grumpy Optimist | Marketer | Capitalist
Founder of @buzzthetower_hq
Dec 9, 2024 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
This chart might look like a chart of CO2 emissions but it's not. It's a Rorschach Test.
For some reason, otherwise intelligent Brits will look at it and conclude that:
- China is doing an amazing job building renewables
- the UK is a unique villain because of "historic emissions"
- China's emissions are set to decline... next year
The reactions are utterly bizarre, it's a cult.
Let's look at the farcical "historical emissions" claim.
Another way of saying "historical" is "cumulative". China's cumulative emissions overtook the UK nearly 30 years ago. And then look what happened?
Activists use the term "historical" rather than cumulative because they want to imply that the UK is somehow uniquely culpable. By doing this they're being China's useful idiots.
Feb 2, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Idea: Craftspeople and Activists
So i've been turning a thought over in my head and wanted some feedback. It relates to people who are intrinsically motivated by their work.
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In my model these types of workers fall into two categories: 1. Craftspeople - Motivated to produce quality work for the sake of the work itself. 2. Activists - Motivated to do work because they have a moral drive and work is their vehicle.
Oct 19, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Noticed how tech companies are extraordinarily good places to work because they're so accommodating? Seriously, if you look at things like remote work etc (eg. Amazon only needs you to be within 24 hrs of an office for a physical meeting) tech is incredibly generous.
We didn't get here through organised labour, we got here because these wonderful perks are a side effect of tech companies doing everything they can to attract and accommodate the really outstanding employees.
May 18, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Evolution of a tech cluster:
Beers & laptops in bedroom
Holy crap XYZ got VC funding
Holy crap so did ABC
We're the next Silicon Valley (laughs)
Local paper says we're the next SV (awkward laughs)
We have our own VCs now
National paper says we're the next SV (stop saying that)
First acquihires! Hooray
First M&A exit! Hooray
Our first accelerator
God who are all these VCs?
Second M&A exit? Hooray
God here come the corporates
Why do we need another 12 accelerators?
More M&A
Why to tech companies keep selling?
First IPO! Hooray
Saturation bombing of VC
