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Likes: UCLA sports, surfing, diving, basketball.... and I do software too: Forward Lateral. Beautifully bootstrapped.

California
Joined January 2011
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Mr Lingcod retweeted
there is almost zero point to complaining about virtually anything. you either change your perspective on the thing, you leave the thing, or you simply accept it. complaining is usually just the least useful fourth option & high cognitive load to boot.
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Institutions are inefficient. Experts are overrated. Capital should flow toward builders. Technology compounds. Independent thinking wins.
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Mr Lingcod retweeted
Sure you can earn a billion dollars. I've been teaching people how to do it for 20 years. The way you do it is to start a company that grows fast. You don't have to do anything bad to make a company grow fast. You just have to make something people want. paulgraham.com/ace.html
AOC: “There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that. You can get market power, you can break rules, you can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they’re worth, but you can’t earn that”
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Mr Lingcod retweeted
Starlink is providing Internet connectivity to schools and hospitals in Africa that had nothing or very expensive and bad connectivity before. This will do more to lift people out of poverty than all the NGOs combined.
NEWS: SpaceX's @Starlink has reached a new milestone in Kenya, recording 19,460 active users as of September 2025, marking the satellite provider’s highest subscriber count since entering the Kenyan market.
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Documentary I made about a trip to Papua New Guinea about 10 years ago. RIP and Happy Birthday Johnathon. vimeo.com/274925376
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This shit’s awesome. Skipper/Jerry saving us all from an absolutely miserable slog of a season.
"We've gone from a funeral to a festival in Pasadena" 🗣️ UCLA's Tim Skipper & Jerry Neuheisel join the crew on Inside College Football to talk about their massive upset vs Penn State ⬇️ 📺: youtu.be/lf2mblPQBY4
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Death Valley put on a show for the ages. Probably my favorite lightning shot ever in Badwater Basin tonight. #cawx
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When people think of the “Big One” in California, they imagine a catastrophic earthquake. But the real Big One will be a megaflood, that could cause over $1 trillion in damage and become the worst natural disaster in world history... (thread) 🧵
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Very well said.
I’m constantly surprised by the number of people who have zero ability to think about trade offs when discussing politics. Politics, like life, is all about the incremental progress that lies in compromise. Progress then compounds. So many people are stuck in a rut of “all or none”. It’s a self made prison.
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I’m constantly surprised by the number of people who have zero ability to think about trade offs when discussing politics. Politics, like life, is all about the incremental progress that lies in compromise. Progress then compounds. So many people are stuck in a rut of “all or none”. It’s a self made prison.
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My favorite part of the speech too.
🚨 HOLY SMOKES: Trump takes a blow torch to the neocons and interventionists while speaking to the Saudis. This is a VICTORY speech over globalism. "It's crucial for the wider world to know this great transformation has not come from Western interventionists, or flying people in beautiful planes giving you lectures on how to live and how to govern your own affairs." "In the end, the so-called nation builders wrecked far more nations than they built and the interventionalists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves." "No, the gleaming marvels of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so-called 'nation builders,' neocons, or liberal non-profits like those who spent trillions and trillions of dollars failing to develop Baghdad, so many other cities." "Instead, the birth of a modern Middle East has been brought by the people of the region themselves, the people that are right here, the people that have lived here all their lives, developing your own sovereign countries, pursuing your own unique visions and charting your own destinies in your own way." "They told you how to do it, but they had no idea how to do it themselves. Peace, prosperity, and progress ultimately came not from a radical rejection of your heritage, but rather from embracing your national traditions and embracing that same heritage that you love so dearly." "You achieved a modern miracle the Arabian way." No wonder they respect him so much.
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To recap: ❌ Software / analyst ❌ Accounting / tax prep ❌ Graphic design ❌ Customer service / basic sales ❌ Law / paralegals ✅ Anything government contracts ✅ Anything life and death ✅ Entrepreneurship ✅ Anything physical ✅ Finance / wealth management
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This is one of the great business leaders leading in real time unscripted on the topic of work from home. He is entirely right. We can all learn from him. A must listen.
Jamie Diamond has seen enough “Fucking zoom” 😂😂😂
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The year is 2025 and what me, a real human, really wants is an AI agent to block other AI agents trying to sell me stuff!
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Bruins still haven’t entered either Top 25 poll
UCLA men’s hoops have won 7 games in a row. Bruins are the top ranked team by Torvik over that period (since 1/14).
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Recently, we got to meet some Bruins after the game. My son Samuel, age 7, thinks Aday Mara is the coolest person he's ever met (and will probably ever meet)!
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Glowing Bill Walton remains extremely powerful Walton. Pour one out for the GOAT.
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Drought free California from space. What a sight.
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