Jim Vitek (@vitek) profile picture

Software, Business, Restaurants, Science. I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned. (origin unproven)

Ann Arbor, MI
Joined September 2007
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Totally agree with this opinion on governance. I also think Sardar should post these insightful nuggets to a personal X account.
America’s corporate governance system is broken, and it’s killing public companies. Look no further than Cracker Barrel: Decades of brutal mismanagement have seen one incompetent CEO after another walk away with a massive paycheck while customers and actual shareholders take a beating. Why does this keep happening? Because proxy advisory firms like ISS are corrupt. They blindly rubber-stamp failing boards year after year, protecting the corporate elite while burning shareholder value to the ground. The root of the rot is index funds. There's no question that indexing one's money is a smart financial move for most people. But just because you passively index your investments doesn't mean your corporate votes should be handed over to the managers of your fund so they can play politics. Right now, passive funds hold massive, unchecked voting blocks while having zero skin in the game themselves. It is time for a simple rewrite of the rules: We need to index the votes of index fund investors. Passive index funds should be forced to automatically split their votes to proportionately mirror those of retail and active institutional shareholders — the people actually doing the research, risking their capital, and fighting for performance in the companies they hold shares in. No more rubber-stamping. A change like this will immediately strip corrupt gatekeepers like ISS of their toxic influence. True accountability happens when lazy, overpaid boards actually answer to the stakeholders they represent, rather than screwing them over. Actual, logic-driven governance when your money is passive happens when your vote passively follows the voting decisions of the actual market. We need to stop letting passive capital protect active incompetence. By stripping index funds of their arbitrary voting power and empowering engaged investors, we will finally torch corporate cronyism and usher American capital markets into a golden age of capitalism.
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Fascinating perspective
Insane that we'll end up producing 99% of our energy from space, and send it down as intelligence. Literally no other way to send this much energy back — intelligence ended up being the densest form of energy we discovered.
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Giant nugget of wisdom for all builders:
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What a great use of this meme:
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They don’t deserve you. #Respect
18 years old 34 ACT 4.0 GPA $30M ARR biz Stanford ❌ MIT ❌ Harvard ❌ Yale ❌ WashU ❌ Columbia ❌ UPenn ❌ Princeton ❌ Duke ❌ USC ❌ Georgia Tech ✅ UVA ❌ NYU ❌ UT ✅ Vanderbilt ❌ Brown ❌ UMiami ✅ Cornell ❌
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Bravo @flightradar24 it’s still early, but hard to imagine another #AprilFoolsDay that will beat this.
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Grok 3 is legit
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Incredible accomplishment. Several great pictures of her training and journey on her instagram. instagram.com/friluftsjenta
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Rolling out Immersive Video Tab for US users!
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How loading bars actually work
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1/ Here’s the truth about McDonald’s ice cream machines. Next time you see someone recycling false, inaccurate info or lame jokes, drop them this thread. Bookmark it. Share it. Let’s set the record straight. 🍦
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*4-8 inches of snow forecasted this weekend* South: CANCEL ALL ACTIVITIES AND SEEK SHELTER NOW Midwest: looks like I’ll have to get my winter coat out finally
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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The 10x programmer/designer is created largely as a function of motivation. The will to see your creation exist. An impatience with turning nothing into something.
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Well played on both sides
Replying to @mcuban
hi
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Deep truth
Money is just a metaphor for time. The only currency is time. Money just pays for other ppl to do certain time you would otherwise have to do
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