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Time for techno-optimism: My long read Q&A with venture capitalist Marc Andreessen https://fasterplease.substack.com/p/time-for-techno-optimism-my-long

See Florida Man (Netflix) for how it should have been played.

Ha. Me too. I actually liked Colin Farrell (per Mann, he was Don Johnson's choice). Yeah, wholly unconvincing. Foxx (and his hairline) didn't work for me: https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/345d8b15-1ace-4af1-a42e-7e0cb70c8942 Yeesh. This wasn't Bad Boys. Maybe, but not a difference maker. Sure, but there's something fun about spending years thinking about it.

In a world with fingers of instability that may be connected in ways we have not seen in the past, caution is the order of the day. https://www.mauldineconomics.com/frontlinethoughts/fingers-of-instability-mwo040706

Normal Accident Theory suggests investment dangers might be unavoidable?

And the flip side (the Region Alpha Paradox?):

Fantastic.

Maybe for custody, but who knows? Zero transparency.

Exactly.

The Bonfire of the Vanities was pretty well translated (the shortcomings of wealth), Netflix's A Man in Full entirely missed the point (what makes a good life/what is the measure of a man). Read the book, you'll not regret it.

Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities and (especially) A Man in Full.

Ordered, thanks.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12067037/ https://www.kevinmd.com/2017/08/9-reasons-golden-age-medicine-golden.html https://www.kevinmd.com/2019/01/the-generational-differences-of-physicians.html https://www.kevinmd.com/2017/02/upon-time-doctor-great-not-anymore.html https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com/golden-age-of-medicine/

Docs do well compared to their age cohort still, sure, but not as well as previous generations of docs did.

In 2022, 40 percent of all American children were born to single mothers. Black newborns faced a catastrophic 69.3 percent illegitimacy rate, while more than 53 percent of Hispanic children were born to unmarried females. Whites had a 27 percent illegitimacy rate; the rate among the white underclass is twice that. Already in 2016, 59 percent of births to white women who did not finish high school or obtain a GED occurred outside of marriage. https://www.city-journal.org/article/girling-the-boy-scouts

Across a variety of datasets and measures, the finding of a midlife low has been consistently replicated. The U-shape has been apparent across a whole range of well-being metrics, including life satisfaction, financial satisfaction, worthwhileness, and happiness. Every U.S. state had a U-shape. But not anymore. Now, young adults (on average) are the least happy people. Unhappiness now declines with age, and happiness now rises with age–and this change seems to have started around 2017. The prime-age are happier than the young. https://www.interdependence.org/blog/the-global-loss-of-the-u-shaped-curve-of-happiness/ Social media is tough.

More simple: don't hate the producers.

Five conservative states have forced their employee pension funds to divest from China over the past year, amid increased tension with the Asian country, and more are considering following suit. Tension between the United States and China has been worsening for years, but Director of U.S. National Intelligence Avril Haines most recently warned lawmakers in May that China is preparing for increasingly unstable relationships with the United States. Indiana, Florida, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kansas are leading the calls to divest from the economic powerhouse, over fears that U.S. assets could be frozen if conflict breaks out between China and Taiwan, Politico reported Friday. https://justthenews.com/nation/states/five-states-force-employee-pension-funds-divest-china-amid-increasing-tension