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The inimitable @micsolana on Hyperlegible talking Golden Age.

Disney, regulation, rare earth metals, building a media empire... a little something for everyone.
Bitcoin was born out of the Global Financial Crisis.

It is now larger by market cap than the four largest US banks combined.

Chaos is a ladder: https://www.notboring.co/p/chaos-is-a-ladder
Brian Potter is one of the people I read religiously and reference often. It was awesome getting to talk to him about the 50 Things He's Learned Writing Construction Physics.

https://youtu.be/6CVuzQvJ-Ys?si=P6rHAr77NK9KXlhP
Hyperlegible 006: Forsaking Industrialism by Conrad Bastable
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Hyperlegible 006: Conrad Bastable, Forsaking Industrialism

"If you just run this playbook half-heartedly, you’re still going to get rinsed by China and the end products your consumers buy will be more expensive.

The tariffs are literally just punching yourself in the face. Economically-speaking."

https://youtu.be/6wc2ENUCdqA
Skittle Factory Dementia Monkey Titty Monetization with Parakeet (Hyperlegible 005)

Collect our wildest and most animated Hyperlegible conversation yet.
First Hyperlegible with a pseudonymous writer coming out tomorrow 🦜
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/a33fe241-3ad0-4fc5-5824-dcc640ea8500/original
Hyperlegible 004: Alex Danco, Scarcity and Abundance in 2025
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Hyperlegible 003: Julian Lehr, The case against conversational interfaces
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Hyperlegible 002: Utsav Mamoria, How to live an intellectually rich life
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Time to own some history and bet that Tina's ideas will have staying power.

Collect Hyperlegible 001: @fakepixels from Hyperlegible on Pods!
Hyperlegible 001: Tina He, Jevons Paradox: A Personal perspective
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Introducing Hyperlegible, a new series from Not Boring Radio (nbr).

I’m going to have conversations with the people who write my favorite essays each week. Sometimes, many a week. As many great essays as people write.

Ep 1: @fakepixels on Jevons Paradox: A personal perspective.
/Podcasts
engage with this cast i'm testing something 😈
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Boring News
Dec 9, 2024

1. Fed decision in December? 25bp cut up to 87% odds
2. TikTok banned in the US before May 2025? 14%--> 36%
3. Will Israel invade Syria in 2024? Spiked to 80%

Get it on @pods

https://pods.media/boring-news/december-9-fed-cuts-tiktok-syria?referrer=0x2920A3192613d8c42f21b64873dc0Ddfcbf018D4
Boring News
December 5, 2024

1. Michel Barnier out as prime minister of France in 2024?
2. Will Biden pardon Fauci?
3. @bryanjohnson 's average nighttime erection 2h 12m+ in Dec?

Listen and collect it on @pods
Introducing Boring News

Daily news from Polymarket markets.

Can't upload the video here because it's >5 minutes so sharing the X. Enjoy!

https://x.com/packyM/status/1863945763799158919
Americans really love watching a man just enjoy some tunes.
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Cargo airships are happening.

Airship Industries is a beautiful example of a Vertical Integrator: a better product at lower cost / higher margin in a massive industry. If they execute, it's checkmate.

Great piece by elidourado.twitter. We invested in Airship.

https://t.co/hCAkj6WBgV
Some day in the near future, this will be routine.

Right now, it's magic.
I cannot imagine the incredible things humanity will accomplish once people who are actually good at things start trying to do what Elon Musk, who is simply not very good at anything, just did.
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/0a4c479c-e59e-4142-a997-430ad062b800/original
HOLY SHITTTTTT!!!!!!!
You can just build things.
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/20e35515-dfa7-44db-71dc-3a9ca7841700/original
I'm talking about the future of the greatest country in the world with TheAnnaGat.twitter tonight at 7p ET.

Join us! 🇺🇸

https://t.co/YUabd5LIbO
I love a good bodega conversation, where the cashier just brings you into whatever conversation they were having with the last person wherever they left off and keeps it going with the next person once you leave.
Three symptoms of a disease:

1. The modern world crushes geniuses
2. Kid's don't read books anymore
3. That YC pear tweet

Success is overplaybooked.

This is the real Butlerian Jihad, not destroying the machines, but destroying the playbooks that would turn us into machines.
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/a8ec89d9-8d83-4ca8-8daa-90cc6b92f500/original
“His main strength was, in a word, everything.”
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I’ve been sleeping on the eightsleep.twitter Pod 4 Ultra for a few weeks now, and I gotta say, it’s delightful.

You can see us going into Relax Mode to watch the VP debate, then down to sleep, then a couple changes to stop my snoring.

Even Puja loves it, which is saying something.
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Vance - Walz ticket. Who says no?
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This is civil. I like it.
The US spends $1 trillion per year on home construction. It's short 7 million homes.

Prior attempts to fix housing with technology have failed.

Cuby, a textbook Vertical Integrator, plans to fix housing by building Mobile Micro-Factories that build homes.

Here's my Deep Dive.
Henry Adams Curve here we come.
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Not Boring 🤝 Slow Boring

Nuclear will get cheaper if companies are allowed to start manufacturing advanced reactors.

https://t.co/i1M0MzCORy
This is the last thing an AI safety bill sees before it dies
https://imagedelivery.net/BXluQx4ige9GuW0Ia56BHw/ec3285fe-6e25-47d8-c183-1ab8a5b3f500/original
I can't believe my job is essentially writing book reports every weekend and that I love it.
I love stumbling upon super niche, lovingly curated websites, like Technovelgy.twitter or this Frank Lloyd Wright Library.

Look at how much detail there is on just one branch, his Usonian Automatic Homes:

https://t.co/Jy21DFaqHg