Human Capital By editor on February 20, 2018 — 1 min read The biggest thing that I care about politically is this concept of the value of human capital. We as individuals can just get run over, now, with all kinds of small dollar influence, whether it’s via lobbying, via gerrymandering, whether it’s through populism that gets perverted into these weird, political manifestations. And all of it... More
Self-Consciousness By editor on February 20, 2018 — 1 min read In very small ways, I confuse what is valuable sometimes. I just wonder whether if I’m suffering from that confusion, and I seemingly have enough signaling where I don’t need the affirmation of the people around me, I wonder how other people deal with it. Forget even, adults, dealing with it. How do younger people... More
A Business Model for Truth By editor on February 20, 2018 — 1 min read It was a broad statement about my reaction to social media in general. And that’s a lot of things, of which Facebook is a part. But there are many other things. The whole context of it is, all of these things in my opinion sit on top of a business model that allows us to... More
Paying it Back By editor on February 20, 2018 — 1 min read Rich people have an obligation to give it back. By definition, you are making it off of a mass market. Right? You don’t become a billionaire by basically sitting on top of a few thousand people. You make it by building services for hundreds of millions, to billions, of people. So those same people that... More
Changing Morality By editor on February 20, 2018 — 1 min read We have a shift underway in what is acceptable morality. Nobody talks about that. You have a die-hard constituency of people that fall on this, “Trump is a liar.” Like, if you saw the Romney thing. If you ask the average person, they have a very different definition of morality and right and wrong now,... More
Technological Determinism By editor on February 20, 2018 — 1 min read Technology is deterministic. We’re gonna do stuff. We’re gonna build the stuff that’s possible. It’s going to happen. Will the person that builds the next great battery technology not be allowed to because the same batteries could be used in a dirty bomb? Even though those same batteries can basically uplift the entire transportation system... More
America and Immigration By editor on January 28, 2018 — 1 min read Empires work in a cycle of four stages. First, you’re a poor country and you act poor. Then you’re a rich country, but you still act poor. Then you’re a rich country and you act rich, and then you’re a poor country, but you still think you’re rich. We have this decision to make, because... More
Diversity Through Entrepreneurship By editor on January 28, 2018 — 1 min read Slack is an unbelievable example of deciding that, in success, they can actually use their bully pulpit to reframe the discussions of what is valuable. It’s laudable. This is not a Silicon Valley problem. It’s a political problem. We’re at a point right now where there’s a massive capitulation amongst the insider races and classes.... More
Regulation 2 By editor on January 28, 2018 — 1 min read I started in a place where I had the same Silicon Valley rhetoric as everybody else, which is, “Regulation is terrible and we should just work around it.” After five and a half years and $1 billion invested, what I would say is, that was a really immature perspective. The reality is that these organizations... More
Regulation By editor on January 28, 2018 — 3 mins read There’s an article in Forbes or Fortune about a bunch of guys who are creating basically what seem like Ponzi schemes around drugs and buying orphan drugs. Is that right? The example was an Alzheimer’s drug that has a $4 billion market cap. We know that there’s a 99.99% failure on all Alzheimer’s drugs. Why... More
