Diego Segura
@diegosegura
designer, writer, founder. currently obsessed with monetary theory, high finance, corporate law, regretting dropping out of high school, and sudoku. author of a 2018 book, “the dropout manifesto.”
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Here’s something I’m very thankful I was told while I was still in my 20s: that the point of all this “hard work” is to recognize the person it makes you, not what it “gets” you
He recalled a relevant piece of 20th-century Chinese history—the war between Mao and Chiang Kai-shek , in the 1940s, which Mao won, and which led the Nationalists to retreat to the island of Taiwan. “From the perspective of Mao and his people,” Steve continued, “the Nationalists stole the treasury, and they stole the art treasures of China. There... See more
May the Schwarzman Be With You
Aesthetically, it was clean and crisp, but also felt fun. It ran in parallel to the rise of Instagram, and it photographed really well. And then they had the backing of Into the Gloss, which they crowdsourced ideas from. And built-in fans, since there was a culty excitement about the site and the people who worked there.
After the Gloss: What’s Next for Emily Weiss
Tim and Nina Zagat, who began printing “The Zagat Survey,” a collection of crowdsourced restaurant reviews, in 1979
Anna Wiene • Is Substack the Media Future We Want?
In the battle between physics and platitudes, physics is undefeated.
One thing that could help us close that remaining gap is a carbon tax—something universal, fair, and relatively simple. Paired with positive incentives for renewables, a price on carbon creates a negative incentive to generate emissions. I recently tuned in to a training session from Citizens’ Climate Lobby, which made a strong case not just for... See more
America’s Carbon Bill Is Coming Due
taxing households so beyond political suicide — adding yet another tax that will impact citizens rather than corporations — and is exactly the sort of thinking that the climate lobby will fail for
That would make the founders’ combined 20% stake worth in excess of $400 million—not bad for two middle-aged guys who until 2015 knew almost nothing about the insurance business.
Jeff Kauflin • First, Fire All The Brokers: How Lemonade, A Millennial-Loved Fintech Unicorn, Is Disrupting The Insurance Business
In Hawaii, where insured property losses exceed $3 billion dollars, homeowners face rising insurance premiums as a result of climate disasters. Californians are familiar with this pain: State Farm and Allstate have already stopped offering homeowner policies in the state due to a combination of government-imposed rate caps, expensive reinsurance,... See more
America’s Carbon Bill Is Coming Due
SVB went from $70 billion of deposits to $200 billion of deposits, thanks in large part to the pandemic. “If somebody had an I.P.O. one day, they had $100 million in checking, the next day they had $3 billion in checking,” the executive continued. “Or if somebody made a deal one day they’d have $500 million in checking and then they’d have $1... See more