Ian Vanagas

David Friedman points out that people only do things for other people for three reasons – love, money, or force. Love doesn’t scale, so the economy can only run on money or force. The force experiment has been run and found wanting. Let’s stick with money.

An accurate definition of an internet “creator” would have to be: someone whose income is determined by a platform’s algorithms.

Shared creativity is a powerful force.

When his friend and mentor Raiders owner Al Davis called Parcells to check in, Parcells relayed his injury issues. Parcell’s: “Al, I am just not sure how we can win without so many of our best players. What should I do?” Davis replied: “Bill, nobody cares, just coach your team.”

Jim prepares well for conversations, predicts what people are going to ask, always has something to say.

4) Once trained, what is the model able to generalize to, in regards to input/output pairs it hasn’t seen before?

Bitcoin is always the most honest market in the world, the most efficient market and it was the canary in the coal mine.