Tom White
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I think, write, invest, and have a suffix | Building @beondeck | Thinking @ http://whitenoise.email | #bitcoin | Collector
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Tom White
Mollie Amkraut Mueller | Harness AI with Confidence and Clarity
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CIA analyst, Martin Guri described the vast amount of information that has engulfed us with this dumbfounding statistic:More information was generated in 2001 than in all the previous existence of our species on earth. In fact, 2001 doubled the previous total. And 2002 doubled the amount present in 2001, adding around 23 “exabytes” of new... See more
Tom White • Curation as a Cure
It’s no wonder that a favorite book of mine is titled: Investing: The Last Liberal Art. Though worth a read in full (and a good number of routine rereads at that), the below quote captures the book’s overarching thesis:[E]ach discipline entwines with, and in the process strengthens, every other. From each discipline, the thoughtful person draws... See more
Substack • Making Dollars Using Sense
Material is a collaborative NFT art project. The canvas is a pair of jeans. That I wear. The artist is you. Or you. Or Yu Darvish. Who knows?Whenever I wear the jeans, the canvas is live. When a person impacts me in a certain way, we forge a deep connection, or we share a memorable experience together, I may invite them to add a piece—an... See more
Substack • This Is Good Material
feedback loop is very fast in retail, but for a brief period, Tyco was experiencing huge demand for their product despite end consumer demand that was no longer there.
Thoughts on Market Valuations, AI, Productivity and Shortages
A great deal has been written about what constitutes Venture Capital and what does not (including by this very author) in these seventy years. Though many different things to many different people, Justice Potter Stewart’s famous dictum in Jacobellis v. Ohio works for our purposes:I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I... See more
Tom White • How does Early-Stage Venture Capital Perform in a Recession?
death by procedure. The modern way of declaring something wrong without ever admitting it or giving it attention.
When beauty breaks the system
Readers crave lessons; aspiring diplomats can learn from them; old hands can quibble with them. Cooper calls them “maxims.” One is particularly powerful – and painful. It comes from Robert McNamara and his reflections on Vietnam written in 1995. It is a searing indictment as we ponder the calamity in Afghanistan. It sums up a lot of Cooper’s own... See more