WeWork valuation history...
2010: company founded
Jul 2012: $97m
May 2013: $440m
Feb 2014: $1.5b
Dec 2014: $5b
Jun 2015: $10.2b
Oct 2016: $16.9b
Aug 2017: $20b
Jan 2019: $47b
Oct 2019: $8b
Dec 2019: $7.3b
May 2020: $2.9b
Oct 2021 (IPO): $8.2b
Today: $878m
https://youtu.be/TvDwuqD9vKo How to "say nothing while saying something"
at any park 9 out of 10 parents are on their phone.
the marble industry of italy is fascinating
imagine how much time you would have a year if you stopped doing XYZ
imagine how much much money you could save if you stopped doing XYZ
imagine how many resources would be available to a country if it just stopped international military efforts and focused solely on defense
germany is not doing that good either
or purely elizabeth granola
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hard hats on everyone 🪖 this is going to be an exiting 5 years where reality catches up with wishful thinking.
lionel shriver must be one of the most interesting women in the world. not only has she written extensively she speaks with incredible depth with #[0] on citadel dispatch.
i wish she had her own podcast and riffed on any topic. simply brilliant!
seed XOR is like raid 0. if you lose one seed you lose everything and now you have double your chances of losing everything.
after waking up i am often tempted to check the news and doom scroll.
if you are like me the first step to breaking the cycle is to remember that nothing "learned" from the doom scroll will help you.
none of it is meaningful activity. none of the headlines will improve your day. it is akin to worrying about something that you have no control over.
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very little innovation arises from authoritarian countries because there is an embedded culture of asking for permission to avoid punishment.
this self limits most state heavy run regions due to a natural internal decay
elderly parents cannot sell their house for the $value they thought they once had due to high rates and suburban location.
there are not enough wealthy new families who want to take over many of the retirees' homes
i don't think most assume there is a beginning but it is easier to often talk about time as earlier time and later time and at some point in the far earliest times there was most likely a material event that materialized a universe that we experience.
but your question is good because before that event there was also something else
"Astronomers have discovered the seemingly impossible. Using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope, they have observed massive candidate galaxies at the beginning of time, up to 100 billion times the mass of the Sun which, if confirmed, would contain more mass than was thought to exist in the whole Universe at that time"
in 1939 the grant for building the first nuclear reactor was $6000 awarded to edward teller
Mike McCulloch's Quantized Intertia theory and experiments are one of the more fascinating activities in physics
his textbook is very well written and informative
Physics From The Edge: A New Cosmological Model For Inertia https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00M80DKFC?ref_=cm_sw_r_apin_dp_MA9MTBC6DTA93QR85EMF
right before we get ready to advance humanity we almost destroy it.
right before a new technology emerges that allows for exponential growth of quality of life we almost use its breakthroughs to cause disease and distruction.