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Trump

This is how I feel about the current race:

It’s a joke. All of it: his candidacy, the apparatus of propaganda and grift surrounding it, the failures of governance and education and culture that have brought us to this place. What disturbs me most is the prospect that Donald Trump is what a…

Starcraft and Startups

Starcraft is popular within tech startup circles for good reason. It’s a an cold, heartless meritocracy. It values investment in yourself. It requires hardcore analytical thinking. It makes you divorce yourself from the emotional rollercoaster that is day-to-day success and failure. In…

Patience

Patience is not one of my virtues. Personally and professionally, I get very edgy when the lifecycle of an idea from conception to construction is too long. I work in software because I can’t handle the seemingly neverending product cycles of physical goods. When I worked at GE for a summer and when I realized…

Dear Steve,

Thanks for everything.

Sincerely,

Tristan

all the same

In 1919, Einstein’s theory of relativity was confirmed by two expeditions to Brazil and the West African coast to observe the total eclipse of the sun. The eminent British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington led the project. To the amazement of Eddington and the rest of the world, Einstein had correctly…

Wikileaks: Completely Predictable

Wikileaks is a byproduct the convergence of two trends: de-nationalism and loss of privacy. These two trends aren’t going away, and therefore opinions on Wikileaks are about as relevant as opinions on stem cell research: it’s happening, whether or not we like it.

Shareholder Value

Fucking brilliant:

…trying to maximize shareholder value is ridiculous. I couldn’t run a company where you had to use that as an excuse for why it was doing things.

This says so many things about entrepreneurship to me. It’s at the heart of why I…