@MattHartz_

I like to read and learn. Sometimes both at the same time

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This is a good way to put it
jihad
@jaesmail10 Jan 2025
I once again beg that you stop building tools for a world that you don’t want to exist.
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"This is not Donald Trump's sort of place" -- Warren Buffet, 2004 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
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The full context revolves more around Berkshire promising not to fire underwriting staff at one of their subsidiaries as they intentionally took less business for the time being. He mentinos Trump because 2004 was the time when The Apprentice was starting to air
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Full notes for the 2004 letter can be found here: matthartz.me/p/berkshire

Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letters

I’ve been slowly reading(and still am) all of Warren Buffet’s shareholder letters for Berkshire Hathaway.

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So cool to see the work that goes in behind the scenes
Visakan Veerasamy
@visakanv5 Jan 2025
Replying to @visakanv
a great eg (skip to 0:48 if you want)
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this is the way
Zoe Roux@zoriya_dev19 Dec 2024
i have a confession to make i write sql in lowercase.
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evergreen
Elon Musk
@elonmusk4 Dec 2024
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this is great, excited to go see it
weisser
@julianweisser19 Nov 2024
"What do you care what other people think?" - Arline Greenbaum -- Richard Feynman --- Bob Dylan
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pretty interesting list. 2024 skewed more non-fiction for me, but my plan is for 2025 to be more focused on some of the "classics" within fiction
Ashwin Sharma
@Ashwinreads2 Dec 2024
one year of reading 99% fiction. i learned > suffering finds meaning in its witness > everyone is a prisoner of their own mind > the glimmer of the divine is revealed when your life is turning to shit > duality is in every man. you can find a brutal criminal and a seeker of grace in the same person >you are not alone in your suffering > evil creeps in through ordinary acts of complacency > sin's ultimate goal is isolation >to do good is to expose oneself >laughter is the secure mans shield
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Adding this to the ever-growing list of why I like to write
Henrik Karlsson@phokarlsson26 Nov 2024
Having spent ~3000 hrs over the last 4 years writing a blog seems increasingly like a good time investment given that we are now in a world were if you can just think stuff through systematically and express yourself clearly, Claude can do crazy stuff for you.
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New Spotify UI trying to nudge the user toward using their AI service. Now I accidentally click the button every time I open the app
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Say what you want about descriptive statistics and anecdotes. I feel I never learn as much as when I just comb through the data line by line
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combing through Page Source data in chrome
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Reading Are You Serious from @visakanv gives me just enough of an existential crisis to ask myself what the hell am I doing all day
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I get the sense that trying to shift the culture or operating procedures within a team or at a company is akin to trying to turn a container ship with a toothpick rudder
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I think the higher the % of meetings that go exactly the scheduled time, the worse of a sign that is. Meetings that are shorter or longer than planned signal that the objective was accomplished or real discussion happened
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If I was forced to give a single answer it would be East of Eden. Also this thread is why I wrote this: matthartz.me/posts/books_as_…

Head and Hartz | Substack

navel-gazing at its best. Click to read Head and Hartz, by Matt Hartz, a Substack publication.

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anu
@anuatluru2 Jan 2024
what’s your favorite book title of all time? (fiction or non-fiction)
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Surprising truth about data at startups from @bernhardsson
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Been reading a lot of Berkshire shareholder letters after finishing Poor Charlie’s Almanac. I can’t be the only person blown away by them
Henrik Karlsson@phokarlsson27 Dec 2023
You are not the only person who has no one to talk to about the things you get obsessed by.
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