Northern Irishman, Director in a big-ish tech firm. watch enthusiast. ex-Uber + a bunch of other startups. working separately on an early hypothesis in mobility
London, UK
Joined April 2017
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In the event of a UK wide emergency it seems I am on the perish list - 15:00 came and went, and I’m entirely unbothered by the fact I received nothing.
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Visiting post-pandemic London has made it abundantly clear that the the decline of US cities into lawlessness and squalor was not an inevitable consequence of the pandemic; It was a policy choice. – at London, England
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It’s nearly 30 years since the development of the web, which created the world’s biggest companies and whose business models were advertising based. Yet advertising was so much more creative before the web. What happened?
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France and Germany now looking to join Italy in banning ChatGPT rather than focusing on how to build their own AI industry. This is what terminal cultural decline looks like. Not with a bang but a bureaucracy.
Struggling to see the customer use case for this, especially for short haul, but then there must be demand if they’re doubling down. And maybe it’s just because I live in London and don’t have a car.
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A lot of people think self driving trucks will be the end of employment for truckers soon, but thats because they don't really know what a truck drivers job is.
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Most of the protestors seem to be in their 20s or 30s. Hence they are protesting about whether they can retire in 35 years time or 37. Kudos for their lack of temporal discounting, but this seems a bit weird to me.
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The worst mistake you can make is to try and do everything 5% of the way, rather than picking four things and doing each of them 125%.
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There’s so much hyperbole around early stage startup employees being some kind of savants. More than half the time it’s more true that the leadership couldn’t afford proper management while building so instead hired some low quality junior employees that never grew professionally
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Regardless of the airline or class , unless you have kids, flying isn’t tiring.
Getting to and through the airport maybe, or the queues or uncertainty. But flying is generally a lovely moment of calm with a little tv.
Best flight I’ve ever had was 18 hours of peace
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WhatsApp has become my main social media platform. People start a group around an event and it becomes a persistent forum, naturally and organically. Has happened lots, but devoid of people from US who don't tend to use WhatsApp unlike rest of world - a bit like football.
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It’s weird looking over someone’s shoulder while they are on TikTok. They just seem transfixed , morose, hypnotized.
Then you realize everyone on the train is. And it’s terrifying
Makes Wall-e look optimistic
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The US having a national bank for technology startups is pretty baller policy by the Biden administration
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about the origin of the universe —
either some things come from nothing, which is impossible given nothing is nothing
or some things are eternal, which is impossible because all things come from something
right?
