If another VC tells me to drop services and hardware because software just sells better, I'm telling them to grow up.

@jigarshahdc.bsky.social spitting fire on @open-circuit.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥

Brb, I'm going to get a "Put your big boy pants on and fix your product!" tattoo.

In case anyone else is wondering, he loses to Zuckerberg at around $45/share (all other things being equal)

2/3rd of that long term gain are Biden-era industrial policy, credited by Slok himself (helpfully published after the election 🙄)

You can't build economic prosperity through tariffs and cuts. No one got richer by having less resources.

This is a dare?! How is a government shutdown any worse or different than the R's gutting federal administration?

What are they going to do? Freeze federal funding more?

My favorite Christmas movie is Elf. It's fundamentally about solving an energy crisis. 🔌💡

So...a tree's-worth to absorb as much as a tree...

Just drove past the wind farms outside of Palm Springs. I say this as an advocate of renewable power: this isn't a cute look for wind. Most were feathered, many were damaged, and all were packed so close together it looked like a wall.

I'm with you. Wealth from exploitation is bad. A question I struggle with is, what happens when a beneficial idea gets big? AFAIK, billionaires are rich because they own a lot of a big company they started. They can't sell it, lest lose controlling interest. Is this just an outcome under capitalism?

If you grew up with these, you're a STEAM professional, and your knees ache.