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Talmudic thinking applied to everything else. Driven by passion, curiosity and joy.
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why FIFA is a misaligned mesa-optimizer but the US Open gets a pass (opens the original)
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As I walked into the US Open last week, I overheard someone say: it feels like I am in a Polo ad.If you read about the US Open, you will hear a number of complaints oriented around how the US Open is not so focused on tennis per se (the quality of the tennis, the environment for tennis fans, growing the sport) as it is on maximizing revenue.People talk about how exorbitantly expensive it is; how the main focus seems to be on selling $23 Honey Deuces (738,000 of them last year, roughly $17 millio
I was wrong to hate Substack - and why I think YOU should start a Substack (opens the original)
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This blog is written with great pride in honour of not not Talmud reaching 1000+ Substack subscribers.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="324.05494505494505" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Qf-A!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_p
things you can't buy in the USA (and why) (opens the original)
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In our globalized economy, the default assumption is that you should be able to buy any good, in any part of the developed world, for a roughly similar price. And while this is generally true, I’m always surprised when traveling to learn exactly where this rule breaks down. It’s not just Cuban cigars - there are many things which cannot be bought in the USA.I thought I would make a list of things I’ve consumed or seen in other countries that you generally cannot buy in the USA—at least not easil
a theory of invention; or why you're an inventor too (opens the original)
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Let me tell you about a fact I invented. In the winter, SF (or LA/Vancouver) is only a 3-hour time difference away from New Zealand.This is silly. Of course, I did not “invent” this, nor am I the only person aware of the time difference between NZ and the US West Coast. But for digital nomads, or people on PST hours who work remotely, this exact framing — realizing that the 21-hour time difference can instead be viewed as a 3-hour time difference plus a one-day change (9am on a Monday in SF is 6
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