Sam Lessin's end of week roundup ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
More or Less Our first episode of 2025. We discuss CES, the Meta changes to content moderation (of course), Florence Marine and Landman.
Some Other Hot Takes:
- Personal 2024 Wrap Up and 2025 Gameplan — I feel pretty good about the green checks on 2024 goals… 2025 here we come. Glad folks liked the format… here we go.
- VCS ’schtick’ is far more strategic than you think hashtag, crazy on purpose… there is a method to the madness
- Capitalism is the best game… but we really have to make sure that it is setup in a way that it is fun for most people on the playground — and it is really unclear if this year will be a year of playing capitalism, or arguing about the rules.
- Young ‘degens’ investing is rational in negative EV but positive EU crazy shit are far less crazy than you think they are… because lets be honest, even index funds are kinda meme stocks at this point
- Startup advice in an era of infinite reach and zero friction? — build stuff for yourself not some stupid market you researched… and ideally have a seinfeld story…
- Free speech baby — so glad to see meta chucking the fools errand of fact checking… and if you want a long-read … here was the opus I wrote on the internet and truth ages ago… or the future of truth
- Wisdom of Scottie Pippen on Failure as the Foundation… love this trend started with Federer of athletes talking about failure.
Sam
P.S. I had some good fun at the end of the year… photos from the sub-3 marathon came back (which I am legitimately proud of pulling off even if it made me LESS FIT, WTF… and then the waves really turned on for some great foiling over break here and here. Now off to ski the same storm system hitting the mountains a few days later (any week where you surf+ski is a good week) TTYL.
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