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“Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.”
Arnold Toynbee
Justin Spratt
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Justin Spratt
@justinspratt
currently building enterprise AI for clients. deal guy. previously: uber, wpp, morganstanley. australian. used to surf 20kgs ago.
- independently audited financial statements?
- “The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” ― Aurelius, Meditations
- Netherlands 🇳🇱 85.8% of over 18yo's fully vaccinated. 💉 Going into *full* lockdown tomorrow until 14 Jan (at least). Only essential shops open. 🔒 I'm confused. 🤷🏻♂️
- two South Africans made news today: + Elon buying ~9% of twitter (now largest shareholder) + Roelof Botha named head of Sequoia, arguably the most successful venture capital firm ever. more evidence the country punches above it's weight. 🇿🇦
- Replying to @paulgAmsterdam is a great option. Beautiful streets, access to everything that a world class provides, well kept and attractive parks on every block, museums, healthcare, police that are respected & effective. 5-year tax break for highly skilled. worldwide travel access.
- if forced to choose only one trait in someone I am hiring, it will always be 'hustle'. the ability to get shit done is massively underrated.
- haven't enjoyed a book as much as this in years. incredible tale of @Billbrowder's transcontinental, multi-decade battle with Putin & Russian oligarchs. amazon.co.uk/Red-Notice-Bec…
- Replying to @Austenshe is only on that show because elon has called her out. her career over the last decade has been fuelled by her hate of tech founders. this after building her initial fame celebrating tech and hitching her wagon to mossberg. talk about narcissism.
- 3 things I believe to be true: 1. pandemic modelling has failed spectacularly (cf. Neil Ferguson of Imperial infamy) 2. academics are not held to account reputationally for COVID predicitions and therefore have zero SITG 3. there is nowhere where 'zero-covid' has worked YMMV.
- mind blown. learnt so much from this @RubinReport video. intellectual superhero brothers @BretWeinstein & @ericweinstein discuss everything from math & threats to civilisation, through to evolutionary biology & post-modernism - youtu.be/MmXq97do-tQ
