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Rajat Suri

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5 years

If I could redesign college education for smart people who don't know what they want to be, it would be a single intensive year with these essential courses: - Microeconomics 101 - Macroeconomics 101 - Python programming - Probability & Statistics - Corporate Finance - Sales 101

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Heard today about top Indian engineer in the US working on advanced semiconductor tech, been in the country for over 10 years but now being forced to move out because he hasn’t received a green card which created major family issues. Great way to win the global tech wars!

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3 years

The life experience delta between having 2 kids and 1 kid is - surprisingly - almost as large as the delta between having 1 kid and zero

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4 years

Positive American thought of the day: even in the two World Wars, the US was late and slow to act initially....but mobilized rapidly and motivated its best people to figure out solutions to the hardest problems, with great results

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5 years

Free startup idea: a calendar service that responds to new meeting invites with a $$ figure of how much that meeting is costing the organization

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1 year

A YC founder would be laughed at for describing their company like this.

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X is the future state of unlimited interactivity – centered in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking – creating a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and opportunities. Powered by AI, X will connect us all in ways we’re just beginning to imagine.

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3 years

Spent a good amount of money on a sleep training coach for us to get my toddler sleep without assistance. She had all sorts of modern techniques and tools to help. Took 2 months and we got nowhere. Finally just used the ancient cry-it-out method and it worked within 3 days…

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1 month

@m2jr I felt the same. Honestly laughable. Why does every party need some false scapegoat to attack?

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4 years

California closing its borders is inevitable given how far ahead we are in flattening the curve, and how far back other states are.

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4 years

Positive thought to keep in mind through all this: We're going to be *SUPER* prepared for the next pandemic

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2 months

@DavidSacks This argument is not working and doesn’t pass a sniff test. Polls showed the majority of Dems and supermajority of Americans wanted Biden out after the debate. If that happens , the correct outcome is for Biden to go. It’s actually democracy at work. I suggest you try a

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6 years

The ironic part is that this thread was typed on an internet site created by a billionaire, on a device created by a billionaire, on a network created by a billionaire and maybe even in a coffee shop created by a billionaire. So easy to complain, so hard to create massive value.

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2 years

@rabois So ‘woke’ means interns waiting in line now? Hard to keep track…

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8 months

@zebulgar @paulg Dude. Not everyone finds their person. It's better to stay single and childless than be in a bad thing.

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5 years

Every birth of a first child is actually three separate births. Birth of the child and birth of mother and father. Hard to know what kind of parent you’ll be until it happens.

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6 years

If you want to be a top performing manager at a tech company, get really good at simplifying complex technical situations for decision-makers

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4 years

Just got a call back from Senator Rubio's office with the Small Business committee. The relief bill doesn't leave out VC-backed startups intentionally, and the SBA will issue clarifications after passage. They acknowledged a large number of calls over past 24 hours. Keep pushing

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Rajat Suri

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6 months

Finally used Waymo in SF. Absolutely worth doing if you're in the Bay Area, or visiting. It's a mind-bending experience, and drives home the point that our young kids will never have to drive. 'Slowly, and then all at once' ....applies to self-driving cars as well.

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Rajat Suri

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4 years

Restaurant food delivery is one of the least sustainable business models out there. Consolidation will continue until there is only one big player, and prices will skyrocket to make it a much smaller market.

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1 month

@jamiequint Honestly it didn’t look familiar as MAGA. Seems like a nice centrist platform. Both parties should go back to this.

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5 years

If you can write clear emails without confusing the recipient, you're probably more qualified than 50% of candidates in the job market.

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Rajat Suri

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4 years

I read over 100 books yesterday. Pretty sure that’s a world record. Totally exhausted. Small detail that they were all toddler books to my voracious daughter. Happy Fathers Day to all, even the haters and losers!

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Rajat Suri

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6 years

As CEO, I get worried when I run out of things to worry about

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2 years

@DavidSacks Your version of ‘history’ appears very selective. Plenty of wars have ended early with fewer casualties and damage because of a show of devastating military force and massive escalation. Israeli history itself shows this.

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Rajat Suri

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4 years

Shouldn’t we just use the year over year growth in deaths to estimate the true impact of Covid?

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼

@Noahpinion

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When coronavirus overwhelms hospitals, lots of people die from other stuff because they can't get to a doctor. Thus, coronavirus' true toll is bigger than its fatality rate would suggest.

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Rajat Suri

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8 months

There is starting to be real panic in the high-skilled immigration community about another Trump term. Rightfully so I think. Tell the immigrant in your life that they should file for their green card asap. You'll be doing them a favor.

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8 years

Just did some math - HRC lost EC by only 120K votes, distributed over WI, MI and PA. That's 0.1% of the voting public.

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5 years

In fact, we probably agreed on 95% of the issues I now wonder if social media fundamentally exacerbated our divisions simply by eliminating context and nuance Is it a coincidence that our national divisions spiked with the rise of Twitter in 2010 or so?

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1 year

@ntsbfh @ArmandDoma protecting his confidentiality but he had a kid who was about to age out of the green card system (turning 18) who would basically have to start from scratch and start applying for visas as a foreigner. This is a common, sad story with our long green card waits. Why would

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7 months

@DavidSacks Care to explain where the amnesty is in the bill? I couldn’t find any in trusted summaries I’ve read. The one here from Fox News suggests there is no amnesty whatsoever

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NEW: My initial highlights from the border deal. - No amnesty/legalization of anyone already in the U.S. illegally. - Funds an increase in ICE detention capacity to approx. 50,000 from the current 34,000. - At 7 day rolling average of 5,000 encounters per day, or 8,500

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2 years

Russian refugees exist too - and must be welcomed with open arms, not demonized

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@rajatsuri

2 years

Excited to ring the closing bell on NASDAQ today for Presto going public as $PRST

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9 years

@paulg @sama so many hiring pitfalls to be aware of, but a rule that's never let me down is: hire the person, not the resume

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5 years

Had a really interesting conversation today with a Trump supporter who was a distant contact that I follow on social media. I always perceived him as being hyper partisan given his social media posts, but I found his views were far more nuanced and open (cont)

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Rajat Suri

@rajatsuri

3 years

We are going in the wrong direction fast

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3 years

In 2019, the number of foreign-born entrepreneurs in the US declined by 4,400, the only yearly drop since 2000, thanks to US' convoluted immigration policies ( @amyfeldman / Forbes)

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Rajat Suri

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6 years

Presto raises $30M to bring its AI platform and tabletop ordering hardware to restaurant chains | TechCrunch

Presto raises $30M to bring its AI platform and tabletop ordering hardware to restaurant chains |...

The "restaurant of the future" may elicit thoughts of a chrome diner with robot servers and an otherwise hefty amount of Tokyo futurist kitsch, but the

techcrunch.com

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13 days

@paulg I can see a lot of people in the comments are confused as to why this happens. It’s not about the interest payments - it’s about the overall terms of the loan. Typically the terms are called covenants and can include a wide variety of things like ARR growth , cash on hand, timing

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9 years

@pmarca Oooh let me try. "Worried and scared to death every waking hour" sounds terrible. Founder / CEO sounds awesome.

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4 years

Before having kids, lifetime is measured by your own numerical age. After having kids, lifetime is measured by the age of your kids.

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@rajatsuri

10 years

I Am Not Charlie Hebdo http://t.co/JkZEibyXPf

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7 years

@benshapiro You're going way extreme. Not every person called 2A advocates monsters. Several of them were reasonable and wanted to discuss rationally. Some of them were over the top, but are also grieving.

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1 year

Stepped down from Presto CEO role after almost 15 years in the seat. Been a huge pleasure working with such great people taking on difficult challenges to transform traditional physical industries. The company is in great hands moving forward. Onto

Presto CEO Rajat Suri steps down

The founder of the restaurant automation company will move on to other endeavors while the board searches for his replacement.

www.restaurantbusinessonline.com

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4 years

@pmarca Great to see you back essaying. Feels like this proposal is a bit simplistic and diagnosis incorrect. It was not a 'lack of desire' holding anyone back from investing in building cotton swabs and PPE. It was the lack of a forcing function. Pandemics happen too infrequently.

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4 years

Great news from Italy where new Covid cases dropped by a substantial number for the second day in a row: +4,790 today vs 5500 yesterday

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4 years

I haven’t played video games since having a kid, or wanted to. Maybe raising a kid gives you all the surprising dopamine hits that games normally do

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9 years

The Most Important Thing, and It’s Almost a Secret http://t.co/xnP1xGMd2f

Opinion | The Most Important Thing, and It’s Almost a Secret (Published 2015)

Everyone knows about the spread of war and the hopeless intractability of poverty. But everyone is wrong.

www.nytimes.com

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4 years

@benshapiro In China the closures were on a province by province basis (and still are). Countries are arbitrary lines on a map

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2 years

The first couple years of parenting are quite intense but I believe they do train parents well for the decades ahead of - dealing with sleep issues - ensuring children are fed - decoding their kids’ moods and feelings - working together under pressure with a spouse as a team

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@mattyglesias Why not find ways to deregulate and speed up supply chains ? And invest in technology to improve crop yields ? And remove other bottlenecks to increased food competition

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2 years

@paulg I remember in the early days one intro email you sent to a VC asserting that this would definitely be a public company and they needed to meet us. I thought you were crazy but as always you were just way ahead of the game! Thanks for everything and especially for creating YC

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2 years

Why doesn't the FDIC just guarantee all deposits at regulated banks? The $250K limit seems arbitrary

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@rajatsuri

3 years

If the US wants to beat China economically, the strategy is now clear: aggressively court top Chinese talent. For a variety of reasons, there has never been a better time to lay out the red carpet for the best and brightest of China. Need to be much bolder than we are right now

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2 years

@husseymichael @washingtonpost Saying "Experts say" allows the newspapers to hide their own bias

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10 months

@garrytan @paulg Skilled immigration is legal but it's just incredibly difficult for skilled people to navigate. Indians are the worst off and actively discriminated against. That's why we are working to help all motivated and honest people navigate the system.

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@rajatsuri

9 years

You don't really know someone at work or outside work until you've seen how they act under extremely stressful conditions

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1 month

@levie @markpinc Isn't the whole point of patents to award a temporary monopoly and reward innovation?

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11 months

@alexandr_wang Really bizarre analysis. You are double or triple counting some theatres of war. And 1% is just arbitrary

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2 months

@Austen It was predictable 4 years ago when Joe Biden was already the oldest presidential candidate in history. The fact that he’s over 0% is hard to believe Trump at 63% at 78 years old is not something I would have predicted, esp after Jan6th to be honest

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@rajatsuri

6 years

I became a US citizen today. It was really hard for me to get here, and I’ve been blessed with all the luck in the world. I can’t imagine how hard it must be for those who are less fortunate but have the same dreams of building a better future for them and theirs.

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1 year

Some macro observations from a China trip after 4 years away (used to go two-three times a year) - China is more modern than ever. New airports, parks, canals, infrastructure have been rapidly built over past few years. A few store closures but nothing major. - Products and

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5 years

So proud of the grit of the Zimride / Lyft team to get to this point It’s a surreal moment. Congrats to all involved!

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5 years

@stevesi I think courses like Python and Sales make it a bit more applicable to a real career than most 4 year liberal arts programs!

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5 years

Presto’s first employee based in Toronto, Canada started today. Trump can try as hard as he likes to reduce legal immigration - but he won’t stop companies from going to where the talent is. The borders are already open, and jobs are leaving the country.

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5 years

Thanks to SFO water ban, I was forced to switch to sugary drinks instead. Mission accomplished?

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4 years

Got my mail-in ballot yesterday and voted within hours, for the first time in a Presidential election as a naturalized citizen. Vote!

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5 years

@BrianNorgard Melded

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@rajatsuri

4 months

It’s remarkably inexpensive to install these Japanese washlets in your residence. Do it!

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@Noahpinion

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I've been here. This is the moment in your life when you become a truly civilized human being.

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5 years

‘1917’ is the best war movie since Saving Private Ryan. It’s so good and different from past movies that it willl likely change the genre irrevocably Few war movies are made these days, unfortunately, but the lessons of war are timeless and deeply human

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7 years

@benshapiro Banning or severely restricting semi-automatic weapons is not a full repeal of 2A man

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4 years

@davidchang I am CEO of Presto, a leading restaurant tech company in Silicon Valley and we just did a bunch of research on this topic. DM me and I’ll send you our whitepaper, including how we think the US will evolve

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@rajatsuri

3 years

As my toddler attempts every crafty move in the book to avoid bedtime, it's kind of scary to think that this is the least intelligent she will ever be.

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3 years

Today Presto is announcing our intent to go public in early 2022 (thread) See full press release here:

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Rajat Suri

@rajatsuri

1 year

Launching a new podcast called Curiosity with the prolific @immad - going deep on technical topics like AI, Space, Nuclear, Economics and Bio with some of the smartest people on the planet. As tech founders ourselves, we like to explore these topics more fully than most pods do

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@patrickc Better to calculate as a percentage of global GDP

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5 years

@Nate_Cohn Nate, just call this fight. It’s over.

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@rajatsuri

5 years

An Italy / China style lockdown is inevitable in the US, moreso in affected areas (both coasts). We are ~2 weeks away Once in lockdown, it will take 6-12 weeks to start normalizing behavior But remember: every crisis has opportunity

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4 years

Humans never fail to overweight the present and underweight the past when predicting the future

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3 years

Unconscionable and highly discriminatory. There is a war for immigrant talent and we are treating ours like dirt.

Work-Permit Backlog for Immigrant Spouses Takes Toll on Professional Women

Many spouses of foreigners legally working in the U.S have been forced to stop working because of delays in processing visa renewals and accompanying work permits.

www.wsj.com

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@paulg Call of Duty is the modern equivalent of boys running around with 'space laser' guns or playing fort or playing 'cowboys and injuns'. Boys love their simulated violence and that's just naturally hard-coded.

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2 years

Charging and packing my kids’ iPads before an international flight and feeling like a Samurai warrior sharpening his blade and affixing his armor before battle

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Rajat Suri

@rajatsuri

9 months

Started using the Arc browser and already feel more productive. Way more user friendly than Chrome. Try it out!

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@Noahpinion Won’t matter if she wins NC as she is on course to do

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6 months

Every tech founder should be inspired by the enduring creativity and prolific output of legendary film-makers churning out quality movies into their 80s - Spielberg - Scorsese - George Miller - Ridley Scott - Eastwood - Miyazaki If they can do it, why can't you?

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7 years

@levie Felt the same way about Bay Area housing for a long time !

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3 years

@balajis This has to be your worst tweet ever! Laughable. Most Indians still struggle for basic consistent power, sanitation and water access.

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3 years

@pm Not true that credit cards are doomed because the cost of these ‘card not present’ transactions are much higher than credit card ‘card present’ transactions. We power both and chain restaurants prefer the latter !

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@stevesi Fair points. However I don’t think anything more than high school math is needed for Stats and Economics (which is more math dependent than writing). Don’t need calculus, just need to know how to add and multiply basically.

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Things I know now that I wish I knew before having kids (thread) - How intellectually engaging it is to have a kid. The emotional connection was obvious but I didn’t know how interesting the constant problem-solving could be. Kids are ever-changing, mysterious and fun. /1

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@TechSalesChris @Austen How could you not predict it? Biden himself in 2020 said his candidacy was a bridge to the next generation and he was widely expected to not run again

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@newsillustrator @paulg This was a wonderful thing to look while currently on a flight

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5 years

Talented people, no matter how naturally driven they are, often need an external force / impulse to truly achieve their potential for greatness Instead of being impressed by someone’s talent, light a fire under them. You’ll be doing them, and all of us, a great favor

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4 years

Oh ok fine, since you twisted my arm

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3 years

Sad but true .... all that calculus, wasted

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If only someone shared this with me years ago😂

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The upside of Trump losing would be a GOP party that is forced to retrench and pick fresh leaders that are future-oriented vs grievance-oriented. The country needs a functional and capable GOP with an optimistic vision

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼

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Yep. Trump is yesterday's garbage. Let's bid him farewell.

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@immad We set up a Toronto office party for this reason. Highly recommended

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3 years

Took my 2 yr old daughter swimming yesterday. Glorious sunny afternoon, too warm to sit outside but perfect to soak in. Got all her fave water toys ready and she was ecstatic. Then 5 mins later she had to pee, started calling for her Mama and we had to leave Happy Fathers Day!

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5 years

@Austen ‘But I just have a runny nose?’

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8 years

@paulg sending Sheryl Sandberg is not exactly a boycott

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Spending the last couple days in the hospital after the birth of my second child, and it’s been remarkable to see how relaxed health care workers (even in CA) have become about Covid precautions now that they’ve been vaccinated. A big change from last year!

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