Too Big to Fail
New Yorker, union activist, employment lawyer, dad, generational trauma ender. He/him.
- Twice a week, I pick my kids up from aftercare at their elementary school. Every time, I have to tell the security guard my kids' names so he can call for them. I've spoken my daughter's name to the guard dozens of times by now. EVERY SINGLE TIME, he gets on the radio and mispronounces her name.
- I know that's not how it's spelled. I get that. But you've heard me say ASH-ling over and over again every week for 5 months. Come on, now, man. It's not that hard.
- This is true of every Malcolm Gladwell book. People only realize it when they come across something they have subject matter expertise in.
- The way I always wrap my head around this kind of thing: the median household net worth in the United States is $193,000; the median household size is 2.6 people. If you collected enough median net-worth people to cumulatively have as much money as Bezos, they'd have a larger population than Nevada
- For Elon Musk the population would be greater than Georgia or North Carolina. Almost as many as the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area.
- Between Paul Skenes and Konnor Griffin the Pirates seem to have a monopoly on "top prospects with incredibly stupid looking mustaches."
- My favorite trivia about the Founding Fathers is the person who physically wrote the Constitution (this guy right here) died of penile hemorrhaging after sticking whalebone up his urethra. Good fact to know whenever somebody valorizes the Founders as fonts of infinite wisdom with unique foresight.
- They're seeking a $1.5 trillion valuation for the combined SpaceX / xAI IPO. If you assume they want to avoid banks in the UK and France since xAI is possibly going to be banned there, the complete list of non-US banks capable of handling a trillion dollar IPO is UBS and Deutsche Bank and that's it.
- My wife and I happened to be on a road we don't normally take this weekend about a half-hour away from our house, and I was... bemused... by the name of this business.
- People are focusing on how short the tie is but don't sleep on the fact that his shirt is at least two sizes too small for his neck.
- You know who wouldn't have gone to Epstien Island? Benjamin Franklin.
- [Citation Needed]
