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Two articles
The Average Guys Outsmarting Wall Street on Prediction Markets
How Prediction Markets and Crypto Firms Steamrolled a Watchdog Agency
A fun pair of pieces published two days apart.
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An event
Emmett Shine is one of the main reasons all the millennial companies look like they do. This is not shade; this is fact. In addition to having an exceptional personal website URL, Emily Sundberg writes Feed Me, a daily newsletter “where the dealmakers and strivers get their gossip.” I personally would not go that far but I do not write headlines and I also subscribe to Feed Me so perhaps I am striving to be a striver.
Anyway. On Wednesday, I went to hear the two of them chat. I enjoyed it. Listening is an underrated skill.
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A project
We have been toying around with the idea of starting something. This is vague and unformed right now. Claude, however, wrote us a business plan. Everything good starts with a business plan.
Related: This is cool.
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A swim
I continue to improve at swimming, which is fun. Before last month, I had never been in the 1:3x per 100 yards consistently. These times are not good, but they are better, and that’s not nothing. You could even argue that it’s something. I also purchased a new Speedo, which might have something to do with the progress. We’ll see how slightly better times in a 25-yard pool translate to the open water in a few weeks. I also started occasionally putting swim workouts on my watch. In theory, the watch helps with pacing by vibrating but I don’t know what any of the buzzing means and I’m too stubborn to look it up so I just keep swimming while my watch has a fit on my wrist. Good times.
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A Q&A
"The best journalists are the ones that you can have tough conversations with."
For a few years, a small part of Neil Buethe’s job was to call up and yell at me. Or perhaps, more accurately, have a frank exchange of ideas. Neil was chief communications officer at the U.S. Soccer Federation, an organization he joined in 2003. I was
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