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joined 10/23/10, 12:30 AM has 5973 karma

• Why Agentic AI Needs a Credit Infrastructure, Not Just a Payments Layer

  by zt on 7/5/25, 12:34 AM, with 0 comments

• Complex systems: Life insurance and your money

  by zt on 5/10/25, 3:08 PM, with 0 comments

• Process vs. data: who wins in the vertical AI race

  by zt on 5/7/25, 1:20 PM, with 0 comments

• How three years at McKinsey shaped my second startup

  by zt on 5/4/25, 1:30 PM, with 180 comments

• Not Quite yet Gone with the Wind

  by zt on 3/2/25, 2:06 PM, with 0 comments

• Spaces Between the Stars

  by zt on 12/29/24, 3:07 AM, with 0 comments

• Idiot to insider: the basics of building a life insurer

  by zt on 12/11/24, 4:37 PM, with 0 comments

• The 100-Year Startup: Life insurance and abundance

  by zt on 12/4/24, 1:46 PM, with 0 comments

• Winning the AI application layer will require vertical business models

  by zt on 11/24/24, 4:08 PM, with 0 comments

• Winning the AI application layer will require vertical business models

  by zt on 10/24/24, 10:44 AM, with 0 comments

• Vertically integrate an AI agentic solution

  by zt on 10/22/24, 4:42 PM, with 0 comments

• Empathy on entrance price: Bridge.xyz and Astranis

  by zt on 10/21/24, 1:22 PM, with 0 comments

• The Universe Is Not a Fairy Tale

  by zt on 9/2/24, 4:11 AM, with 0 comments

• Underwriting the Bitcoin Boom

  by zt on 8/7/24, 1:46 PM, with 0 comments

• Skill Issues – Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Its Discontents

  by zt on 8/4/24, 3:30 AM, with 0 comments

• Why do people believe true things?

  by zt on 8/4/24, 3:30 AM, with 1 comments

• A Conservative Thought Experiment on a Liberal College Campus

  by zt on 3/25/24, 2:30 AM, with 1 comments

• "She's bouncing the ball" – the uncanny way octopuses play

  by zt on 3/24/24, 8:41 PM, with 69 comments

• Sama told 30M before announcement, GDB 5M before

  by zt on 11/18/23, 3:54 AM, with 1 comments

• Onion Futures Act

  by zt on 11/9/23, 6:48 PM, with 0 comments

• What Was the Fact?

  by zt on 7/17/23, 1:55 AM, with 0 comments

• A Lone Norwegian Trader Shook the World’s Financial System (2019)

  by zt on 7/17/23, 1:53 AM, with 0 comments

• The AI Organization, part I

  by zt on 7/17/23, 1:51 AM, with 0 comments

• Why are red states hiring so much faster than blue states?

  by zt on 6/1/23, 3:08 AM, with 1 comments

• Silicon Valley Bank Is Now a Division of First Citizens Bank

  by zt on 3/27/23, 5:18 PM, with 0 comments

• The Silicon Valley Bank that never was

  by zt on 3/22/23, 7:56 PM, with 0 comments

• Testimony of Mr. John J. Ray III, CEO FTX Debtors [pdf]

  by zt on 12/12/22, 9:18 PM, with 0 comments

• The AI startup erasing call center worker accents: is it fighting bias?

  by zt on 8/26/22, 9:15 PM, with 2 comments

• Compound

  by zt on 1/27/22, 3:48 PM, with 0 comments

• Keeping Options Open

  by zt on 1/18/22, 3:31 PM, with 0 comments

• Founder of Adobe Dies

  by zt on 4/20/21, 1:28 AM, with 0 comments

• What embedded-finance and banking-as-a-service trends mean for banking

  by zt on 3/1/21, 7:58 PM, with 0 comments

• ‘A managerial Mephistopheles’: inside the mind of Jeff Bezos

  by zt on 2/5/21, 7:56 PM, with 0 comments

• How Discount Brokerages Make Money (2019)

  by zt on 2/1/21, 6:28 PM, with 0 comments

• Can only buy five shares of GME at Robinhood

  by zt on 1/29/21, 12:40 PM, with 0 comments

• What We Found in Robert Caro’s Yellowed Files

  by zt on 1/8/21, 2:57 PM, with 0 comments

• Silicon Valley's Partisan Problem: People still think both parties look the same

  by zt on 1/4/21, 10:16 PM, with 0 comments