@kelseyhightower.com - Kelsey Hightower bsky.app

Social security is a set of trust funds with a balance of about $2.7 trillion as of December 2024. We are the source of these funds. It belongs to us. These fun...

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They want to turn our social security fund into their exit liquidity. Instead of saving for the future they want us to gamble for it.

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I'll be doing a fireside chat at the Monster Scale Summit online event. I'm on live, in studio, tomorrow (3/11) at 8:35 am PST. Registration is free if you want...

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We've reduced intelligence to what people can do with computers, which is fueling the current hype cycle.

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Most of what we call "tech" is about getting the right information into a database and trying to prevent the wrong person from reading or updating it.

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They complain about government handouts until the government is handing it to them.

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Create a new asset class. Give it to politicians. Force their citizens to buy it.

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What a shame. Now we have US tax payers propping up cryptocurrencies. This is one of the biggest grifts of all time.

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Today I'm turning 30 years old for the 15th time in a row.

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As software development tools and frameworks continue to improve, I gotta feeling sales and marketing will become the most important departments at smaller tech...

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Nix represents a different way of building reproducible software, but Nix has its own challenges, and in many ways Docker already won.

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They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.

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There must be enough entanglement, think stock markets and retirement accounts, that people believe they're getting richer too, and will be able to afford the f...

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I've chosen to avoid this wave of AI altogether. I'm not interested in becoming one with the machine. If they are willing to spend time and money training artif...

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I remember watching Star Wars as a kid and asking myself, who would voluntarily join the dark side? I understood Darth Vader's motivation, but not the stormtroo...

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I haven't been posting because I'm literally lost for words.

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I'm almost ready to finish the drywall repair in the garage.

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I'm enjoying this way too much.

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Finishing drywall is an art. I've taken over my home office so I can practice, and I finally learned how to tape a butt joint, float it out, and avoid a big hum...

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