A friendly reminder as Nobel season approaches, the Nobel Prizes are not real Sveriges Riksbank Prizes in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

Choosin Texas and Stella Lefty's Boston feel like they exist in a sort of cultural dark matter permeating the fabric of the zeitgeist yet entirely invisible to me. America B feels too proximate and tangible, this is like America C or D to me.

On the other site, an insurance startup that employs a lot of extremely minor E-list influencers for GTM is catching flack because one of the influencer employees called a woman a bitch and other such profanities.

holy shit do you have a life?

100% vibes based guess (tried and couldn't find data on this) but I think the increase in intensive parenting among upper middle class+ causes them to have lower trust in babysitters and other child caretakers. That and rising costs.

Video games are incredibly underpriced, and the stinginess of gamers is a big reason why so much of the industry is slop and why game development is a terribly underpaid career. Adjusted for inflation, Mario World 3's MSRP of $49.99 in 1990 is equivalent to $128 today. We must retvrn.

Is it even possible for a Democratic politician to have both working class and elite appeal? Picture unrelated not sure how it ended up here.

Given how much Shapiro won Pennsylvania in 2022 by-- a higher margin than Fetterman!-- there's a good argument that you didn't need to send some salt-of-the-earth oddball to the US Senate and hopefully that happens this year in Maine too.

I'm not sure what the ratio is among Platner fans in media who have malfunctioning vibe detectors and genuinely liked him vs those who clocked the bad vibes and thought "yes, this is what the idiot swing voting masses want." I honestly can't say I'm completely unsympathetic to the latter.

Platner should drop out obviously but bigger picture I don't know how you balance out the fact that the median voter in swing states is a lumpenprole mildly racist loser who vote based on the beer question and the fact that the candidates who appeal to them are by and large also losers.

One must imagine that the Declaration of Independence would have been signed electronically had the technology existed. And Nick Cage would have never been able to steal it with Docusign's enterprise grade security and encryption.

This is why I wake up in the morning. Myopic critics pan my life's work as just building some SaaS company. But how many SaaS's have been instrumental to matters of war and peace? Without Docusign, thousands more would needlessly die. At Docusign, we are literally saving lives.

Unless the Sharia law compliant S&P500 ETF also waives its rules (and hopefully the word of God is more timeless than the S&P500's index inclusion criteria), then this is one way to avoid SpaceX IPO exposure. Alhamdulillah

I'm in a strange situation at work where I've made the People Who Actually Matter quite happy but I've also kind of pissed off a couple of People Who Sort Of Matter. 🤷

are they waiting for market close too

I have a meetings tier list cooking in my head. Standups are C tier. Presenting work to the non-C-suite teams is a low A tier. SaaS vendor calls are almost always F tier.

I feel like over the past couple months I've transitioned into a "meetings guy." Most of my day is taking meetings and preparing for upcoming meetings. I kinda hate it.

the stock market is funny because the largest global supply chain shock since a deadly worldwide pandemic is worth -0.2% but a single blog post speculating about a new technology can stone cold stunner SaaS companies -50%.