Tony Wright
@webwright
Working on new things. prev founder/CPO @glowforge / founder/CEO @rescuetime I (re)tweet about optimism, effective altruism, rationality, & startups.
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Very much looking forward to this one!! Congrats, @moniguzman, @braverangels! @ABraverWay
Big news: I’m launching a new podcast! It’s called @ABraverWay, and it’s about how you (yes, YOU!) can disagree about politics without losing heart. ❤️ Sound on for the trailer… (1/3)
Green shoots I see in America right now: 1. Industrial policy and the factory boom 2. The YIMBY movement 3. The rise in young people's wealth 4. A whole bunch of new inventions 5. The re-fragmentation of the internet noahpinion.blog/p/the-new-1970s
One out of every 30 deaths in Canada, and one out of every 22 deaths in the Netherlands, is a medically assisted suicide. reuters.com/world/americas…
This is the way.
"Whoever said to put a pinch salt in coffee to get rid of the bitterness I owe you my life." iflscience.com/why-people-are…
I often think about @bungarsargon’s brilliant point that every time you get angry on the internet, someone is making money as a result. Reminding myself of that fact really helps me keep my equanimity.
"The people calling for gun control today wouldn’t shed a tear if every child on earth was shot. Just remember that. They want to to hurt you." An absurd exaggeration like this (direct quote from a real tweet) is the ticket to viral spread. But only because people want to…
Whenever I get to know someone who seems perfect, I end up disappointed. Whenever I get to know someone who I think is the worst of the worst, I'm pleasantly surprised. Angels and demons aren't real.
The doomers are wrong about humanity’s future — and its past. Excellent case by @bryanrwalsh, echoing & expanding arguments I made in Enlightenment Now. vox.com/the-highlight/… via @voxdotcom
Darren Barefoot died on February 20, 2023 following complications from metastatic cancer. Just weeks before he passed, Darren wrote this reflection on his life. I hope you find pleasure in it. darrenbarefoot.com/2023/02/25/the…
Idealism isn't thinking the world is different than it is. It's knowing how you want the world to be, orienting your behavior in that direction, and trying to inspire others to do the same. Idealism isn't naïveté, it's ambition—a refusal to concede the future to the present.
"Buy American" is very dumb, it raises U.S. costs while giving our allies and friends the middle finger.
"Infrastructure officials complain they can’t find U.S. suppliers for items they need to buy American by law" washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2023…
Ahead of tonight's #sotu2023, measure the nation's progress with numbers instead of rhetoric! For instance, did you know that the federal government collected $5.0 trillion in revenue in fiscal year 2022 (FY 2022) — or $15,098 per person? Learn more: usafacts.org/state-of-the-u…
"Don't hate the player. Change the game." @Liv_Boeree's Moloch videos nail the problem so well. youtube.com/watch?v=PRz54V…
Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
You have to be cautious with people who are unusually persuasive communicators. It’s not a bad thing in and of itself, but being a persuasive communicator doesn’t make you any more or less likely to be correct, it just makes you more likely to get people agree with you.
Design founders are prone to overdoing visual polish—great for the ego but rarely a differentiator.
And write a list of what clauses in the doc are unusual for docs of that type.
I’d pay a very non-zero amount of money for AI to read long legal docs and summarize in less than a page.
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