Al Hemmingsen

Dear Santa,
From this LP’s desk with cocoa in hand,
A short little list, all tidy and planned:

"an honest assessment of knowledge work would reveal the "human labor bubble": the systemic overvaluation of routine, low-impact tasks that consume massive payrolls without generating proportional economic value.

newsletter.angularventures.com/p/what-if-we...

This passage always stuck with me. Governments and companies alike instinctively will burn a thousand dollars of productivity to save a hundred dollars of equipment.

Let your teams get what they need: multiple laptop chargers, battery packs, mice, monitors,etc.

You can outsource the doing of certain tasks, but you can never outsource your responsibility for the quality of your client's experience.
www.ft.com/content/ad10...

When society decides to seriously tap 50% of human potential: a visual

Traveling is an Underrated Superpower — Chris Neumann In a world where most of our interactions occur online, a willingness to travel is a superpower.

This: Mindset, planning, equipment

The variation in productivity levels of people when traveling is enormous, from 0 to more productive than when in the office.

chrisneumann.com/archives/tra...

"Special rules" by my request: No rounds, no points, 15 minutes, submission only.

"If you care about the content of your mind, you must protect it from domestication. We must, each of us, cultivate a feral intellect. "
www.generalist.com/p/lesser-apes

LP travel tendencies

*a non scientific poll of a group whatsapp channel

Epistle to the Netizens 1:2-3 (apocryphal)

2: "yet I fear lest your minds be led astray by the glitter of click-bait.

3: "For not all headlines proclaim the truth, nor do all links profit the soul; many entice as with honey, yet their end is emptiness."

10 Insights from 10 Years of Transformational Conversations My findings from 2,600 meetings about personal evolution.

"I’ve found that, the more dogmatic someone is, the more stuck they tend to be. "

"There is also a strong correlation between how much someone talks, and how poorly they listen, and how stuck they are. I describe it as filibustering your own soul."

newsletter.theleading-edge.org/p/10-insight...

23 floors, 576,000 square feet.

And it's possible that tax abatement is the only thing that kept the price above $0.

The adjustment to office values is not over.

Green eggs and ham and performance enhancing drugs.

"But we all know they're bad for you. I will not die at 52. I would not could not take the gas. I do not need that muscle mass. They may be big while I am small.. I do not need turinabol."

"one has to be short term contrarian, long-term right, and crucially - close enough on the timing that contrarian can flip to consensus [in the time frame of your fund and cash flows]"

How people use GPT, GPT usage by country, gender, etc. cdn.openai.com/pdf/a253471f...

Overheard: "Bankers laugh us out of the room when we tell them we will use co-investment to close the deal"

Travel for work but want to keep training Jiu-Jitsu?
Here's a list of good places by city, newly updated.
Link to the continuously updated doc
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Actual combat is exceedingly unpredictable and dangerous. We are evolved to know this. Bears, Gorillas and men are hard wired to not actually want to do it. Which is why you rarely see men actually fight. Chest bumps and words <> fights.

"Growth is 0 until 1650.. the timing of the break [in 1930] corresponds to the large scale implementation of... [electricity]"

nber.org/papers/w29950

Some ancient jiu-jitsu. I was taught a similar idea ~2001.
Grab the lapel and apply high pressure. Then ease up. He may forget it's there or think you let it go.
Chase the head and arm choke. He escapes by turning left, towards the lapel strangle.

Hypothetical GP Side letter question:

If you could mandate via side letter: "GP agrees to use one of the following 3 investor portals"

which ones would you put in a side letter?

Oliver Carl Henkel Obituary August 25, 2025 - Brown-Forward Funeral Service View Oliver Carl Henkel's obituary, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

Pudge Henkel was a giant of a man. The world is better off for his acts while he was here. And it is a sadder place now that he's gone.

www.brown-forward.com/obituaries/o...

Google alerts are great if you want to keep tabs on large numbers of companies and people. But content mills flood the channel with junk. Process hundreds of google alert emails with one large text file. Deep search on the 1-2 important things each week.

GitHub - alhemmingsen/GoogleSlidesToDragonTouchTM15: Daily auto Send Google Slides as images to dragon touch calendar to display Daily auto Send Google Slides as images to dragon touch calendar to display - alhemmingsen/GoogleSlidesToDragonTouchTM15

If you have a Dragon Touch family calendar, this is a way to display daily / weekly family notes. Make notes as a standing google slides. Script converts slides to image and emails to the calendar for display in the photo gallery. Auto daily update.

github.com/alhemmingsen...

Some enterprising journalist should go through the public filings of the evergreen private equity funds, throw GPT at their intentionally obtuse financials, and create simple tables of their positions: cost, and market value. And just post the legible data as a public service...

New best idea in MFN compendium just dropped. Bless this anonymous LP