Ben Vance

If you were a conservative who decided not to file that lawsuit before 2025 you probably missed out on generational wealth.

Recieved on 50 out of office replies today.

In my new role at work my desk is by a tv with CNBC, and it’s astounding how much of the day Jim Cramer is on television during the day. Just non-stop.

An interesting dynamic on the Unlimited PTO trend was that you ran into issues with the extreme use cases on both ends. Hard to combat without undermining the very nature of the concept.

My “I’m not a movie buff” ballot

Every modern CEO is somewhere on the spectrum of Jobs to Cook. You have to pick one of the two when you first get to the C-Suite

I left my AirPods at home and my backup headphones died so now I have sit at my desk for three hours listening to nothing. No one deserves this torture.

Would not have guessed that basically all pigs are Canadian

If we consider near universal suffrage a condition for legitimate democracy, then democracy itself isn’t very old at all. Oldest women’s suffrage was only early 20th century.

They always ask people who served in the military to stand during Memorial Day events but they rarely specify for which country they fought. I feel like that’s important.

No one with two legs can ever block a fire exit

Paying Ive $6B seems like a lot though. Sounds like overpaying a championship winning coach who is past his prime.

Not really sure hardware is the way to go here, but I do enjoy a good device.

An interesting wrinkle about the current immigration moment is that groups once venerated by conservatives (people fleeing socialism, persecuted Christians) are now the groups most targeted for deportation.

S&P 500 even over the month of April. Efficient Markets Theory wins again.

Reality is capital allocation is obviously one of the jobs AI is most suited to take once the AGI gets here.

One unifying thing about the people celebrating job loss to AI is that they really do believe they’ll be the last ones left with employment.

It’s kind of depressing how comedians who used to be on SNL give interviews and the only thing they can talk about are stories from their SNL days.

Drove through Atoka just a few hours earlier…

Fun scenario where the only way to avoid dying in prison is to teach scam business strategy classes for your host country without pay.

Five Years After He Escaped in a Crate, Fugitive Carlos Ghosn Is Teaching Business Strategy Ghosn lives in Lebanon where he teaches business strategy and avoids arrest warrants from Japan and France

“The program initially cost $10,000 for Lebanese attendees and $20,000 for foreigners, with the proceeds going to the university.”

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This is the future worth fighting for

It took reelecting Trump for many Americans to remember how they felt about Trump

One thing I’ve learned in my career is one of the best advantages you can have in the corporate world is a name that can be shortened to something catchy and memorable.

DHL suspending shipping to the U.S. is a death blow to my android based handheld hobby

Someone will tweet that Trump’s close to a deal with Penguin Island and we’ll be back to even

It’s clear only a culture that produced Bluey could also produce this clip.

Pope Francis probably as good of a Pope as you could possibly ask for. Very sad he’s no longer here for this moment of history.

Interesting wrinkle here is that most years you couldn’t show the Orthodox Easter as it would be on a different day.

To be frank, I think this is a kind of mysticism or at least a negative image of American exceptionalism. Nations can fundamentally transform within a few generations. The 20th century is a record of this. Institutions and economies can be remade. We are not bound by fate or ghosts or blood or soil.