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Managing director @ Thiel Capital. Some assembly required. Spelling not included. May contain math. Tweets are my own.

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    5 Nov 2017

    Our top intellectual community stalled out >40 years ago: some of my thoughts on why (beyond the clickbait title).

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  2. 8 hours ago

    Happy Birthday America. Warts & all, you still look pretty great to me this July 4th at nearly 250. This was the most American thing I could think of: A US Western TV theme, played on a Portuguese instrument brought by immigrants and adopted by Hawaiians as if it was their own.

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  3. Retweeted
    13 hours ago

    Eric Weinstein from Thiel Cap.: Why capitalism won’t survive without socialism L: C:

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  4. Retweeted
    17 hours ago

    Hey someone's about to be happy... 🤟🌊👌

    Replying to @akirathedon
    Make WEINSTIENWAVE !!
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    Jun 30

    I’ve got a , a and for you in both video and audio form! YouTube: Podcast: Ad-free:

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  6. Jul 3

    Hey Ben. Given our nuanced private conversations, I just don’t get this one. Do you mean “more people are rich thanks to capitalism” or “we are rich as a nation thanks to capitalism” or something else? Because “everybody’s rich” seems both weirdly invidious & obviously wrong.

    Socialism Is Growing In America Because Everybody's Rich Thanks To Capitalism
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  7. Jul 2

    Dinner.

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  8. Jul 1

    Ben & I disagree about a lot. It doesn’t sound anything like this. I remember sitting in Bill’s audience looking at a flashing applause sign overhead, while being instructed by a warm-up comedian as to how to react. It left me thinking about the crushingly high cost of success.

    WATCH: Bill Maher spars with Ben Shapiro over "incivility" in politics
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  9. Jul 1

    I smell dyslexia, ADHD, or some such “learning disability” all over this story. Super high agency. High creativity. Can’t fit in. Some blood on his hands but unexpectedly little considering his “line of work.” Can’t fit in to society. This guy may need a prison STEM PhD program.

    Notorious thief flees French jail by helicopter. "It was the second time Faid has pulled off a spectacular jailbreak -- in 2013, he blasted his way out of a prison in northern France using dynamite before being recaptured six weeks later". via
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  10. Jun 29

    Enjoyed talking to & immensely over on Dave Rubin’s show. I feel very fortunate have these guys as partners to look for a way out of our current civic mess. Hope people see how much we can disagree & just how little that involves epithet.

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  11. Jun 29

    About to go live with , on . Join us if you’re free...

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  12. Jun 28

    Note: I wrote PST out of habit when I meant PT. I perhaps should have used PDT or Pacific Time. Sorry for my error.

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  13. Jun 28

    Looking forward to my first public conversation with tomorrow Friday, June 29th at 10am PST with hosting. Join us and we’ll see you then.

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  14. Jun 28

    In "Lost in Math", has written a necessary book that I've always hoped someone would never write. It lays out the argument that "Beauty" is a dangerous Siren for physics, which is almost always true. Except, unfairly, for a tiny top tier. Beauty, it seems, loathes equity.

    ‘Lost in Math’ by Sabine Hassenfelder reviewed in the WSJ by yours truly:
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  15. Jun 28

    [looking at replies taking me literally] Obviously I’m being sarcastic about time left in the administration as I thought there was enough time to vote on Obama’s replacement of Garland for Scalia. I’m even sure McConnell will agree w me if it again happens late in Trump’s admin.

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  16. Jun 28

    פּאַסקודניאַקעס gonna make פּאַסקודסטװע... “The senate stands ready to fulfill its constitutional role...to fill this vacancy.” This tweet is perfect in the self-betrayal of its author. Are you quite sure there is enough time left in this administration Senator McConnell?

    The Senate stands ready to fulfill its constitutional role by offering advice and consent on ’s nominee to fill this vacancy. We will vote to confirm Justice Kennedy’s successor this fall.
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  17. Jun 28

    So. The Mobster-of-Lobster is boldly stepping over the 49th parallel trying to enforce his version of Canadian monogamy on the American People? Glad to hear it. Join us, won’t you? Should be fun. Thanks to and host for the invite.

    This Friday we’ve got and in studio. Let the ideas fall where they may! Subscribe:
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  18. Jun 28

    Civility is a tool. I agree w/ that offering civility & reason when others are chasing utopian fever dreams w/ outrage is powerful. But I will not wed myself to civility. If one announces that the proper place for a sword is in its sheath, rattling it has no power.

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  19. Jun 28

    Disagree. Civility is important precisely b/c of the importance of incivility when it finally comes from civil people. I once asked my 90+ YO Grandpa why he hated profanity. “I don’t” he said. “But you NEVER use it with me!” I replied. “Ah. But when I finally do? You’ll listen!”

    Perhaps civility, more than anything else has been the key to IDW success. ’s podcast is absurdly massive. is selling out theaters all over the country. treats his audience and opponents with respect. ...
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  20. Jun 27

    Just spent two weeks out of the US mostly ignoring the news to focus on family, science & wondrous Italian achievements of old with our kids. 3 people I trust have issued similar warnings: be careful tweeting about most anything, as the US changed again while you were away.

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  21. Jun 23

    Almost 40 years ago “the Spandrels of San Marco” (curvilinear triangle being pointed at) were used as a device by Stephen Jay Gould & Richard Lewinton to upend SocioBiology for (largely) political reasons. If you’re in Venice Sun., June 24th eve, & might want to discuss, DM me.

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