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If you see something missing in the world that needs to exist, build it. Email: bonniekavoussi[at]gmail[dot]com

 
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    "The main difference between those who go far and those who do not is some people have a vision and the others do not and therefore can only react to the current events as they happen...No vision, not much of a future." -Richard Hamming, The Art of Doing Science and Engineering

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  2. When ads are expensive, advertisers put more effort into creating good ads, and people are more interested. This is the case with Super Bowl ads, and there's a lesson here for digital advertising.

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  3. Fortune favors the bold.

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  4. If you could build anything, what would you build?

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  5. I'm getting a sense that Google doesn't know me all that well after all.

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  6. You can watch Jason Furman and Kimberly Clausing speak about corporate taxation at Brookings live here:

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  8. Larry Summers, Tim Geithner, and Robert Rubin are speaking on a panel about taxation at Brookings, and you can watch it live here:

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    Is that market truly competitive? Or is it mimetic hill climbing? Hill climbing: when someone locally optimizes without seeing if there is a taller mountain to climb Mimetic hill climbing: when everyone sees easy gains from climbing the same hill and stops thinking of mountains

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    Jan 21

    Paul probably wants others to think it through rather than say it outright, but the underlying conclusion is that the economy is over-regulated, resulting in fewer investment opportunities and higher prices for existing assets. The “killer” evidence is lack of new home building.

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  11. Productivity tip: Close your computer and listen to Beethoven's 9th.

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  12. California's top income tax rate is 50%, and there is still no train between SF and LA.

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  13. President Donald Trump is tweeting in Persian and I never would have thought I'd be tweeting this several years ago.

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  14. Bernie Sanders has a good chance of winning the Democratic primary.

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  15. .: People often make decisions based on "cultural heuristics," not cost-benefit analysis. Worth reading.

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    Jan 10

    Too much transparency makes the world more opaque.

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  18. I look forward to the day when more founders go to states like Texas, Ohio, Georgia, and Arizona for funding, and also start companies there.

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  19. Excited for . More than 70% of VC funding goes to the SF Bay Area, Boston, and NYC, and that needs to change.

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  20. From 's 2020 predictions: "It isn’t much of a stretch to imagine parallel red and blue economies emerging." Very possible, but I hope it won't be the case. Our identities are far deeper than our political preferences.

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