It’s not good enough to point out that the emperor has no clothes. That only works in feel-good fairy tails. In the real world you need to acquire enough leverage to overthrow the emperor.
@tunguz
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Fixed Hierarchies: Root Evil in Tech Organizations
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IMHO, one of the roots of all evil in ANY organization is a fixed, entrenched, and immutable hierarchy. Doesn’t matter if you have 10, 5, 2, or 0 layers in the org chart. This particularly pernicious in tech where technology and business circumstances change extremely rapidly,
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Science as Understanding vs Science as Profession
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Science as a way of understanding the world is absolutely marvelous.
— Bojan Tunguz (@tunguz) 13 avril 2026
Science as a profession is totally retarded. https://t.co/NyVEgK1axhScience as a way of understanding the world is absolutely marvelous. Science as a profession is totally retarded.
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Parent Uses Social Media Threat to Motivate Children’s Homework
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I threatened my kids that I would take pictures of them and post them on social media if they didn’t do their homework and they were on top of it like their lives depended on it.
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Developers Refusing Features Forces Complete App Rebuild
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They are even a bigger change when developers outright refuse to add an option that you request but they don't want to implement "for your own good." That just happened to me recently. It was for a relatively simple app, so I decided to rebuild the whole app from scratch instead.
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Post-Singularity Tax Relief: A Humorous Take
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I am fine with whatever happens after the Singularity as long as we don't have to file taxes any more.
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Peter Thiel Faces Close Competition in Upcoming Race
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Peter Thiel got some competition. The race is too close to call at this point.
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Institutional skepticism toward emerging cybersecurity threats
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I largely agree with this assessment, but I haver serious misgivings about the following part: “Mythos seems to be taken seriously at a lot of large institutions and organizations filled with smart people who would rather not be worried about a new cybersecurity risk” As I’ve
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Golden Gate Bridge Built 20 Years Later: Historical Implications
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If they built the Golden Gate bridge just 20 years later …