Jim OShaughnessy
Tour de force by @TrungTPhan

IMO, the painting captured the imagination of the world when it was stolen and it colonized the world's neural real estate.

BUT, great painting. I didn't even want to see it the first time because I thought overhyped, but man, once you see it 🤯 https://t.co/SOasFmjB5U
The Mona Lisa is a great lesson on fame.

Leonardo da Vinci began his masterpiece in 1503 but few people were talking about it for the next 400 years.

Today, it's the most famous painting in the world. How did it happen? A major scandal in 1911.

Here's the story🧵 https://t.co/5XUF23v8Tz - Trung Phan
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Dennis Hong
Merger arb https://t.co/XBMd2sDA82
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Jim OShaughnessy
In which I bring back portraits of Rick Sanchez from various locations in the multiverse. Who knew @RickandMorty was a documentary? https://t.co/ZuAiXwf6Li
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Johnathan Bi
That's one solution to elite overproduction I suppose -- get a professorship at a prestigious university and convince your students to be mechanics. https://t.co/noeMTDH6qT
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Jim OShaughnessy
Incredible https://t.co/mRtWzAKzZF
The stunningly brilliant voice of Michael Winslow doing Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love”.

You will never hear music the same again.

https://t.co/0pRJbHrHKo - Brian Roemmele
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Jim OShaughnessy
RT @ChrisBloomstran: Pour a stiff🥃or two for a🧵on why a 1% tax on stock buybacks would be terrible policy. If you need further proof that elected politicians, lifetime bureaucrats and think tank tax “experts” lack an understanding of capital and business, look no further than this bad proposal. 1/
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Jim OShaughnessy
This is an excellent essay from our friends at @PermanentEquity, in which we have an investment.

Succession planning is a crucial aspect of keeping your company vibrant and of maximum value to all shareholders, yet many fail to do it.

https://t.co/AnVrMYYrzt
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Tren Griffin
RIP Tom Alberg.

He will be missed by many people. He was giant in the Greater Seattle community. I learned to be better manager, member of a board of directors and human being by watching watching Tom Alberg do it well. He was a leader in many ways and a terrific friend. https://t.co/vo1YuoXtuy
Tom Alberg was a giant in Seattle, a living link between one generation of tech here (aerospace and something called a "cellular network"), and another. Among the first investors in Amazon, he spent decades reinvesting those winnings in local companies. https://t.co/SUcxkK3jsW - Matt Day
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Jim OShaughnessy
I evaluate this as good information that can transform into knowledge

H/T @rationalwalk

Evaluating Information: Find the Signal in the Noise https://t.co/r11FigiRuQ
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Tren Griffin
RT @JeffBezos: My friend and a friend to many, Tom Alberg, has passed away. He was an early investor in Amazon and served on our board for 23 years. Tom was a visionary and also just a wonderful, good man. I was so lucky to have you in my life, Tom. We will all miss you dearly. https://t.co/JsRvxt8rI0
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Paul Graham
In office hours today I talked to a pair of founders who needed a new idea. It turned out they already had a great idea, but had been ignoring it because they didn't know how to "monetize" it. I told them to just build it. This thing could have 100 million users.
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Ethan Mollick
The 747 is a cautionary tale to anyone betting on disruptive future technologies. The obvious future for aircraft in the 1960s was supersonic, so Boeing put their B team on building the boring stopgap plane while they bet on the SST. Instead, tech plateaued & they sold 1.6k 747s! https://t.co/3nVmnfTTaO
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