One thing I never see mentioned in this tax-cliff madness is how much the government itself loses in tax revenue when people put money in their pension to stay under £100k

If someone earns £125k but doesn't want to lose free childcare/personal tax allowance, the optimal thing is to salary sacrifice £25k into their pension

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This is what I mean by science slop: work that looks plausibly correct and technically competent but isn’t, and doesn’t advance our understanding. It has the *form* of scholarship without the *substance*. The formalism looks correct, the references are in order, and it will sit in the literature forever, making it marginally harder to find the papers that actually matter.

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Dude, that sucks so bad for them.

I know a lot of these videos we talk about unsafe it is, but usually those are random risks.

Breathing in sharded glass will absolutely fuck your lungs permenantly, when I did glass blowing we all wore masks if we were cleaning up sharded/particle glass and know how dangerous it is.

This is even more dangerous than many chemicals which will give you a chance of getting cancer.

This is going to ruin every single one of their lungs and its absolutely tragic. This is like breathing in turbo asbestos all day every day, these people all likely die young and most likely don't make it to their 50s if they stay there

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 ‪@dieworkwear.bsky.social‬
· 11/27/2024
When I was on a menswear forum, I remember discussing the question of why there are so many bespoke shoemakers in Tokyo. Some people said, "it's because Japanese people value craftsmanship. They are noble, not like wasteful Westerners." This sort of handwaving feels unsatisfying to me.

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‪derek guy‬
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In this thread, I will explore some ideas on why Tokyo is so fashionable. Some of it does have to do with culture, but as you'll see in the thread, culture is also shaped by political, economic, and institutional forces. IMO, one should look for structural reasons for outcomes.

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‪derek guy‬
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A big reason why Tokyo is more fashionable has to do with the media environment. There are thousands of hobbyist magazines covering topics ranging from woodworking to whisky. In menswear, they can get very specific in terms of aesthetic: classic tailoring, workwear, streetwear, outdoorsy style, etc.

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‪derek guy‬
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It's interesting to me to see the difference between US and Japanese fashion media. Whereas US media tends to focus on celebrities and ideas on how to break the rules (or the idea that there are no rules and you can do anything you want), Japanese media explores rules and details.

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‪derek guy‬
 ‪@dieworkwear.bsky.social‬
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Here are some scans from Men's Ex on how to shine shoes. The last scan (I think from Free & Easy) explores the teeny, tiny differences between nine pairs of full-cut chinos. The Japanese word otaku refers to nerds who are obsessed with these niche hobbyist details.

In addition to magazines, there are also one-off hobbyist publications, clearly made as a labor of love. Here's one on shoes. Inside, it explores iconic styles, construction techniques, and even different ways to lace-up your shoes. Trust me, menswear nerds have rules for this.

‪derek guy‬
 ‪@dieworkwear.bsky.social‬
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"Oh, but this just shows the nerdy, detail-obsessed nature of Japanese people," you say. Perhaps. But these publications can't exist without a distribution system (i.e., newsstands). And those newsstands can't exist without *walksble

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• Poor capital allocation amidst slowing growth and Al fears have crippled
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opportunity

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context, the key to unlocking agentic value

• It is an exciting time to be a discerning, long-term investor

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Die Umfrage zeigt auch, dass viele Unternehmen ihre Ressourcen einseitig auf die Prävention von Angriffen konzentrieren. 70 Prozent der Befragten gaben an, dass mehr Budget in Abwehrmaßnahmen fließt als in die Vorbereitung auf den Ernstfall. Dieses Ungleichgewicht kann fatale Folgen haben: Wenn ein Angriff erfolgreich ist, fehlen häufig getestete Strategien und ausreichende Mittel für die schnelle Wiederherstellung

Gross margins are in fact the single most important indicator of business quality -- not some abstract projection of future GM, but rather what it is now. It's always been the case, and it's more true than ever today.

<10% of VC seem to understand this. Everyone is underwriting AI revenue like it's SaaS. It's really, really not. Even when you adjust for margin, "AI companies" should carry lower multiples because the defensibility sucks.

The counterpoint to the margins argument is "token usage will taper off;" it won't. The user will be hungry for as much intelligence as they can get for any use case. It's that's the case it will be a race to the bottom, and margins will always suck. I tend to agree with
@nikunj
and
@TheEthanDing
here.

The ONLY two ways this is not the case
1. In vertical saas: there's a one-time gold rush when legacy industries are adopting new tooling. If you get them to switch once, they will stay with you a long time even if something slightly better or cheaper comes along
2. In horizontal / usual SaaS: if there is some other moat besides the AI workflow which creates defensibility and stickiness (it's why I'm obsessed with data platforms). In which case, the user is paying for that platform layer to begin with and not the AI workflows. In which case it's not actually an "AI workflows" company!

I think AI stuff presents a terrific wedge / reason for switching but it will not be the reason for staying.

If a company has one of these two things well, then the AI stuff is not the main value and the margins will already be good. The user is paying for something else.

But if the company is paying for a workflow with bad margins today (i.e., a "GPT wrapper"), they paying for a workflow that has zero switching costs + your margins will suck every step of the way.

I think
- 80% of $10m+ ARR / series B+ AI companies will go to zero
- 50% of $100m+ ARR / unicorn AI companies will go to zero

The failures will leave 10x the craters compared to prior waves.

BUT, and unlike the 2021-22 bubble, the successes will be way bigger too. The "grand slam" exit won't be $1b or $10b but $100b and $1T in 10 years. It's gonna be nuts.

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This is why these bars are full of people at 2:00 a.m. drowning their sorrows. Knocking down these drinks. “When’s the world going to give me something, man? When am I going to get mine?” Well, what did you ever do? Did you ever get up in the morning and smile at the world? No. You either did nothing or you scowled and hissed at the world. You’re getting back exactly what you would expect to get back if you understood how the world really works. Which is why we study multidisciplinary things, right? We can’t be wrong on this, can we? It’s all mirrored reciprocation. So what do you want to do? You want to go positive, you want to go first. What’s the obstacle? There’s a big obstacle. This is an economics club. Certainly, you have all heard of Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize winner in economics. Behavioral economics. And what did he win his Nobel Prize for? For answering the question, why would people not go positive and not go first when there’s a 98 percent chance you’re going to benefit from it, and only a 2 percent chance the person’s going to tell you to screw off and you’re going to feel horrible, lose face, and all the rest of that? And that’s real. That’s why we don’t do it. He said there’s huge asymmetry between the standard human desire for gain and the standard human desire to avoid loss. Which one do you think is more powerful? 98 percent versus 2 percent!

Companies that hire consulting firms see large increases in labor productivity and also large increases of wages, with no decline in labor share or value added.

It seems like a lot of the more nihilist theories of why companies hire consultants are not true on average!
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New paper:

"What Does Consulting Do?"