Trevor McKendrick - NYC Pizza tracker guy

Good morning!

I hope you have an amazing week.

Trevor

Tyler Cowen interview on Effective Altruism (article)

More of a talk than an interview.

Tyler is willing to say what some are not, which is that we value the consciousness of human beings more than general consciousness itself, and in a fight with an alien or AGI or trillions of ants – we’d fight for & root for the humans every single time.

Founder who sold their company for $875m talks about what was hard (article)

“The failure points from $5m to $100m in ARR”

Since 2014 a man has tracked the price and location of every slice of pizza he’s bought in NYC (article)

“Over an eight-year period the average price of a plain slice increased from $2.52 to $3.00. This calculation excludes dollar slices.”

And:

“The biggest thing I have noticed is the decline in the amount of sauce put on slices.”

How the Canadian government prevents Chinese people from buying homes in Canada (tweet thread)

“I am a foreign-born homeowner living in a nation whose polity has, let me be delicate, a frequently contentious relationship with China and Chinese people. But since we are capable of building homes, we don't feel the need to discriminate in selling homes, to my family's benefit.”

A quote that I cannot stop thinking about:

“The difference between a great person and a median person is that they’re in contact with divinity like 2% of the time vs 0.01%” - tweet here

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