Michael P Gibson
@William_Blake
Coffeehouse radical capitalist. Gutter whiskey poet. Cofounder 1517 Fund + Thiel Fellowship
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Isaac Newton spent decades huffing mercury fumes in a Cambridge cellar, grinding lead into a worthless sludge while praying to the gods of alchemy. Now Marathon can use its reactor blanket to turn mercury-198 into stable gold by the ton. The alchemist will lose to the atom.
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Never has so much been spent to learn so little
Always go straight to the source now. Practitioner media > middle man explainer media.
Thiel tells a story about pitching SpaceX to Buffett and Buffett rejects the company saying something like “I won’t invest in Mars but I will invest in Mars Bars because if we do get to Mars they’re going to eat chocolate there”
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