Nat Eliason (@nateliason) on X (original) (raw)

Nat Eliason

Nat Eliason

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  Founders School launches this fall. We’re looking for the most ambitious teenagers in the world, ready to prove they can build a million dollar business by the time they graduate.
  
  Today I sit down with
  @nateliason
  - founder, writer, and now launching
  @AlphaschoolATX
  , a new entrepreneur high school in New York City. Tuition is $150K a year. The promise: every student hits a million dollars in gross profit by graduation, or the family gets their tuition
  
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  Waymo is a godsend for working parents. Need to hand off the baby between meetings? Put them in a Waymo and send them to your partner across town. Impossible before now. Really grateful we have this technology 🙏
  
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  The reason you can so easily pull all-nighters in college is because you’re supposed to be having kids at that age.
  
  My only regret in life is not having kids earlier. When I was 27 I was going out 4 nights a week, working 12+ hr days 6 days a week, waking up at 5am daily for CrossFit. Kids would've been a breeze. Don't wait for more resources to have kids. Energy is scarcer than money.
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  “How did we get so poor mom?” “Your Dad spent more time collecting knowledge than acting on it.”
  
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  The tragedy of Twitter rebranding to X isn’t the loss of “Twitter,” it’s the loss of “tweet.” Tweet was such a great platform specific term. “Post” is soulless, boring, could be any app in the world.
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  I feel like I was robbed. I’ve spent thousands on mosquito treatments for our yard over the years. Never made any noticeable difference. Bought these, and within a couple weeks, the mosquitos are down probably 90%. Maybe my best purchase under $100 ever.
  
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  This is a six figure meme making job at a legit company. No matter how silly your kid’s interests seem... don’t ever tell them they should give them up for a “real job”
  
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  Kinda wild that the sun and moon are so similar in diameter when viewed from Earth. Seems statistically very unlikely, no?
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  Once you have kids, how anyone without kids is ever late or unproductive is completely unfathomable.
  
  Kids are at their grandparents’. Went for a run, meditated, read, had a bagel, watched F1, on my way to get a haircut, then office. It’s 10:14. No kids is turbo easy mode.
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  "It's just a GPT wrapper" My brother in christ Typeform is an HTML FORM WRAPPER AND IT'S VALUED AT A BILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS
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  Way too many young guys are taking life advice from childless 40 y/o men.
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  Honestly can’t stop thinking about this study. Dancing is *dramatically* more effective than our best attempts at treating depression, pharmaceutical or not. It clearly has *massive* psychological benefits. But how often do you dance? Do you ever do it sober? Did your
  
  They buried the lede on this new study. It's not that exercise beats out SSRIs for depression treatment, but that *just* dancing has the largest effect of *any treatment* for depression. That's kind of beautiful.
  
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  Replying to @benjamweiss
  Good spot for a parachute ad. Or personal injury lawyer!
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  Prove you can do hard things When a teenager asks why they need to learn calculus, what should you say? You know they will never use it in adulthood, outside of certain career choices. You could say, “It’ll help you get into college,” but then they’re left wondering why