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The most overlooked superpower is to think in decades and act in days.
Matt Griswold
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Matt Griswold
@griswold
building a flight simulator for thinking • edu/acc • sailed my kids to 17 countries; 50 to go • "ambitious optimism is morally mandatory"
Austin, TX
Joined March 2008
- Sad to announce that @BillAckman and I have made the decision to suspend millions in combined donations to Harvard. I already have an ugly building with my name on it anyway. We hope the school will reconsider its inaction before the rest of the $53.2B endowment is exhausted.
The Harvard Corporation: “In this tumultuous and difficult time, we unanimously stand in support of President Gay.” hrvd.me/Corp2023tReaders added context they thought people might want to knowReaders added contextIt may be hard to tell, but this is a satirical post. The author clarifies this in the replies. The building is named after Dean Erwin N. Griswold who served as the sixth dean of the Harvard Law School. x.com/griswold/statu… hls.harvard.edu/facilities/bui… - Replying to @netcapgirlMcKinsey is a SaaS company: Scapegoat as a Service
- Replying to @chrismanWe have a tradition where every Christmas, before presents are opened, the grandparents reenact boomer fiscal policy from 1971-present. It’s like the Stations of the Cross for deficit spending. About halfway through, we turn off the lights and the kids stretch their legs by
- Replying to @BillAckman and @howardlutnickAny Manhattan bartender knows that bond people and equity people celebrate on different days.
- The look on Puerto Rico's face when we give statehood to Greenland.
- Our public school threatened to sue me when I took my kids to backpack Japan for 40 days. We laughed and left. The kids learned more in that trip than they would all year in a classroom. If the goal is learning, travel is the best teacher.It’s 2025 and I actually have parents trying to defend pulling their child out of school for a vacation. I get a death. I get granny is turning 100 and lives out of state. But to get a cheaper vacation- nope. Can’t ever support that.
- After listening to two fifty-somethings on a first date at the next table over, my wife and I have agreed to just make it work forever.
- Require colleges to hold the loans and watch how fast everything changes.
