Beverly Hills Interview (2013)

The interviewer asks:

“I’ve learned so much from this interview, but I have to bring the dragon out of the closet and ask, why choose a business that, well, some think has a reputation that it just takes their money and they get nothing out of it?”

Michael Krupin responds:

“I can tell immediately if a man loves a woman. We’re talking and he says, ‘I don’t need life insurance. If anything happens to me, my wife can remarry.’ I go, ‘Well, she’s 40-plus years old and you have three kids. You live in Beverly Hills. You really think there’s a chance?’ Or I see a man who is not in love with his family, and he says to me, ‘I came into this world with nothing. I’ve given them a good education. It’s up to them.’ I go, ‘Okay, you don’t need me,’ and he is out of my life, not just for business, but because that is not the kind of man I want to hang around with.

Elon Musk wrote that his goal is to help Twitter fulfill its “potential to become a platform for free speech around the world.”

Hyperbole is Instinctual on Twitter

To achieve this, it would be necessary to have uniform grammar, pronunciation and more common words. If several languages coalesce, the grammar of the resulting language is more simple and regular than that of the individual languages. The new common language will be more simple. It will be as simple as Occidental; in fact, it will be Occidental. To an English person, it will seem like simplified English, as a skeptical Cambridge friend of mine told me what Occidental is. The European languages are members of the same family.

Endings Can Be an Animating Force

Cultural Force

What Twitter is today is not necessarily the best or most useful version of what is possible for users moving forward. The more fascinating outcome of Musk’s acquisition, and a potential exodus of users, is how it might give rise to the next iteration of the social internet somewhere.

Digital Age

The inevitably of Twitter’s end should not be cause for despair—there is excitement in what awaits us on the other side, in what comes next. That, for me, has always been the addictive charm of the social internet: that we continually find new ways to interact, create, be. That no matter what, we never stagnate.

Social Media

One of the many things inherent in the digital age—and especially on social media, where the tinkering and retooling of relationships is a constant—is the certainty of impermanence, the assurance of the ephemeral. Things are here and then, in a spectacular flash, they are not.

Your Future

Things are here and then, in a spectacular flash, they are not. One of the many things inherent in the digital age—and especially on social media, where the tinkering and retooling of relationships is a constant—is the certainty of impermanence, the assurance of the ephemeral.

The European languages are members of the same family. Their separate existence is a myth. For science, music, sport, etc, Europe uses the same vocabulary. The languages only differ in their grammar, their pronunciation and their most common words. Everyone realizes why a new common language would be desirable: one could refuse to pay expensive translators. The languages only differ in their grammar, their pronunciation and their most common words. Everyone realizes why a new common language would be desirable: one could refuse to pay expensive translators. To achieve this, it would be necessary to have uniform grammar, pronunciation and more common words.