user: zt

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recent submissions

Now and Meanwhile: Two Worlds of Finance (blog.zactownsend.com)

2 pts|3 months ago|discuss

69 pts|6 months ago|33 comments

3 pts|8 months ago|discuss

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9 months ago|discuss

Complex systems: Life insurance and your money (complexsystemspodcast.com)

2 pts|9 months ago|discuss

Process vs. data: who wins in the vertical AI race (blog.zactownsend.com)

1 pts|9 months ago|discuss

How three years at McKinsey shaped my second startup (blog.zactownsend.com)

154 pts|10 months ago|180 comments

Not Quite yet Gone with the Wind (thedispatch.com)

2 pts|1 year ago|discuss

Spaces Between the Stars (lrb.co.uk)

2 pts|1 year ago|discuss

Idiot to insider: the basics of building a life insurer (blog.zactownsend.com)

3 pts|1 year ago|discuss

The 100-Year Startup: Life insurance and abundance (blog.zactownsend.com)

2 pts|1 year ago|discuss

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Vertically integrate an AI agentic solution (blog.zactownsend.com)

1 pts|1 year ago|discuss

Empathy on entrance price: Bridge.xyz and Astranis (blog.zactownsend.com)

1 pts|1 year ago|discuss

The Universe Is Not a Fairy Tale (city-journal.org)

4 pts|1 year ago|discuss

Underwriting the Bitcoin Boom (digitalfrontier.com)

1 pts|1 year ago|discuss

1 pts|1 year ago|discuss

Why do people believe true things? (conspicuouscognition.com)

6 pts|1 year ago|1 comment

2 pts|1 year ago|1 comment