sam lessin

@lessin

Founder at , Intern at . Partner at . Former VP Product . Founder back in the day. SF, NYC, SKIS, KITES.

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  1. 21 hours ago

    SF has always been and will remain the boom town teetering the edge of civilization and chaos ... and that breeds opportunity— but man, I always forget that NYC is THE real city.

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  2. Oct 19

    As pointed out to me long ago... Space Ghost concisely explains the fundamental challenge of discourse on the internet...

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  3. Oct 19

    Question: do a lot / many high schools just straight up ban mobile phones for students during the school day? It seems like that is a pretty reasonable thing to do (leave phone in locker powered off?)

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  4. Oct 18

    I just learned that our 7 month old’s kids music class has an app. Ridiculous. I must live in San Francisco.

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  5. Oct 17

    I deeply admire Mark's consistent commitment to free speech. It isn't an easy position to hold - it forces you to accept all sorts of short term costs and criticism ...  But history shows it is the right long term position 

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  6. Oct 17

    At my son’s preschool and happy to see they are teaching the children about my favorite thing to do!

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  7. Oct 17

    I really don’t understand why people hate on email so much... I feel like it is nearly perfect communication medium for actually getting things done. Asynch, triage-able, seach, forces process discipline, open platform, etc

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  8. Oct 15

    The internet delivers again... king of the north!

    North Korean state media KCNA releases photos of leader Kim Jong Un riding a white horse on Mount Paektu
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  9. Oct 15

    Think about the three parts of a bank as holding assets, research, and transactions. In 90s banks got in trouble because the transaction bankers leaned on research to pump offerings. 20 years later the challenge is transaction bankers pumping while funds sell assets.

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  10. Oct 15

    Some of our thinking from on how to identify and prioritize workflow improvements for operations teams

    new blog post! Identify and Prioritize Opportunities for Workflow Improvements
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  11. Oct 15

    OH "Kids are really into surveillance these days"

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  12. Oct 14

    yep - also felt it...

    well that was definitely an of the small yet tweetable variety... 😬
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  13. Retweeted
    Oct 10

    The anti-tech arguments are getting bolder!

    Light to all nations? There is little evidence that electricity and light truly transform people's lives
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  14. Oct 8

    Did a fun conversation with about the future of operations and CX work

    “In football, just knowing the score doesn’t help you make moment-to-moment, strategic decisions on the field. It’s the same in business.”
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  15. Oct 7

    This is a pretty good expression of how the future will work...

    And I’m a philosopher on twitter 🤣.
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  16. Oct 7

    This is a hilariously lo-fi rendering of Foxcon's proposal for a Wisconsin center. I could have told you they were going to yank the project based on this alone... looks like they invested literally dozens of minutes in it :)

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  17. Oct 5

    3/ This seems like a move that achieves that for him. If he gives the Chinese literally anything now, he will get domestically skewered re: why he gave anything up / what secret deal was made... which (-again if this really were his thinking-) is pretty brilliant.

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  18. Oct 5

    2/ if you wanted to give trump a lot of credit, you would say that a key element of negotiation is figuring out how to tie your own hands / to make it impossible for you to compromise (and make sure the person you are negotiating against knows definitively you can't compromise)

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  19. Oct 5

    1 / Trying to catch up on this 'Trump tells china to investigate Biden' in context of 'trade war' thing... I am always wary of giving people not enough or too much credit on 'strategy' ...

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  20. Retweeted
    Jul 29

    Me in this game called life

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