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A pioneer of share repurchases tho!
December 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Check out this book if you’re interested in prehistory...so amazing ... www.bloomsbury.com/us/proto-978...
Proto
"The story of how one language left the steppes of Ukraine and became the earth's dominant language family has become clearer and more exciting than ever b…
www.bloomsbury.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
But you’re not disputing the point of the chart are you @bencarlson007.bsky.social ... which is that phones have had a massive negative impact on reading. Seems inarguable.
December 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Yeah the valuation is pretty remarkable...here’s a little something I wrote about it from a while back...

sherwood.news/markets/pala...
Palantir’s valuation: Just how insane is it?
There are few precedents for a such stratospheric market value — $350 billion — being as precariously balanced on such a narrow base of earnings...
sherwood.news
November 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Great tune. And timely!
October 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Amazing pic. Which one is your grandfather?
September 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Question from a journalist to you, an attorney. How would you recommend crafting a sentence that addresses this. For instance, I think there’s a resistance to saying something is “illegal” given that we’ve seen lots of things that seem on the face, violations of law, go on to be approved by courts.
September 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Yes. Totally.
August 3, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Lotta Gram Parsons influence too!
July 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM