Sid R.
@sid-ram.bsky.social
Just another transplant in NY.
All opinions/posts are personal and solely reflect my thoughts.
All opinions/posts are personal and solely reflect my thoughts.
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Sid R.
@sid-ram.bsky.social
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The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
-VS Naipaul, A Bend in the River
-VS Naipaul, A Bend in the River
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This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom:
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
For all the fearmongering about capital flight from New York City, there’s an exodus few want to talk about: working people.
Sky-high rents and outrageous child care costs are already pushing families out of the city they keep running.
That’s what we have to change.
That’s what we have to change.
January 28, 2026 at 7:59 PM
This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom:
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
It's kinda crazy how right wing influencers/podcasters adopted the BJP polemicist playbook with a few substitutions.
January 28, 2026 at 1:41 PM
It's kinda crazy how right wing influencers/podcasters adopted the BJP polemicist playbook with a few substitutions.
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This has led them to adopt a position vaguely revolving old cliches and lefty notions around the idea that only US and its allies are a hazard to int law and peace, that once you constrained the "imperialist core" the other nations will be able to work it out peacefully within the UN system
January 4, 2026 at 3:03 PM
This has led them to adopt a position vaguely revolving old cliches and lefty notions around the idea that only US and its allies are a hazard to int law and peace, that once you constrained the "imperialist core" the other nations will be able to work it out peacefully within the UN system
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
-VS Naipaul, A Bend in the River
-VS Naipaul, A Bend in the River
January 3, 2026 at 4:53 PM
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
-VS Naipaul, A Bend in the River
-VS Naipaul, A Bend in the River
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One thing every new FP crisis makes very clear is that millennials and zoomers have adopted some very weird theories of how foreign policy intersects with public opinion as a result of the Iraq War and stories about it thereafter
January 3, 2026 at 3:14 PM
One thing every new FP crisis makes very clear is that millennials and zoomers have adopted some very weird theories of how foreign policy intersects with public opinion as a result of the Iraq War and stories about it thereafter
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TradFi being better-positioned to navigate an economic downturn and a shift in the political winds vs Silicon Valley is kind of interesting (Dimon vs these guys).
January 2, 2026 at 7:15 PM
TradFi being better-positioned to navigate an economic downturn and a shift in the political winds vs Silicon Valley is kind of interesting (Dimon vs these guys).
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Maybe 10 years ago, I ran into a friend who'd brought her young kids to a conference we were covering, and she had to tell everyone not to take pics of them. Took me a second to figure out why. That should be SOP. Take that picture of your perfect angel baby and send to friends/family. Don't post.
January 2, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Maybe 10 years ago, I ran into a friend who'd brought her young kids to a conference we were covering, and she had to tell everyone not to take pics of them. Took me a second to figure out why. That should be SOP. Take that picture of your perfect angel baby and send to friends/family. Don't post.
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Tbh I feel like a significant driver of a decline in social trust is the mere existence of professionalized PR. It instantly turns any interaction between an institution and the public into an adversarial one because PR's job is to construct a sentence that maximizes utility for the institution
January 2, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Tbh I feel like a significant driver of a decline in social trust is the mere existence of professionalized PR. It instantly turns any interaction between an institution and the public into an adversarial one because PR's job is to construct a sentence that maximizes utility for the institution
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Nine Delights 2026
January 1, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Nine Delights 2026
Don't believe the media coverage.
I travel the country semi-frequently for work, and encounter a lot of rural Americans. Without exception, they are impressed to hear I live in New York, and always have a lot of questions about city life.
I travel the country semi-frequently for work, and encounter a lot of rural Americans. Without exception, they are impressed to hear I live in New York, and always have a lot of questions about city life.
Do other countries have this weird notion that you’re not a “real” representative of the nation if you live in an urban center? Like do the French say Parisians aren’t really French? Are you considered not a real German if you live in Berlin? Or is this mainly a weird American thing?
January 1, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Don't believe the media coverage.
I travel the country semi-frequently for work, and encounter a lot of rural Americans. Without exception, they are impressed to hear I live in New York, and always have a lot of questions about city life.
I travel the country semi-frequently for work, and encounter a lot of rural Americans. Without exception, they are impressed to hear I live in New York, and always have a lot of questions about city life.
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This is how I learned I’m a better fit for finance culture and tech culture. You only succeed in tech culture by fully embracing the Current Thing and being all-in on it: danwang.co/2025-letter/
January 1, 2026 at 3:30 PM
This is how I learned I’m a better fit for finance culture and tech culture. You only succeed in tech culture by fully embracing the Current Thing and being all-in on it: danwang.co/2025-letter/
As usual, poorer boomers and Gen X writ large will suffer the most from this. Millennials will be fine - we'll have ironed out major issues by the time the 1980-85 cohort retires en masse.
The coming anti-old politics are gonna hit like a brick and it's going to be legit horrible but also The Olds paved the way for it.
December 31, 2025 at 6:23 PM
As usual, poorer boomers and Gen X writ large will suffer the most from this. Millennials will be fine - we'll have ironed out major issues by the time the 1980-85 cohort retires en masse.
This is really a story about why online dating is terrible; too many filters without any way to assess chemistry.
Everyone has a list of so-called "red flags" when they're dating. And for some, especially younger Americans, different political views is a relationship deal breaker.
Majority of Gen Z swipe left on dating people with opposite political views
Everyone has a list of so-called "red flags" when they're dating. And for some, especially younger Americans, different political views is a relationship deal breaker.
n.pr
December 31, 2025 at 6:11 PM
This is really a story about why online dating is terrible; too many filters without any way to assess chemistry.
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🧵 What @peark.es said. As I said:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
We've been hearing this stuff from "fiscal hawks" for 50+ years. It's now how global finance & sovereign debt for rich countries with floating exchange rates work. It's macroeconomic illiteracy + idiosyncratic political preferences.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
We've been hearing this stuff from "fiscal hawks" for 50+ years. It's now how global finance & sovereign debt for rich countries with floating exchange rates work. It's macroeconomic illiteracy + idiosyncratic political preferences.
The assessments of 1 and 2 on this list are about as well-trodden as any macroeconomic discourse get and absolutely impervious to the empirical reality of how bond and currency markets treat Treasuries and the USD.
December 31, 2025 at 12:02 AM
🧵 What @peark.es said. As I said:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
We've been hearing this stuff from "fiscal hawks" for 50+ years. It's now how global finance & sovereign debt for rich countries with floating exchange rates work. It's macroeconomic illiteracy + idiosyncratic political preferences.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
We've been hearing this stuff from "fiscal hawks" for 50+ years. It's now how global finance & sovereign debt for rich countries with floating exchange rates work. It's macroeconomic illiteracy + idiosyncratic political preferences.
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this is why I think publications that focus almost solely on culture war issues are so empty. The genuine economic, health, welfare etc impacts of policy are much more important than Ivy League coursework discourse but become sideshows to these people.
December 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
this is why I think publications that focus almost solely on culture war issues are so empty. The genuine economic, health, welfare etc impacts of policy are much more important than Ivy League coursework discourse but become sideshows to these people.
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If you think of "hiring in entry level positions" as "procuring labor to do the tasks entry level people do" then you probably do think AI is a magical headcount reduction machine.
But the point of hiring in entry level positions is to produce mid-career employees.
But the point of hiring in entry level positions is to produce mid-career employees.
December 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
If you think of "hiring in entry level positions" as "procuring labor to do the tasks entry level people do" then you probably do think AI is a magical headcount reduction machine.
But the point of hiring in entry level positions is to produce mid-career employees.
But the point of hiring in entry level positions is to produce mid-career employees.
This is very true IME, particularly in BigLaw, MBB+Big 4 consulting, and Bulge Bracket I-Banks. Some senior lateral hiring, but it's mostly homegrown talent.
Most other companies would rather hire senior talent externally than train/promote internally.
Most other companies would rather hire senior talent externally than train/promote internally.
This is something best understood and applied by extremely high end service providers like law firms. It is arguably worst understood by, IDK, Boeing.
If you think of "hiring in entry level positions" as "procuring labor to do the tasks entry level people do" then you probably do think AI is a magical headcount reduction machine.
But the point of hiring in entry level positions is to produce mid-career employees.
But the point of hiring in entry level positions is to produce mid-career employees.
December 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
This is very true IME, particularly in BigLaw, MBB+Big 4 consulting, and Bulge Bracket I-Banks. Some senior lateral hiring, but it's mostly homegrown talent.
Most other companies would rather hire senior talent externally than train/promote internally.
Most other companies would rather hire senior talent externally than train/promote internally.
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You either die being dispossesed, or live long enough to see Zanu PF doing symposiums about why productivity in Zimbabwean agriculture isn't what it used to be
I've been doing this as a comedy bit for years, but I do believe it; before I die, I will see the establishment of a Royal Commission on Britain's failure to attract sufficient immigration, and many of today's broadsheet ethnonationalists will be on it
December 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
You either die being dispossesed, or live long enough to see Zanu PF doing symposiums about why productivity in Zimbabwean agriculture isn't what it used to be
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Saw Bluesky described as where elder millennials go to retire from the internet, and immediately felt the peace that passes all understanding wash over me. None of have to struggle any longer. We completed our time.
December 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Saw Bluesky described as where elder millennials go to retire from the internet, and immediately felt the peace that passes all understanding wash over me. None of have to struggle any longer. We completed our time.
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Something I really hate about politics is how much of it is about backfilling arguments from how much we like other people and then getting mad at people for liking other people than you do. All while we pretend it's something else, or at least somehow intrinsically virtuous to dislike some group.
December 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Something I really hate about politics is how much of it is about backfilling arguments from how much we like other people and then getting mad at people for liking other people than you do. All while we pretend it's something else, or at least somehow intrinsically virtuous to dislike some group.
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One of my more controversial opinions is that the US needs to significantly raise taxes to the tune of a couple % of GDP right now, even before any expansive social democratic reforms, and that means you—yes you, dear highly educated professional—will need to pay up, not just nebulous billionaires.
December 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
One of my more controversial opinions is that the US needs to significantly raise taxes to the tune of a couple % of GDP right now, even before any expansive social democratic reforms, and that means you—yes you, dear highly educated professional—will need to pay up, not just nebulous billionaires.
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