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Adam Butler @gestaltu.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I invite you to sign up for my Substack: The Choice Engine. Here's my latest article: The Trade Deficit is Made in America The Greatest Trick Capital Every Played: Convincing America the Trade Deficit Was China's Fault Please share! thechoiceengine.substack.com/p/the-trade-...

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Adam Butler @gestaltu.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

🚨Must Read!🚨: The US lost a 'war' with China 20+ years ago when we abandoned production for financialization. The most dangerous quality of the current moment is the “temptation…to attempt to overcome the consequences of its economic decline by… military means.” thetricontinental.org/studies-on-c...

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Adam Butler @gestaltu.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

The banality of an educational objective is revealed by whether AI can deliver A+ work with naive prompting. The goal of education in the present moment should be to teach students how to employ AI creatively to amplify the breadth & depth of their work product.

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Adam Butler @gestaltu.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Finally figured out DSPy and now realizing I need to spend the rest of my life on data curation. Or I can just use Gemini-2.5-Pro with silly prompts and let it figure it out.

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Adam Butler @gestaltu.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Posting this thread over here because it articulates the current economic dissonance so well. Here is the source (couldn’t find him on bsky) Full thread text below 🧵👇 x.com/upholdrealit...

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Adam Butler @gestaltu.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

When speculation pays off at multiples of productive enterprise - as it has for the past 15 years - it destroys the codes, norms and contracts that hold societies together. Amplified by social media, this explains most of the reasons why we’re coming apart at the seams.

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Adam Butler @gestaltu.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Maybe not ‘best minds’ but definitely a preponderance of ‘great minds’ are wasting life on this zero-sum garbo

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Cormac McCarthy @cormacmccarthy0.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

“You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.”

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Adam Butler @gestaltu.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Just successfully ran complete unit tests on a full-stack API so I'm officially full-stack dev now, right?

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Adam Butler @gestaltu.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

The global ‘reserve’ asset is whatever the world’s engine of production is accumulating most aggressively at the margin.

Map of the world’s industrial production

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Adam Butler @gestaltu.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Really excited about this episode with Dr. Robert Frank on Perverse Incentives, Positional Goods, Darwin’s Wedge and How Competition Fails Don’t forget to share and subscribe! youtu.be/jb_Jg7OTA64?...

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Dr. Robert Frank on ‘Smart for One But Dumb for All’

YouTube video by ReSolve Asset Management

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Adam Butler @gestaltu.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

A great thread worthy of consideration. “The counter-reaction to expert elites was a consequence of the internet…and unrestricted information flow.” But: “Isolating the knowledge generating components of society from the decision-making components of society is unlikely to be a good idea.”

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Adam Butler @gestaltu.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Modern markets reward: * Risk seeking * Nihilism * Cognitive dissonance * Moral relativism Knowledge, prudence and contact with reality are **maladaptive**. Markets no longer serve any economic purpose via capital allocation or price signaling. Policy and the social contract should reflect this.

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