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Some tragic news this week, the world lost a real one.

Non-related sense, passed away.

I didn't know him, never met him personally,

but he was definitely one of the

Key figures in my stream for I guess as long as I remember yeah, he was a member of finance Twitter and I think he was around our age actually and it's kind of weird because it it makes you realize like that there's it's easy to complain about stuff on social media but then you you realize that there these people that you interact with almost on a daily basis if you're really on this stuff like we are.

And you feel like you kind of get to know these people. It's kind of a bizarre world and like there's a really good aspect of it too where you can kind of feel like you get to know people

through their postings in a good way sometimes. Yeah, so with him there was certainly a good and bad

like everybody else. There were many many times where he would

favorite my tweet and I would sort of just shudder like waiting to be knocked over

the head and I will give him a ton of credit because he was as hard as anybody on various ideas.

He just seemed to think, he seemed to find a lot of problems with a lot of different views, but to his credit, it's very easy to be anonymous and to just

throw shade and throw Molotov cocktails with him though it never felt like it was

personal like and I saw him go back and forth a lot of people and you and I have shared his tweets

privately for years now, but he never ever like called anybody a name.

It was always about the idea.

Right, and data and yeah, that's actually one of the best parts about finance Twitter realm.

I think is there, there are certain things that are problems with it, but there are, there's a lot of good

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