Lessons from Investment Gurus

The Most Important Thing

 Successful investing requires thoughtful attention to many separate aspects, all at the same time. 
Omit any one and the result is likely to be less than satisfactory.

The idea of the most important things—each is a brick in a solid wall, and none is dispensable. 

Will Twitter be more or less successful under Elon’s leadership? 

https://theinformation.the.select/posts/pygo

Will Twitter be more or less successful under Elon’s leadership?   https://theinformation.the.select/posts/pygo

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Twitter’s back! Kinda. Not really. A new startup out of Virginia calling itself “Operation Bluebird” aims to revive classic Twitter, and has even laid out plans for a new URL: Twitter.new. You may have detected one small snag in this plan: they do not own the Twitter brand, including that iconic blue bird logo they’re referencing, which remain the property of X Corporation and its owner, Elon Musk. That explains why the company has formally petitioned the US Patent and Trademark Office to cancel X’s trademarks on both “Twitter” and “tweet.” (In their favor, Musk did tweet in 2023 that he was “bid[ding] adieu to the twitter brand…” which does sound like a clear-cut case of trademark abandonment.) Does this petition actually have a chance at success? Does Musk even want to hang out to the name Twitter, which he did very purposefully and publicly dismiss? We’ll see.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/12/can-twitter-fly-again-startup-wants-to-pry-iconic-trademark-from-musks-x/?_bhlid=9b65557842a61bce536d3231c57836196d21d617

Operation Bluebird wants to relaunch “Twitter,” says Musk abandoned the name and logo

Twitter’s back! Kinda. Not really. A new startup out of Virginia calling itself “Operation Bluebird” aims to revive classic Twitter, and has even laid out plans for a new URL: Twitter.new. You may have detected one small snag in this plan: they do not own the Twitter brand, including that iconic blue bird logo they’re referencing, which remain the property of X Corporation and its owner, Elon Musk. That explains why the company has formally petitioned the US Patent and Trademark Office to cancel X’s trademarks on both “Twitter” and “tweet.” (In their favor, Musk did tweet in 2023 that he was “bid[ding] adieu to the twitter brand…” which does sound like a clear-cut case of trademark abandonment.) Does this petition actually have a chance at success? Does Musk even want to hang out to the name Twitter, which he did very purposefully and publicly dismiss? We’ll see.  https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/12/can-twitter-fly-again-startup-wants-to-pry-iconic-trademark-from-musks-x/?_bhlid=9b65557842a61bce536d3231c57836196d21d617

“Abandonment” offers rare chance to reclaim one of tech’s most recognized brands.