Jack Dorsey leaves Twitter, the spread of omicron, and the separation of politics from reality

There has always been some split between how Democrats and Republicans have perceived the economy, but that split has grown into a gulf—the biggest gulf ever recorded. Right now, Democrats who are asked about the economy say it's going great, and then Republicans are like, 'Oh, it's terrible.' There's a 49-point gap in this scale.

I think strong organizations can do without the founder ... I think that, actually, is the highest mark of entrepreneurship is that you can build something, and then step away, and then it thrives without you.

We're getting fed alternate versions of reality now that are so powerful that they actually have overridden any kind of day-to-day exposure to the economy in terms of your perception of how things are going.

There is going to be a push and pull between humans and the coronavirus variants out into the foreseeable future—and I would measure that future in months and years.

A sign of good leadership is that, when the founder leaves or leader leaves, the org can still not only exist but thrive.

I will say, I have friends and family members who have had long COVID, And it is a beast ... It's terrible.

You imagine that two parties are at least, kind of, contesting various ideas as to how to drive the economy forward, how to make our lives better. But it turns out that, at this point, your opinion on how the economy is is contingent upon how you feel about the party in power.

The thing that people don't understand is that the First Amendment, freedom of speech, says that government shall not abridge people's freedom of speech. Newsflash, Twitter is not the US government.

We have a problem in the United States of America where people make a ton of money doing good. We have a problem with that; it's not okay; it's not acceptable. But we have no problem if you make a ton of money doing bad, doing terrible things.