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James C. Scott, much referenced anarchist thinker, 1936–2024 artreview.com/james-c-scott-… RIP. – at South East, England
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Just published the post I've been working on for some time: "Fixing Founder Scarcity"
The world seems to have a shortage of entrepreneurs and we keep paying more and more (probabilistically) to increase their supply. A risk-sharing scheme might fix it.
medium.com/@ValueInvestor/fi…
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The Last Rock Curling is on sale today and tomorrow - free! Check it out if you are missing out on in person games. You can play with friends over Game Center. #curling apps.apple.com/us/app/the-la…
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Great Britain has gone two month without coal and yes, that is a big deal.
It's gone from 40% coal powered to ~2% in 8yrs. And plenty for other countries to learn from the experience.
How did it happen and what does it mean?
Thread with charts…
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You're about to spend the next 25 minutes watching a guy solve a Sudoku.
Not only that, but it's going to be the highlight of your day.
youtube.com/watch?v=yKf9aUIx…
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"The first step of any project is to grossly underestimate its complexity and difficulty." - Nicoll Hunt
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🤯 The origin/making of the Seinfeld theme.
So much to unpack here...
First: This dude.
Second: He re-recorded it for every single episode
Third: the bpm set to Jerry’s timing?
Fourth: it wasn’t a real bass?!
source: youtu.be/oVldNNHQWVw – at San Francisco, CA
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Here are some of the most interesting books, ideas, and thinkers I explored, went deep on — and that, as a result, changed my mind — in 2019:
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The Chinese edition of my new book, #PermanentRecord, has just been censored. This violates the publishing agreement, so I'm going to resist it the way I know best: it's time to blow the whistle. You can help. Here's how: (THREAD)
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“Delighting customers doesn’t build loyalty; reducing their effort—the work they must do to get their problem solved—does.” —Matthew Dixon, Karen Freeman, Nicholas Toman (2010) cx.report/2019/05/21/lowered…
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This is an excellent talk on the economics of AI.
-when you hear AI, replace with “cheap prediction”
-when price of something falls (prediction), value of compliments rise (human judgement)
-find prediction problems and own feedback data
H/t @eldsjal
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4o56n…
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You have to use an organic cotton bag 20,000 times before it becomes more environmentally friendly than a typical plastic bag.
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I often do purchase-price parity (PPP) discounts for people around the world and decided to turn my spreadsheet into a little tool. Perhaps it can help you help others.
Check it out! whatdoesthiscostthem.netlify…
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Returning on March 29th - 30th DevOpsDays Vancouver 2019. A conference that is happening frequently around the globe, it is THE conference for bridging the gap between developers and operations. checkout our website here: devopsdays.org/events/2019-v…
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Without saying how old you are, name one thing from your childhood someone younger wouldn’t understand.
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A thread of images from a Japanese illustrated history of America from 1861.
Here is George Washington (with bow and arrow) pictured alongside the Goddess of America. 1/
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So, in privacy news today, we found out that Google no longer tells people when their data is (potentially) compromised. And Facebook has released a "workaround" to enable cross-site tracking even when people don't want it and take explicit steps to block it.
Facebook to release first-party cookie option for ads, pull web analytics from Safari mklnd.com/2QE3IOJ via @marketingland
