| Jul 06 |
I love @dhh, because he's the poster child for the principle "Critique ideas, not people". I can't think of anyone who has as flat a ratio for *Sentiment I agree strongly with* : *Sentiment I disagree strongly with* - this particular tweet falls under the latter category https://t.co/vfDwfv4MQ8
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RT @naval: The ideal school would teach health, wealth, and happiness.
It‘d be free, self-paced, and available to all.
It‘d show opposing…
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| Jun 28 |
@samrosecruz Nice! Good luck! 😁
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| Jun 28 |
@samrosecruz Where you headed?
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| Jun 28 |
@paulbloomatyale I will now no longer recommend people buy your book and refer them instead to this thread
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| Jun 27 |
*there are. 😩
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| Jun 25 |
Just reminded of this again this evening reviewing a proposal sent to me by a friend. In the interest of not seeming anti-agency (I’m really not!), some good ones I’m happy to recommend: @minicorpHQ @builthq @joshsoftware
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| Jun 25 |
In both scenarios you’re going to have to pay more than the actual man hours required to build your V1. Honestly their are pros and cons to each. My personal recommendation, having endured and witnessed heartache in the past would be to pay up front for quality.
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| Jun 25 |
Some agencies are more up front about this misalignment of incentives, and will offset it by charging you more up front. In general these agencies will write better, more extensible code, and have much less onerous contracts and terms.
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These agencies will be pretty vague about what tech they’re going to use because they know you’re not technical enough to know or care. Most often they’ll extend an existing CMS. Their contracts will be strict about what they hand over - often they own all the code they write.
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Many agencies won’t mention this up front. They’ll be the more attractive option because the V1 they produce, on the surface, will look identical to what their more expensive competitors would produce. The differences are hidden 1. In your contract and 2. In your codebase.
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| Jun 25 |
Agencies can be a great way to get your product MVP built, once you know:
1. What you (probably) want: Something you can extend easily (by them or a team you build later)
2. What they want: Something they can maintain and extend (for a price)
You will get what you pay for.
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| Jun 25 |
@visakanv Also on topic of poetry/Irish history I feel like you’ll enjoy this https://t.co/WwByaV64yg
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| Jun 25 |
@visakanv Yep. Co-founder convinced me to move here 3 years ago and we’ve been importing a few more Irish per year since then. You spent much time here?
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| Jun 25 |
@visakanv Onbvious bias notwithstanding Ireland checks all the above boxes. Lots of history, cold, not *overrun* by tourists. Plus English speaking plus easy to get around 😁
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| Jun 24 |
Twitter is instagram for ideas
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| Jun 23 |
@safeortrue https://t.co/R2sLu2MtZ3
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| Jun 23 |
@safeortrue Disagree with both. Feeling others' plight until you side with one of them is a race to the bottom, + affective empathy isn't a very reliable guide of moral reasoning. Cognitive empathy + a simple principle -- does this cause significant harm? (A: Yes) seems to work here
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| Jun 22 |
One of the most counterintuitive parts of building an engineering team early on is navigating the fact that no-one wants to be the smartest person in the room - in a room full of very smart people.
Finding teachers is tough when the best teachers want to be learners.
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| Jun 22 |
@shaunau Example. “We both like animals! People who hunt or harm wild animals for fun are scum and should be locked up!”... Proceeds to dig into foie gras for lunch...
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| Jun 22 |
@shaunau Almost always to do with objectivism - I’ll be aligned with someone on “this is how it’s optimal to behave” but either their reason will be “because it just is” or they’ll describe a principle that it becomes clear they only apply very selectively
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| Jun 18 |
@colmtuite @Modulz @Larkef Nice!
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| Jun 18 |
@colmtuite @Modulz First vote! I actually really like Bridge - monosyllabic, descriptive, memorable, easily brandable, cc @Larkef ;)
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| Jun 17 |
People who de-prioritise building wealth based on the fallibility of “Money solves all problems”, miss the extent to which *not having money* creates problems.
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| Jun 17 |
@thogge “Often wrong, never in doubt” is a heuristic I recommend to others to identify potential co-founders. These types of leaders 1. Don’t waste time waiting around, 2. Inspire people to act strongly. The big wins tend to offset the losses
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| Jun 14 |
@paulyq G'luck!
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| Jun 12 |
I’m not a very disappointable person, but I’d say 90% of it comes when I’m getting on with someone well, only to realise they haven’t yet developed any intuition for identifying their own motivated reasoning and have big epistemic blind spots as a result.
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| Jun 08 |
@bentossell Phenomenal 👌
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| Jun 03 |
@devonzuegel @juliagalef Ah! This was what I was thinking about: https://t.co/ruBWoQ6aWj . I think about this a lot, too. That people only talk publicly about things they feel strongly about must be one of the biggest reasons twitter and other social platforms are so polarised.
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@devonzuegel I'm pretty sure I've seen @juliagalef tweet that before. Or maybe it was you?
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| Jun 02 |
@HPluckrose Congrats! Not that it's any of my biz, but @ScrivenerApp might be worth checking out. Have only used it moderately myself but seems much more suited to writing book length than Word, might save you some time 😁
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| May 28 |
I’ve seen a few people interpret this quote as “Don’t bother speaking to your customers” which is unfortunate. What you should take from it:
Your customers normally know their problems very well - much better than you do. Talk to them *a lot*.
But the solution is your job. https://t.co/saugmX6ibG
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| May 20 |
💯 https://t.co/tL0U028i59
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| May 19 |
@AmagiAlpha Have you met @JohnLilic? Worth you guys chatting if not.
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| May 16 |
@micsolana Such a Laurel thing to say 😏
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| May 16 |
The idea that “There are no truly selfless deeds”
A) Is depressing. Altruism is zero sum. Helping others for personal gain is gross.
B) Is beautiful. Altruism is positive sum. Biologically aligned incentives are wonderful.
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| May 12 |
So much conflict and disagreement is borne from applying our methodology for interpreting the material world (universally applicable rules) to how we interpret the social world. Human behaviour is complex. Guidelines: 👍. Rules: 👎
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| May 12 |
To get better at thinking, there are few ways more effective than to get better at writing
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| May 10 |
@mironieminen Same. And had no issues. Now by default they’re hidden half the time I want to read them.
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| May 10 |
@mironieminen I wasn't big on touch ID either tbh. Agreed they're both unbelievably cool, but sci-fi tech != better solution to problem. Question: before face ID did you have your notifications text hidden by default?
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| May 09 |
How to solve humanity's hardest co-operation problems: I’m not sure
How not to: Incessantly shrieking that everyone outside your tiny in-group is morally corrupt and the world is going down the shitter.
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| May 09 |
Today’s first world problem: Apple's Face ID is a step backwards by any metric I can think of - amazing tech but solves a problem the company had, not the user. Doesn't "blend in", actively gets in the way several times per day.
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| May 09 |
@hadronapp hey guys. Just signed up for early access and this looks like one of the best implementations I've seen so far. Would love to get in asap and play around, happy to provide lots of feedback. Thanks! https://t.co/ZLsojD6gAd
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| May 07 |
@AustenAllred Fave example of this is people on either side of the “You need to work your ass off to be successful” debate. Seems few disagree at the atomic level, aggravation comes from wildly differing definitions of “work hard” and “success”
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| May 05 |
@levelsio Certainly fair to say investors have perhaps unfair bias against solo founders. But great solo founders are rare. Your view here seems coloured by the fact that you are one.
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| May 05 |
@levelsio Surprised at this level of conspiracy theorism from you. Knowing what you know about the breadth of traits and skills required to build something, do you think *most* people are better off on their own? IME investors recognise increased chances when burden is shared.
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| Apr 28 |
@ingridmusic @23andMe Mine was 3 times! Eventually they just told me to give up 😩
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| Apr 28 |
@MikeBoyd That’s the one! A few of your tweets struck a chord (opportunity in trad lucrative, low trust industries not used to tech) as they map on closely to what we’re doing here and the kinds of businesses we meet.
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| Apr 24 |
@davefromdublin Congrats on the launch, looks great!
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| Apr 21 |
Philippines-based friends: I'm speaking this Thursday evening at the @freelancer office in BGC on "Bridging the gap between tech and non-tech" for #productph. Come along if you're around! https://t.co/AdEy4jd0Do https://t.co/Gup5hwlkep
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| Apr 18 |
@sehurlburt I took @paulbloomatyale's coursera course - "The moralities of everyday life" - very broad but a good place to decide where you'd like to branch off and learn more. Also @verybadwizards podcast is great
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| Apr 17 |
@michael_nielsen This thread between @yorl and @tage_rai is a good example https://t.co/cYO46VpROR
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| Apr 16 |
@iam_preethi Also a similar idea: https://t.co/B3xsCtUG31
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| Apr 16 |
@iam_preethi Was pondering this recently, but worded slightly differently. https://t.co/yOpSy71Nm8
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| Apr 16 |
@paddycosgrave @ChMurphy @WebSummit @SaaStock Whaaaa! Congrats @ChMurphy!
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| Apr 16 |
This is a really great piece from @jessitron . Love the idea of building a camerata and the line "When the world is ready for an idea, it doesn't come to just one person" https://t.co/vM8biQAuIJ
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| Apr 15 |
@tjpalanca It's already missed 😢 What's next in store for you?
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| Apr 12 |
@visakanv I like your analogies here. Another one is cognitive vs affective. Society tends to talk about and promote affective traits, but I think we'd be in a much better place if we encouraged people to practice cognitive (for example: empathy) rather than rely on their lizard brain.
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| Apr 12 |
@visakanv Of all the mental models we use, the one I'm most torn about is that of the single self - it prevents us from blaming mistakes on an entity that we're not responsible for, but also leads us to identify with vast shortcomings outside of our control
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| Apr 11 |
@visakanv How many books do you read per week? This is mad pace!
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| Apr 10 |
@salonium I think a lot about this. I think it falls in the category of "cultural phenomenons it's nice to theorise about, but which will likely never change". https://t.co/zNaN86DmLa
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| Apr 09 |
@mmay3r Good rule of thumb: consumer is never the villain and almost always the victim
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| Apr 09 |
@can @80000Hours My understanding is there's "EA as an org" (although I'm not sure of ownership etc.) and "EA as a concept/community". For example, from https://t.co/CjhQtYTq0k https://t.co/lYL4KBrsnW
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@can @80000Hours Donate to orgs who promote effective altruism. Effective Altruism being: "Using evidence and analysis to take actions that help others as much as possible."
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| Apr 09 |
@can @80000Hours Sure. This tweet: https://t.co/flHB45p4b8 seems to imply that @80000Hours are recommending people donate directly to them - "Get a job and donate as much as possible to us", when what they're actually recommending is..
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| Apr 09 |
@can @80000Hours Effective Altruism is “Using evidence and analysis to take actions that help others as much as possible”. If you take issue with that, as you’re entitled to, a more honest thing to do would be to tweet about why you think it’s not a good approach.
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| Apr 09 |
@can I think you’ve misrepresented Effective Altruism & @80000Hours here - whether intentional or not, by conflating EA as a concept, with 80000 hours, an organisation who practices and promotes Effective Altruism.
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| Apr 09 |
@can @can do you think a fair interpretation of your tweet here is “80000 hours are encouraging people to donate directly to them, rather than to important causes”, and do you believe that’s what they’re actually saying?
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| Apr 07 |
@jdanastein @andreasklinger @jdanastein sounds great, how does that work? I’m at tony@firstcircle.com . Thanks!
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| Apr 07 |
@andreasklinger Things I’m most interested in:
- Team, culture, performance & incentives
- Workflow & tooling
- Product, product strategy, technology strategy and the intersection of each.
Highly technical topics have their place but tend not to be as generalizable across orgs.
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| Apr 07 |
@andreasklinger If you decide to open this up to people outside SF I'd love to get involved - mentorship/advice/discussion on these things is something I find lacking, particularly out here in SEA.
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| Apr 05 |
This is a sentiment many early @WebSummit employees will also appreciate. https://t.co/mdyDrHk85w
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| Apr 05 |
@visakanv Also “a dime a dozen” is literally the exact opposite of what I meant 😩, evidently I was more sleepy than I realised sending that this morning
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| Apr 05 |
@visakanv I think what I was trying to articulate here is that to do (2) requires a lot more responsibility than (1) - it’s very difficult to get people excited/bought in unless you’re leading from the front
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| Apr 05 |
Hereby coining “Don’t steal the queen” as a synonym for “Don’t sacrifice the long term for the short term” https://t.co/BNmAEVUjKR
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| Apr 05 |
@visakanv It sounds like for you (like me), number 2 doesn’t come natural. My advice would be to find and team up with people for whom it does. Figuring this out was for me the most significant thing that happened in my career, and has completely removed that tension you spoke about.
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| Apr 04 |
@visakanv 1. Things you would think are pre-requisites of leadership responsibilities: Virtue, ideas worth listening to.
2. Things which are significantly more synonymous: The ability to get followers excited and bought in.
The best leaders have both, but are a dime a dozen.
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| Apr 04 |
I endorse this message. I would replace American Culture with most Western Culture, and caveat that there are times when negative social pressure (negativity culture) can be a force for huge positive change. But on the whole, this! https://t.co/VZPo47CcSp
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| Apr 01 |
@JohnLilic 😂 I would put that firmly under number 1
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| Apr 01 |
On twitter and elsewhere, language can be used in 2 ways:
1. To signal a feeling or emotion.
2. To communicate information.
Recognise this in yourself: Avoid internalising irrational beliefs.
Recognise this in others: Avoid misreading people, empathise better.
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| Apr 01 |
Today a friend asked me for advice on buying a laptop and it struck me that the mid-2012 Macbook Pro also scores top marks for the above criteria. There are very few cases where it is not a good buy. @marcoarment lays out why here: https://t.co/LtNQxrMKSQ https://t.co/0xnGq52c7o
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| Mar 30 |
@solo1y The penny just dropped that Solzhenitsyn wrote Gulag Archipelago, which I've been meaning to re read for a while now. Thanks for giving me a nudge.
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| Mar 30 |
@solo1y 😂😂 I actually googled the phrase beforehand to see if there was any way it could be something else and got no results, also have never seen the phrase used anywhere else. Let me know how the book is!
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| Mar 28 |
@dtuite @airtable We use it a lot & have a custom frontend built using the airrecord gem to interface between tech and non-tech parts of the business. Plan to write about this in future but short on time now so this screenshot might add more context or help in some way, also happy to answer qs https://t.co/l2lIM8SarO
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| Mar 28 |
.@stratechery's cleverly curated new concepts page is awash with wisdom. Read if you’re into:
✅ Mental Models
✅ Tech & Society
✅ Incentive Systems
✅ Business Strategy
✅ Product Strategy
https://t.co/BOjsNqrZe7
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| Mar 25 |
@visakanv I’ll be there in May, would be good to grab a beer!
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| Mar 23 |
.@SlackHQ will buy @NotionHQ
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| Mar 22 |
Great way to find yourself up hills you never wanted to climb, defending positions you never held, whose counterpoints you’d never considered: Inheriting *all* the views of a person whose views you respect in one narrow domain. Champion ideas, not people.
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| Mar 22 |
New @NotionHQ features are very well executed. For an idea on how long they spent perfecting it - I asked 14 months ago and the timeline then was "coming weeks". They've obviously out a lot of thought into it to get it right, and it shows. 👏 https://t.co/O4taANDaLL
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| Mar 21 |
1. Telling people they made a mistake - generally received well.
2. Telling people they are stupid - generally not.
Telling people their mistake *was* stupid turns 1 into 2.
We communicate as much with tone-of-voice as we do with words.
Remember this when giving feedback.
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| Mar 20 |
Where the lecturers are incentivised only to provide content of substance, and for the most part are open to dialogue and willing to teach if you're willing to learn.
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| Mar 20 |
This is a great thread, I couldn't agree more. I would venture as far as to say that twitter has changed me more than any other environment I've been exposed to. If you use it right, it's like being at a university filled with experts in every discipline. https://t.co/D5ot5lVckm
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| Mar 10 |
Relish-in-others-misery twitter is jarring to me, no matter who the recipient. The desire for malicious retribution is an ugly part of the human psyche, and one which needn't be engaged when the justice system does its job. Would be great to just forget the chap. https://t.co/Htw6yVHpNo
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| Feb 28 |
@apotonick Have been using https://t.co/h5gZ5rE6LB for years and find them great. Intuitive UI, great support
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| Feb 27 |
@cjquinners @100minds Amazing!!! Great work again! 🙌
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| Feb 24 |
@philipyoungg Human connection & regular change in environment are things people don't notice the value of until they're missing. WFH works very well for some people, particularly those with families/other halfs who live similarly. Personally I found it unfulfilling, had many friends say same.
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| Feb 17 |
More on solutions vs problems https://t.co/5RnK9qjuyC
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| Feb 12 |
@nntaleb @normonics @michaelshermer @DrCirillo Thank you both for clarifying. I have a lot of reading to do...
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Just realised I wrote a response basically parroting your second tweet before I read it. Thanks for clarifying. https://t.co/yiO2ZfVlgX
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| Feb 12 |
@normonics @michaelshermer @nntaleb @DrCirillo I see. So the issue is less with the observation that wellbeing measures have been improving in recent centuries - more with whether this has any historical significance over a longer period or bearing on the likelihood of that trend to continue?
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