Jay Bowles

@jaybowles_

Product Consultant

London, England
jaybowl.es
Joined October 2011
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    13 hours ago
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    Well, to be fair, he said “sell your data and attention”. They certainly don’t sell downloadable profiles. They do sell your attention based on your data. I do think FB gets a lot of unfair knocks, but “monetize your data” is not far off.

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  2. Retweeted
    Oct 2

    Perceptions of probability

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  3. Retweeted
    Oct 2

    "We find evidence that individuals' recycling efforts can increase their subsequent resource usage."

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  4. Sep 18

    “It turned out the dumb thing was to give up on the Internet because there were some bad people on it.”

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    Ben Horowitz explains the rise of crypto
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  5. Sep 4

    'Environment may take you beyond eighty but not close to a hundred [ - only genetics will take you there]."

    Your chances of growing very old depend more on (many) genes with small effects, rather than on healthy lifestyle.
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  6. Retweeted
    Sep 2

    Your odds of dying in the next year will be 2x as large 8 years from now. This exponential growth, called the Gompertz law, holds across many countries, time periods, and even species!

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  7. Aug 27

    I am shocked by how bad Shopify is for bulk/SEO work.

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  8. Aug 17

    Oh my word. Instantly sold.

    So Styled System + System Components (built on Styled Components) is the best experience I've had for building UIs in React It's a degree of consistency and flexibility I've never encountered before and it's making me Blazing Fast™. Mad props 👌
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  9. Retweeted
    Aug 8

    if it doesn’t look like part of your UI, people will assume it isn’t.

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  10. Aug 9

    Nice, hadn't heard of the Nirvana Fallacy. Think I'm pretty prone to it 😂

    Should Bitcoin be absolutely costless? As long as we live in a universe with matter, energy, & time, nothing is costless. It's the Nirvana Fallacy. The science of Economics is evaluating a choice compared to its alternatives, not compared to Nirvana
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  11. Retweeted
    Aug 7

    Hi . The podcast with went through your recent Bitcoin article and refuted it point-by-point. Would you be willing to respond? I've screenshot your sentences & summarized their arguments below:

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  12. Aug 9

    Parallel states in UI state design

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  13. Aug 7

    Feeling more and more that it's best to find people who filter and add commentary to the big Twitter accounts rather than following them yourself.

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  14. Jul 31

    Great write-up of the hackathon last week! 👏

    I just published “STIFTIES— Turn any cryptocollectible into a Chat App Sticker”
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    Jul 26

    Thanks NIFTY for featuring in your presentation! 🙌 We're proud to support such amazing minds like and ! You guys rock! 🔥🚀

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  16. Jul 25

    0xCAe687969D3a6c4649D114b1C768d5B1deae547B

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  17. Jul 25

    Requesting faucet funds into 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 on the test network.

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  18. Jul 23

    Amazing idea

    Linking the physical world to tokens requires trust The experiment to tokenize natural commodities is tackling this head on, starting with a batch of 100 flowers. Involves: — Physical Infrastructure — Oracles — Non Fungible Tokens My Dahlia 🌸:
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  19. Jul 23

    “All of us (individuals, institutions) would be financially incentivized to provide our personal and professional data.  Over time, the marketplace(s) would accumulate a lot more data, and higher quality data, than what GAFA has access to.”

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  20. Jul 19

    waaaat

    The market cap of the top 5 S&P 500 companies: $4,095,058,706,432 The market cap of the bottom 282 S&P 500 companies: $4,092,769,755,136
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