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Gents only: How many times over the last year have you posted a solo selfie without family or friends in the picture with you?
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Reading some VC blog posts from the early aughts:
What's the same = lots of talk about the state of politics and macro financial crises.
What's changed = is no longer at PE Hub, $300M exits aren't celebrated with the same gusto.
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Kids are really fun.
They connect you to the past and future in a way that nothing else can.
You get to see the best parts of yourself and the person you love most experiencing the world with new eyes.
I can't say it enough; they're really fun.
Marry and reproduce.
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100%. This one looks especially large and well-organized too.
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I’m always kind of amazed that there is a secondary market for $6.99 sci-if mass market paperbacks sufficient to keep a storefront open. It’s the IRL version of the “bank error in your favor” Monopoly card.
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I read my 6-year-old son the story of Ehud earlier in the week and since then he’s been innocently asking me for help with projects and rewarding me with left hooks after I’ve been lured into his trap.
Marry and reproduce.
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Wacky premise, goofy actors, a touch too vulgar at times, but it all comes together as a cute comedy in the mold of Upload. Better than any Marvel series I’ve seen. HT
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The best place to store extra food is in your friend's stomach.
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A wizard appears before you and offers you a choice:
You can be transported to 1950 and will have a 90th percentile income, or you stay in the present with a median income.
Which do you choose? (and no, you can't invest in Apple, bet on sporting events in the past, etc.)
- 1950/90th percentile33.3%
- 2023/Median66.7%
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The Tempest, 1851 #aivazovsky #romanticism wikiart.org/en/ivan-aivazo
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I think about this tweet a lot.
In all seriousness, for all the bad stuff happening in the world the notion that you can listen to the entire canon of classical music for free is an astonishing reality that would have floored people in the early 1980s, never mind the 1400s.
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In the market for a custom home? Make sure your builder is using . My much more talented younger brother, , is doing the design work and it seems like a major upgrade over the status quo (paper blueprints stained with Monster Energy).
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The most enjoyable documentary I’ve ever watched. Killer soundtrack, beautiful Kodachrome visuals, overall just a wonderful time capsule of mid-century America. Thanks to good King Neptune for all the waves. HT
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What a fascinating modern age we live in.
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if any non-electronic item can have glasses-augmented smarts, really there's no limit to the things we could do: guitar tuning app without buying hardware. song tabs without pulling out a whole laptop...
you could choose to have as much or as little UI around 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔
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Metal-detecting is among the most wholesome hobbies. A massive time-suck for the practitioner, unlikely to pay off in fame or fortune that still occasionally yields priceless additions to our civilizational patrimony.
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‘Unique’ Tudor pendant unearthed by UK metal detecting enthusiast ft.com/content/9e5b44
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Groupon still generates almost $1B in top line revenue and has thousands of employees. Not bad for a company that hasn't been "hot" for a decade.
Seems like a space that a new generation of startups could take a run at.
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One of the most common things I say to founders when reviewing their decks is:
"You have an awesome product shot on your homepage, why not use it in your deck, too?"
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"The comparison chart on your site is better than this smart art in your slides, why not reuse it?"
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Was there a shift in labeling standards for maple syrup?
The Captain Crunch meth precursor puts "maple" front and center with the "artificially" and "flavored" bookends, but the supermarket brands have dropped it entirely.
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"You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension."
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Suffer not the xeno to live.
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The mouth of an Arctic lamprey
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What a fascinating modern age we live in.
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This image by Pablo Carlos Budassi shows the observable universe on an increasingly compact scale, with the Earth and Sun at the center surrounded by our Solar System, nearby stars, galaxies, filaments of early matter, and the cosmic microwave background buff.ly/3u3Vbtw
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This is one of the most wholesome accounts you'll find on Twitter.
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Guess the name of the bird
#birds #nature #photos
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My daughter is reading Garfield comics aloud (a lot) and she keeps pronouncing "Lasagna" as "Louisiana" or "Lang-zan-ya."
One of the most satisfying parts of parenting is these little moments, inconsequential to most, priceless to me.
Marry and reproduce.
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Reagan if he became an executive creative director.
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If you don't have anything original or insightful to write, just write a lot.
Churn out thousands upon thousands of words. Block quotes. Enigmatic sub-heads. Include some graphs for good measure.
Quantity has a quality all its own.
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Whenever this video trends I think of how most of the modern world would baffle a time-traveling Bronze Age Minoan but you could drop them into this factory and they'd be productive by lunch time.
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The manufacturing of metal garden railings using moulds.
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The Great North Air Ambulance Service testing a Gravity Industries' jetsuit for mountain rescue.
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After 2023; There will be no more audiobooks because people will have personal AI bards spinning bespoke tales perfectly suited to their taste.
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after 2023; all audiobooks will be narrated by the authors of those books thanks to AI gen automation.
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Reminder: has given the world a tremendous gift with his #artbots project. More here: twitter.com/i/lists/976556
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March in the Birch Woods, 1919 #impressionism #gagnon wikiart.org/en/clarence-ga
Do you “pre-heat” your toaster? (Run it empty to get all the wires warmed up before adding bread with hopes of creating a perfect Maillard reaction?)
Yes13.6%
No79.5%
#teamgrilled6.8%
I use an open flame0%
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For all tech's faults, it's the only profession where you can basically teach yourself the skills you need to know for free and be hired without a degree. It's an extraordinary field in many ways. twitter.com/nikitabier/sta
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Try to make people's lives easier and make yourself millions of dollars. Don't overthink it.
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"Oh no, I failed to capitalize on a tech platform shift! All I did was build a product valued by countless users while making myself generationally rich alongside some of my best friends. There will never be a mid Hulu miniseries documenting my story. Woe is me!"
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