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Tim Dettmers' guide to ML PhD applications: https://t.co/FfDuY7CHyc

We’re surrounded by miracles. But habituation makes them invisible. See the breathtaking beauty in the fabric of the everyday.

The way to build state capacity is to build city states. https://t.co/2S1uPsmdQQ

Bahas harga hunian yg semakin tinggi tapi gak membahas akar permasalahannya yakni 1) HOMEOWNERSHIP yg dorong spekulasi properti 2) HOUSING SCARCITY yg dorong harga hunian mahal 3) LOW DENSITY DEVELOPMENT yg dorong housing scarcity & suburbanisasi. Akhirnya "solusinya" juga ngaco. https://t.co/nxmn4d8MIu

Ini narasi lain yg umum oleh Big Tobacco: membesar-besarkan kontribusinya terhadap pendapatan negara. Padahal, data menunjukkan bhw kebocoran negara akibat rokok berkali² lipat dibandingkan yg masuk. Aplg, cukai bertujuan utk pengendalian konsumsi, shg bukan utk adu gede-gedean. https://t.co/UasGs9tzCJ

Question 1: I’ve read your bio, but how about we start sharing each other's stories? This sounds fluffy. It's not. It’s crucial to learn who the candidate is. The best teams are a combination of skills + incentives + personalities. Most hiring stops at the skills part.

I have a 'privilege' as a lecturer at Universitas Indonesia. The privilege is to **break the privilege** in accessing UI's learning content. Yes, now anyone can learn for free from Universitas Indonesia, and here is my concrete example: https://t.co/eh1l6S1Pqa https://t.co/oaJbdvSFpk

Silicon Valley makes you want to be young forever. There's something beautiful about 27 year olds with whiz kid energy & high openness/tolerance for risk who keep improving in terms of cognitive flexibility. You can grow in maturity & strategic thinking while cultivating youth.

We’ve started a 12-week course on how to start a company, build an MVP, & get accepted into an accelerator like @techstars @launch or @ycombinator 1/It’s $700 but if you come to all 12 sessions we refund the $700 2/I’m investing $25k into the top startup https://t.co/sMJAQyBCl3

DeepMind’s AI predicts almost exactly when and where it’s going to rain: https://t.co/WqIQtN4ZuK https://t.co/4Pzh6J7QRb

Wanna Learn Mathematics for free? Here are some of the Best freely available playlists from Linear Algebra to Number theory that you can use to excel at Mathematics. A Thread 👇

The balance sheet is one of the 3 major financial statements. It shows company’s: ▪️Assets: What it owns ▪️Liabilities: What it owes ▪️Shareholders Equity: It's net worth attributable to its owners At a fixed point in time

Who said the internet killed journalism? VCs are funding newspapers and radio shows with billions of dollars. We just call them blogs and podcasts now 😇

Following Up and Gratitude are just two of the many topics we'll cover in Building Relationships, your Brand and Reputation. I'm extending the application period for another week until October 8th ---->>> https://t.co/nD4DIDXmk3

Yes. You can get COVID after the vaccine but there is a difference 55-year old 75-year old UNVACCINATED VACCINATED https://t.co/HjDMHfhlI1

3 minggu lalu, saya diminta organisasi yg meranking Universitas2 seluruh dunia, untuk jadi salah satu assesor. Baru2 ini, saya meranking salah 1 Uni di Indonesia. Yg saya kritik dr kebanyakan Uni di IDN: mereka sangat mementingkan formalitas. Yang digembar-gemborkan . . . (utas)

Product-as-journalism - https://t.co/IFCG9444ug - https://t.co/ZQKPVs0Ok5 - https://t.co/iqa518zlXt - https://t.co/8Wxae8H92J Dashboards that present numbers alongside (monetizable?) actions can replace pure text coverage in many verticals. https://t.co/xQJEufkkt8

Over the last century, McKinsey has been the iconic brand in consulting. Engaged by the C-Suite for top tier strategy work, McKinsey has built a behemoth of a business. A few highlights: - $10B+ in revenue - 80%+ of the F500 as clients - <1% of applicants get hired

one of my favorite parts about venture is that its the job that lets you peer into the future the furthest especially in deep tech investing, you get to see things coming down the pipe that will fundamentally change the world in 2, 4, 6 years it's just so darned exciting!!!

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2011 was the year movies finally nailed stylized hyper-realism in 3D animated movies without it looking like the uncanny valley and then proceeded to never do so ever again. https://t.co/e8DbzLO8Nt

New essay up. Narrative Distillation - modern IPO env is about owning marketing, not pricing - increasing impt of narrative leverage as accounting too backwards facing - product market fit as one facet of narrative distillation - founder led narratives https://t.co/lGuNdpyZmR

Our Solar System is the Sun plus a tiny perturbation ε = (mass of all planets)/(mass of the Sun) ≃ 0.001 The fate of Earth as a gravitating body and the stability of the Solar System is deeply rooted in this.

First up, Why do you need to build an audience? - They'll be your first customers - Emotionally investing people in your journey = Loyal customers - Testimonials and Marketing - Personal Twitter account >> Business account People want to connect to people

Saat ini, terdapat lebih dari 4.600 perguruan tinggi di Indonesia. Di antara ribuan kampus tersebut, sudah menjadi rahasia umum bahwa terdapat kesenjangan kualitas yang besar. https://t.co/nIF0HqIFT9

The three dashboards you need at a startup: - stability dashboard: does the product do what it says w/o breaking - product dashboard: 2-3 things that prove people use the product & come back to use it again - revenue dashboard: you make money to be sustainable & can grow

@balajis I think https://t.co/6Zz7awXFCu is a good example of this - I often use it as an example of "product-as-journalism" Instead of "best places to travel" articles every day/week - it's a live updating set of data customised to each user's needs for that specific information-problem

Thread/ I promised to share the syllabus for my seminar "Peripheries, Frontiers, and Outsides of Historical Capitalism." Here's the reading list by week. The current plan is co-teach a revised and expanded version next spring (2023) with Nancy Fraser, so suggestions are welcome.

How to be top 1%: be top 10% in two compounding skills. How to be one in a million…

First, a step back: We decided as a team that any tactic we took to “make the day account” had to come from one of 5 principles: 1. Accountability 2. Simplification 3. Curiosity 4. Empathy 5. Balance Now let's talk tactics...