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Note to self after my LA trip: Sub-25-year-olds are getting rich on crypto, influencing, real estate, consulting for multiple startups, etc. These people are real. They are earning more than you think. 1/2:

Keep your big goals away from small minds...

How much can science tell us about reality? (a really long 🧵 thread)

I searched the web for the best guerrilla marketing examples. Here's what I found. (10 Mind-blowing 😯 examples!!) #MarketingTwitter 👇👇

If we learn anything from this wretched pandemic, it's that: 1) Workers are always essential. 2) Healthcare is a basic right. 3) Conspiracy theories can be deadly. 4) The stock market isn't the economy. 5) Wages are too low to get by on. 6) Billionaires aren't the answer.

A store owner recently noticed an alarmingly high rate of shoplifting. He develops a machine learning model that predicts if a customer has shoplifted or not and it is 95% accurate! He deploys the model but a month later catches no shoplifters... Why? 🧵 👇🏻 https://t.co/Jirz6gMivf

ortu punya hutang total 12 m yang gue cicil dari umur 13. (gue dulu pernah kerja jadi tukang cuci piring kantin sekolah, rm padang dan kantin rs, joki tugas juga dijabanin) tahun ini hutang itu lunas karena ada orang baik yang bantu. gue bayar sisanya doang which is 37,9 juta https://t.co/jQDtLEhYDf

Salah satu fungsi sandal jepit yang tidak banyak orang tau https://t.co/LjkYGetgw9

biggest lesson about building a business i’ve learned from @rabois after a month on the job: startups never get faster over time, only slower your accumulating advantages & inevitable success need to kick in before entropy swallows you

Pernah ga debat sama orang tp kesel sendiri? Atau merasa dimanipulasi sampe mikir "dia yang salah, tp dia yang galak?" Cek beberapa jenis logical fallacy (sesat pikir) yang bikin obrolan jadi ga jelas hasilnya. Sebuah utas ~

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It’s wild that we spent so much time memorizing dates in history class because they’re legit one of the least important things about history

The crypto industry is pure chaos right now. - Elon can't make up his mind - Saylor is gobbling up bitcoin - Coinbase listing Doge - Every shitcoin pumping - Mainstream media confused - Central banks printing non-stop - Institutions pouring cash in Complete madness.

if you’re fully vaccinated, the cdc says you can release your inhibitions and feel the rain on your skin

jajan buku bulan ini apa bulan depan yaa

These slides from a YC presentation by @nolimits says it all. Fake Progress vs Real Progress How're you delivering real value to your users? https://t.co/rg7ztsP3hU

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1. By now, @techinasia's story on Team Labs has gone viral. Here's something that didn't make it into our story (it's long enough as it is).

@Afutami Juat read Humankind: a Hopeful History @rcbregman, he argue that sometimes people do bad things (terrorism, genocide-holocaust) because of noble reasons (they think they do it for good), human nature seems ironic sometimes. Hannah Arendt callled this phenomena "banality of evil".

Possibly the best lecture on public speaking: Given by Patrick Winston, AI professor at @MIT and founder MIT’s of Media Lab. The lecture “How to speak” is a 40-year tradition of his. 40-years of distilled speaking advice. It blew my mind. Here’s the cheatsheet 👇

@synthesischool has raised a Series A! $5M at $50M post from @APompliano and a syndicate of ~50 angels, founders, and influencers. Here's the story of how the synthesis approach was born at SpaceX, how I got involved, and how we got to here... https://t.co/7JmjlILFA4

Want to learn business? Don’t just study: Facebook, Netflix, Apple, Coinbase, Airbnb, Uber. Study: Quibi, Juicero, Google+, Vine, Jawbone, YikYak.

THREAD: The top 0.1% of marketing mental models. Compressing a 6-year career into the best 8 ideas:

A new algorithm that generates paintings using a neural visual grammar system evaluated using a text conditioned dual encoder. This allows for the creation of images that look very different from those made by GANs: https://t.co/fEDghIzDRv https://t.co/dfFoJxrsJv

Suppose cities had official apps. - pay utilities - local news feed - mass transit maps - bills, policies, events - social network for residents - links to various information on .gov site What else?

I remember when I was a kid, my dad would tell me business stories before bed and he would always give me a takeaway Last night, I told my dad investing/business stories. After every story, he told me, one more please like a small kid The beautiful circle of Life :')

12 cool and useful NLP libraries🧵 1. NLTK: Natural Language Toolkit 2. Gensim 3. spaCy: Industrial-strength NLP 4. Torchtext 5. AllenNLP: Open source project for designing DL-based NLP models 6. Transformers: a library of SOTA pre-trained models for NLP

Machine learning, explained: https://t.co/40v7CZUxYU https://t.co/kLNpEFdwbb

Until abt 6 months ago, if you asked me what I would do as a young person starting out, I would have said “acquire a small biz” Now I think the right answer is: - ID an interesting, underserved niche - become an expert - build an audience - monetize via paid content & events