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John Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie and Henry Ford. All 3 were beaten by 1 man in the productivity revolution. Frederick Winslow Taylor. Taylor's 4-step framework to 50x productivity:

We teach data journalism, but we're also always learning. Every week we document things we think could help others learn. Here are 10 short pieces that may help you improve your data journalism & visualisation:

The Ladders of Wealth Creation breaks an insanely complicated topic of building wealth into the component parts and skills to give you a roadmap of what to do first. Look at this graphic, then we’ll break down each step. https://t.co/IMzGq7J2Cw

5 Tips To Use Twitter With Intention (Instead Of Doomscrolling): https://t.co/OK2F3G9FFR

Alexander Graham Bell tried to sell his telephone patent for $100K. The telegraph company said this... And the rest is history. (1876) https://t.co/eeSu7CMMyJ

Deep Learning replaced linear models because it automated feature engineering by trying thousands of possible nonlinearities and learning which ones worked. Similarly, transformers are replacing task-specific NN architectures by learning how to combine the input signals. 1/

Being a Mom is just as important as any career

"Loving books is not why people are supposed to become English professors, and it hasn’t been for a long time." https://t.co/3fHUI05jxB

Greatest textbooks of all time (1/2): Feynman, "The Feynman Lectures on Physics" Pauling, "General Chemistry" Samuelson, "Economics" Russell, "A History of Western Philosophy" Knuth, "The Art of Computer Programming"

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"Voyage through Time" is my first artpiece using #stablediffusion and I am blown away with the possibilities... We're crossing a threshold where generative AI is no longer just about novel aesthetics, but evolving into an amazing tool to build powerful, human-centered narratives https://t.co/9suZeDyY8Q

Pengabdi Scopus Teror Jurnal Sepanjang Masa https://t.co/F7eLaRQSGj https://t.co/krZ7avO6OH

"Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true." -Salman Rushdie, 'The Satanic Verses'

A meteor burning up in Earth's atmosphere, filmed from the International Space Station. https://t.co/7sHQTRxMIw

By the time you are 13.8 billion years old you should have 1) converted 25% of your baryonic content to helium, 2) become transparent to radiation 3) formed a complex web of galaxies 4) created trillions of planets and 5) evolved intelligent life on at least one of them

China is now a major science & tech superpower, with huge consequences for political, economic & military power. Below is a 🧵on this dynamic from supercomputing to AI to quantum to green energy. cc: @erikbryn @paulg @Noahpinion @amcafee @ramez @scmallaby @wolfejosh

Now that a significant number of YC startups are old enough to have grown big (e.g. 15 are now public) I'm able to see a whole new set of patterns. Having known them from very early on, when the company was just the founders, I can see patterns in how companies evolve.

Aspirations for academics: a 🧵(1/4) 1. May your heart be bigger than your h-index 2. May you peer review others' work the way you wish to be peer reviewed (the Golden Rule/don't be Reviewer 2) 3. May you never forget what it's like to be a struggling grad student (or postdoc)

"I've got this problem" Mentor: This is what I did when I had that problem Advisor: Here are a few things people do to solve that problem Consultant: Here, let me fix that problem for you Coach: How do you think you might solve that problem?

6 System Design Questions [Solved] 1. Instagram Design - https://t.co/n6j5ITbGV4 2. Youtube Design - https://t.co/vVxyRk44za 3. URL Shortner - https://t.co/LuBDso8QFu 4. WhatsApp - https://t.co/kmXFPpNEvg 5. Parking Lot - https://t.co/yQ6r3jjWLi 6. LMS - https://t.co/Bp1LdUWOsU https://t.co/wEl35XzS0d

"Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers." – Mignon McLaughlin

Oh my god I'm sobbing. https://t.co/fB5txxKdkq

TIME's new cover: Inside the fast-growing movement to do more good in the world https://t.co/9ySAVo9q6n https://t.co/y4jFHBTZPJ

Too many people think degree first, career second, life third. Think life first, career second, degree third.

Why is nobody talking about exercise increasing hippocampal volume leading to improved memory outcomes and decrease in cognitive decline?

Carl Sagan’s prediction about America, from 1995. From The Demon-Haunted World https://t.co/ZY6FNvMDKd

If you want to be healthier as you age, study: > Nutrients > Epigenetics > Exercise and Diet > Superfoods > Environmental toxins Congrats. You know more about long-term health than most trained doctors

Saying you don't have the capital to invest in real estate is seriously a copout. Real estate is a very unique instrument -- there are many creative ways to finance a deal. Here are 24 of them🧵👇

Two Teenagers pitch 100+ VCs with no success. Instead, they bootstrapped their startup to millions in profits until VCs came calling. The crazy part? Today the company is worth over $40BN and they have full control. You've used the app, but you don't know the story 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

How can some people write so beautifully? 1/ Two of my favorite writing techniques: