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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:

Ada tiga kelebihan multipotentialite: - idea synthesis - rapid learning - adaptability https://t.co/vImx53ORMW

The internet democratized access to information, but not intelligence. AI will democratize access to intelligence, but not creativity.

This wasn’t in the training manual! @TBrownABC7 @valwarnertv and I go OFF THE RAILS when I discovered the TV is a touch screen while on-air on @ABC7Chicago 😂 https://t.co/almrdxqz3d

If you are a US VC moving to London you MUST adopt a football club in order to blend in. Becoming a fan of a football club is like marrying someone, so you need to choose wisely. Below is a selection of clubs with a guide that will help you choose: (1/16)

A structured document is a structured mind.

Is Captain America the Winter Soldier the best MCU movie? https://t.co/BHCtxWaIkt

As promised, a🧵on language and thought. The relationship between language and thought has long been pondered and debated. It may be one of the deepest and most exciting questions in cognitive science. 1/n

Twitter is full of "wonder science" accounts, many of them full of stolen images & misinformation. The recent viral tweet…

you should start many books and complete few you should buy books on a whim, when possible you shouldn't even know the whole contents of your own shelves. If you create a home library it should act as one: It is there for you to discover and rediscover, to get lost in.

The best advice on building I’ve ever read: — dream in years — plan in months — evaluate in weeks — ship daily https://t.co/KRT2XtUgkY

Ini lho. https://t.co/TgXFEs1vFf

The Death of Instagram in one chart: - 39.4% of your Instagram feed is suggested reels & posts. - 20.8% is ads. - Leaving only 39.8% percent from accounts you follow. Absolutely pathetic. Captured and measured this today. https://t.co/CHo0dqjbN5

Indonesia bans access to Steam, Epic Games, PayPal, and more https://t.co/KwnjXpYSjH https://t.co/7u50dae7j7