Best of Twitter - August 22-Sep 11, 2022

Nabeel @nabeelqu

Reminded of what John Carmack said recently -- if no Elon, we won't get to Mars anytime soon, because SpaceX's existing business is lucrative and scalable and the Mars thing won't make financial sense for a very long time. It's only going to happen because he's pushing for it

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Nathan Baugh @nathanbaugh27

Remember the copywriting Apple used to get consumers to opt out of ad tracking? Well, their own ask to track you reads quite different (h/t @sethmills21). Bonus points for the highlighted “Turn on personalized ads” 🙄

Nathan Baugh @nathanbaugh27

Why the outperformance? Because of a quirk with iOS 14.5. The update prevents sharing of data between different parties (i.e. Facebook accessing data from other apps). It does not prevent the exchange of data within a single platform. Apple is that single platform.

Nathan Baugh @nathanbaugh27

I don’t blame Apple. Their ad network will be a $10B+ rev stream. But it’s important to understand the tradeoffs. Apple: • Weaponized a narrative to harm competitors • Crushed small businesses in the process • Bolstered their ad biz And yes, they’re still using your data.

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Alexey Guzey @alexeyguzey

New post: Q&A with my high school self: helping 14-16 year old Alexey to deal with his emotions, to ask for help, to talk to people (and his dad), to learn, to get things done.

guzey.comQ&A with my high school self: helping 14-16 year old Alexey to deal with his emotions, to ask for help, to talk to people (and his dad), to…Summary: Life is not easy for grown ups and it’s a lot more difficult for teenagers. For my teenage self, life was hell. In this Q&A, I do my best to help him get onto an at least somewhat happier and more productive track in his life. January 2013 Alexey: should I listen to my dad? 2022 Alexey: Th…

Niko McCarty @NikoMcCarty

Ribosomes can make more ribosomes outside of a living cell. There are 54 genes that encode the myriad parts to build a ribosome. Now, each of them can be mutated in vitro to quickly build ribosomes with "enhanced functionality." biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Nick Bloom @I_Am_NickBloom

The shift to WFH is the largest shock to labor markets in decades. Pre-pandemic WFH was trending towards 5% of days by 2022. Now WFH is now stabilizing at 30%, a 6-fold jump. In America alone this is saving about 200 million hours and 6 billion miles of commuting a week.

Ken Kocienda @kocienda

I’ve tweeted about this before, but when we made the original iPhone, we didn’t have product managers. We had directly responsible individuals (DRIs). Each important piece of work had a single person charged with seeing to it that the work got done. 1/

Nathan Taylor @ntaylor963

If you haven't been following this, quite interesting. Replacing/diluting your blood plasma seems to make mice (and in this paper 3 people) younger. Obviously caution is warranted. But a line of research to worth paying attention to. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Patrick McKenzie @patio11

I broadly think this is true. There are also some interesting mostly unacknowledged filters on particular health statuses. (Some things which are diagnosable and treatable are actually selected *for* at certain margins; many others are brutally selected against.)

keith @keithwhor

an observation i’ve made over the years is that every sort of highly-regarded position selects for extreme stress tolerance & emotional resilience as a filtering mechanism beyond raw talent & intellect which are typically table stakes. doctors, athletes, actors, execs.

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garfieldbot @cumlasagna1

the 4chan post on how sub 90 iq people can't compute counterfactuals is probably the most important thing written in the past 100 years

^ is this real????