Best of Twitter - Week of August 3, 2020
if Jeff Bezos gave up his entire networth, you could run the US military for ~90 days
If you liquidated both Bill Gates & Elon Musk too, you could get to maybe ~180 days
Throw Zuck into the grinder & you squeeze out another ~45 days
You’d still need ~$200B+ to finish the year
New blog post, this the first of maybe a 3 part series on the company du jour, TikTok.
This first piece isn't about the possible ban or divestment or the security or geopolitical issues but about what makes it so unique and fascinating to me.
TikTok skipped that step and just used its algorithm to directly derive an interest graph. Its algorithm is so effective that it doesn't feel like work for viewers. Just by watching stuff and reacting, the app learns your tastes quickly. It feels like passive personalization.
@NeuroStats @Meaningness @kareem_carr Man, this is is a bit of a bleak read (thank you for sharing, though!), but I love this paragraph:
The Brodeur, Cook, and Heyes paper on p-hacking has been published by AER:
aeaweb.org/content/file?i…
They show that the amount of p-hacking / publication bias varies by research design. Figure 2 shows their main results very clearly.
I drank coffee at cafes every single day for at least 2-3 years. I met tons of people this way, including cafe owners, 4 future roommates, the mayor, my wife, most of my friends, a lady who I later rented from, etc.
The opportunity is staggering. Highly recommended.
TheOriginalKid @ibnPhilip
I don't. But if you go somewhere every single day, after, I don't know, 100+ days, you start to recognize people, and they start to recognize you. Then you can talk about all kinds of stuff.
I mean, how else do you do it?
Matt Guttman @RealtimeAI
A lot of great people are 5 to 10 years out (from the point where you’d have a mutually fulfilling opportunity) and, when you act like you believe that too, sometimes they’re more like 6 to 24 months out.
julianweisser @julianweisser
Andrew Sullivan mentions at the end of this post today that "total subscriptions are now over 70,000, and paid subs are nudging 10,000."
Since paid is $5/month, he's now at 50k/month or 600k/year.
andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-cascadin…
I thought trend for star writers going indie would happen years ago. Happening now because substack finally made it turnkey.
Star writers can now credibly threaten their publication to go indie. Superstar pay up. Median writers lose publications money, so their pay will go down.
Ever written a Letter of Recommendation?
Have you ever had to write YOUR OWN letter of recommendation?
It's uncomfortable, but this might help:
josh.works/how-to-write-a…
(I wrote this after helping an early-career software developer in just this spot)
^ from the post:
A Chinese Soviet joke in three acts.
(In case you're wondering how Chinese internet quickly deteriorates in the past decade: every time this kinda BS happens, a bit more people start to censor themselves. And it happens every single day.)