Best of Twitter - Week of February 22, 2021
New post by @an1lam, me, and @leopoldasch!
Ideas not mattering is a psyop: guzey.com/ideas-not-matt…
just finished talking to a college student who's "interested in banking or consulting" and "wondering about the best exit opps"
that used to be me... wild how different life is off of the conveyor belt
It’s amazing (but not surprising) how much better my life got when my response to “I’m feeling lonely” switched from “I’ll mope in my room” to “I’ll spend 90 minutes messaging people asking them to meet.”
Maybe willingness to do the most basic legwork of organizing isn’t *literally 100%* of the difference between people with active social lives and people who sit around hoping to get invited to things
It’s a lot, though
The future of working from home: Japanese convenience store chain begins testing remote-controlled robot staff 😮🤖
"Model-T is remote controlled by a human equipped with a VR set using their 'Augmented Workforce Platform.'"
Source: soranews24.com/2020/08/29/jap…
There is a lot of discussion of bias in economics. This discussion is justified & needed. What I can add to this is some stories on how economists treat people from outside the field. Let me share with you a few bone chilling stories of what I’ve been through 🧵/1 #EconTwitter
Has anyone written about what I’d call ‘validation culture’ in male vs female friendships? It feels like offering anything less than total validation of feelings is extremely taboo in female, but not male circles and not sure why this is
^ interesting short thread
This paragraph from today's FT feels like a @typesfast fact - a single modern container ship has 3 times the capacity of an entire 16th century merchant fleet and requires less than 1% of the manpower.
Quarantined section
This article bothered me when it originally came out. In 2014 we stopped a novel coronavirus (Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea) by an RNA vaccine that was developed and deployed in about 11 months or so
Covid One Year Ago @YearCovid