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Mason ππ»βοΈ
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I'm not even sure what deep metaphor I think I'm looking at, here. Maybe I'm just filling my chapel with horny moths
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Ryan Orbuch
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Here's the correspondence between CO2 emissions (gigatons) to atmospheric concentrations (parts per million).
It's very helpful to think between both scales!
From @klaus_lackner: pic.twitter.com/pGXqXVS16x
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Mason ππ»βοΈ
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You'll look either Very Courageous (if not considered "powerful") or Very Discerning (if "powerful") if you simply make a habit of expecting people to give you a good reason to care about what they think
which is just good, basic epistemic hygiene
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Mason ππ»βοΈ
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Big red scare vibes, very retro-modern twitter.com/jemelehill/staβ¦
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(Risky here being shorthand for "high variance in expected returns of the underlying.")
If you gave a choice "Would you rather have 100 CEOs in your network or 100 college students?" assuming low levels of investment in each relationship I think almost everyone picks wrong.
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Mason ππ»βοΈ
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Most people never, ever forget the first person to give them a sizable advance on their own self-confidence β there's no greater security in life than being a serial enabler of wonderful young people
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Nathanπ
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Most Likely to Succeed is fantastic
youtu.be/JE5XRrfetu4
I think I have @webdevMason to thank for recommending it
Basically they get 12/13 year olds to do ridiculously good projects that we never expect them to be able to do, or let them try
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Mason ππ»βοΈ
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Creating a serendipitous connection, freely offering a good idea, telling someone you see their potential & you'll be in their corner... these are both cheap & costly, the currency of trust in the human project
Invest this way and you'll have the world's most joyous nest egg
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Antonio GarcΓa MartΓnez
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Journalists used to provide distribution, so they were pandered to.
Now they simply provide distortion, so they're ignored.
To the formerly pandered, indifference feels like defensiveness, when it's merely the ingratiating mask falling off.
finance.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/uβ¦
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Mason ππ»βοΈ
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Mason ππ»βοΈ
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Right now, we only have a very tentative model for lethality, and the confirmed infection population is still at a manageable, treatable size and largely geographically contained. There are very good reasons to try to keep it that way
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Mason ππ»βοΈ
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I meeeean, I agree that it's not a good idea for anyone to panic. Panic wouldn't be a good plan if it *were* an existential threat. But (a) the Big One won't look like the Big One until it... looks like the Big One, and (b) the very solid global response is clearly a good thing
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Mason ππ»βοΈ
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tired: anxious antivax moms don't care about immunocompromised kids
wired: most of those deaths were people with shitty immune systems, just saying
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Mason ππ»βοΈ
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>200 dead despite intensive care; at least an order of magnitude more deadly than the flu, highly mobile w/ no vaccine, just declared a global health emergency by the WHO, and WIRED's contribution is ...*drumroll*... border health checks are authoritarian wired.com/story/opinion-β¦
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Mason ππ»βοΈ
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Some folks have mentioned that the ticket will likely get thrown out if he sees a judge. But then you're talking about taking time off, making the trip to the courthouse, waiting an hour or two, and possibly still paying the $80. People only ever really do that out of principle
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Mason ππ»βοΈ
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Mason ππ»βοΈ
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Official "for fucksake, San Francisco" thread pic.twitter.com/S8Zr4yLpEC
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Mason ππ»βοΈ
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There is literally no way to distinguish between a self-put down so accurate that it's actually helpful, and a self-put down that is just a self-fulfilling prophecy. But I've also learned that you can't save a person who is philosophically dedicated to drowning, and I don't try.
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Mason ππ»βοΈ
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I hear people say this, and I don't really care to argue with it. I do know that not a lot of those people follow me, and the people who *do* follow me who claim to feel this way often later reveal that they're desperately unhappy, and get limited satisfaction from self martyrdom
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Mason ππ»βοΈ
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I actually think there's room for a special sort of domain expert to replace the grantwriting process for corporate/eccentric nonprofits, filtering like a VC rather than e.g. a University
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