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Good tokens 2024-12-20

2024-12-20

Worth your time

Boris planning

Many wonderful public servants made valiant efforts and scored some great wins, but Democratic leadership did not make it a top priority to clear out the underbrush that jams the gears of government.

From Bringing Elon to a knife fight

New rules for media; from #19:

Every second for the viewer is just that viral video where the person picks between two pop stars. You’re always deciding what to pay attention to. The relationship between person-who-makes and person-who-consumes is paramount to long-term success, because if you are winning that game then you will be able to survive.

Things I learned

Eyes have evolved more than 50 times - Salon via Rohit

Musings

You can only avoid competition by avoiding good ideas. — Paul Graham

Product market fit provides a business with gravity
- It lets you know up from down — this helps
- But it also weighs on you; it’s tough to take the business in a direction that your current product / market / customer isn’t pulling you

A key skill for the future is going to be how to work with something that is:
1. smarter than you in many / most domains
2. sometimes wrong

A surprising amount of life is figuring out the right words to say in order to get what you want

Good tokens 2024-12-13

2024-12-13

Things I learned

Already my first correction of my 2024 list: it appears that 75% of the world's saffron probably does not end up in Fernet. Thanks to Tom Whitwell for the correction.

Need a gc filled with people sending esoteric pieces of fact back and forth. For instance, Saturn's rings are younger than the dinosaurs.

— rohit (@krishnanrohit) December 8, 2024

Infanticide facts from Pacific Standard:

• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that a baby born in the United States in recent decades was 10 times more likely to be killed during its first day
• For the first week, a baby’s killer is overwhelmingly likely to be its own mother.
• A surprising number of pregnant women—about 1 in 2,500— are in denial about their pregnancy until birth

From my friend Oriana: The more males and females of a bird species look alike (e.g. cranes), the more likely they are to mate for life.  The more males and females of a bird species look dissimilar (e.g. mallards), the more likely they are to be promiscuous.

The oldest bond in the world dates from December 10, 1624; pays €13.61 of interest a year. From the FT via The Browser.

Worth your time

Ben James on Fusion. Can’t wait to read the rest of his guides.

Some thinking on how companies get penalized for trying to be more sustainable by the Green Beauty Community. I do think that one reaction to the backlash on greenwashing has been some companies pulling back from talking about what they’re doing.

this is the japanese snow fairy 🤍

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— Nature's masterpiece (@nature-view.bsky.social) December 8, 2024 at 5:53 AM

Musings

Write shitty first drafts is another way of saying that quality is derived from quantity.