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Byrne Hobart

@ByrneHobart

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I used to wonder why I was so viscerally opposed to fare-jumping. Eventually realized it’s a minor crime that’s trivial to get away with—so the people who do it aren’t held back by either shame or getting shamed. Which is pretty socially corrosive!

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Helen Andrews

@herandrews

Jan 24

Update: Nearly 40 fare jumpers in five minutes this morning. I asked the Metro attendant if he cared about people stealing. He said, verbatim, “That’s not my job.” twitter.com/herandrews/sta…

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The TikTok girlies’ habits — what they’re buying (or not) — are not the worst economic indicator!

Fascinated by the “deinfluencing trend” that’s getting popular on TikTok. It’s exactly what it sounds like: people are encouraging their followers to buy less, and being candid about products they were influenced to buy and then hated.

Nothing but respect for the young people that line up to play (and lose to!) them

Underrated source of serotonin: the older guys that seem to be permanent fixtures at the chess tables in parks around New York 🥹

Children today are suffering a severe deficit of play | Aeon Essays

Leah Libresco Sargeant

@LeahLibresco

Jan 19

"Watch any group of children in play and you will see lots of negotiation and compromise. Preschoolers playing a game of ‘house’ spend more time figuring out how to play than actually playing."

aeon.co

Children today are cossetted and pressured in equal measure. Without the freedom to play they will never grow up

Jan 19

Who would win: 219472 policy papers about Why Population Decline Is Bad OR (1) picture of

@bswud

's extremely cute dumpling

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Ben Southwood

@bswud

Jan 19

These days I usually have to get up before 6am, which is less than ideal. But it has its compensations.

anyway I’m mostly recovered now and free this weekend so… if you’re in nyc and need some help moving, HMU I guess? 🤪

Ok so this thread doesn’t have anything to do with moving, which is low-stakes. But it’s just to say that I’m grateful for the mutual dependence between my community & I — and particularly that there are no scorekeepers in our group. Some of you are reading this — I love you!

I think the answer is to pay much more attention to when _my_ friends and family need similar support from me. My doctor and nurses were fantastic. But the love and support that comes from people with whom you have deep bonds and shared context just can’t be outsourced.

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I’ve tried to “repay” these friends for their kindness — by taking them to dinner, or baking for them, or whatever. But how do you repay people who took care of you in your most difficult moments?

I fell asleep during one friend’s visit, which I felt particularly bad about because she had come quite a way. She cleaned my kitchen and then quietly let herself out.

And some didn’t necessarily “do” anything — they just sat with me while I cried or vented. The day before my surgery I’d been fully mobile and running. But for weeks after every little thing was a chore.

In the weeks that followed my family + friends — some of whom I actually haven’t known that all that long — sent meals, flowers, chocolate, tea, blankets. Eventually I had to ask them to stop. I live in a fourth floor walk-up and could quite literally not carry any of it 🥹😅

They all immediately hopped on the subway and sat in the hospital for hours just to take me home. And then we got home, my roommate, who has a very demanding job of her own, had food ready, plus blankets and pillows so I could minimize movement.

To say it was unexpected was an understatement — I’m pretty active and stay on top of my health. But these things happen. So I sat there at NY Presby with a half-charged phone for hours, until I finally texted a couple of close friends — all with full time jobs — to tell them.

Quick story time! About 2.5 months ago I went to the doctor in the middle of the day for what I _thought_ was a routine checkup. I’d just come back from a few weeks in CA & AZ, & felt extremely run down. What followed was an 8 hour ordeal that ended in surgery that very day.

While I don’t think there’s any point in dragging her, it’s devastating that we as a culture seem to have internalized the idea that being a good friend means making as few requests of your friends as possible.

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Cathryn

@cathrynlavery

Jan 15

As an adult, don’t ask your friends to help you move. Hire movers, save a friendship.

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constructionphysics.substack.com

Brian Potter

@_brianpotter

Jan 18

In 1867, the US produced roughly 20,000 tons of steel a year. 40 years later, that had increased 1000-fold, to over 23 million tons a year, and the price had fallen by nearly 75%. This week on Construction Physics I look at how that happened.

The Rise of Steel Part II

Welcome to the Rise of Steel part II. We previously looked at the early stages of industrialization of iron and steelmaking, between roughly 1200 and 1850. To briefly recap, making steel was an...

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Stripe Press — Scaling People

Claire Hughes Johnson

@chughesjohnson

Jan 17

Still can't quite believe this is happening. And it's thanks to the many people I have worked with and learned from, more than any of you know. And the folks I interviewed and excerpted who generously shared wisdom. This book was not a 1 person project - thank you is not enough.

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Stripe Press

@stripepress

Jan 17

Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building by @chughesjohnson is a practical guide to building a company’s operating systems and scaling the most important resource a company has: its people. Available for preorder now: press.stripe.com/scaling-people

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put it, Scaling People is the book that he wished existed when he and John founded Stripe. With 100+ pages of exercises, the book is light on fluff and heavy on actionable practices (and it pairs pretty nicely with High Growth Handbook!):

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From a Stripe and Google executive, a practical guide to company building and scaling the most important resource it has: its people.

Claire's track record speaks for itself: as COO, she grew Stripe from 200 to 7,000 employees. At Google she led business teams, overseeing aspects of Gmail, Google Apps, and consumer ops. She was also a VP for AdWords, Google Offers, and Google’s self-driving car project. 🚗📈

It's natural that founders and execs at high-growth companies hyper-focus on refining their products and growing their customer base, but it's just as important that leaders invest in their *organizational* foundations. Scaling People is a book to help your company do just that.

Do I know anyone in NYC who a) can recommend a tennis coach, or b) would be down to play together? Best friend and I have been talking about this for a year and it’s time to bite the bullet 🎾

aliveness in the wilderless

Jan 15

- multigenerational living, or something close to it - weddings with layers of rituals that extend beyond simply exchanging vows (anyone who’s been to a big Indian, Nigerian, etc wedding will get it)

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@the_wilderless

Jan 14

What’s the most underrated social technology? [cultural practices aimed at solving/preventing a particular issue] Can be from your own culture or just one you know about

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Scott Lincicome

@scottlincicome

Jan 13

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Opinion | The Dystopia We Fear Is Keeping Us From the Utopia We Deserve

Works in Progress

@WorksInProgMag

Jan 12

What if a lack of housing is at the root of all of our problems? The housing theory of everything: worksinprogress.co/issue/the-hous

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Whole piece, which features

@elidourado

@CharlesCMann

, and

@stripepress

’s Josh Storrs Hall, is worth reading! ‘Where’s My Flying Car?’ is indeed a question worth asking.

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We’ve lost sight of the world that abundant, clean energy could make possible.

It’s extremely encouraging that arguments in favor of energy abundance — and careful technical analyses of how we might get there — are getting real airtime in the mainstream. Great piece by

@ezraklein

today.

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And Ehrlich famously lamented the end of the horrific one child policy, calling it “gibberish insanity – the growth-forever gang.” His scholarship is a match made — somewhere outside of heaven — of arrogance and misanthropy. foreignpolicy.com/2015/11/03/a-b

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Derek Thompson

@DKThomp

Jan 6

Paul Ehrlich, whose Population Bomb book was commissioned by the Sierra Club's executive director in 1967, called for denying food aid to India to leave families to risk starvation along with this nonsense. The anti-growth "environmentalist" mindset is a highway to monstrousness twitter.com/Shawn_Regan/st…

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José Luis Ricón Fernández de la Puente

Real talk

is on another level. The man does a ton of prep, asks fantastic questions, and is amazing at guiding the conversation real-time while still staying in the moment and asking off-the-cuff followups. I'm jealous! check out his show! spoti.fi/3S5g2YK

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@ArtirKel

Sep 5, 2022

To my taste, @dwarkesh_sp is probably the best podcaster there is right now. Both he and @tylercowen research their guests in depth and try to ask novel questions. But Dwarkesh is more serious about intellectual exploration (at the expense of cultural aspects)

Jan 4

SF is back part 91738338:

@eladgil

’s founder / operator meetup series is back in action! If you’re building in the AI space, check out his upcoming fireside chat with

@reidhoffman

and meet some potential co-conspirators 🚀🤌🏾:

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Elad Gil

@eladgil

Jan 4

Excited for AI chat w legend @reidhoffman

>AI: Big Tech, Startups & Society< Live 1/17 in SF 6pm + livestream *AI market structure-does OpenAI win it? *Big tech & AI (GOOG, FB...) *Tech waves & startup opportunities *AI, society, humanity Sign up airtable.com/shrwl7EsYUglQw

Why Is Everything So Ugly? | The Editors

Jan 1

some of y’all will never know the joy of being called “sugar” well into your 20s — and for that I’m so sorry

Every time I return to Texas after being away for too long I’m reminded of this one simple truth: southern grandmas are the backbone of America

Of a building which is typical of the cookie cutters popping up everywhere, the author says, “The lineage isn’t Bauhaus so much as a sketch of the Bauhaus that’s been xeroxed half a dozen times.” If someone said that about a building I designed, I’d simply have to pass away

I’m a simple woman. I see an article about why EverYThiNg iS So uGLy, I click. This one is typically overwrought, but still a fun read:

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Dodging huge grilles we walk on, pulled by ugliness toward a gentrified retail strip. Here the violence of the new ugliness comes more fully into focus. The ruling class seized cities and chose to...

Men would literally rather construct iconic buildings — creating lasting symbols of ambition, beauty, and wealth — than go to therapy…and I think that’s beautiful

Please don’t underestimate how much of Manhattan’s iconic skyline was the result of extreme pettiness (I love it):