I've been thinking about this day every day for 4 years and that is not hyperbole.

For anyone unsure about making @JoeBiden President & Commander-in-Chief, here's a real story about his excellent instincts as a manager.

On inauguration in 2009, @BarackObama gave Biden the biggest assignment of his life: Overseeing the hugest economic stimulus in US history.

With the economy in freefall, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) provided $787 billion for state/local support, infrastructure, energy independence - to put people back to work. The challenge was to spend that money quickly, but without fraud, waste, abuse. 2/11

President Obama made VP Biden responsible for overseeing the federal stimulus program. It's not common for a VP to be directly accountable for a high-stakes, high-risk government operation. But that was a signal of how important the effort was for the Administration. 3/11

To pull off a daunting mission, Biden did what a great manager should do: He hired a skilled and experienced team, set clear and measurable goals, delegated authority, invested significant time every week to the team & effort, and fostered a culture of accountability. 4/11

I saw it first-hand. As a Deputy CTO, I worked with the VP's ARRA oversight team on 3 elements - broadband stimulus (implemented by Dept of Commerce), smart grid upgrades (Dept of Energy), and electronic health records (HHS). 5/11

The Forgotten Story of Human Zoos – Crimes of the Colonial Era

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Humans have been taken from their native lands and taken to be exhibited in human zoos for more than a century. Alongside animals, they were displayed before fellow humans. This little known and profoundly troubling aspect of colonial history played a crucial part.

Between 1810 and 1940, in Europe, America and Japan, almost 35 thousand people were exhibited in world fairs, colonial exhibits, zoos, freak shows, circuses and relocated ethnic villages.

These activities were attended by some 1,5 billion visitors. This documentary traces how racism in these so-called ‘human zoos’ was constructed and disseminated using previously unpublished archive material.

Children, women and men were exhibited as exotic animals, and ordered in a “race” hierarchy. In a way that served to justify colonialism, they were cast as “other” and described as “savage.”

Giving a talk on goal setting and OKRs this morning @Montrealinc.

Presenting it as a thread here to get more leverage on it and to think out loud. Here goes! 👇

1. Goals are strategy in action. Strategy is your plan to win. Goals turn that strategy into measurable tasks that can advance you toward winning.

2. Goals help you win by forcing you to prioritize. There are lots of ways to win. Some are more immediate than others. Goals force you to choose the most important things to do now.

3. Goals help you win by creating alignment. Not everyone has the same idea of how to win. Goals force everyone to agree on a single plan.

4. Goals help you win by creating accountability. There’s lots to do in a startup and its easy for things to slip and slide. Goals help enforce clear ownership.

I worked late into the night on Election Day 2016. I remember the shocking news of Trump's victory reaching Clinton campaign headquarters, her supporters howling in anguish and sobbing. Many of those images have been sarcastically memed over the years since that night.

I've been talking to @polygon's @TashaRobinson about my books for nearly two decades. She was one of the reviewers to dig into Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, my debut novel, all the way back in 2003 when she was at @theonion's @TheAVClub.

https://t.co/t55DCpCNAl

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She's always had smart things to say about my books (and is never shy about criticizing them) so I was delighted to talk with her about my latest, ATTACK SURFACE, for an interview: "Cory Doctorow on his drive to inspire positive

As the title suggests, the interview digs into the relationship between our narratives about the future and the future itself when it arrives - the delights and perils of dystopianism, a philosophy that I find seductive even as I reject it.

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Many conversations and books disabused me of dystopianism, but the turning points came from a pair of woman historians. First: Rebecca Solnit's "A Paradise Built In Hell" - a gorgeous, brilliantly researched book about the true histories of

And second was @Ada_Palmer's legendary end-of-year event with her undergrad Renaissance history students at the University of Chicago:

You voted right? Good. This is a thread of nothing but some YouTube favorites of mine which you can have as a little treat.

A full 2000s era Tenacious D concert

Rodrigo y Gabriela tinydesk just killing it

Harry Styles Sledgehammer cover

Smashmouth’s All Star cover played entirely on melons

An E-day thread: For 4 years, Trump has governed as a wartime president for red America, w/blue America, not any foreign adversary as the target. That's provoked an enormous reaction from the diverse, well-educated urban centers & inner suburbs driving eco growth & innovation

Tonight will tell whether it's enough, but the scale of the mobilization from blue America-primarily metro America-is unprecedented. It's measured, for starters, in the record-setting Democratic fund-raising, mostly from small donors in well-educated areas, that's swamped Rs

It's measured in outpouring of celebrity support for Biden: ads from Brad Pitt, @springsteen, Eminem, campaigning by Cardi B, John Legend, Lady Gaga, Common, Spike Lee, Taylor Swift's twitter activism, $-raising reunions by casts of Avengers, Princess Bride, Veep & Happy Days etc

Its measured in the unprecedented crossover support for Biden from top officials in the other party: hundreds of former GOP national security officials (including Reagan's FBI Director & W's CIA head); top staff for past 3 GOP presidential nominees;

Dozens of former GOP elected officials (including Governors, Senators & House); Reagan WH lawyers; former US Attorneys; about half of W's Cabinet; Cindy McCain. No nominee has ever won as much support from prominent figures in other party-not even Nixon 72

My Thoughts: #ClintonFoundationWhistleblowers

(1/15) This country needs more honest, open and aggressive debate and sharing of ideas and opinions so thank you to those individuals on this thread with similar or vastly different views but who have individually committed

Remember to #VOTE if you can. Also regardless of what the major parties say, you don’t have to #VoteRed or #VoteBlue, by all means do if you want to but this thread is for those who are looking for other, possibly better options depending on their views. Before
I list the

3rd party/nonpartisan candidates please check your state rules to see if their either on the ballot or an informed write in (#VoteResponsibly by checking their campaign site or tweeting them directly so they can tell you is the best bet rather than asking a random person)
That

way you can make sure it counts and tell the poll workers it does count. & make sure you know whether you have to add their Vice Presidents name or not (it may be a state or county rule idk which so research that) Also just because I mention or @ a candidate doesn’t necessarily

mean I support them or their party. I just want 3rd party/nonpartisan candidates to get more well known as potential candidates

& Everyone including the candidates themselves feel free to add more candidates & their planks I wasn’t aware of & planks of the candidates I do mention but don’t know their planks/aren’t mentioned in picture/are so many of I couldn’t tell what their main ones were.

Election day in US; to skip the politics and get straight to the money, here's our quarterly update. How do gold, silver, and government fiat money compare with bitcoin's 21 million? #Bitcoin is the 10th largest money in the world, ex-gold & silver. This is update #10.

2/ Bitcoin's monetary system marches on its continuously-lowering coin emission; meanwhile, other world monetary systems' units inflate, either naturally (like gold & silver ounces), or via monopolistic privilege (like government fiat money "printing").

3/ What follows isn't a lesson in stimulus or bailouts, whatever the world faces. It's an attempt at painting the monetary landscape around the globe. The dollars, euros, and yen we're all familiar with, collectively, are worth $25 trillion. This is an exercise in perspective.

4/ As many know, the response from governments worldwide to Covid-19 has been drastic, so expect big moves. Also interestingly, central banks have been much slower to update their data these days.

5/ Gold & silver is base money of the past. Government fiat is base money today. It comprises both physical cash… and a digital cash component. Bitcoin may be base money of the future. Before we get to the charts, it's important to clarify a few common misconceptions in money.

Thread – The Buffoon in the White House (Irony)

1. A pal passed this to me the other day, and I saved it for today. The author is unknown (at least to me), but this has been posted on a number of blogs. An excellent read!

Hello, friends. Today is Election Day! And that means it’s time to make my prediction for what’s going to unfold beginning this evening. Long thread incoming... (1 / ??)

As most of you know, I’ve spent the last several months building and tweaking my own Presidential election model to predict the outcome.

My hypothesis is that President Trump’s share of the vote will be pretty close to his polling averages and job approval rating since this election is going to primarily be a referendum on him.

Assuming total 3rd party vote margins revert back to normal after an unusually high percentage in 2016, the remainder of the votes will, by default, go to Joe Biden.

We won’t know if I’m right until after all the votes are counted (which will take at least a week, as per usual), but that’s how I came up with the following numbers.

I am going to be using #bitcoin & borrowing from myself to buy my first rental property.

Want to know how?

Time for a thread...👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

At the beginning of 2020 I set a goal for myself to accumulate as much #bitcoin as possible.

Now this thread isn’t really about whether or not you believe in bitcoin, but more about how to use leverage and other peoples money (OPM) to buy yourself more assets.

Let me explain...

Step 1 - I took all of 2020 to accumulate #btc and put it on an exchange (Blockfi) that pays me interest on my bitcoin.

Not only have I acquired multiple coins this year, but I’ve created a $100+ gain per month in interest as well (another source of cashflow).

I can now utilize this platform to take loans out against my position (which is in the mid 5 figures.)

Double winning:

I can take a $ amount loan out against my bitcoin and use that to pay the 15% down required on a rental property and allow the bank to pay other 85%.

How I am winning #1:

I am borrowing from myself and a bank to acquire another asset.

That real estate 🏡 will be paid for by someone else and produces more cash flow for me.

I will use that cashflow to immediately pay off the loan I took against my bitcoin.