Protesters have breached the Capitol. They’re outside the Senate chamber

This is happening

Police officers are holding them steps away from the Senate chamber, which is locked. Senators are inside. I see a few confederate flags.

Some sort of gas has been set off. I’m not sure by whom. Police seem to be trying to deescalate and talk to them.

“If we don’t get justice, this will never stop,” one protester yells

I count about 10 protesters by the Ohio Clock

People ask me all the time, what are the most valuable things I learned working at Facebook. I worked there for three years as a PM → Director of Product. (1/x)

Here they are 👇

1/ Just because something is hard to know, doesn’t mean it is unknowable. Similarly, just because something is hard to do, doesn’t mean it can’t or shouldn’t be done.

2/ Rigor and quality of thought is critical to building great products. When you can build anything, structured thinking is essential.

3/ Understand. Identify. Execute. In that order, every time. (h/t @naomersg ) Too many people do it in reverse, skip a step, or do a bad job at any point.

4/ Crisp communication is the key to everything. (h/t @SadiSKhan)

Here are all the businesses I’ve tried:

(Half of them failed)

👇

Training Spectrum

A website showcasing local sports talent, health and fitness articles and interviews with personal trainers.

Started at 17. Lasted 4-5 months.

Food & Drink

A local website listing restaurants in each city (before Zomato was a thing).

Started at 18. Lasted 6-7 months.

Ambitionaire

An online magazine interviewing entrepreneurs for aspiring entrepreneurs.

Started at 18. Lasted 3 months.

10 Question Poll

A website asking 10 random funny questions and you share your results with friends.

Started at 22. Lasted 3 months.

#WealthOfNations I.ii is all about the secret sauce origin story: why does the division of labor happen in the first place? #AdamSmith illustrates (in part) with doggos to hold our attention. (I.ii.2,5) 🐶 #WealthOfTweets #SmithTweets #DoggosDontTrade

Divsion of labor, Smith said yesterday, is responsible for a whole heckuva lot. But who thought of it? Nobody! It's "not originally the effect of any human wisdom, which foresees and intends that general opulence to which it gives occasion." (I.ii.1) #WealthOfTweets #SmithTweets

There's no mastermind behind economic exchange, our "propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another" (I.ii.1) arises out of our natural tendency to persuade one another and better our condition. #WealthOfTweets #SmithTweets

Yeah, there's a lot in that first paragraph. #WealthOfTweets #SmithTweets

You know what's coming, right? 🍖🍻🍞 Butchers, brewers, bakers: they don't make us things because they love us. They're not our moms. (I.ii.2) #WealthOfTweets #SmithTweets

1/ Brexit politics is built on fear. Frightened people tend to seek security in the tribe. Once that tribe might have been the Labour movement, but now in a fragmented post-industrial society it is the nation. Tribal identification is emotional, not rational.

2/ A tribe that feels under threat wants to control its borders, and who enters into its territory. It demands loyalty and solidarity, and its prime virtue is self-sacrifice - economic arguments won't persuade tribalists. Its members want to feel it is strong and powerful.

3/ Tribalism at a time of crisis is intolerant of dissent. The tribe must pull together against its enemies. Dissent and questioning cause division and disrupt the collective effort. Criticism is seen as treason. The Brexit right have ruthlessly exploited tribal psychology.

4/ To understand Brexit politics it is necessary to understand that the working and middle classes are dead as coherent political forces and that frightened and insecure people are now clinging to the only available powerful tribe, the nation-tribe.

5/ The Brexit right understands and ruthlessly exploits basic social emotions. In contrast the centre and centre-left mostly can see no further than the blinkered logic of rational individualism, from which perspective everything else is irrational and incomprehensible.

A man's greatest gift to a woman is her femininity, or perhaps more accurately stated - the safety and freedom to embrace her femininity, to connect with the purity and innocence of her inner child, warm and loving with all the grace, charm and happiness that entails.

The "strong independent woman" will never know this joy, for it is only a man who can give this gift to a woman, she can never realise it for herself by herself.

Women are not at their best when they're alone, they're at their best with a strong but loving and competent man.

Every woman's quest in a relationship with her man is to find her way home, to rediscover and connect with the sweet parts of herself she thought she'd lost

And she can only do this by completely surrendering herself to him.

Of course, such a man must be worthy or she'll suffer

And that's why submission to a man is not weak, but in fact, an act of supreme bravery for the feminine.

To put one's fate in another's hands, and trust that it will not be violated.

That she chose correctly, and he is not only a competent man, but a good man.

SHOW DAUGHTER.

There's a tragic irony to Johnson's love of Churchill.

When Churchill became prime minister, he said: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat". He was honest about the severity of the situation and what it entailed. He didn't pretend everything would magically be alright.

Johnson's approach is the exact opposite. He runs from bad news like a dog from fireworks. He invents nonsense timetables by which everything will be fine.

He assumes the public need constant good news and sacrifices his own trustworthiness in order to provide it - it'll be over in six weeks, by Easter, by summer, by Christmas, by February, whatever.

It's equivalent to Churchill using his first speech as PM to insist the war will be over by Christmas.

This Day in Labor History: January 5, 1914. Henry Ford announced his famous $5 a day wage to his workers. But let's be clear; Ford was a horrible human who treated his workers awful. He's no model and we need to talk about this!

Turnover was a massive problem for employers through the early 20th century. The horrors of industrialization combined with callousness of employers to lead to workers constantly seeking a job that was just a little bit less terrible than the last.

The growth of assembly line work made this worse because it was so boring. Treating a worker like a machine, as Henry Ford did, deskilled and depressed workers who had once partially defined themselves through their physical labor.

This labor was just as physical and exhausting, but required no thinking and provided no satisfaction. Thus the Ford Motor Company had the same turnover problems as other industries. In 1913, the turnover rate for the company was 370 percent.

Ford decided he needed to do something about this turnover. So he began to think about what would become known as welfare capitalism.

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant:

↓

“The more you know, the less you diversify.” — @naval

“Become the best in the world at what you do, keep redefining what you do until this is true.” — @naval

“Optimistic contrarians are the rarest breed.” — @naval

“Earn with your mind, not your time.” — @naval

As things in the economy go from manipulated to ultra-manipulated, make sure you're ready for totally extreme changes. Although only a few companies are driving the stock indexes, they are heavily dependent on policy decisions and the aggressive addition of more fiat units into..

the collective global system. COVID policies, drastic changes in spending habits, lack of earnings power for the masses, are all likely to have a shocking liquidity experience to the system in the coming year. The amount of breadth at which the impairment will occur is nearly..

impossible to predict or forecast. The first chart I posted is simply demonstrating my opinion that the system is becoming increasingly unstable and the aperture for potential outcomes is widening. As policymakers respond to growing volatility (on a global level), their...

coordination is going to become more important, yet more difficult to achieve. I've mentioned many times before that the "printing" is becoming more and more competitive and has evolved into the ultimate 'Tragedy Of The Commons' situation where currency debasement is...

the "scarce" resource they are competing to insert into their own self-interested domains faster than their neighbors. Although one can expect dramatic credit impairment which can cause financial markets to crash in a fantastic fashion & in short order, policy responses will be

I increasingly believe that the only successful approach to productivity is treating yourself like an addict

If you want to stop drinking alcohol, don't keep it in the house 🙅

Here's how I keep myself productive:

1. Clean Out The Cupboards 📱

I use iOS Screen Time to block all social media, news, and yes, EMAIL, from my phone.

I also remove the ability to install new apps.

My wife set the code, so I don't have any easy way to get around it.

2. Add Guiderails 🚆

On my Mac, I have an automation that quits all apps each morning before I get to work and pulls up OmniFocus on the screen, so it's always the first thing I see when I open my computer and can't go down a rabbit trail.

3. Reduce Dopamine Hits 🥱

I use to spend my entire day in my inbox.

As I'd send emails, new ones would stream in constantly, and before I'd know it I'd spent 4-5 hours just responding to emails instead of moving important projects or individual work forward.

I setup @Mailman_HQ, a Gmail plug-in @mohitmamoria and I built, to only deliver email once in the morning and once in the early afternoon, and to automatically batch any emails from anyone I hadn't emailed with before at 7AM...

1. Thread.

In light of tomorrow's congressional session to record the electoral votes, and for conservatives and Republicans who claim to look for guidance to the Founders, a short thread from Federalist #68.

2. "It was desirable that the sense of the people should operate in the choice of the person to whom so important a trust was to be confided. This end will be answered by committing the right of making it, not to any pre-established body...

3. "...but to men chosen by the people for the special purpose, and at the particular conjuncture...It was also peculiarly desirable to afford as little opportunity as possible to tumult and disorder...But the precautions which have been so happily concerted...

4. "...in the system under consideration promise an effectual security against this mischief...As the electors, chosen in each state, are to assemble and vote in the state in which they are chosen, this detached and divided situation will expose them much less...

5. "...to heats and ferments, which might be communicated from them to the people, than if they were all to be convened at one time, in one place. Nothing was more to be desired than that every practicable obstacle should be opposed to cabal, intrigue, and corruption...

@curaffairs The author doesn't know enough about search to have written that article and the reason he's having those problems is AI algos like Rank Brain and Google's attempts to use natural language processing nothing to do with SEOs.

1/x

YMYL is not evaluated at the site level, but the query level.

Again this is on Google, not SEOs because they want to surface better sites.

And those devaluations are part of Core Updates which SEOs like me recover sites from.

2/

Featured Snippets are not optimized for - you can use certain HTML to be pulled in one but there is no definite use case where Featured Snippets are shown or that your site's will show for it. Also doesn't always come from the #1 result.

& that's Google not the SEO.

3/

Also there are many times when an SEO doesn't want their site in the Featured Snippet cuz it doesn't result in a click to the website. But we have no control over what Google pulls as Feature Snippets except to put in a meta tag to exclude us from them

4/

And Neil Patel is not an SEO. Most senior level SEOs see him as nothing more than a scammer because reportedly he's ripped them off by stealing their content and articles and passing them off as his.

5/

Practically speaking, there're only three possible things you can do with the Woke, two strong, one weak. This is because it is a psychpathic takeover ideology.

1) Play ball (weak)
2) Ignore (strong)
3) Resist (strong)

1) (weak) Acquiesce and try to compromise, which will always pull you into their vortex and destroy/zombify you and your organization.

You *cannot* win this way. You will eventually lose this way. They *will* wear you down eventually, or catch you in a soft spot and beat you.

2) Ignore them and barrel on without fighting them or acquiescing or trying to compromise. Live like their nonsense is irrelevant to your life and make no decisions out of fear.

This requires the exact strength of character they try to erode. Keep the faith. Barrel on.

3) Go hard. Lean into whatever they say you can't do, with style and savvy, ideally, and, when they hit you, hit back harder, every time.

Don't do this unless you know what you're doing, ideally including understanding the ideology enough not to be a "backlash."

Trump (and I) are (3). Turns you radioactive with all Wokies and 1s. Most "reasonable" people are trying (1), and so we're getting rolled. Most people should be doing (2). People who can need to do (3).

An important lesson of the post-Cold War era, learned far too late: allowing totalitarian regimes to interface with the political, economic, and media systems of free nations is like installing a dangerous virus on a computer.

The suicidal folly of globalism was believing the reverse: that freedom and democracy would leak into totalitarian systems and produce quiet revolutions. As we know after 30 years of disastrous experimentation, tyranny is FAR more viral than liberty in the modern world.

Tyranny, like a computer virus, breaks all the rules that allow free markets and democracies to function. Tyranny ruthlessly exploits "weaknesses" in the code of free systems, working from beyond the reach of the legal or social enforcement systems in targeted nations.

Tyrannical nations use brutal methods to extract value from their people, then invest that value to target and destroy industries in free countries, taking control of important supply chains with production unencumbered by the costs free societies impose on their companies.

Tyrannical nations easily overwhelm the media of free societies with propaganda, ideological content and official lies. A tyranny can run op-eds in free-world newspapers while silencing all dissent, both foreign and domestic, in its own state media.

#खऱ्या_स्वातंत्र्याचे_शिल्पकार यामध्ये मी शाहू महाराजांवर लिहायला सुरवात करत आहे. आता तुम्हाला प्रश्न पडला असेल की जे शाहू महाराज हे शिवछत्रपतींचे वारसदार असून सुद्धा त्यांनी ब्रिटिशांविरुद्ध आवाज उठवला नव्हता, स्वातंत्र्य चळवळीला उघड पाठिंबा दिला नव्हता, बंडखोरी केली नव्हती 👇

तरी ते #खऱ्या_स्वातंत्र्याचे_शिल्पकार कसे काय? पहिलं म्हणजे स्वातंत्र्याचा अर्थ फक्त ब्रिटिश सत्तेपासून मुक्तता एवढाच होत नाही. कोणत्याही बंधनातून मुक्तता किंवा अन्यायकारक परिस्थितीतून सुटका असा स्वातंत्र्याचा अर्थ मी घेतो. आणि शाहू महाराजांनी अनेक स्वातंत्र्ये मिळवून दिली 👇

म्हणून ते मला #खऱ्या_स्वातंत्र्याचे_शिल्पकार वाटतात.
दुसरं म्हणजे त्यांनी उघडपणे ब्रिटिशांविरुद्ध लढा का नाही उभारला? यासाठी आपल्याला तो काळ समजून घ्यावा लागेल. व्यापार, आरमार, सैन्यबळ, विज्ञान, तंत्रज्ञान अशा प्रत्येक क्षेत्रात ब्रिटिश प्रगत होते. 👇

जगातील सर्वांत प्रगत अशा ब्रिटिशांची गाठ ज्ञान-विज्ञान यामध्ये मागासलेल्या हिंदुस्थानशी पडली. ब्रिटिशांनी सन १७५७ च्या प्लासीच्या लढाईने आपल्या साम्राज्यसत्तेची मुहूर्तमेढ रोवली आणि अवघ्या १०० वर्षांत, सन १८५७ पर्यंत, आसेतुहिमाचल साम्राज्य स्थापन केले. 👇

यापूर्वी आपल्या देशावर मुघलांनी देशील आक्रमण केले, मात्र त्यांची प्रेरणा धार्मिक व राजकीय होती. ब्रिटिश मात्र 'व्यापारी साम्राज्यवाद' घेऊन आले होते. ते आर्थिक लूट अशा अर्थनीतीने करत की आपण कधी आणि कसे लुटले गेलो हेही समजत नसे. याच साम्राज्यवादाने सुवर्णभूमी असणारा आपला देश 👇

@jyothsna_tdp @seethakkaMLA @revanth_anumula @sunita_krishnan @RahulGandhi @MahilaCongress
@priyankagandhi @K_Nageshwar @asadowaisi @akbarowaisii @imAkbarOwaisi -Respected Sir/Mam
I am S. Narayanamma my daughter @Snarasamma has working in Govt. Printing press, hyderabad

hyderabad is sexually harassed by 9 male officers, like following/ watching when she is going to use wash room, in the corridors, bus stops, canteen, made false allegations blaming on personal character using abusive words like GAND PE MARKE BHAGHATE, GAND MAIN UNGLI DALTE SALEY,

roaming like newly married couple, by snapping the officer can take each lady to outside from office, taking of photos when she is taking lunch in the office and putting them on the banners by blaming that her character is bad etc., done by 9 male officers.

FIR also filed on them with IPC 354,506,509,166 sections. But the saidabad cops are not filed charge sheet on accused and protecting them by giving false reports against me due to lack of evidence continuously. This is not friendly police. This is enemy police against ladies.

This case has proved in State & National Commission for Women & the reports are clearly stated to suspend the accused but the HODS & cops are not considering these reports. Reversely she was suspended for 2 years on false allegations & encouraging the sexual harassment

@ElJeppy @LLinWood @realDonaldTrump @GenFlynn @SidneyPowell1 If you're really interested, I'll provide an answer, but you must read through to the end, because you have asked a serious and deep question which can't be answered in a single tweet. If not, disregard my posts:

"much of the social history of the western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good"

-thomas sowell

"hold my beer and watch this"

-andrew cuomo

though i suppose none of us should be surprised.

we live in a time when epidemiologists said that mass protests during a pandemic were OK so long as they were for "social justice"

massively delaying vaccine rollouts for the same reason seems like the next obvious policy.

how about this?

"anyone who needs to go protest racism, sexism, the patriarchy, or the police gets vaccine priority"

i hope i am joking.

i fear i may not be.