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If you're looking in the right places, the internet is a treasure trove.
The best internet gems you've never heard of:
I'll share 20+ tools, so I'll start by breaking them into 4 categories.
Tools that:
• Give perspective
• You can play with
• Center around data
• Can help creators
The common theme across all is that no one "needed" to make them, but we're all better off bc someone did.
1. Let's start with tools that give perspective!
These often solicit both of these reactions:
• Who the hell made this?!
• I love that person
For example, this site which puts into perspective just how much a billion dollars is.
Hint: It's a lot.
https://t.co/KVSWcd6jbq
2. Here's another fun one: emojis to scale
Get a sense of how the emojis that you use every day, compare in size IRL...
From the 3mm mosquito 🦟 to the 9500000000000km Milky Way
3. Speaking of mosquitos, did you know that they're the most deadly animal in the world?
I bet you also didn't know that eating 1k 🍌 is more dangerous than a 🦘 encounter.
Thankfully, this graphic maps out our likelihood of death.
The more you
The best internet gems you've never heard of:
I'll share 20+ tools, so I'll start by breaking them into 4 categories.
Tools that:
• Give perspective
• You can play with
• Center around data
• Can help creators
The common theme across all is that no one "needed" to make them, but we're all better off bc someone did.
1. Let's start with tools that give perspective!
These often solicit both of these reactions:
• Who the hell made this?!
• I love that person
For example, this site which puts into perspective just how much a billion dollars is.
Hint: It's a lot.
https://t.co/KVSWcd6jbq

This is wild.
— Steph Smith (@stephsmithio) July 26, 2020
Regardless of how you feel about billionaires, this is an exercise that everyone should go through.https://t.co/RuYegk7CMn
2. Here's another fun one: emojis to scale
Get a sense of how the emojis that you use every day, compare in size IRL...
From the 3mm mosquito 🦟 to the 9500000000000km Milky Way
This is super neat: emojis to scale
— Steph Smith (@stephsmithio) January 21, 2022
h/t @ImJacobCohen
\U0001f69c<\U0001f992<\U0001f996<\U0001f3e0<\U0001f6e9\ufe0f<\U0001f334<\U0001f68e<\U0001f335<\U0001f40bhttps://t.co/3uNaPoiJ50 pic.twitter.com/bz0Bmpvn0v
3. Speaking of mosquitos, did you know that they're the most deadly animal in the world?
I bet you also didn't know that eating 1k 🍌 is more dangerous than a 🦘 encounter.
Thankfully, this graphic maps out our likelihood of death.
The more you
Likelihood of death:
— Steph Smith (@stephsmithio) January 15, 2022
Everest ascent
> Waking @ 90
> BASE jumping
> Day of birth
> Giving birth
> Using MDMA
> Skydiving
> Marathon
> Waking @ 45
> Scuba diving
> 48h in NYC
> 1h in coal mine
> Eating 1k bananas
> Driving 230mi
> Walking 20mi
> Day of skiing
> Kangaroo encounter pic.twitter.com/hQ2nBYkw5x
In 1994, Jeff Bezos famously spotted a stat that made him leave his high-paying PE job to start Amazon:
💡 The Internet was growing 2300% per year.
What are the generation-defining stats of today?
I'll post a few to kick things off...
💡 The cost of mapping a genome has fallen ~100,000% over the last 15 years.
If that doesn't speak to you, we're talking about $100m down to <$1k – faster than Moore's law.
💡 College tuition has outpaced how much people earn by almost 10x.
I'll just let this one speak for itself.
h/t https://t.co/IUn2i52tYQ
💡 Cyber insurance loss ratios have increased for years, despite exponentially growing rates.
Loss ratio = (costs + claim payments)/premiums
In other words, cyber security is becoming an exponential issue.
💡 The percentage of men under 30 not having sex has tripled in the last ~decade.
I'm not sure what percentage of those men are now having sex in the "metaverse".
💡 The Internet was growing 2300% per year.
What are the generation-defining stats of today?
I'll post a few to kick things off...
💡 The cost of mapping a genome has fallen ~100,000% over the last 15 years.
If that doesn't speak to you, we're talking about $100m down to <$1k – faster than Moore's law.

💡 College tuition has outpaced how much people earn by almost 10x.
I'll just let this one speak for itself.
h/t https://t.co/IUn2i52tYQ

💡 Cyber insurance loss ratios have increased for years, despite exponentially growing rates.
Loss ratio = (costs + claim payments)/premiums
In other words, cyber security is becoming an exponential issue.

💡 The percentage of men under 30 not having sex has tripled in the last ~decade.
I'm not sure what percentage of those men are now having sex in the "metaverse".
