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#Twitterstory!!! I'm bored!!
My friend went to visit her family & called me breathlessly in the middle of the night!
Beth: OH MY GOSH I HAD THE SCARIEST DREAM! I WOKE UP SCREAMING!!
Me: What was it?!
Beth: I was driving the Buick Riviera down a country road...
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Me: (now almost yelling myself!) What was it??!!!
Beth: IT WAS SO SCARY! (she squeals)
Me: WHAT???!!
Beth: A PINECONE!!!
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Beth: It was terrible! It was so awful!! It stood up right in front of the car in the headlights, and I SCREAMED and then it opened its eyes and threw up its arms and screamed at me with little teeth and I RAN OVER IT!!!!
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That was followed by...
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My friend, by the way, was the sweetest nicest person I'd ever met. She never cursed.
"Ring Ring" said my phone.
Through the window I heard another scream.
#^#*#$#*#&!!!!" Said my phone...
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#PineConeChristmas
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As a dean of a major academic institution, I could not have said this. But I will now. Requiring such statements in applications for appointments and promotions is an affront to academic freedom, and diminishes the true value of diversity, equity of inclusion by trivializing it. https://t.co/NfcI5VLODi
— Jeffrey Flier (@jflier) November 10, 2018
We know that elite institutions like the one Flier was in (partial) charge of rely on irrelevant status markers like private school education, whiteness, legacy, and ability to charm an old white guy at an interview.
Harvard's discriminatory policies are becoming increasingly well known, across the political spectrum (see, e.g., the recent lawsuit on discrimination against East Asian applications.)
It's refreshing to hear a senior administrator admits to personally opposing policies that attempt to remedy these basic flaws. These are flaws that harm his institution's ability to do cutting-edge research and to serve the public.
Harvard is being eclipsed by institutions that have different ideas about how to run a 21st Century institution. Stanford, for one; the UC system; the "public Ivys".
To celebrate, here are the 22 best threads I’ve found on Twitter this year.
Mostly about:
•Life/purpose
•Startups
•Entrepreneurs
•Writing
•Clarity of thought
If I see more interesting threads, I will add to this list.
Enjoy!
1. @ryanstephens: Need tips on growing a newsletter, mastering Twitter, writing online?
@ryanstephens breaks down a podcast discussion between @davidperell and @nathanbarry
Here’s what you can
"The Writing Guy" @david_perell recently joined the re-launch of @Nathanbarry's podcast to discuss growing your newsletter, mastering Twitter, writing online and monetizing your efforts.
— Ryan Stephens \U0001f943 (@ryanstephens) December 16, 2020
Here's what you can learn from him.
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2. @jackbutcher: How to separate your time from your income
•Explore the market
•Build equity
•Build products and services
•Scale your reputation
•Break the matrix
A fantastic thread complete with helpful
Divorce your time and income: (thread)
— Jack Butcher (@jackbutcher) July 18, 2020
3. @AlexAndBooks_: I love to read.
Here is a great thread on 10 fantastic books.
Includes a short summary of each.
Don’t just take it from me, this is straight from the legend: @AlexAndBooks_
I read 55 books in 2020.
— Alex and Books \U0001f4da (@AlexAndBooks_) December 29, 2020
Here are my top 10 favorites and a short summary of each.
(thread) \U0001f9f5 pic.twitter.com/yRyOFEygQ0
4. @m_franceschetti My biggest revelation in 2020 was the importance of sleep.
Here, @m_franceschetti founder of @eightsleep gives us his eight sleep hacks to improve sleep for 2021.
Do these and your productivity will
Sleep is always my top priority, and will continue to be in 2021. It is foundational to all health.
— Matteo Franceschetti (@m_franceschetti) January 4, 2021
I\u2019ve compiled a list of my top 8 sleep hacks that I use everyday to improve my sleep. If you are trying to improve your sleep in 2021, this thread is for you. \U0001f447
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As someone\u2019s who\u2019s read the book, this review strikes me as tremendously unfair. It mostly faults Adler for not writing the book the reviewer wishes he had! https://t.co/pqpt5Ziivj
— Teresa M. Bejan (@tmbejan) January 12, 2021
The meat of the criticism is that the history Adler gives is insufficiently critical. Adler describes a few figures who had a great influence on how the modern US university was formed. It's certainly critical: it focuses on the social Darwinism of these figures. 2/x
Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x
The core question: in what sense is classics inherently racist? Classics is old. On Adler's account, it begins in ancient Rome and is revived in the Renaissance. Slavery (Christiansen's primary concern) is also very old. Let's say classics is an education for slaveowners. 4/x
It's worth remembering that literacy itself is elite throughout most of this history. Literacy is, then, also the education of slaveowners. We can honor oral and musical traditions without denying that literacy is, generally, good. 5/x