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Adam O'Kane 💭
@adamokane 4 years, 4 months ago 1046 views

📱 Over the past 2-3 years, I screenshotted a ton of random tweets about social/product that made me think

Here they are, in chronological order, w highlights from @nikitabier, @BrianNorgard, @rsg, @Mazzeo, @prestonattebery, + many more

(sry for weird twtr cropping + threading)

literally have a folder of dozens of my fav screenshotted tweets on consumer social product stuff...and @nikitabier is well represented
— Adam O'Kane \U0001f4ad (@adamokane) February 13, 2021

h/t @Mazzeo

h/t @BrianNorgard

h/t @jmj

h/t @ianbroyles

h/t @matthieurouif

h/t @BrianNorgard

h/t @nikitabier

h/t @_DanielSinclair

h/t @schlaf

h/t @naval

h/t @TurnerNovak

h/t @nikitabier

h/t @BrianNorgard

h/t @nikitabier

h/t @juliey4

h/t @BrianNorgard

h/t @BrianNorgard & @nikitabier

h/t @JeffChang30

h/t @danielrakh

h/t @neilvoss

h/t @scottbelsky

h/t @dtrinh

h/t @rsg

h/t @nikitabier

h/t @jamesbeshara

h/t @jmj

h/t @eugenewei

h/t @basche42

h/t @hamburger

h/t @genmon

h/t @HipCityReg

h/t @BrianNorgard

h/t @gregisenberg

h/t Paari

h/t @rsg

h/t @libovness

h/t @ibringtraffic

h/t @startuployalist

h/t @juliey4

h/t @gregisenberg

h/t @jmj

h/t @BrianNorgard

h/t Paari

h/t @nikitabier

h/t @rohit_jindal29

h/t @blakeir

h/t @nikitabier

h/t @benrbn/@nikitabier

h/t @nikitabier

h/t @2irl4u

h/t @simonsarris/@kylebrussell

h/t @nikitabier

h/t @prestonattebery

h/t @WillManidis

h/t @prestonattebery

h/t @garrytan

h/t @nikitabier

h/t @TurnerNovak

h/t @spinubzilla

h/t @jacksondahl

...and that's it! Have a bunch of screenshots from articles re. social/product, may post another time

Takeaways from this: I should pay @nikitabier and the rest of you for your tweets. Can't believe this website is free!

also: hopefully this is obvious, but this isn't a comprehensive list of everything that's resonated with me on here...the word "random" in the intro tweet was intentional. Plenty of stuff others have said that I think about all the time

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John deBary
@jnd3001

I didn't drink alcohol for 2020 and now I want to talk about it in a long twitter thread that should probably just be a blog post, but here goes:

(I get into topics like alcohol abuse, mental illness, homphobia, and parental death, just fyi)

Some background first: every year I do some kind of restriction. Last year I only re-read books, another year I didn’t buy any clothes. My dad is catholic and even though I hate the religion, something about the ‘fasting’ elements of lent and advent stuck with me.

I enjoy cutting myself off from things to create space in unexpected places. It's where Innovation and creativity flourish. I did some of my best work for Momofuku Nishi, and @davidchang told me I had to create an Italian cocktail program, but nothing could come from Italy.

My family also loved wine and used connoisseurship to cast consumption in a virtuous light. Opening that 4th bottle of Chateauneuf-de-Pape was *educational*

My mom once yelled at a wine steward for not letting my then-17-year-old brother have a glass of wine with our dinner.

Wine is great though! Beer, spirits, etc. They’re all fascinating things to study on many levels. (Hello I wrote a whole cocktail book)

Plus, they’re fun to drink and usually taste delicious and accompanied most major rituals in my life: birthday, Christmas, weddings, funerals…

Ryan Reeves
@investing_city

American Express is not like Visa and Mastercard. \U0001f4b3

The business model is much more like a bank than anything else. \U0001f3e6

Business Breakdown [THREAD] \U0001f447\U0001f3fd pic.twitter.com/PvlUST0rtl
— Ryan Reeves (@investing_city) May 15, 2020

2/ Thread on how Coca-Cola makes

Did you know that Coca-Cola makes the majority of its profit from selling its secret-formula of flavoring?

Business Breakdown [THREAD] pic.twitter.com/paPLCzHhpw
— Ryan Reeves (@investing_city) June 5, 2020

3/ Thread explaining popular software

Software terms are confusing right?!

I'll try my best to explain these concepts:

- Bookings
- Billings
- Revenue
- ARR
- DBNER
- DBGRR
- DBNRR
- Deferred Revenue
- RPO

[THREAD]
— Ryan Reeves (@investing_city) August 21, 2020

4/ On consistency

If, EVERYDAY, you:

- did 10 burpees
- read 20 pages of a book
- saved $10

That would probably put you in the top quartile for health, knowledge and wealth.

Consistency is extremely undervalued.
— Ryan Reeves (@investing_city) July 13, 2020

$Charlotte Clymer \U0001f3f3\ufe0f\u200d\U0001f308$

Charlotte Clymer 🏳️‍🌈...
@cmclymer

I wrote a lot of pieces in 2020! As we close out the year, I want to share a short list of my favorites. (thread)

In March, while we all watched in horror as the Trump administration botched the initial response to the pandemic, I wrote for @Independent about the bizarre and unjust access many healthy celebrities gained to COVID tests, which were quite scarce.

In April, when it was apparent Joe Biden was on his way to winning the nomination, I wrote for @washingtonpost on why progressives should have optimism about a Biden White House.

In June, the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling affirming employment protections for LGBTQ people. It's cause for celebration, but as I wrote for @Cosmopolitan: this is a mere fraction of LGBTQ equality. We *must* pass the Equality Act.

That same month brought controversy as J.K. Rowling seemed to be completely unaware of the violence and discrimination faced by trans and non-binary people. So, I wrote about my own experiences in that vein for @USAToday in the hopes of educating folks:

Wisdom Theory
@wisdom_theory

LMM @LifeMathMoney has built one of the strongest brands on Twitter, brilliantly using mental models, here the top 10.

Thread

1. Scientific method:

LMM continually tests and monitors the impact of each tweet and blog post.

He measures the impact of their ideas, which are sometimes radical, seeking to have a loyal rather than broad follower base.

2. Leverage:

Everything LMM does is leveraged. Guides, tweets, blog... he writes once and he reaches thousands of people.

He is one of those who best understands that the internet is a huge lever, which allows to disassociate time and money.

3. Compound interest:

LMM has been adding value for 2 years, from the beginning, knowing that time plays in favor of compound interest.

Its growth is brutal, reaching 200k followers. The more people LMM knows, the more his ideas will spread and the stronger his brand will be.

4. Resilience:

LMM writes a lot about the mindset. He knows that resilience, getting over the bad times is the way to success.

In today's society, where everything is effortlessly wanted, LMM relies on the fact that a fall is not fatal, it is just a lesson along the way.

$Ghost Rat (Rata Fantasma) \U0001f47b\U0001f400\U0001f637$

Ghost Rat (Rata Fantas...
@The_Ghost_Rat

My updated recommended follows for February 20, 2021. Let me know if you want to be removed or added. To be added, we need to be following each other.

Faves (1/1)
@AndyPopeInTheW1
@CHQM8_tx
@Dubes123
@daralynn13
@_HypoLuxa_
@KtBoBt
@kharly
@ImpeachmentHour
@liberal_elder
@LtUhura2017
@MysterySolvent
@Natgcoh
@officialHJesus
@orangepeel18
@RancidGinger
@RKJ65
@robinskyleigh
@Ronnis_Joy
@Texan_21C
@umanoid
@wendimyb
@Wikweko

The Rat follows… (1/9)
@1Angry_lioness
@admiralmpj
@AFlyover
@afrugal1
@agent_orangutan
@ALT_MyName
@american2084
@AquaVelvaBoy
@AndraDoesCare
@AreYouis
@AryaKicksButt
@AshidMapanzigan
@bamableu
@benFranklin2018
@BeyondBlonde3
@bfs2020
@BiglyPrez
@bkaydw
@Black2thBone

The Rat follows… (2/9)
@Blackbear5
@Brasilmagic
@Brian_Chovanec
@briansantacruz
@CajunSiouxsie
@Carpediem4989
@CaliPhil
@carlisamantha
@ChafedCharlie
@ChampagneSane
@ChanningStephe5
@chaturner
@Chewythewookie1
@ChrisA_425
@CIAnderson3
@ColleenHenley
@Cosette2016
@da_kotarski

The Rat follows… (3/9)
@DarbysCastle
@DarrollHough
@DawnChristine2
@dawnwc
@DeepInTheHills
@DocAtCDI
@DonPayne17
@DrEttaM1
@Eiggam5955
@elle_desylva
@fleurdeliselle
@georginapond1
@GirlNamedBoston
@GonzoBaggins
@grammytammyd
@grannieof10kids
@gypsyphototaker
@HIHKatharine

Khandela Raja Bahadur Singh, who became a rebel due to the anti-Hindu policies of Aurangzeb, and to destroy the temples of Shekhawati. Bahadur Singh to compete with such a large army, vacated Khandela for the purpose of conducting guerilla warfare and went Kot Sakrai /2

located in the inaccessible hills of Sakrai. People of Khandela also vacated Khandela and hid in nearby villages.

But some Shekhawat warriors did not like this as they knew that the royal army would not leave a single temple located in Shekhawati unbroken./3

so soon the teams of self-sacrificing Dharma-protectors Shekhawat heroes started reaching Khandela to protect the Dev temples.

Sujan Singh Shekhawat, the young thakur of Chhapoli, was coming back from his wedding when he heard about the imperial army from Shepherds./4

झिरमीर झिरमिर मेहा बरसे,मोरां छतरी छाई |
कुल में है तो आव सुजाण, फोज देवरे आई ||

if you are born in your glorious clan, then come, the army have come to destroy temple. /5

Jaya_Upadhyaya
@Jayalko1

RISHI BHRINGI AND ARDHA-NAREESHWAR SHIVA

Rishi Bhringi was a devoted bhakt of Mahadev. However, in his devotion to Shiva, he ignored Mata Parvati.

Once, he visited Kailasha along with other Rishis. All the Rishis did parikrama of Shiva and Parvati both except Rishi Bhringi.

The same situation continued whenever Rishi Bhringi visited Kailasha. Mata Parvati decided to teach him that Shiva and Parvati are one and inseparable.
So on one such visit, Mata Parvati sat on the left lap of Mahadev when Rishi Bhringi came.

Seeing this, Rishi Bhringi took the form of a bee(some say bird) and did pradakshina/ parikrama only around Shiva’s head and ignored Ma Parvati.
Angered Mata took away the Shakti from his body. Rishi lost his blood and flesh and was left with a bare skeletal form.

Seeing him in such a situation where he was unable to support himself, Shiva granted a third leg to him.
Shiva then fused one half of his body with that of Ma Parvati and appeared as Ardha Nareeshwar.
Rishi Bhringi finally realised that Shiv and Shakti are one and the same.
🙏🏻

Zena Hitz
@zenahitz

I just finished Eric Adler's The Battle of the Classics, and wanted to say something about Joel Christiansen's review linked below. I am not sure what motivates the review (I speculate a bit below), but it gives a very misleading impression of the book. 1/x

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

Jaya_Upadhyaya
@Jayalko1

JWALAMUKHI TRIPURASUNDARI, UTHANAHALLI, MYSURU (KAR)
#bharatmandir

Jwalamukhi Tripursundari is believed to be the sister of Devi Chamundeshwari, the presiding deity of Mysuru
It is also that she represents the flaming mouth of Jalandhara, the demon whom Shiva crushed to death.

When Devi Chamundeswari was fighting Mahishasura, she observed that from every drop of blood that spilled out of Mahishasura, another demon was born. So she created Tripurasundari to ensure that no blood dripped from Mahishasura.

Tripura Sundari means beauty of the three worlds.
The murti was installed during Wodeyar rule. An utsava murti made of pancha loha is kept in the sanctum sanctorum.
Another shrine here is dedicated to Siddeshwara / Shiva surrounded by a beautiful wooden Mantapa.
@GunduHuDuGa

Seth Abramson
@SethAbramson

(MAJOR NOTE) The reason Manafort took over Trump's campaign in just 3 weeks despite being hired as a mere delegate counter is that ROGER STONE initiated a whisper campaign against Corey Lewandowski. That campaign started...days after Manafort returned from meeting with WikiLeaks.

2/ Stone and Manafort are longtime business partners; we'd expect Manafort to tell Stone what Assange told him, and for him to expect Stone to then pressure the campaign not only to hire him but quickly elevate him.

And who was Stone in touch with at the campaign? Trump himself.

3/ I bet you Manafort's late March emails are very interesting and that some of them are to/from his longtime business associate Roger Stone. And I bet Roger Stone's late March phone calls are very interesting and that some of them are to/from his longtime friend Donald Trump.

4/ At the end of March 2016, Trump suddenly convenes a NatSec meeting. At that meeting he directs his NatSec team to change the RNC platform in July to benefit Putin. Who later takes credit for that change?

Paul Manafort's business associate, Kremlin agent Konstantin Kilimnick.

5/ Why did Donald Trump suddenly convene a NatSec meeting 3 days after he finally hired Manafort? Why did he issue a pro-Kremlin directive at that meeting that Manafort's camp would later take credit for? What did Manafort tell Trump in the days leading up to that NatSec meeting?

📱 Over the past 2-3 years, I screenshotted a ton of random tweets about social/product that made me thinkHere they are, in chronological order, w highlights from @nikitabier, @BrianNorgard, @rsg, @Mazzeo, @prestonattebery, + many more(sry for weird twtr cropping + threading)

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📱 Over the past 2-3 years, I screenshotted a ton of random tweets about social/product that made me think

Here they are, in chronological order, w highlights from @nikitabier, @BrianNorgard, @rsg, @Mazzeo, @prestonattebery, + many more

(sry for weird twtr cropping + threading)