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Adam O'Kane 💭
@adamokane 5 years, 6 months ago 1469 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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$Nikhil Agrawal \U0001f40e$

Nikhil Agrawal 🐎...
@NikhilAgrawal44

Here are some of the best threads I've ever read on Twitter,

All related to

- Startups
- Entrepreneurship
- Indiehacker
- Wealth
- Health
- Life nd philosophy

I'll keep updating them regularly

Read below 👇

1. Getting reach without being luck, best tweet ever by

How to Get Rich (without getting lucky):
— Naval (@naval) May 31, 2018

2. On meditation by

Meditation - The Art of Doing Nothing:
— Naval (@naval) May 16, 2020

3. On college and eduction by

I\u2019ve gotten a lot of bad advice in my career and I see even more of it here on Twitter.

Time for a stiff drink and some truth you probably dont want to hear.

\U0001f447\U0001f447
— Nick Huber (@sweatystartup) January 3, 2021

4. "Deep Year" concept by

Obsessed with this idea:

Pick a niche I'm interested in.
Write/study daily about the topic.
Write 100 articles in a year.
Get SEO traffic.
Build email list.
Ask them what they want and build it.
Sell products (physical or digital).

Start fresh with a new niche next year.
— Jordan O'Connor (@jdnoc) July 28, 2020

Cosmic Penguin
@Cosmic_Penguin

So regarding to my "bombshell"...it's perhaps a bit less dramatic than many presumed, yet it still troubles me a lot, to the point that I wondered whether I should stop posting on certain things

I'm going to make a bomb shell statement here around the turn of the year, something so risky that I face prospects of the Twitter account being attacked or even banned.

It's about my very uneasy Twitter experience over the past 2-6 months, the worst I could ever remember.
— Cosmic Penguin (@Cosmic_Penguin) December 31, 2020

You see, I realized in the last few months that, by translating information and news related to one of the fastest growing spaceflight powers of the world...I inadvertently became a spreader of PRC propaganda.

And with me exactly 180 degrees away from them, I feel scared.

It actually started a few years ago - it's not hard to meet Chinese Twitter users interested in spaceflight, either those living overseas or find a way to climb over the wall. Not surprisingly, many of these S/F enthusiasts are interested in their own military too.

This steadily grew with my followers' count until the flagship Chinese spaceflight missions of 2020 (Chang'e 5 especially but also many others) brought in dozens of them liking/re-tweeting my info tweets sometimes, and similar no. of such followers every month.

I do casually check these new followers/users sometimes. To my horror, far too many of them routinely insults, attacks, mocks others who they see as "anti-China" or spread potential mis-information, even blatant attacks, that started off w/ their state media/spokesperson.

Allie Eve Knox
@allieeveknox

Why are SWs freaking out right now? (This gets bumpy, hold on.)

Twitter came through and deleted a ton of accounts. We are worried that we are next. It could be nudity, it could be retweets, it could be content posted- we don't know. And while Twitter has clear rules, SWs get

Punished often for not even breaking the rules but just existing, so we are on edge.

Twitter/IG/TikTok are ways we advertise and build a base so when we get deplatformed without explanation, we have to start from scratch somewhere else. We lose years of contacts/content.

So, what is driving these tightened restrictions?

It could be a bunch of laws. FOSTA/SESTA came through a few years ago & made it very unsafe for SWs, both online and real time workers. It even crippled businesses like sex educators and therapists. This was a bipartisan effort.

Bc of these laws, platforms censored their content and users. Remember those Craigslist ads? Meet up groups? Bad date lists?

All gone when F/S came through. So let's move to EARN IT. EI is in limbo right now, just waiting on the new term to get rolling. It isn't dead.

EI is gonna be the every man's F/S. EI is gonna censor so many of YOU READING THIS and then what will you do!? (More of that later.)

Fuck. Ok. Then we have Section 230, also just fucking chillin, waiting for passing. 230 is gonna make it to where sites will be held liable

Calvin Chu
@calchulus

Here's the one thread you need to read on BSC to actually DYOR and stop listening to all these talking heads on Twitter:

1. last year, Binance launched a PoA-based EVM compatible chain, compatible with common tools like metamask, trustwallet, etc. It works with ur eth address

2. this point of interoperability is important, because a user doesn't need to deal with new wallets or infrastructure to use this chain, whereas past projects like Tron required you to download a new set of tools (TronLink wallet, use tronscan, etc.)

3. Disclaimer: This chain operates with 21 validators that have staked BNB. It is currently centralised, and can be conclusively described as permissioned (aka binance has selected who can operate these nodes and thus can have influence over this chain).

4. However, while that means the chain in theory could be manipulated by B, there are incentives to not screw over users' funds, double spend or rehypothecate anything. why? because it can jeopardise more lucrative business of

5. think of it like proof-of-staked reputation. These attacks put binance in the most likely position to be attacked by double spends or other malicious activity on chain, in which binance, which custodies the mainnet real assets of many chains, is on the hook if things go wrong.

Cory Doctorow #BLM
@doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Dependency Confusion; Adam Curtis on criti-hype; Catalytic converter theft; Apple puts North Dakota on blast; and more!

Archived at: https://t.co/Osts9lAjPo

#Pluralistic

1/

This weekend, I'll be participating in Boskone 58, Boston's annual sf convention, where I'm doing panels and a reading.

https://t.co/2LfFssVcZQ

2/

Dependency Confusion: A completely wild supply-chain hack.

https://t.co/TDRNHUX0Ug

3/

In "Dependency Confusion," security researcher @alxbrsn describes how he made a fortune in bug bounties by exploiting a new supply-chain attack he calls "dependency confusion," which allowed him to compromise "Apple, Microsoft and dozens of others."https://t.co/hn32EmF5qT

1/ pic.twitter.com/eqFr3GXlyX
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) February 10, 2021

Adam Curtis on criti-hype: Big Tech as an epiphenomenon of sociopathic mediocrity, not supergenius.

https://t.co/MYmHOosTk3

4/

Adam Curtis is a brilliant documentarian, and films like Hypernormalization and series like All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace had a profound effect on my thinking about politics, technology and human thriving.

1/ pic.twitter.com/gydJK358BX
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) February 11, 2021

Catalytic converter theft: Rhodium at $21,900/oz.

https://t.co/SDMAXrQwdd

5/

Back in the early 2010s, people started falling into open sewer entrances in New York City and other large metros - because a China-driven spike in the price of scrap metal, combined with post-2008 unemployment, gave rise to an army of metal-thieves.https://t.co/gtD72IDCPn

1/ pic.twitter.com/gdgVJoMoY8
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) February 11, 2021