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Customer: I need a baby Junior dev: With one pregnant woman we can deliver it in 2 years Senior dev: Make it 4 years Project manager: Can't we just hire 9 pregnant women and deliver the baby tomorrow? Consultant: My opinion is that your baby is ugly as hell, here's my bill

Mat Velloso

Posted on April 20, 2019

Some quick thoughts on creativity. This applies to writers, musicians, artists. Everyone. Thread.

Rob Graves

Posted on April 20, 2019

“Behind the Curtain” Book #2: The Luxury Strategy by Jean-Noël Kapferer and Vincent Bastien. Curious if, after reading the below, you think there can be “luxury” investment products https://t.co/3n6NXEHZD3

Patrick OShaughnessy

Posted on April 20, 2019

1/ Here are some REALLY interesting findings from a controversial empirical paper asking: WHY do some people become ENTREPRENEURS? Of the many findings + hypotheses, a few stand out -SIGNALING theory -REJECTING a system that REJECTS them...

Josh Wolfe

Posted on April 20, 2019

1/ I seem to be easily triggered by lists of "what every successful entrepreneur does in the morning" or "10 common traits all millionaires share" or "six things you need to know before the market opens." They MUST be popular, or the clickbait farms wouldn't publish them.

Jim O'Shaughnessy

Posted on April 20, 2019

1/ I seem to be easily triggered by lists of "what every successful entrepreneur does in the morning" or "10 common traits all millionaires share" or "six things you need to know before the market opens." They MUST be popular, or the clickbait farms wouldn't publish them.

Jim O'Shaughnessy

Posted on April 20, 2019

1/ I'm so glad people enjoyed the boat and the bathtub metaphor. I got a few requests to tackle option gamma next, so... let's play ⚾️!

Jeremiah Lowin

Posted on April 20, 2019

1/ Recent market activity -- and the short-vol trade in particular -- provides a fascinating, close-up look at "wrong-way risk." Wrong-way risks are positive feedback loops that can have tragic effects on a portfolio. So tonight: wrong-way risk with ? & ⛈️!

Jeremiah Lowin

Posted on April 20, 2019

1/ On Sunday September 14, 2008, the largest players in the credit derivatives market convened a special trading session in a last-minute effort to offset risk from the seemingly-certain bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers. I was there, and it was the most memorable day of my career.

Jeremiah Lowin

Posted on April 20, 2019

HOW TO FIGHT INSTAGRAM LED DEPRESSION... I spent chunks of 2018 visiting loved ones in hospital. Walking through those wards, I discovered an idea called the "CONTRAST DIAL". This explains the negative effects social media has, but also how to REVERSE it. THREAD...

George Mack

Posted on April 20, 2019

1/ HIGH AGENCY Once you SEE it - you can never UNSEE it. Arguedbly the most important personality trait you can foster. I've thought about this concept every week for the last two years since I heard @EricRWeinstein discuss it on @tferriss' podcast. THREAD...

George Mack

Posted on April 20, 2019

1/ It’s interesting to look at career strategy applied through the lens of risk. Most people think about financial risk, but reputational risk is far more insidious inhibitor of people pursuing ideas that at first seem weird but then become widely held. Exhibit A: Crypto.

Erik Torenberg

Posted on April 20, 2019

Learn from times iterated over time spent. Craft a thousand tweets before ten blog posts before one novel. Skim a dozen books before absorbing one. Make many small investments before a few big bets. Build many small products before starting a company. Explore, then exploit.

Naval

Posted on April 20, 2019

Twitter is a newsroom. Breaking news is one imagined emergency after another, from around the world, delivered to your unprepared brain.

Naval

Posted on April 20, 2019

Universities, Incubators, and Venture Capital firms are really “Curation Businesses.”

Naval

Posted on April 20, 2019

The two party system is an emergent "bug" in representative democracy. https://t.co/hBKpukhkR5

Naval

Posted on April 20, 2019

1/ The Internet lowers the returns to distributing facts, while social media increases the returns to distributing signaling goods.

Naval

Posted on April 20, 2019

1/ If the primary purpose of school was education, the Internet should obsolete it. But school is mainly about credentialing.

Naval

Posted on April 20, 2019

1/ Blockchains will replace networks with markets.

Naval

Posted on April 20, 2019

This colossal white marble bust of the goddess Isis-Sothis-Demeter was found in in the emperor Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli. It is on display in the Vatican's Gregorian Egyptian Museum Room III as part of the Serapeum inside the Canopus of Hadrian’s Villa. https://t.co/uVkLHZ6eGJ

Michel Lara

Posted on April 19, 2019

1/ The logic of violence determines the structure of society. ("The Sovereign Individual" thesis)

Naval

Posted on April 19, 2019

How to Get Rich (without getting lucky):

Naval

Posted on April 19, 2019