#BUILD

I've followed and admired @dvassallo over the last 6 months. He quit his $500k salary at Amazon, built an audience from scratch and now makes 6-figures on his "small bets".
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"Google is most likely renting [Deepmind] its TPUs [computational infrastructure] at a discount"Energy devouring AI-infrastructure hidden in another Alphabet business unit. And while they argue it's all green energy, there
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HEY is trying to be the x-nth coming of email, and DHH is its messiah (I won’t get into that because it is not my beef).Why am I mocking HEY?
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Thread: There is the usual talking point going around the pro-Iran-Regime-Lobby in which Israel is once again presented as somehow doing something wrong by seeking to work with the US
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As far as I can tell, I'm the first Filipino-American to serve in elected office in the history of the District of Columbia. I am deeply humbled, but hyper-aware that
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Thread of some recent beauty faves I’ve been using for 3-12 months! First up, with Fairtrade fortnight round the corner I have to shout about this amazing foot balm from
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Cal Newport offers useful strategies in his books like 'Deep Work' and 'So Good They Cannot Ignore You'.He offers no non-sense advice that can help you create a meaningful and
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THREADWhen we say defund the police, our demand is to divest from a body that has never created safety for Black people. Instead, we want to invest in things that
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I saw earlier the same ideas in this op-ed coming from Nate Silver and the data bros types, so I'm disappointed to see Marcus promoting this. This thread is going
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Alright. A about what happened in my home state, capital of the New South, which is getting closer than ever to that Beloved Community Dr. King pointed us towards.
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Kick back for a thread about Robert Smithson's #SpiralJetty It was commissioned by Robert in 1970 and it is 1500ft long from the shore. What isn't talked about, is the
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level design discourse obv Minecraft worlds aren't good indicators of level design aptitude. you aren't dealing with tools, software in general, other people, other roles, building to any particular game
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The last couple of weeks has been a bit crazy. Reflecting on it, some things spring out for me, so I thought I would do what I do, and make
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Okay.UBI is no less 'fantasy' than the NHS was or universal education was.UBI wouldn't replace social security. You maintain housing and health/disability payments, plus UBI.Higher earners would pay back through
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ON GETTING MOTIVATION – OPTIMIZE FOR BITE-SIZED IMPROVEMENTSI can pinpoint very clearly the moment in which you lost motivation: the moment you stopped receiving clues that you were improving.(thread, 1/N)
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everyone keeps trying to reinvent the wheel when there are so many of us who have been doing this work, diversifying our industries, for years. your new idea isn’t new.
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