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[nicholas russell @BetterCity]

@SawyerMerritt @Starlink Marketing value of WiFi > fee revenue, and Starlink enables global bulk access.

Is this customer acquisition? Retention? Both?

Smart move. Save £22. Pay BA fare premiums for no-friction internet access.

[nicholas russell @BetterCity]

@chrysb @openclaw I hope Claudia Capital wins. It feels like at some point the tech will outrun the market. Fingers crossed it's now and this approach! 🤞

[nicholas russell @BetterCity]

@chrysb @openclaw Good luck. Wonderful opportunity space. I tried 5 years ago with IBM Watson (!) and learned why it didn't work (at that time). Prices are outputs of vast nearly immeasurable chains of inputs. Arbitrage was different and did lend itself to machine intelligence.

[nicholas russell @BetterCity]

@DalalUtkarsh @growth_pigeon 100% winners know when to quit what's not going to win.

[nicholas russell @BetterCity]

@nw3 @antoniogm Perhaps. If the original point was "this is what SF can look like without local/state government", the underlying point may be "this is what SF looks like without property ownership."

Perhaps fascinating, if @antoniogm has identified socialism as a solution for SF's issues. 🤷‍♂️

[nicholas russell @BetterCity]

@clairlemon I like the ability to graze short form. One or two seconds to decide if it's worth 30s. Then 30s to decide if whatever the subject is was self contained enjoyment, or needs/is worth half an hour or an hour.

Timeboxed to 20-30 minutes a day max.

[Velina Tchakarova @vtchakarova]

This is the end
my only friend, the end

[William Huo @wmhuo168]

China just unveiled a 600 km/h maglev to erase domestic flights. With just two lines, it could kill short-haul aviation across seven mega-cities. Here's how it wins.

CRRC unveils 600km/h superconducting maglev prototype - International Railway Journal https://t.co/NRNxP5B84x

[nicholas russell @BetterCity]

@FT

[nicholas russell @BetterCity]

@FT At least in Uk, subtext of anti air conditioning argument seems intertwined with twenty years of declining investment in electricity generation and some of world's highest prices.

Perhaps easier to shame people out of AC than speak realistically about its operating costs.

[nicholas russell @BetterCity]

@gregisenberg Sweet, and slightly simplistic. Point doesn't account for quality of experience. Before adolescence, the brain isn't even developed enough to accommodate an unbiased view of the world.

Childhood is low agency and low autonomy, perhaps also leading it to feel rather endless.

[nicholas russell @BetterCity]

Many of us live in hybrid reality already, with the battery-powered 5G brain-network interface having already fundamentally shaped not only perception but also physiology. We ourselves are wetware nodes and edge compute on the network.

[will depue @willdepue]

the thing you have to realize about the twenties is that internet is real life now. it didnt use to be. it is now.

[nicholas russell @BetterCity]

@antoniogm "Success is when you delete your LinkedIn account" -- an old boss (who has no LinkedIn account).

Strikingly obvious now. The real world commands a premium, and virtual neurological stimulation of "the same" is increasingly discounted.

Wealth is employing people to use screens.

[nicholas russell @BetterCity]

@burkov Hard disagree. By that logic, facebook's acquisitions of instagram and WhatsApp were poor ideas, which they obviously were not.

Build it versus buy it. In terms of talent, tech, and user acquisition, could easily be a smart move and a win.

[nicholas russell @BetterCity]

@christinazgr @WaymoCommunity They can call their interior ad platform "WayMore" and charge riders premium rates for ad-free rides.

[nicholas russell @BetterCity]

@christinazgr @WaymoCommunity Internal car camera. Charges the rider who leaves the note a per minute advertising fee until someone removes it. Everyone wins.

[nicholas russell @BetterCity]

@DipWheeler Beware the Margarine Call

[nicholas russell @BetterCity]

@peterrhague Whatever did happen on, say, 31 December 2020, that could have led to this?

[nicholas russell @BetterCity]

@peterrhague Currently manufacturers bear liability for compliance and mechanical faults, and driver for operational issues on the road.

Now, manufacturers bear responsibility for operations.

Seems like a major change with zero actuary tables.