Gary Hunt

Communicator, word nerd & sayer of 'ope.' Business content sales & service. 8964

[Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy]

America is dotted with mid-sized regional hub cities like Chattanooga that are in general the closest to a best of all possible worlds as far as urban life/rural life mixture a place can get, lots of cultural activities and cool urban aesthetics with generally more manageable traffic and lower cost of living than the “big” cities.

People in the big cities spend much of their time shitting on these lovely manageably sized regional hubs because they’ve never been to them and are by and large the most provincial closed minded people you’ll ever meet

[Old School 80s @OldSchool80s]

June 5, 1989: the "Tank Man" incident occurred near Tiananmen Square in China. #80s

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

😂😂😂

[Allie ✞ @allie__voss]

Why is no one discussing the endless water used by lazy rivers

[All American @AllAmerican202]

Down on Main Street… so good.

[Gary Hunt @Gary_Hunt]

@giveashitnature @JonahDispatch Mosquito dunks work like a charm. https://t.co/TZtqvfsPKI

[reason @reason]

After 55 years, Dr. Demento has finally retired from the airwaves.
https://t.co/4IYABzhffp

[Not that Elon. @Eggplant_Elon]

1/ First time I watched Fight Club, I was a teenager. I thought it was the coolest thing ever put on film.

I watched it again recently in my forties. I finally understood what it was actually about. And almost everyone I know who loves it is still watching it the way I did at 17. 🧵👇

[Brian Reed @BriHReed]

I reported on an experiment this week that blew my mind. Psychologists at @Cornell recruited thousands of people to talk with ChatGPT about a conspiracy theory they believed. They wanted to know: Is it true that conspiracy theories rarely get convinced out of their beliefs? 🧵

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

How Americans aged 25-35 spend their free time, 1920-2026. A shift toward ever more leisure and solitude. The most underrated change is the loss of time spent “doing nothing” (i.e. introspecting).
https://t.co/FBA2Ck504V

[Amazing Maps @amazingmap]

Western Ohio was heavily reshaped by glaciers during the Ice Age, while the unglaciated southeast kept its older, more rugged Appalachian terrain.

[vixhaℓ @TheVixhal]

Every electron in the universe might be the same electron.

In 1940, John Wheeler called Richard Feynman and suggested that the reason every electron has exactly the same mass and charge, to a precision we cannot even measure a deviation from, is that there is only one of them.

A single electron, weaving forwards and backwards through time, threading through every moment of cosmic history, appearing as matter when it moves one way and as its antiparticle when it moves the other.

The idea was never proven, but it was never quite killed either. The math allows it.

An electron going backwards in time is mathematically identical to a positron going forwards, and the equations do not care which description you pick.

If Wheeler was right, then the particle in your retina reading this sentence is the same particle burning in the heart of a star ten billion light years away.

You are not made of many things. You are made of one thing, seen from many angles at once.

[Spencer A. Klavan @SpencerKlavan]

I’m learning that getting older means graduating from main character to supporting cast. From child, student, suitor to parent, teacher, spouse. You grow ever more deeply invested in other people’s successes, if you’re doing it right, and realizing what a privilege that is. You come to see and feel that the richer and deeper your own life becomes, the less you want to be the center of attention, the more you understand that the money spot of the human soul is in the cheering section, where the self is lost in love. I think this carries on forever, by the way.

[Gary Hunt @Gary_Hunt]

@joeschwarten Wait a minute...

[Michael Girdley @girdley]

Private equity bought beloved Texas burger chain Whataburger in 2019.

Customers have complained about a decline in burger/fry/drink quality and service since.

PEs answer?

Franchising and menu expansion.

You see this pattern across business.

“We aren’t growing? Let’s add a frappuccino machine!”

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Makes me think of Domino’s and their turnaround last decade.

They focused on fixing their pizza (it was bad) and ease of ordering (online/app).

I have snobby friends that say “Dominos is good pizza” now.

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It’s easy to dance around the core problems facing a business.

And kid ourselves about what’s really wrong.

It’s often that a business has lost sight of what made it successful in the first place.

[Wall Street Journal Opinion @WSJopinion]

Rex Reed and the Legacy of American Openness by @Peggynoonannyc
https://t.co/JxlRKn5Lyt

[Dominic Pino @DominicJPino]

The American stock market isn't only larger than the European ones.

Its extraordinary wealth is more widely shared with households.

And it would be even more widely shared if the U.S. had adopted George W. Bush's private accounts for Social Security two decades ago.

[Gary Hunt @Gary_Hunt]

@countyhwy Please tell me that's a Great Lake in the background.