Harry DiFrancesco

Building for heart patients.

[Harry DiFrancesco @HCDiFrancesco]

If: a. you're an engineer who wants to help build literally life saving features or b. you're an investor/donor who cares about this population (primarily elderly, often with pre-existing conditions) reach out. [email protected].

[Harry DiFrancesco @HCDiFrancesco]

Been building a solution for heart patients to complete rehab at home for the last many months, https://t.co/UhVJmv6Vhl. Accelerated the timeline recently to deliver this to patients who can no longer attend in person rehab. 1/x

[Harry DiFrancesco @HCDiFrancesco]

Two reasons they can't attend in person: 1. Rehab centers closed. 2. Heart Patients at elevated risk of serious complications and mortality should they contract COVID-19. Source: https://t.co/uHmSe62Y8T 2/x

[Balaji @balajis]

Tech needs to build the remote economy, now.

Every single function that can be made remote-capable must be made so. Yes, video chat and productivity. But also telemedicine, autonomous delivery robots, more.

We need to safeguard the lives of doctors, nurses, delivery personnel.

[Harry DiFrancesco @HCDiFrancesco]

@Aeroplan @Aeroplan I'm beginning to wonder if you even have any customer service agents — this problem appears to have been going on since November. Please give me the number of an actual person to contact.

[Harry DiFrancesco @HCDiFrancesco]

"Unchecked emotion has replaced thoughtful reasoning on campus." @ProfRonSullivan https://t.co/QEiJmETFSK

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

I am a progressive

*Growth is dangerous
*Technology is scary
*Be skeptical of change!
*And ‘new things’
*Always be preserving
*And conserving!
**(Neighborhoods)
**(And nature)
**(And culture!)
*A conservationist, if you will
*A conservative

...wait

[Jonatan Pallesen @jonatanpallesen]

I often hear about the study showing that blind auditions vastly increased women's chances of getting selected. I decided to actually read the whole study.

https://t.co/ZZVUEDFBtl …

Turns out it doesn't show that at all. The findings are in both directions and not significant.

[Harry DiFrancesco @HCDiFrancesco]

Putting this here for a few years from now...
https://t.co/2jplN8db3x

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

20/ Anything that causes normal people to consider new forms of money (apart from their default position of "my nation, my currency") is a good thing. Libra will crack open further global discussion about what money is, and that sunshine will hurt fiat, and help all sound monies.

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Artificially restricted housing supply is the real economic tapeworm, part 63: https://t.co/F3KFQ7fTSC.

[Harry DiFrancesco @HCDiFrancesco]

And yet people wonder why conservatives think the media is biased. Here's your answer.

[Zach Goldberg @ZachG932]

(#10)

[Philosophy Muse @philosophy_muse]

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72. Mark Twain

[Jay Bilas @JayBilas]

The players provide the NCAA members free labor that is sold for billions during the entire season.

[Harry DiFrancesco @HCDiFrancesco]

Maybe board level gender diversity matters less than we think? Interesting research where the confounding variable is geographic distance from hq. https://t.co/favn5B8nVT

[Harry DiFrancesco @HCDiFrancesco]

This is a 2019 goal for me:
https://t.co/WaBsERiccW

[Harry DiFrancesco @HCDiFrancesco]

Rings true...

[Rolf Degen @DegenRolf]

People tend to see themselves as better than average, but they are also insecure, because they measure themselves against above-average others. https://t.co/bjNZlWLWae

[Matt Navarra @MattNavarra]

WOAH...!

Top 15 BEST global brands ranking for the last 19 years...

Watch big name tech companies take-over at the end!

h/t @Interbrand

[Harry DiFrancesco @HCDiFrancesco]

That said, running a controlled experiment with "more" / "less" govt intervention in markets is impossible so it's difficult to truly know in which cases govt intervention is helpful/harmful. Thus, argument by ideology. @econtalker

[Harry DiFrancesco @HCDiFrancesco]

Great thread. The idea of America as free-market is so powerful we tend to confuse ideal with reality. Then assign all the bad societal effects to "free-markets." Which, of course, aren't free.

[Russ Roberts @EconTalker]

I keep seeing articles and tweets saying that America has been in the grip of neoliberalism and free-market zealotry and it's time for a change. This is one of the greatest sleights of hand in intellectual history...