Henry Taylor

Head of Melbourne & Head of Digital for @edelmanaust. Before that, grew audiences, content, Switzerland's average annual cheese consumption, and more @wef

[Francis Dearnley @FrancisDearnley]

"A naturally gifted broadcaster, he was a reassuringly authoritative presence who never pushed his own personality into the foreground, even though he felt deeply about the fate of the Ukrainian people."

You can read @Telegraph's beautiful obituary here:
https://t.co/uxYLvAo7DW

[frye @___frye]

these are so easy to make lol

[Shaun Ratcliff @ShaunRatcliff]

Much has been written about why No won the Voice referendum but a lot of this is opinion

to provide some data Octopus Group & Accent Research ran a survey on how/why Australians voted incl their attitudes towards racial discrimination (pictured below)

this is what we found 🧵

[Roman Kemp @romankemp]

This video from @NorwichCityFC is the best bit of Mental Health Awareness I’ve ever seen… watch until the end.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Well, this will be the last time the BBC tries to interview a highly competent professional.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

The adoption of cellphones by Keralan fishermen is, I believe, the most stunning example of the contribution of information technology to market performance.

Take a look at this graph for background: in three different regions of Kerala, phones were adopted at different times.
Kozhikode got cellphones before Kannur, who got them before Kasaragod. Adoption by fishermen was fast when phones were finally introduced:
Now look at what happened to the price of fish after phones entered the scene:
The dispersion in prices virtually disappeared! The author of the study wrote about this that:

"Before any region had mobile phones, the degree of price dispersion across markets within a region on any given day is high, and there are many cases where the price is zero (i.e., waste). However, within a few weeks of mobile phones being introduced in Region I, there is a sharp and striking reduction in price dispersion. Prices across markets in the region rarely differ by more than a few rupees per kilogram on any day, compared to cases of as much as 10 Rs/kg prior to the introduction of mobile phones. In addition, the prices in the various markets rise and fall together and the week-to-week variability within each market is much smaller, since catchment zone-specific quantity shocks are now spread across markets via arbitrage. Further, there are no cases of waste in this region after phones are introduced.

"By contrast, price behavior in regions II and III appears largely unchanged after phones are introduced in region I. However, after mobile phones are introduced in region II, prices again become much less dispersed across markets on any given day, less variable within markets over time, and waste is ultimately eliminated, whereas region III again remains unchanged. Finally, the same pattern holds once region III adds phones."

Efficient information transmission enables efficient markets. It's amazing what technology can do.

Read the study here: https://t.co/JcgGQp3G0C

[Keith Humphreys @KeithNHumphreys]

If she subpoenas Colada, she'll be caught and arraigned.

[AskAubry 🦋 🐆🦝 @ask_aubry]

Rianna Cleary was 18 years old when she gave birth alone in Europe's largest women's prison. She cried out for help multiple times and her pleas for help were actively ignored.

She bit thru the umbilical cord to free her baby who was found bloodied and dead 12hrs later.

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

I just can't get over this poem.

[Tony Diver @Tony_Diver]

Very rare to see this level of tailoring nowadays, even on the wealthy. So let's talk about some of the reasons why it's great. 🧵

[Henry Taylor @henryctaylor]

Good thread on search purpose and differing expectations around discovery v validation

[Robert McNees @mcnees]

Let me explain one reason why this is a potentially serious problem.

First, you should know that when I search google from an incognito window it gives me the right answer: just shy of 14 billion years, the current scientific consensus among cosmologists and astronomers.

[Sasha Kaletsky @SashaKaletsky]

Retention data for The Other App just dropped - it's brutal

D1: 37%
D7: 16%

Attached screenshot compares with Twitter, Insta, BeReal+Clubhouse. It's by far the lowest

Was always gonna be some early churn but this looks pretty bad

*all SensorTower estimates (on app opens)

[Cooper @Cooperstreaming]

The funniest, most accurate explanation of why a blue checkmark is Elon's mark of death.

[Paul Fairie @paulisci]

A Brief History of Parents Today Are Controlled By Their Kids

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[Henry Taylor @henryctaylor]

@mcdermott @Charliemagne I drink, and probably always will, but increasingly less and less. When I’m doing a dry period it becomes clear how often we are conditioned to drink

[Henry Taylor @henryctaylor]

Mocktails, alcohol-free beer, 0% wine (awful) and 0% spirits (also awful) - all predicated on the idea that people wanting to avoid or reduce alcohol intake want to have drinks with the taste, smell, branding, and cost of...alcohol. Have a diet coke ffs

[John McDermott @mcdermott]

Mocktails are a dumb, embarrassing attempt to recreate the drinking experience for people who are supposedly alcohol-free but still obsessed with drinking culture.

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

Something wild is happening on the Midjourney subreddit.

People are telling stories and sharing photos of historic events - like the “Great Cascadia” earthquake that devastated Oregon in 2001.

The kicker? It never happened. The images are AI-generated.

[Henry Taylor @henryctaylor]

@georg_schmitt We used to have a very complex and little-understood way of describing this. I think it was something like “part-time”