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Teaching @princeton
Host @blitzscalingpod

[Julien @JulienNewman]

"CEO stands for Chief Energy Officer"
- @davidwkenny

This is exactly what @Sean_D_Kelly told us a few weeks ago

[Blitzscaling a Startup @BlitzscalingPod]

Blitzscaling Interview with David Kenny, CEO of Nielsen https://t.co/GjKyEclF0e

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@starbuxman @github Yes

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@dodeja @convex I have the same problem. Nothing seems to work. I think it's down

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@SvendJRobinson Always better to at least have something to say

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@ntepperman @NDP @DonDavies @GordJohns @jo_gauvin @howard_jennifer How do people like this get hired by the UN?

...also...nominating people for the Nobel Peace Prize isn't really a thing

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@bencasnocha @davidwkenny

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@chrisyeh Interesting how social perception is such a large factor

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@chrisyeh What's the best metric for that?

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@AriaIrene Also the UI

There's information I get easily from reading a webpage on my laptop

But which is too annoying to access on my phone

I use ChatGPT in those cases

Presumably, almost everyone accesses the internet on mobile devices in Sierra Leone...

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@markmulroney “It’s the first time humanity has seen potential biosignatures on a habitable planet.”

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@DouglasTodd @RmdKenny I'd be surprised if China cares much about Canada...

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@DouglasTodd @tomblackwellNP Yup

We've been in a recession for decades

It's artificially covered up in the data

Immigration hides the collapse of per capita GDP

But the biggest problem is fake GDP from non-productive activities which extract rent and contribute nothing (raw natural resources, banking)

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@DouglasTodd @scoopercooper This could also just be meddling from CSIS

They've been known to bully Prime Ministers

I wouldn't trust anything from them without ample and conclusive evidence

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@DouglasTodd A simple measure: age

AKA give it to the youngest people

IF there are 3 units AND 10 people apply THEN give it to the 3 youngest

Might be an alternative approach which would be better on paper. But the simplicity and knowability of this measure might make it the best

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@brianlilley In the words of Yoda: "You must unlearn what you have learned"

Unlearning is the hardest thing for people

A smart 16 year old with 0 skills usually does a better job than a lifelong non-performer

This is why startups never hire bigco bureaucrats. And often hire young people

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@brianlilley Carney is a bureaucrat who has never done anything other than get along with the right people

...he now needs to perform for the first time in his life

His years of "experience" actually make it harder to perform

Since his non-performing ways as so deeply engrained

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@BenMulroney Bro ... I know many people who are trying to employ Ben

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@BenMulroney Exactly

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@BenMulroney Fair point

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If my university had a campus like @Princeton
I wouldn't have dropped out ;)

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@sandrine005 @BenMulroney Send your questions for me to @CandiceMalcolm and @kinsellawarren