Owen Stoneking

It's only crazy until enough people believe it

[Owen Stoneking @Owen_Stoneking]

Life's a game. Our goal is to rack up as many experience points as possible.

https://t.co/QUl7I27JXC

[Owen Stoneking @Owen_Stoneking]

Marketing is going to start looking more and more like sales.

Marketing is 1:many. Sales is 1:1. The only reason we have marketing at all is b/c 1:1 for everything is too expensive, but as the cost of 1:1 gets cheaper & ads become commodities, you'll need meaning to stand out.

[Owen Stoneking @Owen_Stoneking]

I was today years old when I learned that antivenom is made by injecting horses with snake venom and extracting their blood

[Owen Stoneking @Owen_Stoneking]

It's officially the "top X of 2024" list season

[Owen Stoneking @Owen_Stoneking]

The probability that a meeting is rescheduled increases each time it is rescheduled

[Owen Stoneking @Owen_Stoneking]

I still think about this one a lot

[Owen Stoneking @Owen_Stoneking]

You'd think there should be a way to slow global warming by just reducing the power of the sun light by even a percent.

Is there a viable method of reflecting sunlight back into space?

[Owen Stoneking @Owen_Stoneking]

@sweatystartup I think the troubling part is the lack of participation in youth sports to begin with:

https://t.co/LMaHdx3G7m

[Owen Stoneking @Owen_Stoneking]

How did they build financial models before Excel?

[Owen Stoneking @Owen_Stoneking]

Every marketer is concerned about selling to Gen-Z, but feels like boomers are the ones with the cash to spend

https://t.co/hw5IhxjG22

[Owen Stoneking @Owen_Stoneking]

@ethanf_17 Assuming companies want to start IPO-ing again

[Owen Stoneking @Owen_Stoneking]

Big Avocado is misleading us. Whoever can invent the perfect avocado ripener/saver would be a billionaire!

[Owen Stoneking @Owen_Stoneking]

Avocado math:

The 2 for $3 deal is $1.50 per avocado.

If I buy 5, 2 will definitely go bad before I use them, so that's 3 avocados used per $7.50 spent.

But on those 2 meals I can no longer use an avocado, I need to buy a sauce to make up for the lost flavor (let's say $5).

So it's really $7.50 + $5 = $12.50 for 3 avocados, or well over $4 per avocado.

What a scam

[Owen Stoneking @Owen_Stoneking]

Just imagine if you invested that $8 in lost avocados per week at 8% interest, that's over $45,000 in 30 years!

[Owen Stoneking @Owen_Stoneking]

Why do Australians, despite being only 0.33% of the global population, seemingly make up like 10% of the people wherever you go in the world?

[Owen Stoneking @Owen_Stoneking]

Million Dollar Baby will be the song of the summer, calling it now

[Owen Stoneking @Owen_Stoneking]

Non-existent? Name a country with more cultural influence

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

For the first time in 100 years American cultural power is almost nonexistent outside US borders

[Owen Stoneking @Owen_Stoneking]

@moneywithkatie @axios I think a large part of this is that we only tend to look “one rung above us” at a time.

And the gap in wealth between the next “rung” only becomes larger and more apparent as we move up

[Owen Stoneking @Owen_Stoneking]

The worst running weather is the 38-45 degree range where it's too cold for shorts and a t-shirt but too hot for long sleeves and tights. And the longer the run, you know you're going to have overdressed

[Owen Stoneking @Owen_Stoneking]

The productivity paradox - the more you try to control time, the more you become a slave to it.

If you try to master time, time will master you.

[Owen Stoneking @Owen_Stoneking]

LA became a hotspot for the OG film industry partially because Edison had a mob of enforcers for his patents on movie creation.

If you were on the east coast and in the film industry, your options were:
1) pay up
2) reap the consequences
3) flee West where they couldn’t find you

[Owen Stoneking @Owen_Stoneking]

One of the best parts about being young is the hope that you could do anything some day — everything is a possibility.

Part of aging is that array of options shrinking and the window of “some day” getting smaller.

But maybe closing that range of uncertainty isn’t a bad thing.