A student flew from Los Angeles to UC Berkeley about 3 times a week for a year and spent $5,600 on flights because it was cheaper than rent, graduating with a 3.88 GPA 🎓✈️
-EURO 2024 semifinal: Spain beats France
-2025 Nations League semifinal: Spain beats France
-2026 World Cup semifinal: Spain beats France
Spain talked the talk and continued to walk the walk 😳
Any smart leader with a long term vision can generate revenue from this for the country. Simply designate the speed lane as a paid express lane, install electronic tolling, and use speed cameras to enforce the rules. The revenue can be used to repair the other lanes and crack down on illegal parking. I just like people with vision!
FOUR people you MUST have when buying land in Accra.
1. A Lawyer
2. A Surveyor
3. A Land Valuer
4. A Local drunkard from the Area who will tell you the truth and history that's not available in official records.
A wife went viral for admitting she and her husband are mediocre. Average looking, not funny, no friends, mentally ill. And she can't explain why their marriage feels like a fairytale.
A psychologist in Seattle solved this exact puzzle in the 1990s.
John Gottman wired an apartment near the University of Washington with cameras and brought in 130 newlywed couples to just live in it. He tracked something he called bids: the tiny reaches for attention partners make all day. "Look at that bird." "Listen to this." A sigh that wants acknowledging.
Six years later, 17 couples had divorced. When his team went back to the tapes, the still-married couples had turned toward those bids 86% of the time. The divorced couples had managed 33%.
That one behavior predicted the outcome better than anything else in the data. Looks never entered the model. Humor never entered the model. Intelligence, money, status, shared hobbies: none of it showed up.
Now reread her post. "I can spend every minute of every day with this dude and not really get tired of it. We can get in the car and just drive for hours and talk."
Two people driving nowhere for hours are exchanging hundreds of bids and catching nearly all of them.
She graded the marriage on every trait that predicts nothing, and missed that they're elite at the one behavior that predicts almost everything.