Ross Bailey

🇬🇧 /🇯🇲 Founder & CEO of @appearhere 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇺🇸 | Restless Fidget | @FastCompany Most Creative

[Ross Bailey @RossABailey]

To all the entrepreneurs opening up again today, this is the moment to re-build, re-invent and re-claim our streets. #SaveTheStreet #SeizeTheStreet

[Ross Bailey @RossABailey]

@YvonneGCourtney @appearhere When you factor in business rates, utilities etc etc the increase is limited. We give access to thousands of independent brands every year that wouldn’t have access with traditional leases. 6 month rent deposit, quarterly payments. The cash out traditionally is insane !

[Josh Yentob @joshyentob]

AI will free us to be more human

[David Paxton @DavidDPaxton]

Excellent.

[Ross Bailey @RossABailey]

@maitlis Agree

[Rahm Emanuel @RahmEmanuel]

Wow. 16 for 16 on market moves. Truly incredible — either great instincts, sheer luck, or… door number three - insider trading. We all know the answer.

And the CFTC? Doing their best three monkeys impression: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

Corruption, now fully normalized under the Trump administration.

[Shakil Khan @shak]

2013 / Daniel Ek @eldsjal

“I think in 30 years we’re going to look back and say that the way doctors are treating us now is close to witchcraft,”

Ek spends spare hours thinking about how to fix a “screwed-up” healthcare system, reading PhD papers on genetics and DNA sequencing. He is vague on whether this “pet project” could be the germ of a new company, saying it may take five to 10 years to have the necessary technology. “I’m not the inventor,” he adds, “but I may be the person that’s dumb enough to go against the system and try to beat it on its own terms.”

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[Lionel Barber @lionelbarber]

👀👀 while everyone was focussed on the Strait of Hormuz, Iran has dramatically upped the ante

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

I don’t get it. If Hezbollah had flats in this block (unlikely in central Beirut but not impossible) why did the Israelis give everyone inside an hour to get out — including those they wanted to kill? And if there weren’t any Hezbollah people there, why destroy a building with dozens of civilians in it?

[Ross Bailey @RossABailey]

@DanielArsham 💪 my man

[The Tonight Show @FallonTonight]

“The longer you wait to take that chance in your life, the shorter the future is going to be when you arrive there.”

-@DanielArsham on the one piece of advice he was given from his mentor that most resonates with him. #FallonTonight

[Ross Bailey @RossABailey]

Confession

[josh 📈 @oldviennalager]

its really funny if you watch this clip it becomes clear he thinks "introspection" and "guilt" are synonymous

[Barak Ravid @BarakRavid]

🚨🚨🚨First senior Trump administration official resigning over the war with Iran

[Vlad Tenev @vladtenev]

There will be an explosion of entrepreneurship — get ready for single person unicorns

[Ross Bailey @RossABailey]

4/ And once you’ve blamed everyone, and the questions are still there, the only thing left is to question yourself.

Which would require the one thing he claims didn’t exist until “recently.”

Convenient.

Freud might even have called it a confession.

[Ross Bailey @RossABailey]

1/ 😂

Introspection is not a modern invention. It’s practically the oldest habit we have.

Socrates built an entire philosophy on questioning himself.
Marcus Aurelius governed an empire while writing private notes reminding himself not to become insufferable. (Take note).

[David Senra @davidsenra]

Great men of history had little to no introspection.

The personality that builds empires is not the same personality that sits around quietly questioning itself.

@pmarca and I discuss what we both noticed but no one talks about:

David: You don't have any levels of introspection?

Marc: Yes, zero. As little as possible.

David: Why?

Marc: Move forward. Go!

I found people who dwell in the past get stuck in the past. It's a real problem and it's a problem at work and it's a problem at home.

David: So I've read 400 biographies of history’s greatest entrepreneurs and someone asked me what the most surprising thing I’ve learned from this was [and I answered] they have little or zero introspection.

Sam Walton didn't wake up thinking about his internal self.

He just woke up and was like:

I like building Walmart. I'm going to keep building Walmart. I'm going to make more Walmarts. And he just kept doing it over and over again.

Marc: If you go back 400 years ago it never would've occurred to anybody to be introspective.

All of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy, and all the things that kind of result from that are, a kind of a manufacture of the 1910s, 1920s.

Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff.

The individual runs and does all these things and builds things and builds empires and builds companies and builds technology.

And then this kind of this kind of guilt based whammy kind of showed up from Europe. A lot of it from Vienna in 1910, 1920s, Freud and all that entire movement. And kind of turned all that inward and basically said, okay, now we need to basically second guess the individual.

We need to criticize the individual.

The individual needs to self criticize.

The individual needs to feel guilt, needs to look backwards, needs to dwell in the past.

It never resonated with me.

[Ross Bailey @RossABailey]

3/ It’s a convenient reframing. Because if the problem is society, there’s nothing to examine in yourself.

Not asking what it is people are reacting to. Not asking whether there’s something in that worth examining.

Instead, the answer is - You’re being persecuted.

[Joanna Hardy-Susskind @Joanna__Hardy]

This from @Geoffrey_Cox was titanic - a truly beautiful speech.

He outshone those sat opposite. They could only watch. And nervously laugh.

This should be seen by every new MP to understand what they do, & every new barrister to understand what we do.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Very concerning on AI. Worth a read.

[Julia Willemyns @jujulemons]

Haters in the replies can’t comprehend London supremacy

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

A Washington Post article suggests that, beyond a certain threshold, larger homes don't make people happier. Instead, well-being is correlated with affordable housing in walkable neighborhoods where they feel socially connected.