Stuart Thompson

Occasional opinions, never advice. Value and process investor; market and currency agnostic, consumer sovereignty.

[Stuart Thompson @StuartDAA]

Join the Age Run, and show us. https://t.co/IKQ4HOz5iv

[Jonathan Levitt @JWLevitt]

I analyzed 8 years of my running data with Claude+Strava MCP+my training log and one question: does life stress make me slower?
No. It just makes the same pace cost 10 more bpm.
Stress hides in your heart rate, not your splits.
Fascinating.

[Stuart Thompson @StuartDAA]

Omnia Joburg divisum est in favi parti. 🐝

[Mark Barnes @mark_barnes56]

🇿🇦I suggest a Honeycomb Funding Model - bespoke, independent financial structures - which come together to solve municipal sustainability …🇿🇦

[Stuart Thompson @StuartDAA]

I think you know, Mteto, that selfishness is running far ahead of confidence here. #TimeToEat 🇿🇦

[Mteto Nyati @mteton]

China and India have lifted hundreds of millions of their citizens out of poverty through market-oriented economic reforms. Yet in our country, business is still too often treated as an enemy rather than a partner for development. Why can’t we learn from their success? #ProudlySA

[Michael Isenberg @MadMikeIsenberg]

If old people aren't complaining about "kids today," your culture is stagnant.

[Stuart Thompson @StuartDAA]

If delta(AI) doesn’t get matched by delta(sales) there’s trouble brewing. And if it does, there’s either going to be a yuge boom, or a collapse in the worth of fiat money. 🙏🏼

[Decusatio @Decusatio1]

If AI Is Doing the Work, Should We Still Pay for the Results?

https://t.co/vOZfLd8hVf

[Stuart Thompson @StuartDAA]

https://t.co/0MknEVgD7U Keep running, for good. 🙏🏼

[The Running Mann @runningmann100]

COMRADES AVERAGE AGE
The average age of the Comrades class of 2026 is 44.3 – making this the second oldest Comrades field after 2024. The average age of the Comrades runner has steadily increased since 1990 from 35 to over 44 post-Covid.
#comradesstats

[Stuart Thompson @StuartDAA]

QOTD “may be correlated” https://t.co/0MknEVgD7U

[The Running Mann @runningmann100]

#COMRADES2026: OLDEST WOMEN (incl. record alert)
Women live 5-7y longer than men but tend to hang up their Comrades shoes much earlier. These facts may be correlated. There is just one woman who has finished Comrades over the age of 74: Petra Myburgh. Petra is not running in 2026

[The Age Run @age_run]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Join us , to keep running for good. https://t.co/U6YWewWAj9

[Stuart Thompson @StuartDAA]

Too simple. Too effective. 👍🏽

[Sinister in the Presidency @AmandaBRinquest]

salary increases

[Stuart Thompson @StuartDAA]

Ah. So the empire “on which the sun never set” was built on a harvest-first mentality. Sad.

[David Eborall @davideborall]

Interesting that UK investors are very similar to SA ones. Focus on short term profits rather than the greater prize over the long term.

No wonder UK and SA stock exchanges are devoid of great tech companies.

[IT Unprofessional @it_unprofession]

I spent 4 hours yesterday updating my resume to apply for a mid-level PM role.

The listing said they wanted someone with 10 years of experience in a software that was invented 4 years ago.

I clicked apply and was immediately redirected to a third-party portal that asked me to upload my resume, which I did.

Then it asked me to manually type in every single detail of the resume I had just uploaded.

Why did I upload it if I have to type it again?

Is the uploaded PDF just a ceremonial offering to the HR gods?

I spent 40 minutes breaking down my career history into tiny mandatory text boxes.

The portal required me to list a start and end date for every job, but the calendar widget wouldn't let me type the year.

I had to click the back arrow month by month to get to 2002.

My wrist started cramping somewhere around 2018.

Then it asked for my high school GPA.

I'm 44 years old.

I don't even remember the name of my high school mascot, let alone my proficiency in AP European History.

After the history lesson, came the behavioral assessment.

It presented me with 75 statements and asked me to rate them from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree."

One statement was "I prefer to work alone but also thrive in team environments."

That is a paradox.

I'm being asked to evaluate a philosophical contradiction by a recruiting algorithm.

I just clicked "neutral" for everything out of spite.

The final step was a mandatory video cover letter.

I had to record a one-minute pitch explaining why my core values align with a B2B SaaS company that sells inventory management software.

My core value is being able to afford groceries and paying my internet bill on time.

I put on a dress shirt over my sweatpants, stared into my webcam, and lied for 60 seconds.

I said I've always been profoundly passionate about supply chain optimization.

Nobody is passionate about supply chain optimization.

I clicked submit and immediately received an automated rejection email.

The timestamp said it was sent zero seconds after I applied.

I was evaluated and deemed unworthy by a line of code at the speed of light.

Next time I'm just going to wrap my resume around a brick and throw it through their office window.

[Stuart Thompson @StuartDAA]

Yip. A rocket is needed, plainly, but it should be a better aimed, better grade one. Our 🇿🇦 fresh grape shipments exceed our “value added” made-into-wine grape exports. Come now…

[Marthélize @Konfytbekkie]

Dear @SA_wine.

Great job on the Wine Summit yesterday overall. One of the best of the last few years, IMO.

But we need to talk about Priscilla. A thread. 🧵

[Stuart Thompson @StuartDAA]

Bread 🍞 and honey 🍯 also worked for Paul Nash.

[Prem Panicker @prempanicker]

Sebastian Sawe's breakfast on the morning he made history? Two slices of bread with honey and tea. Sharda Ugra's piece on the sub-2 marathon is ostensibly about hydrogels and carb loading, but underneath the science, it is really about what it takes to be the 0.001%. Beautifully done:

https://t.co/gJAPRafXcH

[Stuart Thompson @StuartDAA]

Fair sentiment. But the bigger and easier fix is to CHARGE for CARRY ON baggage. 😉

[Alfonso Niemand @NiemandAlfonso]

A friendly message to @FlySafair . Please abandon your Priority Class system. It creates constant queuing confusion at airports, leading to agitated passengers and humiliated ground staff. Find an alternative way to earn extra money. Otherwise, your service is excellent.

[Stuart Thompson @StuartDAA]

What say you, @dieworkwear ?

[Ashley Parker @AshleyRParker]

Trump likes women, and has, in fact, been married to three of them. BUT there’s also little doubt that Trump has unabashedly embraced the aesthetic—the je ne sais quoi—of a certain kind of gay man. My look at the King of Queens:
https://t.co/Zf4ZV6rRAB

[Stuart Thompson @StuartDAA]

@theowinter @Gizmodo Good deal for listeners with four ears.

[Stuart Thompson @StuartDAA]

Why does one get a “Let them eat cake” impression? 🤷🏽‍♂️

[City of Joburg @CityofJoburgZA]

Executive Deputy Mayor and Finance MMC Cllr @Loyiso_Masuku has tabled the City’s R97.1 billion Budget for the 2026/27 financial year under the theme: “Building Johannesburg Together: Investing Today, Securing Tomorrow.”

The budget focuses on infrastructure renewal, financial sustainability and improving service delivery across Johannesburg.

#JoburgBudget2026 #JoburgFinance ^NJ

[Stuart Thompson @StuartDAA]

Who?

[Ben Cronin @BenjaminACronin]

What value is there in signing an agreement with a man who routinely repudiates contracts and defaults to deceit?

[Stuart Thompson @StuartDAA]

😉. BEE strawberries from Vusi? Ho ho ho

[Wandile Sihlobo @WandileSihlobo]

South Africa’s strawberry season kicks in!

You will be able to get the best strawberries in your shops, folks! 🇿🇦🍓

[Stuart Thompson @StuartDAA]

Like we gonna be fine with all the Huawei tackle. Hoo boy.

[Richard Poplak @Poplak]

Redi is too patient.

The South African government would have to be fucking insane to adopt Starlink.