Shawn Aebi

Community Servant, Runner, Reader

[Shawn Aebi @aebism]

@Comcast The IVR says you monitor calls for quality, but I sure hope that's not true because this is just SO bad no one would sign off on it.

[Shawn Aebi @aebism]

@MLB Could you please tell Seattle Mariners fans how they can watch games this year? You do care about the fans, right?

[Shawn Aebi @aebism]

@ZagMBB So sad you are broadcasting on yet another content provider I don't have. Hard to follow teams any more.

[Shawn Aebi @aebism]

Love how some "media" focuses in on the cause of death for people over 85. Yeah. It's an absolute mystery, please bring Columbo in on this one.

[Frank Conniff @FrankConniff]

One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

[Shawn Aebi @aebism]

@ElizabethMcGov I was 18 when this movie came out and it had a deep impact on me. It still hits hard. And yes, sadly you are correct.

[Shawn Aebi @aebism]

My gravestone will read "He spent too much time Accepting Cookies".

[Shawn Aebi @aebism]

@premera Do you even know what phishing is? Why do you send me emails like this? What the heck is MPXLinq? You dropped me because I flagged this as spam and now you keep sending it to me even though I don't have a legit ID.

[Shawn Aebi @aebism]

@mrsjanae @shannondrayer Exactly. Let's do some magic statistics that NO ONE can explain and the output looks right, so it's ok to share. They prefer that you just shake your head and nod.

[Shawn Aebi @aebism]

@shannondrayer About 1% of the fanbase can interpret these numbers but yeah, seems right. I've only been watching baseball for 55 years, so will need a little more time.

[Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek]

We should really all be retweeting this daily.

[Shawn Aebi @aebism]

Have tried using two different AI Assistant tools today. They are useless.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity.

- Carl Sagan

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

Hard truth.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Actor Jeff Daniels on Donald Trump’s 2nd term: “We’ve lost decency. We’ve lost civility. We’ve lost respect for the rule of law. We’ve normalized verbal abuse. We’ve normalized bullying. Out the window goes character, integrity. We’re supposed to elect the best of us, not the worst of us. He’s everything that’s wrong with not just America but being a human being.”

[Shawn Aebi @aebism]

“I have a degree from the university of oblivion and I’m as empty-handed as the shirt on the clothes line”, Tomas Tranströmer

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Soon as Zohran began running, his high potential was clear: not just due to political talent, but he canvassed NYC streets after 2024 to ask Trump voters what drove them.

He made economic populism, not identity politics, his focus. Cuomo ran on Israel and establishment support:

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Jeff Bezos recounts the time he called Amazon’s customer service number mid-meeting to prove a metric was wrong

In the clip below, Jeff tells a story from the early days of Amazon when their metrics said customers waited less than 60 seconds after calling customer service. Yet this conflicted with customer complaints, and as Jeff explains:

“I have a saying, which is when the data and the anecdotes disagree, the anecdotes are usually right… If you have a bunch of customers complaining about something, and your metrics look like they shouldn’t be complaining, you should doubt the metrics.”

Then one day in a meeting, the head of customer service was defending the metric, and Jeff said, “Ok, let’s call.”

Jeff picked up the phone and dialed Amazon’s 1-800 customer service number.

Everyone in the meeting proceeded to wait more than 10 minutes before customer service answered.

“It dramatically made the point that something was wrong with the data collection, and that set off a whole chain of events where we started measuring it right… That’s an uncomfortable thing to do, but you have to seek truth even when it’s uncomfortable and you have to get people’s attention and they have to buy into it and they have to get energized around really fixing things.”

Video source: @lexfridman (2023)

[Shawn Aebi @aebism]

@premera do you even have a Risk Management team? They would look at 25 years of premium payments and tell you to keep taking my $. So sad. Goodbye.👋

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

The greatest basketball player to never appear in an NBA game.