Agustín Polanco

actuario, financiero, corredor, fotógrafo

[Dave Kline @dklineii]

Interviews are the worst way to identify high-performers. Trick questions. Rehearsed answers. Always favors extroverts. I've hired hundreds of people. The best way to find your people? Have them audition. Here are 5 ways to test a hire before you bet on them:

[Hugh Laurie @hughlaurie]

Thanks for your critique, Janet. We actually tried a couple of episodes where House (Hugh Laurie) (please put the brackets in the right place) gets it right first time, but they were only 6 minutes long. NBC weren’t happy. Then we tried some where House never gets it right and the patient dies. The audience wasn’t happy.

One could apply your trenchant analysis to other art forms: JS Bach wrote 30 Goldberg variations on the same chord structure; Frida Kahlo painted 50 portraits of herself; Henry Moore, what??

The point is, or was, variations on a theme; if all you see is hospital, medical blah blah, then it wasn’t meant for you.

Nonetheless, I look forward to your first novel!

[Agustín Polanco @agustinpolanco]

@SolidCFO @SecretCFO @MediaKing 🤔

[Deep Psychology @DeepPsycho_HQ]

This is GOLD!!!

[Jonathan Gorard @getjonwithit]

Calling c the "speed of light" completely misses the point. Rather, c is the "spacetime exchange rate": how many units of space you can exchange for one unit of time.

In actuality, everything travels at the "speed of light", just not necessarily through space alone... (1/4)

[Leonardo Rizzo @LnrdRizzo]

How we "guessed" the Pope using network science: inside the cardinal network. A study by me, Beppe Soda and Alessandro Iorio. Article: https://t.co/xQ0fTmpVxb @Unibocconi

[Yasmine Khosrowshahi @yasminekho]

I’m convinced Ross Edgley isn’t human

• Swam 157 days without setting foot on land
• Ran a marathon dragging a 1,400 kg car for 19 hours
• Climbed a rope equal to Everest’s height in 20 hours

How he did that will rip off your mental limitations forever:

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Did you know the Mona Lisa has a twin?

You don't realize how bad a state it's in until you see the two side-by-side.

And it shows why restorations in art are a major problem… (thread) 🧵

[Arne aus den Ruthen @arnemx]

Acá una explicación en lenguaje latinoamericano del por qué “Abrazos no balazos” y “Jóvenes construyendo el futuro” no van a jalar NUNCA.

O más bien, una explicación del grado de estupidez de AMLO o sus vínculos con el crimen o ambas cosas.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

This is what will matter 1000 years from now.

Not your politics. Not your stupid tantrums about who platformed who on some website. Not your incomprehensible desire to send NASA's entire budget to the third world.

This guy reignited the Space Age.

He spent his own money, hired a bunch of dudes, and reignited the Space Age. And together, they underbid and outdid NASA and its pet dinosaur corporations on every conceivable level.

This is history happening before you.

If you are a puddlefish, if you think this is a wasteful showpiece or science project, then you don't understand physics, economics, astronomy, or in fact the basic layout of the universe you live in.

We live in a tiny puddle at the bottom of a well.

Out there is an entire universe, full not only of stuff to explore, but full of stuff to build things out of.

Big things. Wonderful things. Things that are going to make all of the cool stuff you have today, all of human civilization to date look like early Assyrians writing stuff down on wet clay with a reed.

Infinite resources. Infinite energy. Infinite space.

Instead of fighting over little patches of land, we will have an infinite 3d volume. Enclose it in steel, pump it full of air, spin it, and it's a habitat.

Instead of scratching tiny scraps of metal out of the crust of one planet, we will break down entire asteroids and smelt them.

Instead of drilling for hydrocarbons and turning water wheels, we will harness entire suns, split the atom, and eventually draw our fuel from the substance that makes up 99% of the entire universe.

None of your local, temporal Earth politics matter compared to this. This is more important than pride parades and abortions, more important than tribal conflicts in eastern Europe and southwest Asia, more important than tensions with Russia and China.

More important, in the long run, than the United States of America.

America's most important function, its one most vital purpose, is to serve as an incubator for this.

Because this changes everything.

All of our arguments about conditions on this planet become obsolete, because the whole planet becomes just one suburban neighborhood.

All of our wars over resources and territory become obsolete, because no one has time to brawl when we're all sitting on top of a dragon horde with sacks and shovels.

Everyone who was alive at the time remembers where they were when Kennedy died in Dallas. When the towers fell. When the Eagle landed. When the Wall came down.

But this... this is the real moment, one of the first of many. They are what every child will know about a thousand years from now, even if they have four arms and are genetically engineered for zero-g, or are sentient blocks of code running on a sphere of computronium enclosing an entire star.

You may not live to see that, depending on what we do or don't invent, and when.

But it will happen, and you will live to see wonderful things.

If the puddlefish don't get in the way.

Don't be a puddlefish.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

π equals to:

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

God Announces He Will Now Be Voiced By James Earl Jones https://t.co/5sbe6ex0Ju

[Voz de Polanco @lavozdepolanco]

Un orgullo para #polanco ser parte del recorrido del @MaratonCDMX Bienvenidos todos los corredores !! Suerte !!

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

In 1662, the philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal launched the world’s first urban public transport system — a bus service with horse-drawn coaches, each carrying six to eight passengers and running along regular routes. [📷: Chumwa]

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

A Thread of the Most Surreal and Fascinating Maps

1. North Korea is strange...

Embassy of the Ottoman Empire in Pyongyang.

[Sean Kelly @seanpk]

Big Pharma is fooling you again with Ozempic.

It's everywhere. Half of Hollywood + your favorite celebrities use it.

While data shows it can result in weight loss...

Everyone is missing this scary truth in pursuit of shedding weight.

A thread 🧵

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Thread of the most beautiful train stations on Earth 🧵

1. Antwerp, Belgium

[Georgina Ricks @ricksgeorgina]

@mauriciotabe ¿Respuesta? ¿Solución? ¡Hoy es PEOR q nunca! ¡Todo lo q camino en MH es un muladar! ¿Es a propósito? ¿Negocia con Sindicato de basureros? ¿Hay personal de limpia? ¿Se les paga? ¿Hay equipo, funciona? ¿Dónde están los camiones nuevos? ¿Se recicla, qué, dónde, cuánto?