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game dev, thoughts and opinions are my own

[zabreneva @aneri]

Be still my heart

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid for GQ Hype.

📸: Huy Luong

[zabreneva @aneri]

No lies detected.

[The Vampire Lestat @AMCsAnneRice]

Lives were changed at the @BeaconTheatre. #TheVampireLestat

[Guillermo del Toro @RealGDT]

Done- Maybr some washes later in the week

[zabreneva @aneri]

@nikitabier 🍀

[zabreneva @aneri]

@JhnAdmz @TheEcho13 He’s not providing for her.

[zabreneva @aneri]

@TOTHPshop @TheEcho13 Sure. Thanks for the kind words.

[zabreneva @aneri]

@skumWgmi Our values are misplaced and corrupt.

[Camila @Camila_8791]

Don’t pass on what was never yours to carry

[Kat @kat_maryb]

Gen X!

I learned why we are always ignored and it's the truth 👇🏼

#GenX

[zabreneva @aneri]

@Kristinartz

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video.

Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments.

The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times.

Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it.

Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone.

The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.

[zabreneva @aneri]

@adamshuaib It me

[zabreneva @aneri]

@adamshuaib Started being entrepreneurial at 45. As a single mom of 3. Now running two point five companies. I see my peers that are in their 20s and wondering if I’m too old to be doing this.

[zabreneva @aneri]

@adamshuaib I was logging onto online systems helping build communities around authors. I wrote fan fiction with these friends and by myself starting at 12. I started a fan club and mailed out home brewed physical newsletters at 14 for my favorite author to 100s of her fans.

[zabreneva @aneri]

@adamshuaib Is this why traditional venture continues to pass on me while also telling me that I am perfect founder material? Gritty, resourceful, capable, etc? Still waiting for the big yes that unlocks the billions I’m building for.

[zabreneva @aneri]

@Tozzeb Damarcus is one of the greatest

[zabreneva @aneri]

@_katetolo @bryan_johnson Thank you for making this post. Consent made visible. Rock on.

[zabreneva @aneri]

We women are all watching and supporting this journey and your interest in it. So much of health science has been male oriented, your lens on this makes us all feel seen.

I am 48. Likely endometriosis. Suffering but went through a terrifying journey to diagnose it. I have a close 14 year old possibly struggling with it. Many more have similar and worse stories.

Thank you.

[zabreneva @aneri]

A service blueprint as a company blueprint.

Genius.

[Tom Alder @tomaldertweets]

Airbnb stuck their entire customer journey up on their office walls.

Drawn by a Pixar animator, pinned where everyone walks past them daily.

30 frames.
15 for hosts.
15 for guests.

They call it "Snow White."

Chesky stole the idea from a Walt Disney biography in 2011.

Every new product idea has to answer:
→ "Which frame does this serve?"

If it fits a frame, that determines the owner, who prioritises it against their KPIs.

If it doesn’t fit a frame, it doesn’t serve the customer, and doesn’t get shipped.