Polemico_man

Qui si polemizza su tutto. 🇮🇹 We argue about everything. 🇬🇧

[Lamborghini @Lamborghini]

Proud to keep you dreaming.

[Max Statman @emaxstatman]

I’ve never seen a player cry so much on his farewell.

Four years later, this Dybala farewell still hits hard, and it happened exactly on this day back in 2022! 🥹🤍

293 Matches. 115 Goals. 53 Assists. 𝑂ℎ, 𝐿𝑎 𝐽𝑜𝑦𝑎.

[Filippo Facci @FilippoFacci1]

https://t.co/DHe0INkmKe

[The All-In Podcast @theallinpod]

“Rumination is the path to unhappiness.” - J Cal

“Nobody gives a sh*t about your feelings.”

“It's only going to make you miserable.”

“Just do what I've been doing for 30 years: Retardmaxxing.”

“All you have to do is work. Start new projects, 9 out of 10 fail. One wins, and you're golden. Go sit courtside at the Knicks game.”

“Keep going. Just keep moving forward. Don't write anything down.”

[Dave W @dmweisberger]

I just spent 2 incredible weeks in Italy and it is so frustrating to come back to the U.S…

How is it possible @RobertKennedyJr that the Italian food supply is so vastly superior.

I literally ate bread at every meal, dessert multiple times per day, and generally ate way more than I do in the U.S.

Not once did I have acid reflux. Not one headache, no digestive problems, and I didn’t gain any weight.

If I ate the same way in the U.S. (I used to at times) I would have gone through a full bottle of Tums and Advil just to get through the day…

WHY does the U.S. allow glyphosate in wheat, high fructose corn syrup in food and who knows what in our milk products?

The difference in quality of life in Italy vs the U.S. is staggering from their common sense (anti corporate) food regulation.

WHY aren’t more people upset about this?

The U.S. is the richest country in the world and we eat like one of the poorest.

[和田 悠司 @WadaYuji]

Capitolo 1

Pubblicherò la serie in Giappone e nel resto del mondo. I profitti derivanti dalla vendita
dell'ebook su Amazon mi permetteranno di pubblicare la serie in formato cartaceo nelle librerie e di creare un mio studio di animazione per adattarla in un anime.

[Antonio Ventre @antonioventre]

Bid cap campaigns work like this:

Set a CBO with a very high daily budget.

Set bid cap at adset level. Max CPA that still hits your target ROAS.

If ROAS is below target, decrease bid cap 10-15%.

If it is not spending, increase 10-15%.

Formula: AOV $60 and target ROAS 3x means max CPA of $20. Start there.

Bid cap protects ROAS while allowing aggressive scaling. Most people either do not use it or set it wrong.

[Antonio Ventre @antonioventre]

Brands lose money on ads because they pick winners wrong.

Meta's attribution is 7-day click, 1-day view.

An ad with 100 purchases and 4x ROAS looks amazing.

Filter by new audience incremental attribution and you might find 80 of those purchases came from existing customers.

The ad is not a winner. It is a retargeter.

Scale it and ROAS collapses because you have nothing feeding the top.

[Leonardo Dorini @dorinileonardo]

Post lungo per #runlovers.

Dopo alcuni giorni, qualche riflessione ulteriore sulla gara di domenica: la mia decima maratona si è svolta quasi dieci anni dopo la nona, corsa a Pisa nel dicembre 2016; e proprio pochi giorni dopo, nel gennaio 2017, la rottura del menisco inaugurava un periodo terribile, tutto il 2017 fermo, un post operatorio complicato, la ripresa difficile, la pandemia, una caduta rovinosa, una pubalgia, l'operazione alla spalla, e un misterioso problema alla caviglia.

Il chirurgo che mi ha operato al menisco il primo ottobre 2017, mi disse: tornerai a correre, ma forse non potrai fare un'altra maratona; ed io mi ci rassegnai, spesso avevo quasi timore a sfidare la fatica, quella vera, quella che ti annichilisce; mi ero messo in una situazione di comfort, per quanto necessitata.

Eppure, un annetto fa, mentre cercavo di sistemare una caviglia dolorante, mi sono detto: magari trovo la possibilità di fare l'ultima maratona, proviamoci! Allora facevo uscite "da pensionato", 5-6 km, per testare dei plantari che dovevano, come poi hanno fatto, mettere a posto la mia caviglia sinistra, ma c'era la sensazione che, piano piano, ce l'avrei potuta fare.

E' stata una preparazione svolta in modalità "risparmio energetico", mai superando i 180 km/mese, mai scendendo sotto i 5 al km, perchè in quel caso avevo capito che la caviglia avrebbe sofferto.

Ho còlto una finestra temporale favorevole e quando, in gennaio, ho toccato i 30 km, mi sono iscritto alla Milano Marathon del 12 aprile; e, quasi incredulo, ho fatto i 33 km ed i 36 km, li ho subiti e smaltiti (uscendo dalla zona di comfort), mi sono presentato il 12 aprile in Corso Sempione, in mezzo a 15 mila runners, a correre questa gara.

Che mi ha ridato sensazioni fantastiche: dico sempre che la maratona è un'avventura straordinaria, per la strada che fai nel prepararla, per la sofferenza e la fatica, e per ciò che accade in gara, fino a quella esperienza quasi extra-corporea che sono gli ultimi chilometri, quando non c'è niente che può spiegare in che modo il tuo fisico possa reggere quella enorme fatica, le gambe ormai inservibili, eppure capaci di farti arrivare e di metterti quella medaglia al collo.

13 anni prima, il 3 aprile del 2016, a pochi metri di distanza, tagliavo il traguardo della mia prima maratona, nello stesso tempo: 3h56. Poi è iniziato un percorso di miglioramento fino a 3h34. Adesso non so cosa inizia, certo la decima maratona dieci anni dopo la nona mi lascia sensazioni di un percorso di forte motivazione e determinazione, anche se dieci anni in più il fisico li ha sentiti tutti.

In questa foto, all'arrivo di piazza Duomo (ah, già: nelle mie precedenti 4 partecipazioni a Milano, mai ero arrivato in Duomo, ci voleva!) guardo l'orologio. Forse è per dire "che tempo ho fatto?", forse è per dire "cosa mi riserva il futuro?"

Non lo so, vedremo, ma una cosa è certa: finchè potrò, non smetterò di godere delle sensazioni bellissime che mi danno la fatica, l'impengo, la determinazione della corsa.

Buone corse a tutti!!

[Marc Randolph @marcrandolph]

28 years ago today, at 8am, Eric Meyer tapped a few keys on his laptop and launched Netflix to the world. By 10am we'd crashed the servers.

By 2pm we'd run out of mailing labels and someone was making a run to Office Depot.

By midnight we were sitting on the floor eating cold pizza, watching orders trickle in one at a time, half-convinced the whole thing was held together with duct tape.

Which it was.

Best day of my career.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Every single thing you want in life is on the other side of something that sucks. That suck might be 100 workouts, 100 bland meals, 100 hours of work, or 100 hard conversations. Embrace it as the cost of entry. The answers you seek are found in the actions you avoid.

[Phil Kiel @PhilKiel]

📁 Meta Ads Account
┃
┣ 📁 Campaign Structure
┃ ┣ 📁 CBO per product or offer
┃ ┣ 📁 Single ad set per campaign (start here)
┃ ┣ 📁 New ads into existing ad sets
┃ ┗ 📁 Separate ABO for testing only
┃
┣ 📁 Creative Testing
┃ ┣ 📁 8-10 concepts per month
┃ ┣ 📁 40-50 assets total
┃ ┣ 📁 Big gaps between concepts
┃ ┗ 📁 Let Meta decide what spends
┃
┣ 📁 Creative Formats
┃ ┣ 📁 Static ads (70% of output)
┃ ┣ 📁 Yapper videos (talking head, no edit)
┃ ┣ 📁 Partnership ads (run through creator)
┃ ┗ 📁 Motion graphics
┃
┣ 📁 Audience Strategy
┃ ┣ 📁 Broad targeting (no interests)
┃ ┣ 📁 Exclusions (buyers, email, visitors)
┃ ┣ 📁 Creative does the targeting
┃ ┗ 📁 Net new reach above 70%
┃
┣ 📁 Health Metrics
┃ ┣ 📁 CPMr (CPM x frequency)
┃ ┣ 📁 Net new reach % week on week
┃ ┣ 📁 Creative win rate (10-20% healthy)
┃ ┗ 📁 Cost per 1k accounts reached
┃
┣ 📁 Measurement
┃ ┣ 📁 Blended revenue (source of truth)
┃ ┣ 📁 Third party attribution (Northbeam)
┃ ┣ 📁 In-platform ROAS (one signal only)
┃ ┗ 📁 Contribution margin (actual profit)
┃
┗ 📁 Signals to Watch
┣ 📁 CPMr climbing week on week
┣ 📁 Net new reach % declining
┣ 📁 High ROAS + high CPMr (warning)
┗ 📁 Frequency above 2.5 over 7 days

Share this. Bookmark it.

[Jack J @Jack_Frodo]

Commander Reid Wiseman just named a lunar crater after his late wife. You can hear his voice shaking. I have no words 🥺❤️

[Tim Soret @timsoret]

As a European, I apologize to Americans for all the idiocy coming from our side.

You save your pilots no matter the cost.
You send humans to the moon.
You fight authoritarianism head-on.
It's truly inspiring.

We're on the wrong side of the moral equation.

[Viktor Seraleev @seraleev]

CTO at 37signals. Creator of Ruby on Rails

David Heinemeier Hansson

I’ve read Rework and Remote, both had a big impact on me starting my journey as a solo founder.

Don’t be afraid to dream. Read. Build. Your goals can become reality

[Ben Cera @Bencera]

In Paris for the weekend. Every meal here is a masterpiece: fresh, simple, real. A random café in Paris eats 99% of US restaurants alive.

But then you land back in the US and feel the energy. The ambition. The speed. Nothing compares.

America is the best country in the world to build a company and the worst country in the world to eat a healthy meal.

France is the best country in the world to live and the worst country in the world to be ambitious.

Pick your poison.

[Rohit @rohit4verse]

>be Naval Ravikant
>spawn in New Delhi
>poor immigrant family
>father leaves shortly after they land in Queens, New York
>mother works menial jobs by day, night school after
>age 9, alone in a country you don't understand
>no friends
>no safety net
>no connections
>the library becomes your entire world

>get into Stuyvesant High School
>yes, that Stuyvesant
>the public school that produced four Nobel laureates
>one entrance exam changes the trajectory of your life
>go from blue collar to white collar in a single move
>graduate and land Dartmouth
>double major
>computer science and economics
>pay your way through by washing dishes, delivering newspapers, tutoring, fixing computers

>move to Silicon Valley with nothing but a degree and a bet on yourself
>join @Home Network
>watch a $20 billion company go to zero in the dot-com crash
>work on Intrinsic Graphics
>the thing that eventually becomes Google Earth
>co-found Epinions in 1999
>a consumer review site before Yelp and TripAdvisor existed
>raise $45 million in venture capital
>get screwed by your own co-founder and VCs
>they hide the company's real value during a merger
>the company IPOs at $750 million
>you walk away with $0
>not a typo
>zero

>sue Benchmark Capital and August Capital
>everyone in Silicon Valley calls you radioactive
>one VC tells the press you'll never work in the valley again
>settle the case
>learn the game from the inside out
>instead of quitting, you decide to rewrite the rules

>start Venture Hacks in 2007
>a blog that tears the veil off VC term sheets
>give founders the playbook that VCs never wanted them to have
>launch a $20 million fund called Hit Forge
>back Twitter before anyone cares
>back Uber before anyone believes
>back Stack Overflow, Notion, Postmates, Opendoor, Yammer

>turn Venture Hacks into AngelList in 2010
>50 angel investors
>$80 million committed in year one
>100 new startups signing up per day
>build the https://t.co/WLqfUQ0o7R for founders and investors
>do what LinkedIn tried and failed to do
>actually get people to transact

>realize US securities law is blocking everything
>fly to Washington DC
>spend six months lobbying Congress
>rally 5,000 investors and entrepreneurs for an online petition
>call in 100 favors
>get the JOBS Act signed into law by Barack Obama in 2012
>single-handedly open startup investing to ordinary Americans
>the entire equity crowdfunding industry exists because of this

>AngelList hits $4 billion valuation
>over $3.5 billion invested through the platform
>200+ unicorns funded
>spin off Product Hunt, Republic, CoinList
>companies like Neuralink and Rippling get backed through your Spearhead fund

>co-found MetaStable Capital in 2014
>a crypto hedge fund backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia
>bet on Bitcoin and Ethereum before it's fashionable
>earn a penny on every Uber ride taken on the planet
>invest in 200+ companies across your career

>drop a 40-tweet storm on May 31, 2018
>"How to Get Rich (without getting lucky)"
>it goes more viral than most product launches
>turns into a podcast series, then a global movement
>Eric Jorgenson compiles your tweets and interviews into The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
>it becomes a perennial bestseller
>you didn't even write the book
>your ideas were so good someone else did it for you

>go on Joe Rogan, Tim Ferriss, Shane Parrish, Chris Williamson
>every episode becomes a top-10 all-time listen
>millions of people re-read your tweets like scripture
>you become the most quoted man on the internet who isn't dead

>launch Airchat in 2023
>voice-first social media with AI transcription
>because you think text-only platforms made us forget humans can get along

>here is what Naval actually taught the world
>you're not going to get rich renting out your time
>own equity or stay a renter forever
>specific knowledge is the stuff that feels like play to you but looks like work to others
>leverage is a force multiplier for your judgment
>code and media are permissionless leverage
>you don't need anyone's approval
>10,000 iterations is not 10,000 repetitions
>one is mastery, the other is a treadmill
>if you can't decide, the answer is no
>when two choices look equal, pick the harder one short term
>stress is an inability to decide what's important
>desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want
>inspiration is perishable
>act on it immediately
>the three big decisions: what you do, where you live, who you're with
>people spend years optimizing careers but pick partners and cities on autopilot

>not optimizing for wealth
>optimizing for sovereignty
>win the game fast enough that you get to stop playing

[Dan Go @CoachDanGo]

For the past 6 months I've gotten away from using an Apple watch, Oura, Whoop, and any other type of wearable.

I've noticed no changes in my physical health but a positive change in my mental health as I've stopped using a piece of tech to tell me how I should feel.

[NASA @NASA]

We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.

[jean @TW1NKD3STR0YER]

never date italians; they only care about food and sex. any greater ambition they have is merely a path towards more food and sex