Beginner Business

Starting up, or starting over in business.

[I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 @ImMeme0]

LMAO, who did this? 🤣🤣🤣

[George Mack @george__mack]

10 thoughts on predicting future trends

[Brett Adcock @adcock_brett]

Spent the last 20 years building software & hardware companies

> Last software company sold for $100M
> Then took my company public at $2.7B

Here are my top 9 lessons learned:

[Sean Kelly @seanpk]

Elon Musk fired 80% of Twitter (6500 people) and everyone thought that Twitter was doomed.

He was right. Everyone was wrong.

It’s the management masterclass of the decade and every entrepreneur must understand why it worked 🧵:

[Cliff Pickover @pickover]

Mathematics.

While different in appearance, each data-set has the same summary statistics (mean, standard deviation, Pearson's correlation) to 2 decimal places. Note the dinosaur.

Thanks @JustinMatejka, @ADSKResearch, https://t.co/muGHIfa3YQ, Used with permission.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

The highest form of kindness and empathy is to defend Truth. It's Epistemological Kindness, Epistemological Empathy. If you see the TRUTH being raped and murdered and you walk away pretending that you saw nothing, you are an existential coward. Professors are tasked with creating and disseminating knowledge; most importantly they are tasked with being dogged defenders of the truth and the means by which to seek the truth (the scientific method). This is what I do in my public engagement. Most of the world luckily sees it and appreciates my efforts. Regrettably some of the people that should see it, are swayed by the enemies of truth. No worries. We shall stand tall and with full dignity. Never waver. Never be a fence-sitter. Activate your inner honey badger.

[Brendan Carr @BrendanCarrFCC]

For years, TikTok represented that none of the sensitive data that it collects on U.S. users is available to personnel inside China.

Then leaked internal materials revealed this to be nothing more than gaslighting.

[JJ @JosephJacks_]

This is why NVIDIA wins.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

From an amazing Michael Crichton talk:

“Media carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved. You have all experienced this, in what I call the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. (I refer to it by this name because I once
discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have.)

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article
on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the
article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues.
Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page,
and forget what you know.

That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I'd point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything
they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all. But when it comes to the media, we believe against
evidence that it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper.”

[TED Talks @TEDTalks]

As an experiment, we're posting a short TED Talk directly here on X. If you like, please spread the word, and more will follow! This is the brilliant @LuisvonAhn showing how worthy content like Duolingo can compete online.

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

In this exclusive report, @RealChrisBrunet and I examine Harvard President Claudine Gay's Ph.D. dissertation, which contains repeated instances of plagiarism, as defined by Harvard's academic integrity policies.

The bottom line: She must resign.
https://t.co/lwbSA9DGUL

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

This New York Times article contains a hilarious euphemism for plagiarism. Oh no, Harvard’s president didn’t *plagiarize* anything. Perish the thought! It’s just that “quotation marks were omitted” from the passages she copied into her own published works
https://t.co/GADymVZIyd

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Palestinian Authority Warns That Gaza Hospitals Running Dangerously Low On Ammunition https://t.co/WIjNFr0bXm

[Jason Jones @jonesville]

Jesus relied on God for his daily bread.
Socialists rely on government for theirs.

[Anne Herzberg @AnneHerzberg14]

Every part of the human rights community has utterly turned its backs on Israeli victims. It is vile and shameful. The current frameworks have been so poisoned and corrupted by hate they are irredeemable. We must start planning for something new.

[George Mack @george__mack]

How to spot high agency people:

1. Weird teenage hobbies - Teenage years are the hardest time to go against social pressures. If they can go against the crowd as a teenager, they can go against the crowd as an adult.

2. Energy distortion field - If you meet with them when you're tired and defeated, you leave the room ready to run a marathon on a treadmill with max incline. Low agency people do the opposite.

3. Golden question - If you're in a 3rd world prison cell and had to call someone to get you out, who would you call? That's the highest agency person you know.

4. You can never guess their opinions - The boxer that writes poetry. The advertiser obsessed with the history of war. The beauty queen who reads Nietzsche. If their beliefs don't line up with their stereotypes, they've exercised agency.

5. Immigrant mentality - If they've moved from their hometown, that's a good sign. If they've moved from their home country, that's an even greater sign.

It takes agency to spot you're in the wrong place, resourcefulness to operationalise a move and a growth mindset to start from zero in a new location.

6. They send you niche content - Low agency people look at the social engagement of content before deeming its quality. High agency people just look at the content. They spot upcoming trends very early.

7. Mean to your face but nice behind your back - The social incentives are to be nice to people's faces and gossip behind their backs. To do the opposite requires agency because they're swimming against the social tide.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

The people of the UK

people whose families have fought and died for our freedoms over the decades, protesting AGAINST pro-Hamas demonstrators who are using #ArmisticeDay today to riot for terrorists

@emilykschrader

https://t.co/ZEeCSQiEIJ

[FJ @Natsecjeff]

So it's time to understand a few things now:

- An Israeli ground raid on the Hamas HQ under al-Shifa Hospital is coming very soon.

- Israelis have been urging the hospital staff to evacuate the area but so far no luck. But that could change soon.

- The UAE's announcement of a field hospital in Gaza is coordinated with Israel and is likely linked to the forthcoming evacuation of the al-Shifa Hospital. The evacuees could then be transferred to the UAE's field hospital.

- Hamas will try to do everything in its power to stop the evacuation of the al-Shifa Hospital because it knows very well what comes right after the evacuation. This is precisely why the hospital continues to function despite media telling us every other day that the fuel is about to end. It's because Hamas has been providing the hospital just enough fuel to keep it functioning. Simply put, the evacuation of the hospital is not in the interests of Hamas.

- The media must do its job and educate the world about the Hamas HQ under the al-Shifa Hospital.

[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

Very few will take 7 minutes to watch this, but @DouglasKMurray is the face of extreme moral clarity

[Goldie Ghamari | گلسا قمری 🇮🇷 @gghamari]

The speech that went viral around the world.

When I stood up in the Ontario Legislature, I didn't know what I was going to say. I didn't have any prepared notes in front of me.

I chose to speak from my heart and from my experience as an immigrant whose family escaped from the most brutal radical Islamofacist regime in the world: the terrorist Islamic Regime in Iran.

We came to Canada because we wanted to live a better life. We embrace Canadian values.

I am a proud Canadian, I will always defend Canada, and I will always put my country first.

Honoured and humbled by all the messages/phone calls of support I've received by thousands of people in Carleton, Ontario, Canada and around the world.

Thank you.

#IRGCterrorists #FreeIran #WomanLifeFreedom #MahsaAmini #HamasTiesWithIRGC #HamasisISIS #CdnPoli #OnPoli #Carleton