Christian Bailey

lifelong learner. science nerd. happy dad.

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@nicochristie exciting

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@regardthefrost @realDonaldTrump @RobertKennedyJr @HHSGov They're lucky to have you.

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@JoeAlv @WSJ_Support @WSJ_Support it's beyond terrible. The "What's News" section doesn't even have the summaries anymore but rather web headlines. And the sections (Business, etc.) have disappeared entirely. What is happening to WSJ?

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The #1 thing that defines the quality of our lives is the people we surround ourselves with, and the conversations we have with them.

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[2] & [3] Stephen J. Rose and Heidi I. Hartmann, Still a Man's Labor Market: The Long-Term Earnings Gap, Institute for Women's Policy Research (2004), 10, https://t.co/0UxHAPRGoF

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Research over the last forty years has consistently found that in comparison to children with less-involved fathers, children with involved and loving fathers have higher levels of psychological well-being and better cognitive abilities [1].

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[1] Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Carolyn Buck Luce, "Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success," Harvard Business Review 83, no.
3 (2005): 44.

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@DanielleMorrill @saranormous @davthack Thanks Elle. David looks like a stellar person to map the opportunity out with.

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"Positively defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future."
—Peter Thiel, Zero to One

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In my case a picture is a sum of destructions. I do a picture – then I destroy it. In the end, though, nothing is lost; the red I took away from one place turns up somewhere else.”
https://t.co/ir44pVBi7J

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‘A painting,’ Picasso once said, ‘is a sum of destructions.’

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“In the old days pictures went forward toward completion by stages. Everyday brought something new. A picture used to be a sum of additions.

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@LauraDeming David Deutsch's book The Beginning of Infinity is the clearest and most original writing I have seen on this question.

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team of researchers led by Neil Rackham
—from Adam Grant https://t.co/ID19Ofk6zV

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4 techniques researchers found the most effective negotiators use:
1 Seek common ground
2 Make only their best arguments (vs piling on average and weaker ones)
3 Curiosity vs attack/defend
4 Ask questions

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—David Deutsch https://t.co/kQveUjy8JO

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What science – and creative thought in general – achieves is unpredictable creation [from nothing]. So does biological evolution. No other process does.