colin

kids, data, music, home, distraction

[colin @colinspear]

@eigenrobot Truly a bad take

[colin @colinspear]

marco

[colin @colinspear]

@bashu_thanks family

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

When Norm Macdonald met Bob Dylan, a since-deleted thread that I just love

1/15

[colin @colinspear]

Best tweet of the year. Five gold stars

[glavo lilio @glavilio]

we're counting down the top 500 songs of the holocene. most of them are bird calls, a couple are by ancient humans but they were sung and forgotten thousands of years before you were born. inexplicably mambo number 5 is number 398

[colin @colinspear]

@waitbutwhy I love em on burgers

[Ana @wavelettes]

Spotify wrapped is people waiting all winter for like 2 sql queries that’s wild

[Charles Lister @Charles_Lister]

Having worked on #Syria full-time since the crisis began nearly 14yrs ago, there really is no understating how remarkable the losses imposed on #Assad's regime have been over the past week.

A large reason for this lies with #HTS — a 🧵:

[colin @colinspear]

someone needs to make a list of funny / iconic spotify wrappeds

[big diesel @JustBoysLaughin]

My brother just sent me his Spotify wrapped LOOOOOOOL

[colin @colinspear]

they would learn a lot if they studied the plants in the dark corners of my house

[sean @DilettanteryPod]

What the hell?

“This behavior has never been observed in a plant before.”

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Minneapolis is a YIMBY success story. They built more housing, costs went down. So much low hanging fruit out there if people can take Economics 101 seriously.

[colin @colinspear]

I think my toddler learned the word tambourine for my birthday. Couldn’t be prouder

[colin @colinspear]

murca

[Jakeup @myhandle]

one thing I've noticed about the Bay Area, especially on the heels of a trip to France, is that people here don't value good visual art

from upscale restaurants to group houses, the walls are covered in kitch and noise

[colin @colinspear]

@florianederer you're on a roll

[colin @colinspear]

@mindyisser ripeness level matters a lot

[Adam Ozimek @ModeledBehavior]

Intel is such a clear demonstration of why industrial policy is hard. They made massive strategic errors over the past few decades, they probably still have way too many workers. How would subsidies or protectionism have addressed this? If anything, could have made it worse.

[colin @colinspear]

@florianederer a nice, breezy beach read

[colin @colinspear]

now this is true raw dogging

[cordelia. @dykeknot]

disordered eating? adhd? try eating cereal out of your own hand like a horse. you will not regret Horse Breakfast one bit

[colin @colinspear]

i'm really raw dogging this zoom meeting this morning

[Lara Brown @lara_e_brown]

Huge focus in 2015 on honey bee population collapse.

Since then the number of hives has increased by 40% and has been restored to 1950s levels.