Dashell Laryea

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@experilearning No worries, I love your work and passion. Cheers!

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Hey @experilearning, I came across your excellent YT summary of Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned. I loved the bee animation and was wondering if publicly available so that I could add it to my RemNote?!

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@ByrneHobart How did you find it, @ByrneHobart? Are there similar services for other school subjects? Asking as a parent, looking for resources.

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“It's clear there are simply too many toxins in this world for sunflowers, alone, to bear.” - Neal Freyman

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Infrastructure is the rhythm section to the economy’s sax solo.
- @MorningBrew

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I consider this aspect of Christianity's founding myth or event remarkable, and underemphasized. "Forgive them, Father, they know not what they do," represents a profound plea from the lips of a man being painfully murdered. https://t.co/gJUIAMd9GU

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Jesus was in his 30s when he rolled aside the stone from his tomb for Western culture’s foundational did-you-miss-me? moment. - Matthew Sweet, The Economist

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Virginia became the first state in the South and 23rd overall to end capital punishment. Over its 413-year history, Virginia executed >300 people, disproportionately used on Blacks—296 of the 377 inmates executed for murder in the 20th century were Black. https://t.co/PqtneDsFf2

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Now you and your kid can both cite McKinsey during your argument at the dinner table.

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@sfiscience @INETOxford Q: philanthropy as an asset class?

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I am a black man that has deep concerns about the BLACK LIVES MATTER movement but I have to say that whenever I see a sign in a window it feels like a light signaling that I am welcome in a world where I need to travel by Underground Railroad

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Today in 1861 the US Capitol was stormed by a mob.

The electoral votes affirming Lincoln were set to be counted, but hundreds of anti-Lincoln rioters stormed the Capitol steps trying to stop the count.

History rhymes.

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@noahlt “added to the money supply” in the inflationary sense

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one in every five US dollars *ever* printed was printed last year

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Anybody else 👀 what looks like connective grey links between messages (far left corner of screenshot). The beginning of threaded messages in iMessage?

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“The old hypocrite […] was a man whose aims were really worldly and practical, while he pretended that they were religious. The new hypocrite is one whose aims are really religious, while he pretends that they are worldly and practical.” ― G.K. Chesterton

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Credit cards are dead.

I received a 5X up-charge at checkout from #sapphirereserve while booking a SFO > HOU flight. I was attempting to use my using hard-earned points. And was able to book the same flight at real price from airline.

Long live fintech / BNPL.

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As the income gap widens in most nations, tech has been implicated in exacerbating the problem as opposed to fueling equity. Ongoing poverty has specific psychological effects on decision-making and how people think about themselves, driving impact on how they interact with tech.

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What happens to a dream (read: climate, inequality, immigration, systemic racism) deferred?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

https://t.co/S6qvHObeO1