João Tomé

Telling stories @Cloudflare and @CloudflareRadar. Previously journalist @Publico SIC @dinheiro_vivo, etc. Discoverer. Human🇵🇹. Tech, cinema, cars. Podcaster.

[João Tomé @emot]

Nice chart for sure 😍

[Datawrapper @Datawrapper]

How long are we likely to live? 👴 👵 Our developer Linus answers this question with the help of an unusual chart type: the beeswarm plot! 🐝

Read more and find out how to make your own on the Datawrapper blog: 👇

https://t.co/7SgwXJfT8T

[Bloomberg TV @BloombergTV]

Thinking Machines Lab CEO and co-founder Mira Murati tells Emily Chang that "everyone should have the tools and information" to make decisions on AI, but that there needs to be "checks and balances." She speaks at #BloombergTech @BloombergLive in San Francisco https://t.co/JnZ3NJMtNC

[João Tomé @emot]

@TimHaldorsson @raoufcode @Replit where was it in Lisbon? will you do more like it?

[Natalia Emanuel @NataliaHEmanuel]

Remote work hurts mental health. New research out in Science with @emma_k_h and Amanda Pallais. https://t.co/Z02dfc6f7n

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

AI writing produces an illusion of creativity.

Data on >370k college essays: After chatGPT, personal statements seemed more creative because they used more varied words—but actually featured less original ideas.

Machines favor homogeneity. Humans excel at diversity of thought.

[João Tomé @emot]

@dennismiloseski @hthieblot nevermind, it's there

[João Tomé @emot]

@dennismiloseski @hthieblot no winamp?

[João Tomé @emot]

@typesfast bureaucracy and incompetence will get you... but there are good reasons why we made it work in the XV and XVI (hoping to write about it soon!)

[João Tomé @emot]

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[João Tomé @emot]

Watched the Martin Short documentary last night. Thought it would be about fame. It’s really about friendship, loss, and how to keep moving.
Glad I ended up seeing it.

https://t.co/27haSJBPE4

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The most important component of writing clearly is simply to have high standards for clarity. Then if you write something unclear, you notice, and ask: what did I mean to say? You can just keep doing this over and over. And if you have high standards for clarity, you will.

[João Tomé @emot]

@luismbat interesting to see that the 2026 World Cup will have the oldest squads on average (tied with 2018) and the tallest players ever. Avg player height has increased by 8.9 cm (5.1%) since 1930, while avg age has risen from 24.8 to 27.9 years. But the age avg is consistent since 1994

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

"You need to make yourself a big target for luck, and the way to do that is to be curious. Try lots of things, meet lots of people, read lots of books, ask lots of questions."

— Paul Graham, How to Do Great Work

https://t.co/AyIk5fnKZL

[João Tomé @emot]

@mattzcarey Yup. Thinking and strategy and actual purpose makes all the difference. A bit different but I’ve talked a bit on the level of current volume AI allows easily vs actual intent with a clear purpose

https://t.co/60sdd62BzW

[João Tomé @emot]

Life satisfaction seems to be less about what happens to you and more about the kind of person you repeatedly become

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

Life satisfaction is shaped by several stable factors:

Emotional stability, extraversion, and conscientiousness are all highly correlated with life satisfaction

Feeling misunderstood, unexcited, indecisive, envious, bored, used, unable, and unrewarded were strongly linked with low life satisfaction.

https://t.co/0fppexv08i

[João Tomé @emot]

@whoiskatrin @michellechen also kind of weird and interesting going about and see HP garage and Steve Jobs neighbourhood close by...

[David Belson (@[email protected]) @dbelson]

🧵Some additional perspectives on the (limited) restoration of #Internet connectivity in #Iran on May 26:

Based on request traffic to @1111Resolver, the rank of the .ir ccTLD has jumped from #144 on May 25 to #96 on May 28.

https://t.co/PYvyEZ7d2W

[Hiroo Onoda @OnodaCapital]

god what a bleak chart

[Miguel Faria e Castro @mfariacastro]

Great tweet on the Pope's AI encyclical

[João Tomé @emot]

is Vietnamese coffee any good @levelsio ?

[Our World in Data @OurWorldInData]

Coffee production has shifted toward Asia over the last six decades—

Coffee is part of daily life for millions of people around the world. It’s also a key source of income and employment in many countries. In this chart, I want to focus on the shift in where it is grown over the last six decades.

The chart shows the breakdown of global green coffee bean production by region, from 1961 to 2024. Green coffee beans are those that haven’t yet been roasted.

South America has been the largest producing region throughout this period, but its share of global output has fallen, as has Africa’s.

The biggest story is the growth of coffee production in Asia: it went from producing less than 5% of the world’s coffee in the early 1960s to about 32% today.

Much of Asia’s growth comes from Vietnam, where production rose from around 5,000 tonnes in the early 1980s to about 2 million tonnes today. It now produces more than all African countries combined.

This expansion was driven largely by the spread of Robusta, a hardier and higher-yielding variety than Arabica, which is the type that dominates Latin American production.

Brazil is the world’s largest producer, while Vietnam is now second. Colombia used to be in that position, but Vietnam overtook it in 1999.

(This Data Insight was written by @EOrtizOspina.)