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Make having an analog life cool again

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@ZiFMStereoNews Honestly, everything that is happening in Zimbabwe started making sense to me once I read this article on Substack: https://t.co/jqzbKUtEOx

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@TouchlineX Valverde will be the first player to break the sensor

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@AdamTheofilatos Please include some serious normal + grass stands

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@zimpricecheck Seems a lot like the WeChat of Zimbabwe.

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@litteralyme0 I walk in an hour late everyday and do the work of 0.3 people combined. I’m on borrowed time

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.

He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.

When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.

Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.

The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.

Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.

The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.

That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

[shree🪄 @Goldensky0]

I think the most satisfying thing about reading a book is watching the left side get thicker and the right side get thinner

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@CSakwah @AnganaKeith Would love to read the full paper on this, mind sending it to me?

[Author Sakwah Ongoma @CSakwah]

WHY BOOKS ARE EXPENSIVE IN AFRICA.
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In 2022, I was commissioned by a representative of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Culture to conduct a desktop study on how nations successfully commercialise literature and write recommendations to their ministry.

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@AyoTehinse Feel this so much but it's part of the journey.

There's nothing better than reading the pdf version of the book, falling in love, then finally getting the physical version of it.

[Fr. Dwight Longenecker @dlongenecker1]

I am suffering from tech fatigue. I do not want any more apps, social media accounts, passwords, user names, pass codes, PINs, or A.I. mentors. Anybody out there know of a cure?

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