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Building businesses in emerging markets. @emerhub @recruitgo @companieshouse_id

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I accidentally reversed Tallinn's (my hometown's) latitude and longitude coordinates - sending me straight to the entrance of the Strait of Hormuz.

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@thealepalombo A nice apartment in Marina would cost you at least 2x that. Your specific example is in the area where there was fire last summer.

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@pdolega @marclou Yeah absolutely. The more Z2 you do the faster your Z2 gets but it takes months and years.

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@pdolega @marclou It was more the intensity than the volume. Those 4.30 min/km paces were way too fast even for an experienced runner.

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Why wouldn’t you?

[Out of Context Human Race @NoContextHumans]

Never forget when an Estonia news outlet interviewed a deer

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Can’t get more European than that.

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I just spent a week in London. At 7 a.m., the streets are busy with people going to work. Is that the only part of Europe where people still work hard?

[molson 🧠⚙️ @Molson_Hart]

This has got to be the fastest growing city of all time right?

Guess away.

Could be a while before someone figures out what city this is.

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My hope is that things will more or less continue as they have been during the SBY and Jokowi’s terms. The democracy in Indonesia has its own sambal flavors. But so far, each successive president has been able to keep the country on an upward trajectory.

The pressure on Prabowo to uphold his predecessors' legacy will be considerable. He has shown himself to be a pragmatic politician, and the selection of Gibran as his running mate is hopefully a sign that Prabowo is more influenced by the policies of his vice-president's father rather than those of his own father-in-law.

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Prabowo Subianto is the next president of the Republic of Indonesia. What should we expect?

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So what does that mean for Indonesia? The country has been a role model for emerging markets, consistently growing its GDP by over 5% annually for over two decades. It’s also the third-largest democracy and has the largest Muslim population of any country in the world.

Is all of that progress at risk?

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Today feels like what people must have felt like when Prefontaine died.

[James Rhodes @James_Athletics]

No one ran a marathon quite like Kelvin Kiptum. Three marathons, three devastating kicks between 30k and 35k. 14:00 (Valencia), 13:49 (London), 13:51 (Chicago). Such a shame we will not see marathon number four.

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Copying your direct competitors = lame copycat.
Copying ideas from other industries and markets = innovation.

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5) Juggling three other "full-time" remote jobs, the junior developer delegates the work to his younger cousin.
6) The younger cousin tries to piece something together using chatGPT.

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How web development works in 2023

1) Someone has an idea.
2) They contract a developer from Eastern Europe to build it.
3) The contractor outsources the work to a freelancer in South Asia
4) The freelancer is actually an agency and the work gets passed on to their junior dev