"No Rules Rules" is not a book about Netflix or reinvention. To me, the main lesson from Netflix's success is that talent is underrated. Sure, there's a lot of fluff and stuff I missed. But the talent discussion is interesting and has implications for hedge funds. A long 🧵
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I was trying to explain my postdoc to a Colombian cousin with little academic exposure and he came up with this brilliant observation ~ “like the Big Bang Theory folks”. Change the discipline and, yes, something like that.
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Posiblemente mucho más tiempo. La economía Venezolana no es ni la sombra de lo que fue en el último boom petrolero. Y quizás nunca lo sea.
Volver al récord comercial con Venezuela tomaría cerca de una década: exministro de Comercio Luis Guillermo Plata https://t.co/pvp8zqt1Rl
@thsottiaux something is going with the token consumption / quotas. I haven't almost used 5.6 on Codex / GPT work but old workflows that still use 5.5 and the usage is draining way, way faster.
The Atlantic’s new cover story by @rosehorowitch is absolutely definitive on the end of the age of reading in America—and the emergence of a new post-literate age in modern life
Some core facts and anecdotes:
1. Reading is shrinking. The share of Americans who read for pleasure declined by 43 percent between 2004 and 2023. While Americans might see more words than ever—between all those texts, posts, emails, and captions—less than half of Americans read books, anymore. The average sentence in NYT bestsellers are one-third shorter than a century ago.
2. Americans can swallow words and sentences, but they’re losing the ability to think deeply about writing that’s longer than an Instagram post. Nearly 30 percent of American adults cannot paraphrase or make inferences from a multipage text. In 2017, that number was less than 20 percent.
3. It’s worse for the young. Fourth- and eighth-grade reading scores have slid for the past decade. From 1984 to 2025, the percentage of 13-year-olds who said they rarely or never read for fun rose from 8 to 29 percent.
4. “Every year older a child gets, the less they like to read”: Most high-schoolers consider reading for pleasure an alien practice. Margaret Rennix, Harvard’s assistant director for humanities and social-sciences support, says some students view reading as an unnecessarily burdensome way of acquiring knowledge. “By asking them to read,” she said, it's as if “professors are arbitrarily withholding information from students by forcing them to get it through this more difficult medium.”
https://t.co/kk8qktY6fd
Garmin Argentina’s Instagram handle went hard with this two part ad of Argentina’s coach Lionel Scaloni on the sidelines after the comeback against Egypt:
“You don't need to say anything.”
“Your heartbeats already said it all.”
How surprising…
La intelligentsia de Chapinero está llena de intelectuales de papel, con principios de plastilina y estándares más bajos para los que son afines a su ideología.
Trino inaceptable y peligroso. Si Pte Petro tiene evidencias de fraude debe trasladarlas a las autoridades competentes pero al Pdte no le corresponde certificar quien ganó o no la eleccion. Eso le corresponde a las autoridades electorales y conforme a ellas el electo es ADLE