In 1834, when a Christian missionary arrived in Northern New Zealand to work with the Māori tribes, he saw their women using a seemingly ordinary pot to boil potatoes. This pot extraordinarily links New Zealand & Tamil Nadu, though the two lands are over 11k kms apart. A 🧵1/11
this was published almost two years ago, so many of you probably already read this. I just read it today and it was perhaps one of the most melancholic reads for me in 2022. $NET
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2.5 years ago I bought a dog ramp business for $300,000.
Since then, I’ve sold $35,000,000 of dog ramps.
I’m going to explain
Why I bought it
How I scaled
Why I bought a business vs built from scratch
But first...dog ramps?
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In a crucial moment of a pivotal playoff game, Boston Red Sox right fielder Hunter Renfroe misplayed a ball as it unexpectedly bounced toward him. His miscue might have saved Boston’s season. https://t.co/FpoMSGwXPx
The Ozy Media meltdown has a lot of lessons. As the reporter who caught them buying junk traffic in 2017, I'm biased. But I see it as a perfect, cautionary illustration of Paid versus Earned media. So: a 🧵 on why Ozy failed as a paid media company — and why it matters.
1/The collapse of the Government in Afghanistan this past week was so swift and complete - it was disorienting and difficult to comprehend.
This is how the events seemed to proceed from my perspective as Central Bank Governor.