Dolly Parton on her Imagination Library program that Republicans defunded:
"[My daddy] was the smartest man I have ever known, but I knew [...] his inability to read probably kept him from seeing all of his dreams come true. Inspiring kids to love to read became my mission."
23.5 hours later... there's an app and it's open source.
It tracks activities & sleep. It has full sensor support: HR, SpO2, HRV, Temperature, Motion, etc.
SF was over if not for OpenAI and Anthropic!
Before that, it was over if not for Stripe, Uber, Airbnb, Twitter, Salesforce, Visa, Gap... and if you go back a bir further - Levi's, Bank of California, Spreckels Sugar, Wells Fargo, Union Iron Works, Southern Pacific :)
The city gets “saved” by the next boom every time. After the gold rush, there was silver, railroads, shipping, banks, sugar, utilities, Pacific trade, defense, semis, PCs, biotech, enterprise software, the internet, social, mobile, SaaS, fintech, crypto, and AI.
I think that's just how it goes in this town.
#HSCLifeRules - Paul Brody (@pbrody), Author of Ethereum for Business, Hack Seasons Conference Cannes, April 1
It's encouraging - non-US dollar stablecoins are now growing at a higher transaction rate than US dollar stablecoins. I consider that one of the key measures of institutional adoption, because almost all non-dollar demand comes from institutions and enterprises in mature markets. In emerging markets, people just want dollars. That non-dollar volume has spiked in the last six months - a good indirect measure of how fast this is being adopted, in the EU especially
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