eylül 👩🏻‍🔬

Founder @PalgaeCo I MSc @UniBogazici l RA @NisantasiEdu | #bioengineer #bioeconomist

[eylül 👩🏻‍🔬 @queeneyluler]

Impact Makers: Eylül Er https://t.co/Cu9wRtZl6J

[DrakeAligned @DrakeAligned]

Drake gave away MILLIONS of dollars, a G Wagon, a Porsche, a Maybach, BMWs, a Range Rover, 6+ Birkins and much more at his annual ‘Strong Women, Stronger Drinks’ event last night in Toronto 😳

[Symbiotica Therapeutics @SymbioticaTx]

Seeing the investment process from the other side of the table. 🚀 Thanks @SPRIND for an insightful "You as the Investor!" Bootcamp in Berlin.
We’re leaving with fresh perspectives, valuable connections, and even more motivation.
#Biotech #DeepTech

[Flint Dibble 🍖🏺 @FlintDibble]

Six years is nothing! In Alaska in 1984, paleontologist Dale Guthrie ate a stew made from a bison that had been frozen for roughly 50,000 years. It was edible but not very tasty. Nobody got sick though

[Jason Freedman @jasonfreedman]

https://t.co/it7OldPHVx

[Ayla @iamaylah_]

Tom Holland’s Dating History:

2017 — Zendaya 🇺🇸 (20yo)
2018 — Single
2019 — Olivia Bolton 🇬🇧 (23yo)
2020 — Nadia Parkes 🇬🇧 (24yo)
2021 — Zendaya 🇺🇸 (25yo)
2022 — Zendaya 🇺🇸 (26yo)…. Love

[eylül 👩🏻‍🔬 @queeneyluler]

that hits me hard

[27. @dimvji]

all roads eventually lead back to the interests you had as a child

[EsDeeKid @esdeekidd]

are you climbing this mountain for the world to see you or to see the world

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Elon Musk on why the smartest people drop out of college:

"You don't need college to learn. Learn stuff. Everything is available basically for free. You can learn anything you want for free. It is not a question of learning."

Musk explains what college actually provides:

"There is a value that colleges have, which is seeing whether somebody can work hard at something, including a bunch of annoying homework assignments, and still do their homework, and kind of soldier through and get it done. That's the main value of college. And also, you probably want to hang around with a bunch of people your own age for a while instead of going right into the workforce. So I think colleges are basically for fun and to prove you can do your chores. But they're not for learning."

On hiring at his companies:

"There is a requirement of evidence of exceptional ability. I don't consider going to college evidence of exceptional ability. In fact, ideally you dropped out and did something. Obviously, Gates is a pretty smart guy, he dropped out. Jobs was pretty smart, he dropped out. Larry Ellison, smart guy, he dropped out. Obviously not needed."

Musk shares how education should work:

"Generally, you want education to be as close to a video game as possible. Like a good video game. You do not need to tell your kid to play video games; they will play video games on autopilot all day. If you can make it interactive and engaging, you can make education far more compelling and far easier to do."

He challenges the current system:

"You really want to disconnect the whole 'grade level' thing from the subjects. Allow people to progress at the fastest pace that they can, or are interested in, in each subject. It seems like a really obvious thing."

Musk criticizes traditional teaching:

"Most teaching today is a lot like vaudeville. Somebody's standing up there lecturing to you. They've done the same lecture several years in a row. They're not necessarily all that engaged. That lack of enthusiasm is conveyed to the students; they're not very excited about it. They don't know why they're there. 'Why are we learning this stuff?' We don't even know why. A lot of things people learn, probably there's no point in learning them, because they never use them in the future."

On whether university is necessary:

"A university education is often unnecessary. That's not to say it's unnecessary for all people. But I think you learn about as much, the vast majority of what you're going to learn there, in the first two years. And most of it is from your classmates. If the goal is to start a company, I would say no point in finishing college."

Musk started his own school for his kids:

"I created a little school. It's small, only 14 kids now, and it'll have 20 in September. It's called Ad Astra, which means 'to the stars.'"

He explains what makes it different:

"There aren't any grades. There's no grade one, grade two, grade three. Not making all the children go in the same grade at the same time, like an assembly line. People are not objects on an assembly line. That's a ridiculous notion. Some people love English or languages. Some people love math. Some people love music. Different abilities at different times. It makes more sense to cater the education to match their aptitudes and abilities."

Musk shares a key principle:

"It's important to teach problem-solving, or teach to the problem, not to the tools. Let's say you're trying to teach people about how engines work. A more traditional approach would be: 'We're going to teach you all about screwdrivers and wrenches. You're going to have a course on screwdrivers, a course on wrenches.' This is a very difficult way to do it."

He offers a better approach:

"A much better way would be: 'Here's the engine. Now let's take it apart. How are we going to take it apart? Oh, you need a screwdriver, that's what the screwdriver is for. You need a wrench, that's what the wrench is for.' And then a very important thing happens: the relevance of the tools becomes clear."

The result:

"It seems to be going pretty well. The kids really love going to school. I think that's a good sign. I hated going to school when I was a kid; it was torture. The fact that they actually think vacations are too long, they want to go back to school. Weird, I know."

Musk reframes what education really is:

"If you think about it, what is education? You're basically downloading data and algorithms into your brain. And it's actually amazingly bad in conventional education. It shouldn't be this huge chore. The more you can gamify the process of learning, the better."

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Jeff Bezos on the exact moment he realized he would never be a great physicist:

"I really was determined to be a theoretical physicist. It's why I went to Princeton in the first place. And then I realized I was going to be a mediocre theoretical physicist. There were a few people in my classes, in quantum mechanics and so on, who could effortlessly do things that were so difficult for me."

"Theoretical physics is not one of those fields where only the top few percent move the state of the art forward. It's one of those things where your brain has to be wired in a certain way."

"My friend Joe and I were working on a very difficult partial differential equations problem set one night, and there was one problem we worked on for three hours. We made no headway whatsoever. And we looked up at each other at the same time and we said, Yasantha."

"He stared at it for just a few seconds, maybe 10 seconds, and he said, cosine. And I said, what do you mean, cosine? He said, that's the answer. And I said, no, no, no, come on. And he said, let me show you. And he took out some paper and wrote down three pages of equations, everything canceled out, and the answer was cosine."

"I said, Yasantha, did you do that in your head? And he said, oh no, that would be impossible. A few years ago I solved a similar problem, and I could map this problem onto that problem, and then it was immediately obvious that the answer was cosine."

"You have an experience like that, you realize maybe being a theoretical physicist isn't what the universe wants you to be."

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

The hardest battle is between your old habits and your new standards. Always remember that.

[Alexis Ohanian 🗽 @alexisohanian]

Want to start a company? Great. Get an appetite for glass. You’re gonna chew it every day.

[eylül 👩🏻‍🔬 @queeneyluler]

Small but effective life hacks

[𝓐 ⭑ @ayojoestar]

I'm neurodivergent and have a PhD in healthcare research.

Here are 13 ways to regulate your nervous system you’ve probably never heard of:

1. Shower in the dark (reduces sensory input and is one of the fastest ways to calm your overstimulated nervous system).

[conor brennan-burke @contextconor]

the era of autistic deep work is over

your agents are more autistic than you and better at deep work

welcome to the shallow work future

total ADHD dominance

[eylül 👩🏻‍🔬 @queeneyluler]

Naval is just a person who -naturally- brings people together who explain his tweets in such a way…

Thanks, now I get 😂

[Mr. Czar @Mrczar_]

In simple english:

It means:

Before: Software was expensive, so businesses bought several specialised tools from different companies: one for payments, one for marketing, one for customer service, and so on. Each software company could charge heavily because businesses depended on its particular tool.

Now: Software is much cheaper to build. So the bigger opportunity is no longer selling one small tool to every type of business. It is building a complete business for one specific industry and controlling the entire customer experience from beginning to end.

For example:

Old model: Sell delivery software to restaurants.
New model: Build a complete food-delivery company that handles ordering, payment, delivery, customer support, and restaurant management.

“Opinionated” simply means the company does not give customers endless choices. It decides what it believes is the best process and builds the entire experience around it.

In one sentence:

When software was costly, money was made by selling separate tools. Now that software is cheap, more value comes from using those tools to build complete, specialised businesses.

[eylül 👩🏻‍🔬 @queeneyluler]

that's me

[İlker Kocael @ilker_kocael]

Özellikle "Odyssey filmine gideceğim ama hikâyeyi hiç bilmiyorum" diyenler için iyi bir başlangıç videosu: Odysseus'un çileli hikâyesinin baştan sona felsefi derinliğiyle birlikte anlatımı, Luc Ferry'den.

Çok eskiden yayınladığım bu videonun çevirisini bugün tekrar elden geçirdim. Yeni versiyonu daha derli toplu oldu.

İyi seyirler :)

[Mads @europemaxxed]

the barbenheimer of its day

[Shafeeq @Y2SHAF]

future historians are going to have a nightmare trying to explain why we ran out of drinking water because we needed to cool down the machines generating 4K AI fruit videos