R. Timothy Weeks

Midwest-based data scientist @Shopify. Likes Python, Tableau, urbanism, and black swans.

[lavitalenta @lavitalenta]

Hidden Life in Nazareth - Ivanka Demchuk

[David ImeI @DurvidImel]

2026

[nicole ruiz @nwilliams030]

I like buying from small businesses and craftspeople but remembering to search each website is often prohibitive,

recently I've been using Claude to help me!

A quick guide on how to use Claude to purchase quality goods
https://t.co/38W4wJLpvJ

[R. Timothy Weeks @rtimothyweeks]

@artofmanliness re: Age of Innocence, @TheeNerdwriter had a great video recently, contrasting the film with the novel

https://t.co/8XPWKHxJVT

[Farhan Thawar @fnthawar]

Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again

— Charlie Munger

[Mark R. Brown, AICP, CNU @CompletedStreet]

America really does have the best parking lots.

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Yesterday was an incredible day for our merchants and for Shopify:

* Merchants drove a record-breaking $5 billion Black Friday in sales (GMV)

* Peak sales / minute for yesterday = $4.6 million

* Shopify's egress processed more than 173B requests

* Peak requests per minute was at 284 million on edge, with more than 80 million on app servers pushing 12TB a minute

* 45 million peak database queries per second, peak database writes was 7.6 million per second

* We rely on Kafka. At peak we hit 66 million messages per second

Let's keep going 🔥

[daniel debow @ddebow]

we launched a new https://t.co/DIBVRZszwj today.

the very best part?

"Why We Build Shopify"

https://t.co/CZNDsJba0M

this is why I'm here 💚

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

“I told you to put everything in the Notion doc. Yesterday’s Whole Foods trip wasn’t logged. Neither was our Saturday Wendy’s run. The streaming passwords are out of date. You need to finish our 100-year relationship goals. And when is the next date night? I see nothing!!!”

[tobi lutke @tobi]

What an incredibly cool idea. And it’s beautiful

[R. Timothy Weeks @rtimothyweeks]

@david_perell @michael_nielsen Great principle! Of my subscriptions, @EconTalker does the best at executing this consistently across a wide range of topics and variety of guests.

[R. Timothy Weeks @rtimothyweeks]

@thepatwalls @ksaitor This might be it!
https://t.co/ORqfBBiw17

[R. Timothy Weeks @rtimothyweeks]

@infrahumano Influenced to go see it tonight! 🍿

[Cedric Chin @ejames_c]

I am today years old when I learnt Anthony Bourdain played Brazilian Ju-Jitsu and wrote a public log on Reddit.

It seems he can’t help but use food analogies for everything:

[R. Timothy Weeks @rtimothyweeks]

@STLCityGov The example maps in the survey are not readable

[Ólafur Waage @olafurw]

Off by one

[tobi lutke @tobi]

hi

[R. Timothy Weeks @rtimothyweeks]

My @Shopify team ships!

[daniel debow @ddebow]

Shopify Audiences is the tool independent businesses need now.

Digital marketing has become more difficult and more expensive. Shopify Audiences will help solve that:

https://t.co/QMmzjoi7kU

[Erik Bernhardsson @bernhardsson]

The average person’s understanding of statistical skew is better than most people

[Shopify @Shopify]

if you’re reading this, take a sip of water