DOES ANYONE REMEMBER that website where you can enter all the ingredients you have at home & it will give you recipes you have the stuff to make?? that shit made me a baker!!!
My conversation with @evanspiegel, co-founder & CEO of @Snap.
0:00 Edwin Land Influence
2:01 Art Science Upbringing
3:27 Computers And Connection
5:50 Smartphone Addiction Lens
9:30 Building For Humanity
13:15 From Internships To Snapchat
17:02 Snapchat vs. Social Media
18:38 Stories And Vertical Video
22:22 Uncompromising Kind Culture
28:34 Snap Leadership And Design
37:38 AI Supercharges Snap
41:57 No Moat In Software
42:31 Beating the Clone
43:50 Messaging Network Effects
44:58 Camera Out of Pocket
45:49 Specs Market Reality
48:28 AR Platform Explosion
52:14 Vision-Led Product Design
54:09 Why Not Luxottica
59:11 Owning the Stack
1:03:02 Snap the Middle Child
1:08:04 Crisis Without Burnout
1:10:02 Snapchat Plus Growth
1:12:54 Rebuilding the Ad Engine
1:19:03 Subscriptions Over Ads
1:21:14 Fighting Giants With AI
1:22:04 Why Hardware Stands Alone
1:25:29 Snap Lab Origins
1:25:59 New Apps Beyond Snapchat
1:28:29 Focus And Founder Drive
1:32:14 Surfacing Problems Fast
1:36:08 Flat Culture Meritocracy
1:39:36 Last Company And Giving Back
1:41:15 Turning Down Billions
1:48:51 Snapchat Funds New Computing
1:51:24 Crucible Year And Schedule
1:53:56 Stress Reframed Meditation
1:56:09 Explainer In Chief
1:57:07 Closing
Includes paid partnerships.
imagine being a grown adult & your whole personality still drama, shade, jealousy & gossip. still worried about people who moved on from you years ago… still bringing up old stuff… still stuck in the same energy. no healing. no growth. no accountability… 30+ & still unhealed…
Funny Marco was SAD after Coco Jones instantly REJECTED his request to come to her & Donovan Mitchell’s wedding and then FLEXED her ring on him 😭💔
“Why would you be there?”
not just enjoyed,
but honored,
respected,
devoured,
considered,
prayed for,
favored,
remembered,
prioritized,
preferred,
assured,
validated,
comforted,
nurtured,
catered to,
protected,
rallied for,
supported,
cared for,
looked after,
and loved.
fully, proudly, gladly, loved.
I asked her, “How long did you wait for him to change?” She didn’t even hesitate. She said, “Until I started to hate him. Until being around him didn’t feel like love anymore… it felt like stress.” And that stuck with me. Because that’s what happens when you stay too long hoping for change. Love doesn’t just disappear overnight… it slowly turns into exhaustion. Hope turns into frustration. Patience turns into resentment. You keep giving chance after chance, telling yourself, “Maybe this time will be different.” But the truth is… change doesn’t come from you waiting. It comes from them choosing to do better. And not everyone is willing to do that. So by the time you finally accept it… you’re already drained. The love you were trying so hard to hold onto? It’s gone. And sometimes the hardest part isn’t losing the relationship… it’s realizing how long you stayed, believing in something that was never going to change.
No one talks enough about how exhausting it is to continuously be the one who “gives grace”. In a lot of instances, you’re giving grace at the expense of putting someone else’s needs before your own.
The Bible warns us not to look back at old friendships or any relationships that God has delivered us from. Lot's wife did and literally became stuck in time. My prayer is that when you're tempted to return to the past, the spirit reminds you there's so much more ahead of you!
Reconciliation requires two people telling the truth.. not one person doing emotional cartwheels while the other hides behind denial.
You can’t rebuild trust with someone who refuses to name their part.
Eve is finally receiving a long-overdue Grammy for her uncredited verse on The Roots’ “You Got Me” after
27 years.
On Thursday (Jan. 29), Eve was awarded the Grammy during the Recording Academy Honors presented by The Black Music Collective in Los Angeles.
"This is actually for lil Eve from Philly," she said in a video captured by Hollywood Confidential. "What is yours never can miss you even 30 years later. So I'm truly grateful for this."
The Roots' 1999 track earned the Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group in 2000. Since Eve was uncredited on the song, she was excluded from Grammy recognition when the rap group was first honored.
"When we recently learned about the story, it was really simple,” Recording Academy president Harvey Mason Jr. said, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "We needed to make it right, and it was a chance for us to make it right. So tonight, the Recording Academy is here to offer a much-deserved respect and recognition."
This marks Eve's second career Grammy. In 2002, she won Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for her song "Let Me Blow Ya Mind" featuring Gwen Stefani.