Mark Wasiljew

Tech executive specializing in Strategic Partnerships and GTM. Current clients include Tonal and SPRCHRGR. Thoughts are my own.

[Mark Wasiljew @thebigness]

This is pure poetry. U!S!A!

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[Rodger Sherman @rodger]

Shrey spelling 32 words in 90 seconds to win the Spelling Bee is the new greatest athletic accomplishment of 2026. I don’t even know how he said the letters that fast. Got a “Holy Mackerel” out of
@minakimes

[Christian Ruf @pinpulleddrmf]

Veteran buried his eldest and it’s not looking good for his two others.

Posting for any connections, help that can be made while they fight for time.

[maddy catgirlprostate @catgirlprostate]

Just found out about recency bias, it's gotta be the best and most interesting kind of bias

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

Your annual Donald Rumsfeld IRS Tax Day Letter appreciation post.

[Northwestern Basketball @NUMensBball]

Thank you, Nick Martinelli 🤌💜

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Went down the rabbit hole on this one. The answer is actually wild.

5,000 years ago, Sumerian merchants in modern-day Iraq needed a number that's easy to divide. They picked 60. It has 12 divisors (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, 60). Base-10 only has four. That's 3x as many ways to split something evenly, which matters when you're dividing grain and wages and can't handle repeating decimals.

The counting method is the best part. They used their thumb as a pointer on the three bone segments of each finger. Four fingers, three segments, that's 12 per hand. Track multiples of 12, on the other hand, and you hit 60. No pen needed. Merchants in parts of Asia still count this way today.

The system spread from Sumer to the Babylonians, then eastward to Persia, India, and China, and westward to Egypt and Rome. By 1800 BC, Babylonian students were using base-60 to calculate the square root of 2 to six decimal places on clay tablets. One student's homework from 4,000 years ago, now at Yale, holds the most accurate computation found anywhere in the ancient world. The Greeks adopted it for astronomy, which locked it into navigation, cartography, and eventually clocks in the 14th century.

People have tried to kill it. During the French Revolution in 1793, France mandated decimal time: 10 hours per day, 100 minutes per hour, 100 seconds per minute. New clocks, new laws, the whole thing. Lasted 17 months. Workers hated getting one day off every ten days instead of one every seven. They tried again in 1897. Scrapped by 1900. The metric system replaced feet and pounds across most of the world. But 60 minutes in an hour? Untouchable.

60 is just too good at being divided. You can split an hour into halves, thirds, quarters, fifths, sixths, tenths, twelfths, or twentieths and land on a whole number every time. Try that with 100, and you get ugly decimals for thirds, sixths, and most common splits. 5,000 years of civilizations looked at that math and came to the same conclusion: 60 wins.

[Mark Wasiljew @thebigness]

@redrock_bball This deserves the facepalmiest of facepalm emojis

[Mark Wasiljew @thebigness]

@SmanSports Yes. But my way is better for my own reading comprehension lol

[Mark Wasiljew @thebigness]

@WildcatReport Just can't dig that big a hole to start the game

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

This is one of the most phenomenal photos I've ever seen. What a staggering achievement to have captured this, I can hardly believe it's reality.

[Mark Wasiljew @thebigness]

@YahooSports @KevinOConnor @ArtButSports has some serious work in front of him

[Mark Wasiljew @thebigness]

@Doug_Thonus Unlike new QBs and coaches, this bulls regime hasn't made a single move that would give you a reason to get your hopes up

[Los Madferits @LosMadferits]

SETLIST @oasis - Los Angeles, Rose Bowl Stadium - 06.09.2025
- F*ckin' in the bushes
1.⁠ ⁠Hello
2.⁠ ⁠Acquiesce
3.⁠ ⁠Morning Glory
4.⁠ ⁠Some Might Say
5.⁠ ⁠Bring It On Down

#oasislive25

[Mark Wasiljew @thebigness]

@SheaSerrano Make it harder. Just guys with initials for first name

BJ Armstrong

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

This is the biggest risk we face right now:

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

The only advice anyone really needs: Show up on time, with a good attitude, and do what you said you’d do. That’s it. That’s 90% of winning in life.

[Kurt Steiner @Kurt_Steiner]

Late stage Civ game irl.