🇺🇸 Most Americans have never heard of Patriots Day, and almost no one outside the U.S. knows it exists.
Yet it’s one of the most action-packed holidays in the country, and it holds a lot of significance.
Celebrated only in Massachusetts and Maine, it marks the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the opening shots of the American Revolution.
Every year, on the third Monday of April (today), Boston holds its marathon at dawn, the Red Sox play a morning home game at America’s oldest ballpark, and reenactors fire muskets at each other in the suburbs.
In 2013, two bombs were detonated near the finish line, killing 3 people and injuring hundreds more.
The following year, Boston came back with record crowds lining the route, the city's defiance becoming as much a part of the day's identity as the race itself.
The world's oldest annual marathon, a sold-out ballpark, a 250-year-old battle, and the stubborn refusal to be broken, all on the same morning, all in the same city.
My writing today in the @sfstandard: Too many Silicon Valley leaders have divested themselves of the responsibility to speak out against the Trump administration.
We can’t shrink away and hope the crisis fades.
It’s time for all of us in tech to do and say more.
The financial media got completely duped by the crypto industry into believing that a digital pyramid scheme is a legitimate asset class that investors, corporations, and governments should own. As Bitcoin collapses it will take the reputation of the financial media down with it.
What should the biotech industry learn from Robert Redford? How to "lower the ladder" for future generations of leaders.
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Have any other entrepreneurs "shaved" their couch to save money? No? Just Me?
Check out my best money saving hacks below and let me know what I missed.
#Startups#Entrepreneurship
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Startups exist to solve problems that big companies just can't. The structure of a big company leads to conservative approaches and incremental improvements. If your startup is pursuing similar, small ideas, then you have no reason to exist.
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As a kid, I remember learning that when we look at the sun (not that I ever actually did 😬), we are actually looking at an "old" version of the sun from roughly 8 minutes and 20 seconds ago. This led to an interesting thought experiment. https://t.co/ScpGYKx3j5 via @LinkedIn
The student debt thing is simple: cancel the interest (or make it 1-2%). The rates are regularly jacked up by lenders with little to no notice and we shouldn’t be in the business of bankrupting kids trying to better themselves.
I absolutely agree with RFK Jr's critique of America's food supply. It urgently needs an overhaul
But he's nominated for HHS
NOT the U.S. Department of Agriculture
And his thoughts on health issues like HIV and vaccines are categorically undefendable and extremely dangerous
Amazingly new data out today from Sweden 🇸🇪 showing an incredible decline in prevalence of the HPV virus as a result of the vaccine
HPV causes cancer .. This is going to save a lot of lives
Vaccines are incredible !