Waj

[Waj @WajdiG]

Become an Octopus Org for everyone's sake 🙏🏻 @HarvardBiz https://t.co/ZEgtMRTY4d

[Jay Alto @theJayAlto]

there are essays, and then there are "violently shift your entire perception of reality" essays

[Aadit Sheth @aaditsh]

Jeff Bezos literally dropped the best advice on how to build a trillion dollar company.

[Waj @WajdiG]

@paulg Surely you dont expect every founder to be good at founder mode? Generalizations can be dangerous on both sides of the argument.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

This is not an implausible theory. Imagine how absolutely horrified Steve Jobs would have been if it turns out to be correct.

[Dan Azzi @dan_azzi]

@Beirutspring @nntaleb @glcarlstrom They called the system a “pure pyramid scheme” back in the summer of 2018 and were threatened with a lawsuit by some Lebanese lawyers. So, in fact, they’re the only foreign outfit who got it right early. Here’s the article:

https://t.co/lcAAVtnbxd

[Antoine Haddad @antoine_haddad]

ثمة بلدان يحكمها فاسدون، وبلدان يحكمها جهلة. نادرا ما يجتمع الاثنان في سلطة بلد واحد.
الخفة والجهالة التي اتخذ بها قرار تعليق العمل بالدوام الصيفي دليل قاطع على تحول #لبنان الى دولة فاشلة.
#الكاكيستوقراطية او حكم الحثالة هو التعبير العلمي الدقيق لما آلت اليه اوضاعنا
#kakistocracy

[Throwback Arsenal @ThrowbackAFC]

Nikos Dabizas revealed that he's 'proud' to be a part of that famous Dennis Bergkamp goal:

"It was the act of a football
genius. I was not humiliated, I was part of something which relied on a great football mind."

[Yishan @yishan]

I've now been asked multiple times for my take on Elon's offer for Twitter.

So fine, this is what I think about that. I will assume the takeover succeeds, and he takes Twitter private. (I have little knowledge/insight into how actual takeover battles work or play out)

(long 🧵)

[Tessa Davis @TessaRDavis]

The most powerful feature that Twitter has:

Advanced search

Until recently I hadn't even heard of it, but now I use it all the time.

Here are 6 twitter advanced search features that will revolutionise the way you search for what to read: 🧵👇

[Barrett O'Neill @barrettjoneill]

Sam Walton died with a net worth over $25 billion.

But years earlier, an unforeseen threat left him with NOTHING.

Here's how to identify & neutralize risks coming for your business:🧵

[Dan Azzi @dan_azzi]

In a way, it’s an act of genius. The forensic auditor is there to investigate theft & embezzlement in your accounts. Thus, by withholding payment, he has to punish you by not publishing the report & conclusion that your stole or embezzled funds. This has to be a masterpiece move.

[Waj @WajdiG]

V relevant especially for Lebanese folks like yours truly. I packed and left “home” in 2004 and the time between seeing family and school friends for example just widens (with a pandemic spike)

[6529 @punk6529]

1/ On How Short Life Is

A few years ago, I was walking around in a blizzard in SoHo (New York). It was late, midnight, and it was beautiful.

Some friends, about 15 blocks away, called: "come over?"

It was late, it was cold, was tired, thought "maybe not worth it" but then...

[Dan Azzi @dan_azzi]

الرأسمالية او النظام الاقتصادي الحر في لبنان:
اذا ربحت، اربح كل شيء منفرداً،
اما اذا خسرت، فيخسر كل المجتمع معي.

[Alex Migdal @alexem]

no one:

b.c. health care: can you come for an mri tonight at 2:30 am

[Nabih @nabihbulos]

I've covered so many wars in the Middle East, and the difference in the level of empathy and attention compared to what you see regarding the war in Ukraine really gives one pause.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

If you start with a system whose design has been compromised to make it run efficiently, you'll get to do excitingly complicated things to compensate. Many of your contemporaries will be impressed, but no one in the future will care.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

For the next decade at least, one of the biggest themes in tech will be an increasingly brutal effort by Apple to extract taxes from more and more people, and the steps they take to avoid it.

The Windows Tax was merely a metaphor. The Apple Tax will be Apple's business model.

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

I wish more young people dreamed about being inventors, engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs than influencers.