Zoran Kovacevic

Founder, Teddy Chat. Intelligent front desk for pediatric clinics. Creator of @mintedteddy.

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That rare morning moment when you’re already happy, then realize you still get to have your first cup of coffee

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@beaniemaxi This is the way

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@PeterParkerNFT lol. NFTs are too fun to quit. More booms and busts coming for sure

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@zjbrenner @opensea 🥳

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@adrianfclarke Good thread

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

This is a once-in-human-history moment. Rethink how you spend time. Rethink how you spend money. Whatever you do, don't stay stuck or frozen in the past.

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@joshpuckett I like it

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@nf_suzanne @Carlitoswa_y @FoxyPenguinApe @Ferrari @cryptoleon Glad someone else likes it too

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Most people probably do not, but I really like it.

Clean, brave design, and the interior is perfect. It reminds me of my favourite toy cars from PlayForever.

[Mike Matas @mike_matas]

Introducing Ferrari Luce, the first electric Ferrari designed by LoveFrom.

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@AdamWeitsman @Ramon_Pablo23 Love this ✨👏🏻

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@PeterParkerNFT ✨🇨🇦

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@tokifyi 24/7 is tough but could be 7am to 10pm...that's plenty

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@zubic_eth Greetings from Vacouver 🇨🇦

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@elonmusk It’s not pointy enough

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Your brain has a circuit that doesn't know you live in a city. Its only job is to monitor whether birds are still singing. When they stop, something dangerous is nearby. When they continue, the coast is clear. This wiring predates primates. These kids are being sedated by the oldest safety signal in the mammalian nervous system.

The Max Planck Institute tested this in 2022 with 295 participants. Six minutes of birdsong reduced anxiety and paranoia with medium effect sizes. Six minutes of traffic noise increased depression by the same margin. The effect worked on people who had never left dense urban environments. Their bodies responded to a signal their conscious minds had never learned.

King's College London ran a larger study. 1,292 participants, real-time mood tracking through a phone app, 26,856 assessments over three years. Hearing or seeing birds improved mental wellbeing for up to eight hours afterward. The effect held for people diagnosed with depression. Trees, plants, and waterways didn't explain it. The birds themselves were the variable.

Now here's where Italy connects to Finland. 95% of parents in the Finnish city of Oulu let their babies nap outside starting at two weeks old. A 2008 study confirmed the children took longer, deeper naps outdoors. Parents reported letting them sleep in temperatures as low as -15°C. 66% said their babies were more active afterward compared to indoor naps. The practice started as a public health initiative from Nordic maternity clinics in the early 1900s and became cultural infrastructure.

The Italian kindergarten in this video is running the same program the Nordic countries have been running for a century. Outdoor naps, natural soundscapes, no white noise machines, no blackout curtains. Meanwhile, American kindergartens have been eliminating nap time entirely to squeeze in more instruction. A UMass study showed that children who skipped naps forgot 12% of what they learned that morning. The nap itself was the learning.

The irony is that the countries spending the least on sleep technology for children are producing the best sleep outcomes. No sound machines. No apps. Just birds.

[Zoran Kovacevic @zubject]

Don’t tell the model what to do. Give it success criteria and let it loop.
-Andrej Karpathy

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@HollanderAdam Super dad 🙌🏻

[Naval @naval]

What you really want is a challenge at the edge of your capability.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

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