i’m just going to leave this here…

People dabbling in a new field are overconfident about their expertise: confidence increases faster than knowledge. We start to generate our own theories from the small sample of our experience, but those theories are too simple. As we learn more our confidence actually drops!

These are the sounds we heard 40 years ago 🔈

The world is starting to learn how to decouple growth from CO2 emissions

The story of the last 3 years in one chart: In 2019 Teladoc was valued at $5B+, Livongo at $3B+ In 2020 Teladoc acquired Livongo: $18.5B deal In Feb 2021 the company peaked at $42B Today? Worth $4.7B

Sesame Street did some really great shit back in the day. This bit is pure gold. Enjoy. x.com/HistoryMuppet/…

Another US election, another "Land doesn't vote, people do" style map showing the election results.

Russel Kirsch was the inventor of the pixel. He passed away only a couple of years ago. The 172 x 172 image of his son made in 1957 is the 1st digital images ever made. It's a photo that changed the world. His legacy lives on in the billions of photos we take and share each day.

An IBM slide from 1979.

just as brexpected

Here’s a reason to think we can skirt recession next year – ample excess savings. This is the extra saving we did during the pandemic and are now drawing down to supplement our inflation ravaged purchasing power and continue spending. All income groups have excess saving left.

People in California and New York pay 20% of federal taxes and have 4 Senators. People in 21 states--AK ID UT MT WY ND SD NE KS OK IA MO AR LA MS AL TN KY IN WV SC--pay 15% of federal taxes and have 42 Senators. What's that old saying? Oh yeah, taxation without representation.

My new favorite thing - Bing's new ChatGPT bot argues with a user, gaslights them about the current year being 2022, says their phone might have a virus, and says "You have not been a good user" Why? Because the person asked where Avatar 2 is showing nearby

When you start a company, there's this illusion that at some point things will get easier. It never gets easier. You earn the right to solve problems with higher stakes. But it never gets easier. And if it starts to feel easy...you're probably missing something.

Bing, write the first chapter of Genesis as a corporate memo.

Yep we’re all gonna be totally fine. It’s totally fine. Nothing to see here. Nothing to worry about. No need to re-watch the Terminator movies.

Scientists have created an "unknome" that ranks human proteins according to how much we know about them - and for many it's next to nothing. newscientist.com/article/238630…

Despite higher prices, inflation-adjusted consumption is higher than ever — it’s a time of abundance

Businesses founded more than 100 years ago: Disney: 101 years Warner Brothers: 101 years Gucci: 103 years AMC Theaters: 104 years KLM: 105 years Boeing: 108 years BMW: 108 years IBM: 113 years Mars: 113 years Chanel: 114 years Hitachi: 114 years L'Oréal: 115 years Xcel Energy: