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‘Putting ideas on paper is the best way to organize them in one place, and getting everything in one place is essential to understanding ideas as more than the gut reactions they often are.’ Morgan Housel collaborativefund.com/blog/why-every…

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A good piece by Nick Paumgarten on #measles and #antivaxxers - also a good reflection on the idea that one of the most urgent challenges society faces is how to stop outright wrong ideas. newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…

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Useful infographic on the escalating US-China trade war. ‘So far, Washington has imposed tariffs on some $250bn of Chinese goods, while Beijing has retaliated with tariffs on $110bn of US products.’ bbc.com/news/business-…

Useful infographic on the escalating US-China trade war. 
‘So far, Washington has imposed tariffs on some $250bn of Chinese goods, while Beijing has retaliated with tariffs on $110bn of US products.’
bbc.com/news/business-…
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‘A chess player can burn up to 6,000 calories a day while playing in a tournament, three times what an average person consumes in a day.’ Aishwarya Kumar espn.com/espn/story/_/i…

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In 1965, nuclear power generated slightly more electrons than renewable power. That gap widened for 40 years, tightened for 15, and now Renewable Power > Nuclear. bp.com/en/global/corp…

In 1965, nuclear power generated slightly more electrons than renewable power. That gap widened for 40 years, tightened for 15, and now Renewable Power > Nuclear. 
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Yesterday I rented a boat and took the leader of one of Flexport's partners in Long Beach on a 3 hour of the port complex. Here's a thread about what I learned.

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The Humber Refinery in NE England. This place looks and smells like a ghost of fossil fuel history. It's where they turn crude oil into petrol, jet fuel & many other petrochemical products. It won't seem the obvious place to start a thread abt batteries. But bear with me 🧵

The Humber Refinery in NE England.
This place looks and smells like a ghost of fossil fuel history. It's where they turn crude oil into petrol, jet fuel & many other petrochemical products.
It won't seem the obvious place to start a thread abt batteries.
But bear with me
🧵
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That's why in charts like the one I tweeted last night you'll see that our need for graphite for our future gigafactories is actually GREATER than our need for lithium. Look at the height of the bars! But cathodes are sexier than anodes so no one pays much attention

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In 1994, Jeff Bezos famously spotted a stat that made him leave his high-paying PE job to start Amazon: 💡 The Internet was growing 2300% per year. What are the generation-defining stats of today? I'll post a few to kick things off...