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...

COVID update: Based on European case increases, the US could see a new rise in COVID cases over the Spring. The wave is likely to look different in several ways. 1/

My new post is out: ourworldindata.org/longtermism It is about humanity's past and future. I don't know how to summarize this post in a thread. But I can share the two visuals I made for it. 👇

Ketanji Brown Jackson received more votes (53-47) for her Supreme Court confirmation than Amy Coney Barrett (52-48), Brett Kavanaugh (50-48) or Clarence Thomas (52-48).

Three-fifths of the Supreme Court justices who joined that Alito abomination were nominated by a serial abuser of women, Donald Trump, who lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by 2.9 million votes and were confirmed by Senators representing a minority of the US population.

#UnsolicitedAuntieAdvice If you're currently job hunting in tech, make like musical chairs and *quickly* find somewhere to sit down and be still for a bit.

florida high school class president zander moricz was told by his school that they would cut his microphone if he said “gay” in his grad speech, so he replaced gay with “having curly hair.” i am in awe

Some of the best startup advice we got was from Mark Cuban, who told us not to hedge our bets when we had 2 projects early on splitting our focus. A startup’s asymmetric advantage is deploying all your resources in a single direction, never dilute that.

i literally lol'd

RT if you’re ready to elect a pro-choice majority.

Klarna's valuation is reportedly being cut by ~86%. Lots of Klarna folks are losing money because of Klarna's weird RSU policy. The company did not issue double-trigger RSUs: which means people paid taxes on their shares at the high valuation. What a strange choice by Klarna...

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RT if you like free* flights!​ 🧵 *Does not include taxes and fees from $5.60 one-way.

Love this energy tbh

Wow, this is really cool.

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