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29 Oct, 5 tweets, 2 min read
You're busy. You want to quickly find an email you're looking for. Which one is best?

Very bad user experience in Google Icons.

Retweet if you want them to go back to the previous icons!

#AlphabetSoup
The best brands own their colors
I get it. They want to say "We're not Google. We're Alphabet. Like the letters of the alphabet, we're not just one company, we're a lot of companies. Like the colors of the rainbow."

Except that this is not distinguishable. Too many rainbow companies.

It's an #AlphabetSoup
Twitter is going crazy about this


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31 Oct
"@SpaceX will not recognise international law on Mars, according to the Terms of Service of its Starlink internet project."

As usual, the media is ten steps behind @elonmusk

Here's why these ToS make sense:
[1/

independent.co.uk/life-style/gad…
The media thinks this is a crazy multibillionaire wanting to free himself from the reigns of governments to do as he pleases.

In fact, he is probably trying to pre-empt war and make politics better.
[2/
The logic is exactly the same one as that of the USA's independence.

With a full ocean between the US and the UK, they grew apart. During war, information and troops took too long to travel, and supplies lines were too long.

One day or another, they would have broken apart
[3/
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25 Oct
Who influenced you most on the #coronavirus pandemic? My list.

1. @balajis pierced my bubble when he started posting about the virus back in January, when most Silicon Valley ppl knew little & few imagined what it could become. He was prescient
2. @trvrb quickly started appearing in my @twitter feed. After over a year with no posts, he started posting on Jan 11th 2020 and never stopped. His work with strains opened my eyes to uncontrolled community spread.
3. @mugecevik had the best roundups of science. Each time she posted one, it was like jumping to the cutting edge of #coronavirus knowledge


These early voices woke me up. After them, I started discovering others that would help me understand the pandemic.
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16 Oct
The question that puzzles me the most about the #coronavirus: Why has Latin America had so many more infections and deaths than Africa?

This is prevalence (active cases/100k ppl)
~14x lower in Africa on average
[1/
And this is deaths.
15x lower
[2/
The main driver is probably not the measurement of either cases or deaths, since there are many countries in both regions, and their counting is probably similar on average. The Fatality Rate is broadly comparable too.
[3/8]
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16 Oct
How does leadership and storytelling impact the success against the #coronavirus? A tale of two islands gives us a clue: the United Kingdom and New Zealand. Thread.

Islands have a strong advantage: They can more easily control and test who gets in and out.

[1/
Germany is doing an amazing job but still struggles, surrounded by countries full of infections, and without a strong fence.

Conversely, Taiwan, Japan, New Zealand, Australia or South Korea (de facto an island) have been able to control the epidemic.
nytimes.com/interactive/20…
[2/
Great Britain is also an island. Yet the March outbreak was one of the worst in the world.

Partly, it's because the island is hyperconnected, and imported many infections early on. But also, the UK was slower than other EU countries in locking down.

Why?
[3/
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15 Oct
The most stupid financial advice is probably “plan to retire at 65”.

1. That’s inspired by 19th century Germany’s retirement innovation, when life expectancy was closer to 60. In developed countries it’s now closer to ~85

[1/
2. That meant social security was viable then. It won’t be by the time most of today’s working ppl retire

3. We live longer, so we can work longer.

[2/
4. When you live longer, you also spend $ for a longer time, so you need to save a bigger amount while you work to survive retirement, so you enjoy your young age less, just when you should be enjoying it +
[3/
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13 Oct
An annotated timelapse of how the #coronavirus incidence evolved over the last few months across all European countries.

What can we learn from it?

(Map and data gathered by @innouveau . Annotations mine. Thx for the link @RichardBurghout )
[1/7]
For me the country that stands out is Germany: How despite being in the very middle of Europe, highly connected, dense, surrounded by countries with massive prevalence, it's still doing pretty well.
[2/7]
It's no East Asian country, but it's also not an island with SARS/MERS experience. And it's not easy to control the virus when people from every other EU country — with few proper measures — are bringing you infections.

So how did Germany do it?
zeit.de/2020/33/corona…
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