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15 Dec, 12 tweets, 3 min read
1/ The VISUAL is VISCERAL

Was telling my 10yo daughter why we both cry more easily in movies than books—empathy, emulation, mirror neurons (maybe).

Few looked at Syria (statistics, words on pages)
til powerful pic of tragic toddler washed ashore
made it too hard to look away...
2/ A few 2020 year of pictures—

all powerful with context we have
that someone from the past would not grok
nor someone in the future without knowing history.

Dallas Morning News...
dallasnews.com/news/2020/12/1…
3/ SF Chronicle 125 pics for 2020

sfchronicle.com/projects/2020/…
4/ Bloomberg year in pics
bloomberg.com/features/2020-…
5/ NYT 2020 Year in Pics
nytimes.com/interactive/20…
6/ Washington Post 2020 Year in Photos

washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/…
7/ Nat Geo 2020 Year in Photos

nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2021/…
8/ CNN Year in Photos edition.cnn.com/interactive/20…
9/ The Atlantic 2020 year in photos

theatlantic.com/photo/2020/12/…
10/ Reuters 2020 Pictures of the Year

reuters.com/news/picture/p…
11/ World Press Photos of the Year 2020
worldpressphoto.org/collection/pho…
12/ ABCNews Pics of the year 2020

abcnews.go.com/International/…

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5 Dec
1/ As we approach the end of 2020–
a REMINDER of the power of RESILIENCE.

When things seem like total disasters—politics, poverty, pandemic—it is because of REALISM that they are...

...which gives way to conditional OPTIMISM that our globally interconnected, market-driven...
2/...highly competitive whether

-in SCIENCE via methods of conjecture + refutation

-in PRODUCTS via better, cheaper, faster, more convenient

-in INVESTORS in self-interest competing to be earlier than others, funneling funds MOST likely to be lost for slim chance of big gains
3/ Which have driven

-global communication costs to near ZERO
-processor computation + video rendering to exponentially better quality
-frictionless exchange of scientific information to model in DAYS(!) + manufacture in MONTHS(!) a vaccine
-with a system of safety + testing...
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3 Dec
1/ Why not cancel it all? Free everything!

Cancel construction workers + supers + electricians + painters + HVAC workers + gardeners + decorators

We can cancel taxes too (they come from people with jobs making + spending $)––then cancel politicians salaries paid for by taxes
2/ Cancel monthly bills for cable + phones + internet + gym memberships + magazines + newspapers + substack subscriptions!

And cancel restaurants too––
food + fun should be free for all!
3/ Cancel car payments + cancel airline tickets––travel should be free for everyone.

Cancel music subscription services + podcasts.
Cancel Spotify + Apple.
Cancel royalties to artists.
No 1 artist should be more popular than the 99%!
Cancel ticket sales to concerts + sports.
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3 Dec
1/ SCI-FI <> SCI-FACT🤯

Like Star-Wars—your first personal holographic display has arrived.

Meet “Looking Glass Portrait”.
Designed for people, real––and imagined.

Radically priced @ $199
today + tomorrow only.
Pre-order look.glass/portrait
2/ When @chrisfralic thought to introduce me to @LKGGlass––i remember we spoke about the directional arrow of progress

We had to take risk to believe resolution would keep evolving (just as YouTube went from 240 > 360 > 720 > 1080p > 4k)...

The PROGRESS + PROGRESSION amazes.
3/ Look at the progress from this video of ~3 years ago...
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30 Nov
1/ SOME NEWS

The charter school that I co-founded + Chair in my native Coney Island, Brooklyn––has sued the CDC + Trump administration.

Our scholars + families demand reliable information and government competence.

The @NewYorker just covered it.
newyorker.com/magazine/2020/…
2/ Part 1...
3/ Part 2...

From @ciprep CEO Leslie-Bernard Joseph:

"It's like trying to swim against the current of the Pacific Ocean. We knew we were drowning, and we were just going to try to keep swimming as long as we could"
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25 Nov
My 2020 rap faves

RTJ4
Jay Electronica—written testimony + act 2
Aesop Rock—spirit world field guide
unlocked—denzel curry x kenny beats
Marlowe 2
Eminem—Music to be..
Alfredo—alchemist
Revenge of the Dreamers
Clams Casino—esp ‘unchain me’; Lost Boys🎥
Pray for Paris
Marlowe 2
2/ A fave track of all of this––is this “DIET_”

GENIUS lyrics—and a hook with an amazing ascendant 3 bar rhyme that is an exorcism of DMX to a rising Slick Rick bassline

when you hear it you will hear it
(if you don’t it’s @ 0:47)
open.spotify.com/track/1AzqpMy3…
3/ the Clams Casino instrumental is solid but this track is more personal, he samples Cry Little Sister from “Lost Boys”—i was 9 and in middle of cross-country custody battle and LOVED this movie and well––wanted to be a vampire in Kiefer Sutherland’s gang
open.spotify.com/track/0RokJnY3…
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24 Nov
1/ AMAZED by @LTwolfe

Cover of @Forbes: Impactive Capital
Christian Asmar + Lauren Taylor Wolfe

"From Buffett With Love"
forbes.com/sites/hanktuck…
2/ "The Oracle of Omaha famously detached his investment strategy from his civic pursuits. Lauren Taylor Wolfe and Christian Alejandro Asmar's Impactive Capital borrows from his buy-and-hold value book—but overlays a large amount of sustainability and activism."
—By @hanstucker13
3/ A few excerpts:
-how many investments they hold
-on being forced to sell when returns are no longer there after a doubling
-on growing Calstrs $250M 6yr commitment 28% in 20 months to $320M
-now at $630M+ AUM and growing...
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