Thread by @wolfejosh

1/ For years, a friend (“RD”) and I trade examples we find of
“Nominative Determinism”—

—when someone’s name possibly maybe influenced what they ended up doing in their career (or otherwise and most probably just hilarious coincidence)...

Like...
aldosohm.com

2/ Or...”Catherine Counts” who does statistcal quantiative work (but should have obviously focused on feline population numbers)...

https://twitter.com/realscientists/status/1355270147133427712

3/ Or “Rosaline Brewer” the first woman + african american COO at....Starbucks. cnbc.com/2017/09/13/3-t…

4/ Or firefighter from Sun Prairie, Wi... “Les McBurney’🔥👨🏼‍🚒

5/ Or fast-food franchise guru “John Hamburger”

6/ Or on more somber serious note, “Les Payne” who helped highlight pain of inequality + racial injustice

7/ Or this illustrators artist name “Cyan Daly”...from this Washington Post piece

8/ The Chief Commercial officer prepared to do commerce + send accounts payables out... “Bill Ready” (via @bznotes

9/ The fraudulent chiropracter...Jeffrey Kimberly SPINA

10/ Tom Kitchin - Chef...

ht @raymondfdf

11/ “Clare Lane”—traffic reporter.

ht @beenbenn

12/ I mean...vasectomies. Dr. Richard “Dick” Chopp...

ht @ozyurtcu

13/ Jeffrey Housenbold - on OpenDoor board

14/ Dog named “Trigger” who accidentally shot is owner in foot. ht @zacktrak

15/ The CEO of MEAT co Smithfield is “Dennis Organ”

ht @RMac18

16/ Climate scientist...”Betsy Weatherhead”

i mean did she really even have a choice growing up?

ht @tlancaster50

17/ Male fertility doc... Eric Seaman

ht @JPQ

18/ Joe Fast...naturally.

ht @McCreadieWill

19/ Nintendo President and veiled villain...

Doug Bowser.

ht @mattiebellis + @2112Power

20/ Laywer “Sue Yoo”...

with a hilarious story from friend @peterlattman when he was at @WSJ