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17 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Last year, when I was sleeping 4h/night for months & receiving hate, I kept going, blindly, in the hope that I was saving lives.

So when news trickle in that some politicians did use my articles to do the right thing, it brings me to tears.

volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achterg… ImageImage
The only regret I have is that I couldn't do more. Ppl reached out from Kenya, South Africa, Netherlands, Argentina, Peru, and so many other countries. I wish I could have done more. If you reached out and I didn't help as much as you needed, I'm sorry.
And if you hear more messages like these from NL but for your country, please forward them to me or simply reply here. These really make it all worthwhile to me.

Thank you
Apparently all of this requires a caveat:
NL did not, in fact, follow the H&D...
Which is even more damning given the fact we now know they paid attention to it, and the results have been what they have been.
I guess the commission's results will tell us what happened

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10 Jun
I have the opposite approach: I try to read many more books than fast media, esp news.

Because books’ data won’t be fresh by publication time, books focus on the bigger, evergreen insights of life.

News are the exact opposite: stuff that’s irrelevant in 2 weeks
Also, books pack hundreds of hours of thought, while news articles pack maybe 1-2h. So the intensity of thought per minute of your time is much higher in books.
And ppl love news so much that the valuable ones will reach you no matter what. No news to waste your time going to a news portal every day.
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8 Jun
7 sentences that have changed my life recently:

1. A meeting should never finish in its allotted time.
What's the likelihood that you'll end precisely in 60m? 30m? Low.
If you're efficient, finish early and stop the meeting.
If you need more time, schedule it.
2. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
Pain is what you feel. Suffering is what you do about it. Embrace it, accept it, and suffering disappear, even if pain doesn't—yet.
3. You already have the No
I used to not ask for things, for fear of inconveniencing or not getting what I wanted. Then somebody told me this sentence, which means "If you don't ask, you already have the No. Asking can only bring you positives."
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8 Jun
Why is the US exceptional? We constantly talk about spirit and culture and institutions and...

But the main reason is much more mundane: Geography.

Consider this map. What's makes the US so lucky?
Mainly 2 things:
1. It's an impregnable fortress. Nobody can ever invade it.
Oceans & mountains on both sides.
Just 2 neighbors.
Mexico is smaller, too hilly, and has just 1 natural harbor so it can't be a threat (too poor).
Canada is too cold and exposed, not enough food for a big competitor.
2. It has the Mississippi Basin, the single best land area in the world. Why?
🏔️ Mountain ranges on both sides concentrate water inwards.
🌽 >1M square miles (2.5M km) of extremely well-irrigated land ➡️ lots of cheap food
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4 Jun
“My body, my choice”, from pro-choice, is being co-opted by anti-vaxxers.

This is a good rule of thumb: society shouldn’t force itself on you in general, and especially less on your body.

So what’s the ≠?
Vaccines have a social dynamic. If not enough ppl in the community are vaccinated, herd immunity is not reached, and the entire community is at risk. So those unvaccinated are a risk to the community.
So here’s the deal: you should be free to get a vaccine or not. But anybody in society should be free to bar you from joining them without a vaccine, because you put them at risk.
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3 Jun
Why did Apple ask their employees to get back to the office? Because they're an incumbent, like Goldman Sachs or JP Morgan. And because they lost their self-confidence 🧵
theverge.com/2021/6/2/22465…
Apple receives more candidates than it can process. They won't have a problem recruiting.
They print money. They don't need to reduce costs.

The risk of moving to remote is huge: they could jeopardize a superproductive business. They have too much to lose.
That's why other incumbents say exactly the same thing.

"There are things it simply cannot replicate."—Tim Cook, CEO Apple

“[Remote work is] an aberration that we are going to correct as soon as possible."—David Solomon, CEO Goldman Sachs
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3 Jun
Remote work is inexorable. Why?

There's 2 stakeholders in remote work: companies and workers.
Companies want productivity.
Workers want freedom and net income.
Remote provides both.

unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/remote-work-…
PRODUCTIVITY
1. Costs are lower
Salaries can be much cheaper, 30%-50% less easily.
Real estate is cheaper. Up to 10-20% reductions.
Then all the other reductions in costs: food, commuter benefits.
Also easier to do tax avoidance
2. Production is higher
According to most surveyed companies, remote workers have been more productive than pre-pandemic.
This effect is not heavily quantified, but the best study on this, for one company, was 22% more productive (2018)
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