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Nov 16 • 2 tweets • 1 min read
Take ownership of your Twitter content:
1) Download your Twitter archive (in settings, see the screenshot)
2) Since the archive is in a proprietary format, with links that go through Twitter's service & low-quality images, you will need to need to fix it: github.com/timhutton/twit… Image
You may have to wait a few days for Twitter to process your archive, but it does seem to still be happening.

Also, this method doesn't download bookmarks. Let me know if anyone has figured out how to do this!

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Nov 16
Asking people if they are in or out is fine!

But I think Musk may be suffering from a well-known CEO problem: blurry vision bias. People are not inspired to work long hours for an abstract concept (“breakthrough Twitter 2.0”) - they are inspired by vivid images of the future. 1/
Research shows leaders inspire with vivid descriptions of the future, but they tend to talk abstract goals instead. This paper shows a trick to inspiring others: "mental time travel" - painting a clear picture of what the world will look like when you achieve your goal. 2/ ImageImageImage
These goals can inspire people. A paper on how to do it takes its title from an apocryphal story where JFK met a NASA janitor late at night:
JFK: Why are you working so late?
Janitor: Because I’m not mopping the floors, I’m putting a man on the moon! 3/ knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/ Image
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Nov 15
Bad leaders cause more destruction to organizations than good leaders cause benefits.

This meta-analysis shows destructive leaders undermine satisfaction, well-being, commitment & performance. Plus bad leadership spreads, as abusive approaches are copied! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Honestly, I am not trying to subtweet. I am trying to think about examples in the world, though. Managers & founders often blindly emulate successful folks & are triply wrong about it: learning the wrong lessons from the wrong people for the wrong reasons. oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/when-survivo…
Useful summary of research showing how toxic leaders spread problems through entire organizations, both because their abusive standards get copied, but also because they influence the environment to increase toxicity, with giant negative costs for all. scienceforwork.com/blog/bad-leade…
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Nov 7
If founders don’t sleep, bad stuff happens, in 4 studies:
1) Lack of 💤makes you generate worse ideas
2) Lack of 💤 makes you think the bad ideas you develop are good
3) Getting 💤 boosts your mood, upping the mood of your startup
4) Lack of 💤 lowers your entrepreneurial ability
And this doesn’t just apply to founders! Sleep is also useful if you want to be a good person.
Also, founders are human beings, with human relationships & needs. Ignoring those hurts you, but also hurts your startup.

This paper finds an entrepreneur's physical & mental health, along with the physical & mental health of their spouse, impacts the chance of startup success.
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Nov 5
Read these 3 pages. I post them every so often because I think it is some of the tightest, wisdom-packed writing on managing complex systems ever.

And almost every system is a complex system today, which is why cascading failures are swirling around us. researchgate.net/publication/22…
I think about #10 & #11 a lot. They apply to entrepreneurs & also basically any expert who has ever had to make a decision under uncertainty.
And to understand the science of complexity, this site is a great place to start.
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Nov 4
It is both fascinating to see how critical the Mississippi River still is to the flow of all freight in the US…

And somewhat terrifying given that we are BARELY holding the river back from spontaneously changing its course to the Atchafalaya basin and becoming unnavigable.
The Old River Control Structure is all that keeps the Mississippi from being captured by the channel of the Atchafalaya.

But the river could carve a new path at a different place, or climate change could overwhelm the system. The results would be scary: wunderground.com/cat6/Americas-…
Or read the classic John McPhee piece: “It was at the Old River that the United States was going to lose its status among the world’s trading nations. It was at Old River that New Orleans would be lost.”  newyorker.com/magazine/1987/…
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Nov 2
I expect that we are going to see an explosion of “secret AI,” where AI advice is delivered by humans. Why?

We hate to listen to AI. For example, getting feedback from an AI system improved employee performance… until people learned it was from an AI, then performance DROPPED.
The world is only going to get weirder.
(Of all of the science fiction books we could be living in, Blindsight would not be my novel of choice.)

Paper here: researchgate.net/publication/35…
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