#Jargon

Keep it two Virgils with me

Adwoonit

I'm (re)watching Jupiter Ascending (I know, but we're in lockdown, allow). And this alien race had a black (golden) woman as the head of a chariot that pulls Eddie Redmayne

Calli Schroeder

Iwillleavenow

Alright, all. It's DEFCON countdown time. Feels like that means it's time to rank a whole bunch of hackers from TV/film.(I'm only ranking people in stuff I've seen, so feel

Miguel Ferreira

_miguelferreira

The Concorde Fallacy and why people make bad decisions.(thread) In October 1956 the UK Ministry of Supply asked Welsh Aeronautical Engineer Morien Morgan to form a study group. They called

Mostly Borrowed Ideas

borrowed_ideas

1/ Notes from @mjmauboussin episode at @InvestLikeBest Anyone who has been following me for a while knows I'm a big Mauboussin fan. In this episode, they mainly discuss about his

Hillel

hillelogram

Heck with it, feel like killing an evening. Give me any tech topic and I'll give you a connected essay pitch that 1) has a solid shot of going viral

Roy Canivel

roycanivel_inq

Congress snuck a provision in the new Bayanihan law to keep the Philippine Competition Commission from going after problematic mergers and acquisitions — a provision that was neither consulted with

Gwen Snyder is uncivil

gwensnyderPHL

I didn't really start paying attention to Jacobin's role in the left until they published the TERRIBLE piece about why addressing racism is bad, actually, by the Philly DSA chair

Ryan Kaufman📈

growth_student

How Robinhood turned a landing page into a 1M person waitlistThe strategies used to build a HUGE user base pre-launchA thread: 1) Robinhood was founded in 2013. Their waitlist strategy

Ryan J. Gallagher

ryanjgallag

Have you ever had a new published paper that you want to promote on Twitter, but you weren't sure how to tweet about it?I get asked a lot how to

Scott T. Patrick

PompeiiDog

When I was working on my dissertation, I found this 1993 article that appeared in the NYT, written by English journalist and historian Paul Johnson. It's frankly titled "Colonialism’s Back—and

Rhyesa Joseph

RhyesaJ

Kwéyòl pa selman an langaj I sé lavi pèp Sent Lisi. Kwéyòl is not only a language it's the life of the St. Lucian people. To commemorate mwa éwitaj kwéyòl-

Christopher Douglas

crddouglas

"Writing on Religion for the General Reader" now with @timothybealand @JulieByrneHUCS. Supported by @NEHgov Public Scholars program. Use story, narrative to hook general readers; avoid specialized jargon. https://ativsoftware.com/appinfo.ph

Avinash Ramachandran

TheHatmanTweets

LONG THREAD ALERT771, 434, 798, 759All these days, these were just numbers. An account of #COVID19 impact in #TamilNadu. An account of how bad things in Chennai were. An account

Jake Orthwein

JakeOrthwein

I've found myself bringing up Dan Sperber's "Guru Effect" paper a lot in conversation, so I figured I'd do a thread about it here. It gives a pretty compelling explanation

Cable 3.0

CableOW

hey y'all: it's time for the semi-annual thread about agencies, esports teams, and youif you're a streamer or player, PLEASE read this thread before deciding to sign with an agency

Lisa Jaremka

LisaJaremka

Have you ever wondered what an NIH review panel meeting is like and how you can increase your likelihood of being funded? The review process has some positive features and