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My favorite part about farmers market is when cutting the middleman out makes the veggies more expensive
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lol this is an absolutely insane story
-thief steals someone’s identity
-thief gets a job in hospital it
-thief manages to get that persons birth certificate with answers from ancestry.com
-person who’s identity was stolen is homeless, can’t open a bank account because thief had opened it in his name
-they arrest the real person because thief says they’re lying
-real person is admitted to a psych ward to continuously claiming to be the real person
-eventually real person contacts hospital, they open an investigation, and they do a paternity test on the real persons father to confirm who it is
In one of the craziest stories I've ever covered: a former University of Iowa hospital employee had been using another man's identity for most of his life. The other man was arrested for identity fraud and committed to a mental hospital a few years ago
thegazette.com/crime-courts/…
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weddings are the first time you do a group project with your parents and wow is it an eye-opening experience
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Saw a Reddit thread recently which asked how gen-z people can identify if someone is a millennial or not and one of the top responses was
“They have a wallet”
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definitely gonna read that 45 page pdf I've had sitting in open in chrome for the last 7 months
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I’ve literally never thought about this, but I’m currently leaning as I read it
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"I doordash because just based on my hourly rate it's not worth my time to get groceries and cook" - person that spends 3 hours a day watching ragebait short form video
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I spent like all of my 20s obsessed with trying to fix the loneliness problem - hosted tons of events, tried starting a company around it, etc.
Main two takeaways
1) The fact that you can stay home and basically self-medicate with content in a way that feels not-quite-bored is the biggest barrier.
Meeting new people consistently is naturally somewhat uncomfortable no matter how structured/well designed an event is. Being presented with an option of staying home and chilling vs. going out to meet new people, most people will pick the former and that's pretty hard to fight.
2) Solving loneliness is largely reliant on altruists.
-altruists who take the time to plan events and get their friends together
-altruists that reach out to bring you into a plan being formed even if you're not super close
-altruists that bug you to go out even when you don't really want to
I don't think a company will solve this problem tbh, financial incentives inherently make this entire thing feel inorganic IMO. I'm not totally sure what will.
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I met a girl at a party years ago and was enamored, but I was too scared to ask for her number. So I asked for her instagram, which felt less scary.
Problem was I had never made an instagram, so I went home, made one at age 30 and speedrun friended all of my friends. 1/
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how come more people don’t move to San Diego? This place feels like paradise.
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I have a new company idea
1) Indian weddings are super expensive
2) the attendees are 50% doctors
3) pharma companies pay a lot of money to advertise to doctors
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If your accountant is opening up their laptop in august you’re def going to prison
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hoooooold the fuck up - $500 per stool sample donated???? I'm going to quit my job and just shit
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Was at a conference recently where Sal khan talked about the ai tutors they’re building
They showed a lot of examples like this one where they can create bots that help kids learn at a pace they’re comfortable with and analogies that might help them without giving the answer
but the really cool part is that they’re working on giving the teacher a summary report on how the students interacted with the bot - things like “a lot of students had problems with this part of the assignment you should do an extra lesson on this” or “this student spent a lot of time working on this assignment, you should give them a little nod of encouragement”
They were also able to find kids that were very gifted in certain areas but didn’t even know it - the idea of using bots to find talent instead of hoping the teacher noticed you’re gifted feels like a huge positive
This is a great example of why we need as much AI progress right now as humanly possible. There’s simply no reason every kid in the world shouldn’t have access to an AI tutor.
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one of the reason I hate zoom is because you can’t make quips and jokes since it cuts off the mic and unnaturally interrupts the person talking
In a normal conversation it’s totally normally to riff, banter, and make small acknowledgments in the middle of someone talking. There’s a natural rhythm to conversation that makes it feel much more fun.
I think that's one of the reason a ton of zoom calls are so tiring.
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My guess is now the world of med schools will divide between places with large enough endowments that can afford doing this and everywhere else
It’s not entirely clear to me that this is…good? For one, the results from NYU (the first do the free med school thing) show that the match rates into residency don’t actually change which specialties people go into (e.g. people did not pick primary care or rural areas)
Second, doctors are still one of the highest earning groups in the country and over their lifetime, their earnings will far outpace other professions. It probably makes more sense to figure out ways to smooth the income of doctors so they don’t go from totally broke residents to making vast swaths.
And a more core question, is a donation to create a free med school (extremely high earning profession) a better utilitarian investment for society than something like discharging loans for people that become teachers (extremely high utility but low earning potential)
Finally, it’s not super clear to me why making med school free makes more sense vs. using dollars to expand the number of residency slots which is the real choke point
Beginning in the fall of 2024, Johns Hopkins University will provide tuition-free Medical School for most medical students and expand aid for future nurses and public health pioneers. Learn more: bit.ly/45SW76F
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tough year to be on this site as someone in healthcare, indian, and have the last name krishnan
merry christmas
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Never had a burger with "being content with yourself and not emotionally exhausted in an age of social media", excited to taste
McDonald's Just Rolled Out Burgers With Millennials' Favorite Ingredient on.inc.com/2uwB7D3
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yo how many Altmans are there, this is some pompliano shit
It’s been amazing to watch everybody realize what I’ve known my entire life — that @sama is one of the few people in the world who can lead an entire new industry while supporting everyone around him along the way.
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I’ve never seen an account that feels inspirational and makes me want to kill myself simultaneously
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Is there a reason why instagram ads are insanely good and virtually every other ad platform is terrible?
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you ask people in Colorado “so what do you do” and they just say an outdoor sport
legit don’t think I’ve learned what anyone does here for work
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Dishoom made nearly $150M in revenue in 2023, though only about ~$10.3M in operating profit
pretty impressive considering how consistent the quality is as they've scaled (11 locations now)
also the founders are Harvard Business school grads and did bain/investment banking lol
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whoever figured out the whole "giving annual bonuses in march" thing to perfectly trap people into staying at companies is an absolute genius/sicko
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dude mark bertolini (ex- Aetna CEO, now Oscar CEO has an insane story
here he talks about how after his skiing injury, he was in so much pain for 17 years that he went to switzerland to end his life, and then was told he could fix his pain
went through neuroplasticity exercises and got it fixed
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Does anyone else remove all the utm tracking stuff in a link before they send it to people just so it looks cleaner? Or is it just me
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true ny dinner is only 530 or 930 because those are the only available slots on resy
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I have one friend that trolls me by only communicating with me through LinkedIn and no other channel. I’ll text him and he’ll respond via LinkedIn. It’s by far the most cortisol raising form of trolling I’ve experienced
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real talk, if airdrop get taxed as income
what stops someone from airdropping their greatest enemy $1M worth of tokens then tanking the price so they'd have to pay the income tax on the initial drop
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we need personal finance strategies that aren't as boring as investing in low cost index funds, not as risky as YOLOing on gamestop, and more attainable than homeownership
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they should put a tech venture investor in shark tank too
“Sharks, I’m asking for $25K for 50% of my business”
VC: “the fuck?”
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Lmao quitting my job to start my own thing right on the precipice of a recession induced by a public health crisis is an irony even I couldn’t make up
Plus side, I have a very flexible work from home policy now
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why do I live in constant fear of the IRS sending me to jail for doing my taxes incorrectly?
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google is seeing search eaten by
-video search (tiktok, reels, etc) which work better for things like food, leisure, experiences
-communities where people want the "real answers" from other members vs. SEO juiced pages
-embedded search tools within applications
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Tax forms are just one long roast of my personal and financial situation
Form: "Are you married"
Me: "No"
Form: "Kids"
Me: "No"
Form: "Do you have property"
Me: "No"
Form: "I mean...do you have friends at least?"
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Heyyyy everyone - just got to SF. Looking forward to making more friends in the tech & startup community. hit me up for coffee!!
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What idiot called it "growth hacking" and not "being an insufferable spammer destroying high value channels like email for the rest of us because of some stupid playbook you read"?
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Fort Greene has become this amazing purgatory of people 26-32 year olds in situationships that are “too old” for Williamsburg but also are “still fun” so they don’t want to move to park slope
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no idea how people do the whole "taking over the family business" thing, it must just be an insane amount of phone calls with no documentation anywhere about how things work
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someone once said to me that the closest thing we have to UBI is being on LinkedIn's product team and I haven't stopped thinking about that
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Twitter made me smarter because it redirected my curiosity from the lives of others (facebook, instagram, etc.) to ideas and topics
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need a google map overlay to show which stores are just hooking it up with a fattie portion
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Startup: We need $100M
Softbank: You will get $200M
Startup: No, we just need---
*forcible God's Plan starts playing*
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We dated for about 4 months, and then a friend @mostlyvibing asked me if had any good “slide in the DM” stories for her dating column at the time.
I said yes, and she recorded an interview with us, where I then revealed for the first time that I created an Instagram just to slide
I still have an excellent audio clip of her going “wait, what the fuck?”
thecut.com/article/why-isnt-…
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when people talk about loneliness or the difficulty of making friends they focus on 1:1 connections - however the harder problem to solve but one that I think people are actually yearning is the formation of a squad
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dunno who needs to hear this but if you need to do research on something or understand how something works - look up a lawsuit or patent in the area you're trying to learn more about
because the writer has to explain how something works to a less informed audience AND needs to actually get the point across to win/get approved, the writing is much more clear vs. SEO optimized articles.
For example, the FTC's case against US Anesthesia partners is not only a great look into how a private equity strategy might look, but it also goes into some of the basics of how hospitals tend to contract with third-party anesthesiology groups and why
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Are people seriously taking cialis as a pre workout and showing up to the gym half mast?
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Interested to see what happens when people whose entire life revolves around tech move to places where no one gives a shit about tech and social currency no longer revolves around which VCs you raised from or how much you raised
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if you send me a microsoft teams link for a casual catch up I'm literally never going to talk to you again and I'll personally pay for your psychiatric care
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it turns out you actually don't need a billion productivity tools, you just need to say no to more meetings or cancel them completely
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I love vanguard's commitment to making sure their clients are value investors by having a website where the login works 25% of the time for some reason and the UI/UX is so horrendous I wouldn't even know how to impulse trade stocks if I wanted to
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Having:
1) a job/career you enjoy
2) that also aligns with something you’re good
3) that’s also is lucrative enough to support a comfortable lifestyle
Is such a massive stroke of luck and causes so much less friction in every other aspect of life
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Gotta give palantir credit - have chatted with several ex-palantir people looking for their next company to join and they explicitly have mentioned wanting to join another ex-palantir founding team
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lol pre-seed investing is wild there are angels just chucking $100K+ into companies with the same level of fucks given that I chuck $5 into getting a nicer cup of coffee to treat myself and these people just don't care about financial return how do I compete with that
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This site is a sea of the worst dating takes ever, so I’d like to give you a little optimism
I just got married this weekend and it was the best thing that’s ever happened to me
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I cannot believe I live in a timeline where Kanye west is explaining the genesis of SAFE notes
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I’m genuinely upset at how nonchalantly people in New York are taking this situation, especially people in my age group. I don’t know how to make it more clear to people that this is urgent. I’m sad people are still out
People are going to for real die because of this stupidity
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does anyone actually buy LaCroix with their own money or is it an entirely B2B beverage?
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Friended her, DM'd her asking how the rest of her night went. We talked for 9 months over instagram. I asked her out a few times over that time and got the "I'm busy, but maybe soon!" but we kept chatting.
Finally on a blizzard when I know she didn’t have plans, she agreed to get pizza. 2/
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remote first makes it hard to make friends at the companies you work at. This is half the sell of startups, and the thing that can get you through otherwise painful/grueling times you'll inevitably go through
having friends is also why people stay, so I expect retention drops
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I like how every startup pitch deck does the 2x2 quadrant for competitive analysis and they’re literally the only logo in the top right lol seems legit
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