Mihai Costache

Introducing the Sleigh380. Santa's going long-haul this year! Merry Christmas from Emirates. 🎅🎄🎁

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I told everyone it would "10x productivity." That's not a real number. But it sounds like one. HR asked how we'd measure the 10x. I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards." They stopped asking. Three months later I checked the usage reports. 47 people had opened it. 12 had used it more than once. One of them was me. I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds. It took 45 seconds. Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations. But I called it a "pilot success." Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail. The CFO asked about ROI. I showed him a graph. The graph went up and to the right. It measured "AI enablement." I made that metric up. He nodded approvingly. We're "AI-enabled" now. I don't know what that means. But it's in our investor deck. A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT. I said we needed "enterprise-grade security." He asked what that meant. I said "compliance." He asked which compliance. I said "all of them." He looked skeptical. I scheduled him for a "career development conversation." He stopped asking questions. Microsoft sent a case study team. They wanted to feature us as a success story. I told them we "saved 40,000 hours." I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up. They didn't verify it. They never do. Now we're on Microsoft's website. "Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot." The CEO shared it on LinkedIn. He got 3,000 likes. He's never used Copilot. None of the executives have. We have an exemption. "Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction." I wrote that policy. The licenses renew next month. I'm requesting an expansion. 5,000 more seats. We haven't used the first 4,000. But this time we'll "drive adoption." Adoption means mandatory training. Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches. But completion will be tracked. Completion is a metric. Metrics go in dashboards. Dashboards go in board presentations. Board presentations get me promoted. I'll be SVP by Q3. I still don't know what Copilot does. But I know what it's for. It's for showing we're "investing in AI." Investment means spending. Spending means commitment. Commitment means we're serious about the future. The future is whatever I say it is. As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

Peter Economics, it’s like Gary Economics but based on Economics, not your feelings.

@Fidias0 @elonmusk Please @elonmusk we want this too!!! The people demand it. And now to you @Fidias0 who might actually see this maybe it’s worth having a poll so that Elon can see other people actually want this

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Călin Georgescu | Official Preview In this episode, a deep dive is taken into the political turmoil in Romania, allegations of election manipulation, and the potential impact of a new NATO base—the largest of its kind in Europe—on global stability. The conversation explores Romania’s geopolitical significance, the risks of escalating tensions with Russia, and Călin Georgescu opposition to war, advocating instead for diplomacy and peace. Emphasizing themes of national sovereignty, corruption, and systemic reform, the discussion presents a vision rooted in faith and humanity. @CG_Romania

It's the beginning of 2025. I'm a Retention Director, working with some of the world's largest YouTube channels. The creators I work with have achieved over 40 billion views in the past 365 days. Ask me anything about audience retention for the next 24 hours!

💗Romanian-born actor Sebastian Stan won the award for Best Actor in a Comedy/Musical on Sunday night at the 82nd Golden Globes. "Romania, I love you!" 🇷🇴🇺🇸🇪🇺

One-page YouTube strategy for 2025. The most important thing you’ll read for your channel this week:

@PaddyG96 When starting a yt channel, you have no skills. Thus, very few subs and views, once you start to stack up on the skills you start seeing traction. Is there a way to reverse that?

I’m 28. I’m CEO of the world’s best YouTube growth agency. Our clients will do over 10 billion views & $10s of millions in youtube revenue this year. Ask me anything. I’ll answer as many as physically possible.

❤️ Thanks everyone for your support and love! Last month I got interviewed by police for 4 days after arriving in Paris. I was told I may be personally responsible for other people’s illegal use of Telegram, because the French authorities didn’t receive responses from Telegram. This was surprising for several reasons: 1. Telegram has an official representative in the EU that accepts and replies to EU requests. Its email address has been publicly available for anyone in the EU who googles “Telegram EU address for law enforcement”. 2. The French authorities had numerous ways to reach me to request assistance. As a French citizen, I was a frequent guest at the French consulate in Dubai. A while ago, when asked, I personally helped them establish a hotline with Telegram to deal with the threat of terrorism in France. 3. If a country is unhappy with an internet service, the established practice is to start a legal action against the service itself. Using laws from the pre-smartphone era to charge a CEO with crimes committed by third parties on the platform he manages is a simplistic approach. Building technology is hard enough as it is. No innovator will ever build new tools if they know they can be personally held responsible for potential abuse of those tools. Establishing the right balance between privacy and security is not easy. You have to reconcile privacy laws with law enforcement requirements, and local laws with EU laws. You have to take into account technological limitations. As a platform, you want your processes to be consistent globally, while also ensuring they are not abused in countries with weak rule of law. We’ve been committed to engaging with regulators to find the right balance. Yes, we stand by our principles: our experience is shaped by our mission to protect our users in authoritarian regimes. But we’ve always been open to dialogue. Sometimes we can’t agree with a country’s regulator on the right balance between privacy and security. In those cases, we are ready to leave that country. We've done it many times. When Russia demanded we hand over “encryption keys” to enable surveillance, we refused — and Telegram got banned in Russia. When Iran demanded we block channels of peaceful protesters, we refused — and Telegram got banned in Iran. We are prepared to leave markets that aren’t compatible with our principles, because we are not doing this for money. We are driven by the intention to bring good and defend the basic rights of people, particularly in places where these rights are violated. All of that does not mean Telegram is perfect. Even the fact that authorities could be confused by where to send requests is something that we should improve. But the claims in some media that Telegram is some sort of anarchic paradise are absolutely untrue. We take down millions of harmful posts and channels every day. We publish daily transparency reports. We have direct hotlines with NGOs to process urgent moderation requests faster. However, we hear voices saying that it’s not enough. Telegram’s abrupt increase in user count to 950M caused growing pains that made it easier for criminals to abuse our platform. That’s why I made it my personal goal to ensure we significantly improve things in this regard. We’ve already started that process internally, and I will share more details on our progress with you very soon. I hope that the events of August will result in making Telegram — and the social networking industry as a whole — safer and stronger. Thanks again for your love and memes 🙏

How do people not see? Zuckerberg ADMITS our government forced his censorship of real news. France arrests Pavel for not sharing private citizens data. Brazil bans X for not censoring & limiting political opponents. UK arrests citizens for speech they don’t like… People wake up. There is only one way this ends. Read your history, 1984, Brave New World. And someone protect Elon.

First they came for Tiktok, and I did not speak out—      Because I was not twelve years old. Then they came for the Telegram, and I did not speak out—      Because I was using some other app or sth idk. Then they came for literally every other platform for dissent, and I did not speak out—      because bro how tf could i that's the entire point wake up wake up wa—

Arrest of Pavel Durov is a disturbing attack on free speech and a threat not just to Telegram but to any online platform. Governments should not engage in censorship. This is a blatant and deeply troubling overreach of power.

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@Variety If there isn't a hierarchy in art then why do we have the Oscars?

Jamie Lee Curtis asks crew to wear name tags on set because she wants them to be equal to the actors. “I just want it to be equitable because it’s an important thing. t’s art – there isn’t hierarchy in art. It’s supposed to be a group of people.” variety.com/2024/film/news…

@VividProwess Was supposed to fly there for the first time on Oct 10th. No joke.

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Love the ads on @PrimeVideo! Great chance to open a second screen and lose the first 5 minutes of whatever they're showing on reels