Zak Stern

@levelsio How about Switzerland? European pace of life where things aren't that slow and work. You get winters but if you like skiing then you actually enjoy them.

One thing I learnt living all around the world for the last decade is that there really is no perfect place Some places have clean air like Portugal and Spain but that's also because they don't really have industry and their economies are in many ways broken Then you have the booming South East Asia where everything seems to be growing at all times, you can live in skyscraper penthouses with infinity pools for less than you pay rent in Europe, but then you also just have really bad air quality and the highest traffic deaths in the world You can go live in Japan and Korea where people are so polite and it's so safe, silent and tidy but then you realize they're also some of the most socially isolating places on Earth, kinda because of it You can move to the US, have the most functional economy in the world, with the largest product and service offering, where people actually want to work, but then in general most places aren't walkable and you're driving everywhere because that's just how most of the country was designed You can then live in Europe where you have actually do have walkable streets, a pace of life that's more about life than work, but then you have the issue everything is slow and many things don't really work properly and you're lucky to get a plumber to come, because people don't really care about work (how's that slow pace of life, huh?) So yes there's no perfect place, and the longer you are in one place, after the honeymoon of a new place is over, you often start getting annoyed with all the things that are wrong about that particular place One solution to this that me and my friends have found is to mix at least 2 places to live (and we even have friends with many kids that do this), this is kind of a brain hack: you let your brain never adapt to one place by switching to the other place every 6 months or so. Your brain keeps thinking it's getting the novelty of a new place (honeymoon vibe) and you can have the pros/cons of two places that are counter in many ways to complement each other: For example Portugal and Thailand: - Portugal has clean air and mellow lifestyle near the beach, but services and gov stuff doesn't really work well - Thailand you can have the 10 million people big city lifestyle in skyscrapers with amazing convenience and everything works, but you have really bad air quality much of the year There's lots of combos that can complement if you think of it like that

@joshwoodward @GeminiApp Need Gemini to be able to build up context across my chats. I find I'm starting over too frequently or searching for chats which are actually quite hard to find

You're a power user on @GeminiApp. What else do you want to see? Top known requests: MacOS app, Projects, and Branching Chats.

@joshwoodward Need a scroll to bottom button!

✅ Papercut fixed: Start a new chat, from a chat. You can still go to the left nav to start a chat, but you don't have to. :) Out now on Android and iOS.

@JamesIvings Agree that for most cases, hotels win. Airbnb generally wins for: longer term stay, family, larger group, locations with limited hotels like residential neighborhoods.

everyone who travels a lot knows it's because Airbnbs are consistently worse than hotels

@the_transit_guy I hear your point but it's a bad example. In fact, I'd argue Japan also botched the airport / train setup. The bullet trains don't run to any airport and the intl airports (Narita and Kansai) are too far from the city centers with limited direct trains

It’s absolutely wild that you can take this train to and from an airport, and you can fly and land in the United States and your only option will be rideshare, a bus that comes every 60 minutes or to rent a car. Are we genuinely not embarrassed?

@signulll Why does home ownership matter? Marriage and fertility rate going down are real issues (population collapse) but home ownership feels like a red herring.

most ppl don’t realize is that there’s no climbing out of this. once it becomes cultural & baked into the collective psyche, it’s pretty much over. reversing it would take an act of god or some once in a century black swan. otherwise it’s like trying to pull an aircraft out of a flat spin with 900 feet of altitude & no engines left.

@joshwoodward Congrats on the launch...would love an expand option directly in the Gemini app to view the video in Fullscreen landscape on the phone. Seems I need to download first.

Status on your top requests: ✅ Text-to-video generations in all countries ✅ Fewer blocks when generating * Photo-to-video generations (almost ready) Please keep your feedback coming and generating responsibly!

The wait is over. @GeminiApp is now shipping Veo 3 *globally* for all Pro members! That means India, Indonesia, all of Europe, and more are starting to get access to create videos right now. As a member, you'll get 3 video generations per day, and that credit will replenish daily. How to get it 👇

@joshwoodward @GeminiApp Josh - maybe I'm just missing it, but I can't Search past conversations in the Gemini Android app. Feels like a missing basic.

After Google IO, we ran our first-ever "Papercut Week" on @GeminiApp and fixed 84 issues. This morning, the winners were announced and will receive the coveted "Golden Bandaid" awards! Improvements you'll see: ✅ Better mobile swipe gestures ✅ Dynamic input fields for longer text ✅ Streamlined file upload flows ✅ New motion animations …and more Are you hitting other annoying papercuts in the app? Let me know, and we'll queue them up for fixing.

@carlquintanilla @CNBC @SquawkCNBC With all of the cutbacks on business travel, there's no way this doesn't show up in airline earnings very soon. Pent-up consumer demand from COVID is masking this, and that will end soon

UNITED AIRLINES CEO: "If I didn't watch @CNBC in the morning -- which I do -- the word 'recession' wouldn't be in my vocabulary. You just can't see it in our data." @SquawkCNBC $UAL

@Strava hiding the start and finish of virtual rides is some next level metaverse stuff

@paulg Scooby Doobie doo

10 yo and I decided that every December 1st we're going to go to the shop and buy sweets, then go home and watch old Scooby-Doo episodes and build things out of Lego.

@Austen What a time to be alive

Can’t believe this app is only $8

@lshackleton Great thread, thanks for the inspiration.

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Early in my career, I sucked at keeping up w/ people. I didn’t have a system. And personal CRMs never quite fit...or evolve with me. Instead, they reduce people down to LinkedIn profiles & transactional interactions. Here’s my take on a CRM that is a little more human.

@tomashd @anthonysexton @patrickc It's a good question and I wonder if Stripe and/or Visa do hit the limit during very peak times. Something tells me no since they both get more money the more the API is used

@ZakStern @anthonysexton @patrickc I totally get it. Am not saying it's not impressive. Purely talking about demand and assume that it could be higher during short peaks. twitter.com/tomashd/status…

Congratulations to the Stripe infrastructure teams! With record scale, Black Friday and Cyber Monday passed uneventfully. >20,000 peak RPS and >99.9999% API success rate.

@patrickc What do you mean by API success rate? This the API between merchant and Stripe? API between Stripe and payment networks / processors?

@anthonysexton @tomashd @patrickc Stripe is passing many (all?) of these transactions to 3rd party networks. Visa is probably the most scaled of those so their transactions per second capabilities likely represent Stripe's upper bound.

@tomashd @patrickc Visa does up to 24k a second, so you’d like stripe to do 100x that?

@SahilBloom This is the one that got me. Wish the gym / advice had included a first time father workout.

Fight the Low Back Pain Carrying a baby around puts you in a state of back extension that can cause a lot of lower back pain. Fight back: • Strengthen lower abs (reverse crunches) • Strengthen glutes (glute bridges) • Stretch hips (pigeon pose, hip twisters) Trust me.

When you find out you’re going to have a baby, you get a lot of advice. Unfortunately, most of it sucks. Here is the straight talk parenting advice I wish I had received:

@NotHoodlum Not ideal for Twitter short term, but I'm pretty sure the plan is to massively downsize costs and build back up with a different business model. Will take a while, but advertisers leaving would happen eventually anyways.

General Mills, CVS, United Airlines, GM, Audi, Mazda, Porsche, VW, American Express, Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson, Levi Strauss, Spotify, Ford, Dyson, Forbes, DIRECTV, Nintendo, Unilever, and PBS have all suspended ads on Twitter.

@waitbutwhy Milk

People in the early 1900s thought soda was healthy. People in the 1950s thought white bread was healthy. People in the 1990s thought margarine was healthy. What's something most of us think is healthy today that future people will shake their heads at?

@markoff Disagree. Even if it fails, it's a bold strategic move with investment commensurate to the opportunity.