Aakash Shah

Met @Charles_Leclerc in @austintexasgov ! Congratulations on your 100th USGP! You’re an inspiration for all the young souls with a fire desire to make it to the top. You’re a humble person and wish you the best! Met Frederic Vasseur too @F1 #USGP

@remkusdevries It was THE web development framework at that time. Even today I feel like a framework like that does not exist, it had a beautiful integration with MySQL (phpmyadmin) and and admin console! It had code generation too!

@aadiaakash What's that?

"What did you use to build websites before WordPress"?

@paulg Replies that end early.

11 yo has decided to learn German. Me: Wow, why German? 11 yo: Because I like it. Me: Did you choose it because it sounds funny? 11 yo: Yes...

@Sentdex It makes sense now. There was a time I did a petition to not auto play to the next episode as I like to watch credentials. As far as “continue watching” goes, I don’t know what method leads to more engagement for Netflix with a sense of pseudo ‘screen time’ responsibility.

@aadiaakash It's a joke, but also is legitimately annoying that continue watching isn't the immediate choice without requiring a new hunt every app launch. And, at scale, the time wasted is likely measurable in many lifetimes, so it is relatively fair to joke about this IMO.

Whoever is deciding at streaming companies like Amazon, Hulu, and Netflix to put the "continue watching" 3, 4, 5+ rows down, also sometimes varying for added annoyance, deserves multiple life sentences.

The are objectifying the man 😂

I’m gonna give 10 random people that repost this and follow me $25,000 for fun (the $250,000 my X video made) I’ll pick the winners in 72 hours

This hit me hard... We all have "that guy" somewhere in our head. So much of our success is determined by our ability to manage his influence over our day-to-day actions. The reality: Everything meaningful that you want in life is on the other side of something that sucks. That suck might be 100 hard workouts. That suck might be 100 bland meals. That suck might be 100 hours of focused work. The best things in life require upfront pain. Embrace the suck. We're all waging a constant battle between short-term pleasure and long-term fulfillment. It's much easier to let the "guy" in our head win. But most of the time, the hard way is the right way. Yes, it's hard to delay gratification. It's hard to train your body and mind. It's hard to focus. It's hard to have difficult conversations. It's hard to show up for the people you love. But it's even harder to live with the knowledge that you hid from all of those things. Today, and all days, outwit "that guy" in your head. Choose your hard.

MY FIRST X VIDEO MADE OVER $250,000! 😲 But it’s a bit of a facade. Advertisers saw the attention it was getting and bought ads on my video (I think) and thus my revenue per view is prob higher than what you’d experience

@NotionHQ It definitely seems time-related. So, my guess is that @Cron is to be rebranded as Notion Calendar.

when you give your boolean a shitty name

@Nucific @CommunityNotes can this article be verified please?

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This UN vote shows how completely isolated we are from world opinion. Is it because only America is smart enough to understand the Israeli point of view? Or because America's most powerful lobby has dragged us onto the wrong side of history? The answer to that is obvious.

Being at the 95th percentile in fitness ≈ being 30 years younger. (Image via @andrewchen.)

For a quick moment, imagine you were born in 1900. When you are 14, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday with 22 million people killed. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until you are 20. Fifty million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million. When you're 29, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, global GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 33. The country nearly collapses along with the world economy. When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren’t even over the hill yet. When you're 41, the United States is fully pulled into WWII. Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war and the Holocaust kills six million. At 52, the Korean War starts and five million perish. At 64 the Vietnam War begins, and it doesn’t end for many years. Four million people die in that conflict. Approaching your 62nd birthday you have the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, could well have ended. Great leaders prevented that from happening. As you turn 75, the Vietnam War finally ends. Think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How do you survive all of that? A child in 1985 didn’t think their 85 year old grandparent understood how hard school was. Yet those grandparents survived through everything listed above. Perspective is an amazing thing. With so much happening right now and as 2023 ends, let's try to keep things in perspective, knowing that we will get through all of this. In the history of the world, there has never been a storm that lasted forever. This too shall pass.

@austintexasgov @VisitAustinTX Taking this opportunity to share a petition link - Petition to ban trans fats in Austin: chng.it/kHYhwqKTm2

@aadiaakash @VisitAustinTX Of course! See you there 🥳

Austin's New Year. Auditorium Shores. Tonight at 7 p.m. 🎆 Join us + @visitaustintx for live music, food trucks, + more. Stick around until midnight for a spectacular fireworks finale. 🥳 📌 Event details + transportation options: AustinTexas.gov/ANY

@austintexasgov @VisitAustinTX Sounds great! Thank you.

@aadiaakash @VisitAustinTX Hi Aakash! Auditorium Shores will be your best view of the fireworks! There will also be food trucks and band performances at the Austin’s New Year event. Here’s some more info: AustinTexas.gov/ANY.

@elonmusk @joerogan It might be a simple “Doorway effect” when one turns the page.

From an amazing Michael Crichton talk: “Media carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved. You have all experienced this, in what I call the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. (I refer to it by this name because I once discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have.) Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know. That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I'd point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all. But when it comes to the media, we believe against evidence that it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper.”

@waitbutwhy After coffee my acidity spawns

Tip for the fat: I hit peak weight during Covid, then stopped eating breakfast and lost 20 pounds. After a week you stop being hungry in the morning so it takes no discipline (negative discipline because it’s one less thing to deal with in the morning). Cuts out a meal I didn’t actually need and turns into a no-effort 16-hour intermittent fast every day.