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@edwardthinks

Making things @ Revolut.

Katılım Nisan 2013
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Edward@edwardthinks·
If you strongly believe in a future outcome, convincing others may not be the best use of your time. Avoid the curse of Cassandra - make the bet, take the risk. Being right is more persuasive than being loud.
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@ownsomeshares The fact that a wealth tax is even being discussed, whether it happens or not, drives away capital. Builders leave. Trust erodes. And once it’s gone, it takes years to rebuild.
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The trend of 2025? Quiet emigration. No noise, no drama - just disappearing. Those who shout rarely leave. Those who leave do it quietly. What’s the antidote? Vision. Mission. Something to be excited about. “We’ll have flying taxis and the best healthcare system in the world.” Not: “We might reduce waiting lists… some year.” Growth creates revenue. Vision attracts growth.
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@signulll Purplebricks already do this
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signüll
signüll@signulll·
i want to build a dead simple site where anyone can list a house to sell for free. no gatekeeping, no fees, no bs… just a way to bypass all the useless agents. you see something you like, you text the owner directly. cut out the middlemen. make real estate human again. someone tell me why this idea is regarded?
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@ZubyMusic Animal rescue. Empathy that crosses the species line is a strong marker of decency. Someone once told me “Make sure you marry someone who is kind to animals” - solid advice.
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ZUBY:@ZubyMusic·
What job or sector has the highest % of decent people working in it?
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Edward@edwardthinks·
Plus ça change… The hush of a medieval scriptorium is unlike any other silence—broken only by the scratch of quill on vellum and the faint clink of a mortar grinding lapis into ultramarine. Master scribes spend decades learning how to breathe steadily enough to gild a single serif, how to weave vines of vermilion through margins without smudging a word of Augustine. A finished Psalter is equal parts prayer and performance; some pages take a full week to lay a single color. Then, in the 1450s, a black-iron contraption arrives from Mainz: Gutenberg’s movable-type press. A single pull of its lever spits out a page in the time it takes a scribe merely to trim a quill. The guild of illuminators gathers beneath cathedral arches, voices echoing off stone: “That machine hijacks our artistry,” one cries. “It copies our letterforms without permission—line for line!” Petitions stack high, begging bishops and princes to outlaw the noisy marvel. ⸻ Yet a few curious souls walk from the cloister to the print-shop. They discover: •Fonts imitate them. Early printers model their typefaces on the very hands these scribes perfected; who better than a calligrapher to judge spacing and rhythm? •Press pages need personality. After each sheet dries, blank capitals wait for hand-painted blooms of gold and carmine, and clients will pay extra for books that still carry a human touch. •Proofreading is scripture-level work. Years spent memorizing every twist of Latin declensions translate perfectly into catching a misplaced et on page 312. Soon broadsheets appear: “Quill & Press Atelier—Typographic design, hand-illumination, and edition proofreading.” A former monk now earns triple, hired by Venetian printers to create custom italic fonts; another becomes famous for tinting woodcut maps, his roses of the winds swirling in cobalt over mass-printed seas. Their mastery hasn’t vanished—it has scaled, riding the gears they once feared. ⸻ Meanwhile, those who pinned their hopes on banning the iron press watch commissions wither. Their skill of shaping letters is still precious, but it lies sealed in cedar chests, untouched, while presses thunder day and night. ⸻ Lesson inked across parchment and paper alike: Words will always seek faster wings. The artisans who guide those wings—whether by quills, presses, or neural nets—remain the ones who decide how far stories can fly.
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@HarryStebbings Perhaps leaving isn’t giving up… it’s a cry for change from those who still care, but feel that walking away is the only way left to be heard.
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Harry Stebbings@HarryStebbings·
I am continuously disappointed by people that leave the UK in search of a better tax regime. We are in dire straits. We must fight for the country we love. You do not do that by running away. We must inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs to build businesses, hire people and create wealth.
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@ZubyMusic I think I passed you multiple times in the Miami customs queue ‘snake’ lol. Waited to tweet this to avoid the awkwardness of multiple passes 🤣 Love your content 👍
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ZUBY:@ZubyMusic·
Arrived safely in Florida. Nice to be back. 🌴
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Fuse Energy
Fuse Energy@fuseenergy·
We’re thrilled to announce a $12M strategic round led by @multicoin alongside @toly & others to build @projectzero2050, a decentralised renewable energy network. Project Zero aims to accelerate global renewable energy adoption by rewarding network contributors for increase in utilisation & generation of renewable energy, as well as home electrification such as solar panels and batteries. Together, we’re driving collective action toward a future where energy is abundant, affordable, and accessible to all. decrypt.co/248985/fuse-pl…
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Lots of excitement around Mario Draghi’s report on the future of European competitiveness but sadly... Similar to a doctor telling an overweight patient with heart disease to eat better and exercise more - the challenge is not the diagnosis, it’s getting the patient to act on the advice. Overcoming the institutional inertia will be difficult. I’d genuinely love to see it happen though.
Ursula von der Leyen@vonderleyen

Dear Mario Draghi, a year ago, I asked you to prepare a report on the future of Europe’s competitiveness. No one was better placed than you to take up this challenge. Now, we are eager to listen to your views ↓ twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

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@rrhoover Payments: More convenient than phone / card. Direction finding: Safer than using maps on phone in a city given the rise of phone snatching.
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Ryan Hoover
Ryan Hoover@rrhoover·
I’ve never owned an Apple Watch and still have no interest. Other than health tracking, what do y’all use it for? (imo, making notifications more accessible is a bug, not a feature)
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0xAms@0xAmSS·
@sytaylor Are you sure they’ll keep crypto now that they have the licence ?
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Simon Taylor
Simon Taylor@sytaylor·
There's now a licenced UK bank that offers crypto trading Think about that for a second.
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Paul Graham
Paul Graham@paulg·
If you take the job at the startup instead of the safer one at a big company, all your coworkers will also be people who took the job at the startup. In ten years they'll be running everything, even if the startup tanks.
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@Levisonwood +1 for Madeira. Warm, close to UK, no time change, good food, good hikes
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Levison Wood
Levison Wood@Levisonwood·
Recommendations for a little 2 week escape in April? In nature, with trees, close to sea, above 20 degrees!
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