Giovanni Hashimoto / 橋本ジオ 🇺🇦

@BranfordEquity Eh. Most of my retainers pay quarterly. Annual retention is ~70%. Just filters out clients who go through onboarding, don’t see results, and quit after a month or two.

Got pitched $15k upfront for a personal marketing service yesterday by a broccoli hair. One lump sum. No milestones. No recourse. I said: "Split it across 3 months. If you do good work, you get paid in full. If you're useless, I cut my losses at $5k." His response: "You've got the wrong mindset. You're thinking about it in terms of money." I'm thinking about it in terms of risk. That's literally what capital allocation is. If you genuinely believe your service is worth $15k, you should have zero problem earning it over 3 months. The only reason to demand it all upfront is because you know retention is a problem. He told me we weren't a good fit. I agree. I'm not a good fit for people who can't answer the question "what happens if you're not good at your job?"

@YoucanAxel @actsmaniac Requiring that bags be bundled with flights. Sometimes I just want to fly in the morning and back in the evening.

@actsmaniac Can you give an actual such regulation

The "burger with fries and coke" problem with regulation Well-meaning regulator: nobody should have to eat a burger without fries and coke because they can't afford it. So now every burger must come with fries and coke. The person who just wants to pay for a burger gets screwed

@nazzobetweeting Tbh would have been very doable with BA’s baby bus and a shame they didn’t.

i was reading a book by a british author that takes place in NYC and the author wrote “the flight from London landed at LaGuardia Airport” like no. no, it didn’t. no it did not do that.

@Mar__G_3 @Freedom250GP Now all we need is an F1 race

I think this is the coolest thing, but the logo is a bore :( Firstly, the bottom half of “Grand Prix” text in their X logo is cut off. Cropping error? Racecars in DC on the 250 anniversary! Where is the excitement?? (Y’all need help? .@Freedom250GP )

@ericwilson I mean is there a solution to this beyond “if you have a big platform, you lose free speech rights?”

Presumably someone is paying for Espina's work or perhaps he's supported by sponsorship/brand deals, but clearly an account with 14 million followers has some value well beyond what an individual donor could contribute.

The current state of campaign finance regulation makes no sense, in two stories: 1. A TikToker with 14 million followers worked for free for Talarico. 2. Wesley Hunt's team used X to circumvent coordination rules

@averyjaffe @lulumeservey hey man! congrats!

@THECOOLISSUE gatekeeping

why does everyone talk about Milan like it's the slums

kruger🐯

I hate to break it to my Dem politico friends, but outside of the activist bubble, the only thing people know about #SOTU is the hockey team - and that's not negative.

When is wasian history month

Repeat after me: Takaichi did not start a diplomatic spat with China. The "in a move that will anger China" genre is 🙄

@BmoreDave @SJFriedl @KTmBoyle DC women’s sports are absolutely popular. Might be the only city that’s true.

@SJFriedl @KTmBoyle Cover the big 4 sports, doubt the women sports are profitable. Very few people, watch or go, so doubt they read about it.

I left the Washington Post 12 years ago. An editor told me Jeff Bezos would gut the paper and I wouldn’t have a job very long. The motto when I left, before they changed it to ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness,’ was “For and about Washington.” They changed it to communicate the diminished ambitions of a once grand paper. Anything that didn’t directly impact the Bethesda or Fairfax reader had already been cut. The newsroom had dwindled to 600 or 700 reporters after many buyouts. The Graham family strategy was to become a local paper, free from the cost of international bureaus and expensive teams. Marty Baron was brought on to execute this local strategy (we called it managed decline) before the surprise Bezos purchase changed everything. Bezos did the opposite of what the newsroom assumed he would do: he poured obscene amounts of money into a cash incinerator. He gave the Post a fancy new building. He subsidized every section of the paper, even the ones with no readers. He expanded international. He financed experiments in video and podcasting. He gave the newsroom a blank check for over a decade. Rather than pursuing a strategy based in reality, the Post newsroom became very accustomed to a billionaire patron giving them everything they wanted in perpetuity. In retrospect, this was a terrible business decision because it made the young reporters and editors delusional. The old ones who remembered the cuts and the pain of the business before Bezos— when they finally took the free coffee away—they had all been fired or left the industry. The “For and About Washington” strategy was also a loser, because it retained the most expensive parts of the newsroom while diminishing its reach. Sports is expensive. Metro news is expensive. And as pretty much every other local newspaper in the country has learned, the old local paper model is broken and has been since the internet arrived. The Post’s brand was and is Washington politics. It’s the seat of American power. It should be focused on covering politics from its premier perch in DC. It should have never been distracted by anything else— it only ever needed this product. It lost sports to the Athletic. It lost International to The Times. There’s no reason to compete on those products. The Post can still own politics, and every story, feature and reporter should be focused on covering it. But it needs to stop pretending that the world didn’t change 20 years ago and start listening to its readers again. There are solid media companies being built for the future and the Post can become one of them. But the old Post died many decades ago. Pretending Bezos killed it isn’t true.

Washington claims every day necessities are luxuries— I’m here to change that #WonNY7 #LifetimeOfCare

@TheCatholicEngr 64° is cold during the day but at night, it’s pretty much the ideal for sleep. travelspill.com/best-sleep-tem…

It amazes me when guys argue the man should be the provider of the house, yet complain when the thermostat needs to go a few degrees higher Keeping your wife and kids warm is part of providing shelter for them You have one job and you're failing at it

@toryboypierce @British_Airways Outrageous. No reason to fly up front.

Now @British_Airways is axing cooked breakfast in business class on certain routes. British Airways is dying at the hands of its Spanish shareholder Iberia. Hence continental breakfasts

@pitdesi The drinks are pretty bad but there’s a whole bar (Uptown) built to look like a NY subway stop

Yesterday in Buenos Aires, I saw restaurants named Williamsburg, Seattle, Kentucky, and Kansas. Seattle and Kentucky were both in a neighborhood called Soho. American soft power at work. What US place besides NYC shows up most in restaurant names abroad? KFC doesn't count!

@zoecabina Most of these from my uni days in Italy have blocked me on Instagram since October 7 🤷🏻‍♂️

In a surprise to no one, a “secular” Tunisian girl who lives in Italy, whom I met when I was a young backpacker, is taking issue with my posting memorial photos of young people who were murdered on October 7

@UESgolf How does Falls Church, McLean, Bethesda get thrown into the same category as PG County

Tired: City tiering Wired: Suburb tiering

@girdley @pitdesi @SamPistorius Starlux is *likely to become* a Oneworld member.

@pitdesi @SamPistorius China Air and Starlux just started service. AA would be the natural domestic airline since PHX is their hub, but Starlux is a Oneworld alliance member. (related: I am an airline nerd.)

United airlines top international destinations by state & overall. I would have expected Tokyo to be lower than it is.