One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.
Robert Redford represents the sort of movie which is fast disappearing. The movie that grapples with the complexity of the human experience and at the same time is genuinely entertaining . He was a guy who could think and feel at simultaneously , and make audiences do the same
@premera Do you even know what phishing is? Why do you send me emails like this? What the heck is MPXLinq? You dropped me because I flagged this as spam and now you keep sending it to me even though I don't have a legit ID.
@mrsjanae@shannondrayer Exactly. Let's do some magic statistics that NO ONE can explain and the output looks right, so it's ok to share. They prefer that you just shake your head and nod.
@shannondrayer About 1% of the fanbase can interpret these numbers but yeah, seems right. I've only been watching baseball for 55 years, so will need a little more time.
Actor Jeff Daniels on Donald Trump’s 2nd term: “We’ve lost decency. We’ve lost civility. We’ve lost respect for the rule of law. We’ve normalized verbal abuse. We’ve normalized bullying. Out the window goes character, integrity. We’re supposed to elect the best of us, not the worst of us. He’s everything that’s wrong with not just America but being a human being.”
Soon as Zohran began running, his high potential was clear: not just due to political talent, but he canvassed NYC streets after 2024 to ask Trump voters what drove them.
He made economic populism, not identity politics, his focus. Cuomo ran on Israel and establishment support:
Jeff Bezos recounts the time he called Amazon’s customer service number mid-meeting to prove a metric was wrong
In the clip below, Jeff tells a story from the early days of Amazon when their metrics said customers waited less than 60 seconds after calling customer service. Yet this conflicted with customer complaints, and as Jeff explains:
“I have a saying, which is when the data and the anecdotes disagree, the anecdotes are usually right… If you have a bunch of customers complaining about something, and your metrics look like they shouldn’t be complaining, you should doubt the metrics.”
Then one day in a meeting, the head of customer service was defending the metric, and Jeff said, “Ok, let’s call.”
Jeff picked up the phone and dialed Amazon’s 1-800 customer service number.
Everyone in the meeting proceeded to wait more than 10 minutes before customer service answered.
“It dramatically made the point that something was wrong with the data collection, and that set off a whole chain of events where we started measuring it right… That’s an uncomfortable thing to do, but you have to seek truth even when it’s uncomfortable and you have to get people’s attention and they have to buy into it and they have to get energized around really fixing things.”
Video source: @lexfridman (2023)