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@Kevin_Indig @Jonn__Mc Exactly

@mikewille9 @Jonn__Mc That could be anything.

SEOs be like "SEO is for humans", but then rave about ranking factors.

@Kevin_Indig @Jonn__Mc The focus of value to the end user

@mikewille9 @Jonn__Mc How do you define UX?

If you want to learn, move to the bottom of the "active learning" pyramid.

Entrepreneurs be like "product is for customers", but then rave about distribution.

@Kevin_Indig @Jonn__Mc As Google gets smarter and better, more of the UX becomes SEO. Nearly all UX improves SEO. Some SEO has no bearing or effect on UX. They are generally not at odds with each other anymore.

@Kevin_Indig @Jonn__Mc Content that is written for humans still needs to be formatted for the bots that act as middlemen. This is akin to writing a letter for a human and then putting the stamp and address in the correct places for distribution. E.g. wrap your content around the correct schema tags

@HenryTrades1 @BertyBauer @tyler Good thing you didn't you would lose money. Miners are in the energy arbitrage business. Mining increasingly concentrates where the marginal energy cost is at or near $0 ie where surpluses of energy would otherwise be wasted. It is fiercely competitive.

Few understand this.

@ryanstephens @readwiseio save thread

What I hope you take away from this thread, aside from the excellent heuristic of thinking about what Jenny, in her bedroom, would share, is that the key isn't just conveying one of these emotions, but intelligently combining one, or more, of them with timely and relevant topics.

One way to grow your Twitter following is to increase the number of tweets you have "go viral." @ShaanVP, a self-proclaimed systems guy, recently shared with @heydannymiranda the framework he uses to maximize his chances of a tweet going viral. A quick thread with examples.

@vanckzhu Not really. $BTC mining increasingly concentrates where the marginal energy cost is near $0 (rural surpluses or where energy would be wasted if not used).

Question: If I'm long energy (oil, natural gas, etc.)...does that mean I'm long cryptocurrency too? 🤔

@nivi Would you expand further? Are you saying we should only think from first principles to establish understanding and think differently to execute?

The more you think from first principles, the more you make errors.

The marketer's dilemma: Should we go after the customers that we WANT as customers, or should we focus on the type of customers we HAVE

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