I was one of the most prolific 1000 open source contributors for five years, was a globally recognized lead and a spokesperson for Google engineering. Twitter didn’t find me credible with these credentials.
On the wildly unlikely chance a tweet from this account suggests we’re giving away Bitcoin, it’s not true.
Twitter is being hacked right now.
Nobody is giving Bitcoin away today.
> This is the type of letter executives at @stripe, @Mastercard and @visa (former @Libra_ members) have received.
> Many executives may have chosen not to experiment and innovate in order to avoid regulatory pressure!Sad!
> America can do better!
> Source: schatz.senate.gov/imo/media/…
I remember an interview with a Google exec who said there are essentially two kinds of employees.
There are the ones where you have to check their work.
And then there are the ones who do work you could have never anticipated or imagined.
School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. True rewards - wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity - come from ignoring others and improving ourselves.
The question is when, not if, this whole system collapses. Higher inputs (college costs) with lower outputs (wages) aided by leverage (student loans) which cannot be serviced as those two lines further diverge x.com/jselingo/status/966865…
Trinity College to charge $71,660 next year. In 2005, I wrote a story for @chronicle about how Bates decided to pass $40K mark. Only 75 colleges at the time had passed that mark. Yes, few pay sticker, but it's still a signal. courant.com/education/hc-tri…