Twitter – Collectanea

This week in Tweets #6

The secret heart of academia is… Wikipedia.

In an experiment, this paper found that a single quality Wikipedia article written by chemistry experts influenced the content of 250 published peer-reviewed academic papers! Articles referenced in Wikipedia also become more cited. pic.twitter.com/lWUj9ea76H
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) June 5, 2021

The tweets at the bottom of the post are interesting. It’s about Covid-19.

https://bestoftwitter.substack.com/p/best-of-twitter-week-of-june-14-2021

AI on lego

https://twitter.com/AlexanderNL/status/1410253599502962692

This is really cool. An app that scans your lego and tells you what you can build.

The story of Siracha – Trung Phan

https://twitter.com/TrungTPhan/status/1409185044501987340

These kinds of posts are the reason I get value from Twitter. It’s packed with info and am happy it’s not a blog post.

Books should be blogs, blogs should be tweets remains directionally true.

Great thread from Will Hoenig on where we are in the Covid landscape

Will Hoenig on Twitter: “I don’t think leaders here have wrapped their heads around the impact of Delta in the US. This is a new era: A) A bad phase of the pandemic for unvaccinated adults and B) The beginning of the endemic reality for vaccinated people. Policy responses require a new paradigm. 1/n” / Twitter
— Read on twitter.com/WilliamBHoenig/status/1416430672948903937

This week in Tweets #5

Credit Suisse just released the annual Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report 2021.

Here are 10 interesting findings on wealth and its distribution plus some bonus stats on the wealthy in Africa.

A THREAD. 1/10 pic.twitter.com/x6JTobdR52
— Reuben M. Wambui 🏇🏿 (@reubenmuhindi) June 23, 2021

Night near Yalta, 1866 #ivanaivazovsky #romanticism pic.twitter.com/CF8WxBwnT8
— Ivan Aivazovski (@aivazovski_art) June 21, 2021

Americans have fewer friends than they used to. 15% of men and 10% of women have no close friends. pic.twitter.com/Dl2lSknT18
— Paul Graham (@paulg) June 26, 2021

“In Old English, guma means 'man', so the meaning of ‘brydguma’, ‘bridegroom’, is just 'bride-man'. In the Middle English period, as guma fell out of use and people no longer recognised what it meant, the word was reinterpreted as 'groom'.”

H/t @ClerkofOxford’s Patreon account.
— Tom Holland (@holland_tom) June 27, 2021

Many believe that since lockdown demonstrated remote work can be productive, it follows that companies should have flexible hybrid cultures going forward. But remote-only is not hybrid, and almost none have lived hybrid.

I predict few companies will be "fully flexible" by 2023. pic.twitter.com/4hxWwjthw3
— Dustin Moskovitz (@moskov) June 26, 2021

This week in Tweets #4

Read all the 10 tweets in the thread. Its good. Marc is smart.

"Career planning is for losers."
– Marc Andreesen (probably)

I read 10,000 words of career advice from @pmarca.

Here are 10 lessons👇
— Chris Hladczuk (@chrishlad) June 13, 2021

Applicable to more than online forum.

Dang's principles for online forums are quite interesting.

• Curiosity withers under repetition.
• Generic discussion is not interesting.
• We want reflective rather than reflexive conversation.
• Diffs are what make a conversation interesting.https://t.co/GLIUk4WCJc
— Patrick Collison (@patrickc) June 13, 2021

Cuno Amiet @cuno_amiet #swissart #amiet pic.twitter.com/cKIuUtTkhT
— Camille Pissarro (@artpissarro) June 17, 2021

1/Just for fun, here's a thread comparing retrofuturist art from the mid 20th century with the reality today!

Some sources of art:

1. https://t.co/DEWwpQw2hB

2. https://t.co/PzzL8bvq6l
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) June 20, 2021

Sunset over the River #luminism #albertbierstadt pic.twitter.com/QXOibEwpcv
— Albert Bierstadt (@ArtistBierstadt) June 20, 2021

The Swiss might be neutral, but they won against France

What a difference four minutes make pic.twitter.com/WAxaeCGHz8
— Dino Sofos (@dinosofos) June 28, 2021

This week in Tweets #3

Speakers versus headphones versus AirPods. Wow. pic.twitter.com/5Iatdb0Q9f
— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) June 14, 2021

It’s staggering how successful the Airpod empire is. I have the Airpod Pros and am very happy with them. If they were to break today I would replace them tomorrow. Not a lot of products have that staying power in my home.

Apple’s AirPods make more money than Spotify, Twitter, Snapchat, and Shopify combined

Prediction: AI will cause the price of work that can happen in front of a computer to decrease much faster than the price of work that happens in the physical world.

This is the opposite of what most people (including me) expected, and will have strange effects.
— Sam Altman (@sama) June 13, 2021

The Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mahmoud IV, 1891 https://t.co/gOyvh5ngRQ #realism #repin pic.twitter.com/kqAoe0nRzl
— Ilya Repin (@artistilyarepin) June 14, 2021

"Whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."

–Charles Darwin (Origin of Species) pic.twitter.com/ClbaaBZzqe
— Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) May 31, 2021

Has anyone written about what I’d call ‘validation culture’ in male vs female friendships? It feels like offering anything less than total validation of feelings is extremely taboo in female, but not male circles and not sure why this is
— 💘Sophia💘 (@Richard_Vixen) February 27, 2021

This week in Tweets #2

1/🧵People quitting instead of coming back to offices is very real
Amazing for startups who will recruit the most talented folks who are well paid (some might say overpaid) at big companies—but who will take significantly less in order to work from home #remotework #WorkFromHome
— jason@calacanis.com (@Jason) June 1, 2021

There is a whole tread

Norway seems to be the first developed country studied thus far in which sexual frequency has not declined over recent decades. https://t.co/Tk9IWi6fWE pic.twitter.com/yQhCJy9ILl
— Rolf Degen (@DegenRolf) May 20, 2021

In the North, 1896 #levitan #isaaclevitan pic.twitter.com/kl0FBBtTiU
— Isaac Levitan (@artistlevitan) June 1, 2021

This week in Tweets #1

Fun fact: the northernmost point of Brazil is closer to Canada than it is to the southernmost part of Brazil [read more: https://t.co/rPgN1nv8lY] pic.twitter.com/KvaYj66DCG
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 6, 2021

Darial Gorge, 1862 #ivanaivazovsky #aivazovsky pic.twitter.com/At3AQXmjgI
— Ivan Aivazovski (@aivazovski_art) May 5, 2021

Typography on Pencils, Part 3.https://t.co/E5842oBngp pic.twitter.com/T7l74BDbFs
— Present & Correct (@presentcorrect) May 15, 2021

This graph remains my favorite part of the Chetty et al. 2011 Project STAR Paper (didn’t make it to the final draft)https://t.co/EIMN1bYNoK pic.twitter.com/SxY3QPRu0C
— Arpit Gupta (@arpitrage) May 9, 2021