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Best of Twitter - Week of January 20, 2020 - meditation retreat vs real world

Best of Twitter - Week of January 20, 2020 - meditation retreat vs real world
By Alexey Guzey • Issue #55 • View online

Ben Casnocha
When I meditate and count breaths on a normal day, I can make it to 4 or 5 breaths before my mind wanders.

On my last silent 10 day retreat, I counted to 76 breaths and just stopped since it was so easy -- I felt like I could have gone to a million...

Retreat vs. real world
3:01 PM - 22 Nov 2019
nicole
TLDR:

The Good about Lambda:

- Lambda offers true value in the market spot they fill (somewhere between a university and a trade school)

- ISAs allow an incredible amount of educational opportunities to people like me who couldn't afford education otherwise
6:46 AM - 6 Jan 2020
nicole
The Bad about Lambda:

Lambda looses trust in two primary ways:

1. They focus on advertising jobs to a student population that is not their bread and butter ('you too can have 200k/year salary!')
6:46 AM - 6 Jan 2020
nicole
2 They focus on offering things that are shiny but low impact, while ignoring administrative problems that jeopardize students fundamental trust.

Students dont want 3 free digital therapy sessions if they cant be sure they won't loose a months income to preventable admin error.
6:47 AM - 6 Jan 2020
^ thread
Roland Smith
10:16 AM - 21 Jan 2020
alice maz
libgen/scihub are of such monumental social/moral worth that their illegality delegitimizes the law as a whole
9:16 AM - 22 Jan 2020
Lionel Page
How people come up with “random” numbers:

A: “Pick a random number from 1-10”
B: 🤔°(1 and 10 are too obvious. 5 stands out in the middle. Half way between 5 and 10 is hidden in the mix. It won’t be the same number other picked 😁.)
“Seven”
https://t.co/tukYQpW99E https://t.co/aufTJjQkk4
10:28 PM - 5 Jan 2019
arram
I just wrote about a technique that saved me from making a $100,000 mistake. Of the 3000 interviews I did at ZeroCater, this one was the strangest.
https://t.co/ehrHogaplc
4:14 PM - 23 Jan 2020
Alexey Guzey
"rare datapoints driven by unusual processes such as the mentally ill or hoaxers are increasingly unreliable as evidence of anything at all and must be ignored. At scale, anything that can happen will happen a small but nonzero times." https://t.co/CnTG3IuLj9
8:10 AM - 10 Apr 2019
Joel 🌧
Emailing busy people I follow these guidelines:

🦖 get to the point
✂️ edit
🥚 keep it simple
🔮 link to more context/details
📅 stick to a single call-to-action (often Calendly)
✅ make it easy to say “yes”
🌀 offer permission to ignore
♻️ follow up (logarithmically)
5:50 AM - 20 Mar 2019
Iron Economist
Here is the key chart:

You can see both that measured lead levels (BLL) does show a smooth relationship with a variety of anti social behaviours, and also that the intervention to lower lead levels massively lowers those behaviours relative to the control group. https://t.co/9sz83p2LSB
3:24 AM - 8 Jun 2019
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