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Breakthroughs of 2023

Via MR.

I’m amazed and delighted by how little I know about almost all of them, and how helpful ChatGPT is with each tweet. And “new ancient language” is my favorite phrase of the lot!

Breakthroughs of 2023
— gavin leech (@g_leech_) December 3, 2023

Twitter Stories

Back in the day, when I had structure, regularity and a schedule here on EFE, Saturday used to be about five tweets that I enjoyed reading that week.

Which, on reflection (and some gentle prodding from Navin Kabra) wasn’t the brightest idea, because that’s what likes and RT’s are for on Twitter. So how about maybe a brief write-up based on a tweet that I read recently?

This week’s tweet that turns into a post is based on a variety of things. First, Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

The Black Swan is kind of like Thinking Fast and Slow, in the sense that everybody claims to have read it, and very few people actually have. If you haven’t read all of his books, please get started. The order doesn’t really matter, but if you’re asking, my favorite is Anti-Fragile.

There’s a lot to like about his books, his tweets and his outlook towards life, and this tweet is one example (note that I am talking about the pics in the reply, not the original tweet):

https://twitter.com/filipkob/status/1352028989381095424

Now, the original tweet, reposted as a stand-alone:

@nntaleb professor! I want to thank you. I waited tables on you many times at Ilili back in the day. I read all your books and helped me build a company that operates in the US Palestine and Lebanon. Skin in the game and anti fragile should be a must read for every entrepreneur
— nasser (@NasJab) January 20, 2021

So what is the company about?

Nasser Jaber is cofounder of the Migrant Kitchen, a catering company and social impact organization that hires immigrants, migrants, and undocumented workers to both train them in commercial cooking as well as help gain their cuisines more exposure in the marketplace.
https://stories.zagat.com/posts/nasser-jaber-on-creating-jobs-through-immigrant-cuisine

Read the whole article! I got to learn about quipe (kibbeh, apparently), and esfiha (the spelling differs based on context, so my apologies if I got it “wrong”), among other things.

Twitter is a wonderful, wonderful way to learn more about the world, but it is like a garden, in the sense that constant weeding is required. But when you tend to it just so, it is completely worth the effort!

If you have had moments of serendipity on Twitter that you’d like to share, please, send them along. @ashish2727 on Twitter.

Thanks, and enjoy the weekend 🙂

Tweets for 7th November, 2020

Nobody. Nobody does puns better. Yes, life goals.

#USAElections2020
Trump looked like retaining his post, but many Democrats had voted by post. So, post that, Biden looks like being first past the post. Trump has now gone postal, and his lawyers are running from pillar to post.
We truly live in a post-truth era.
— Ramesh Srivats (@rameshsrivats) November 5, 2020

Internet Explorer jokes are something else:

“Go out and vote for Obama today”

– Internet Explorer
— Ayush S (@ayushswrites) November 3, 2020

Very, very late to this, but FWIW:

Since my days in Bombay are numbered now, who'd be interested in a thread on some of Bombay's best restaurants/eateries? Promise you I am going to put my 8 years of experience into this.
— Shirin شیریں शीरीं (@shirinmehrotra) May 17, 2019

Whatay reading list!

Happy, happy news: my JBS bio makes a longlist.

Although: What is this list from every aspiring winner's worst nightmare? In competition: @DalrympleWill, @mukhoty, @Jairam_Ramesh, @tmkrishna, @DeathEndsFun + @JoyJMa ! Oof!

Get ALL these books, y'all! https://t.co/YalBz5lp4z
— Samanth Subramanian (@samanth_s) November 2, 2020

This deserves a blog post of it’s own – next week, hopefully!

Try to coordinate your answer with other poll respondents so that you all pick the same economist:
— Arpit Gupta (@arpitrage) November 1, 2020

Tweets for the week ending 31st October, 2020

Ok…

5 lines of code can power a village 🤷🏼‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/1kddFbtC4o
— Amit Agarwal (@labnol) October 28, 2020

This has been a long time in the making. On October 31st, we will be launching our first ever series of chapter books for readers ages 10 to 15 – the PARI series. Five beautiful stories from rural India.
Register for the launch right here: https://t.co/9oXOKS7qgC #karaditales pic.twitter.com/I6W7Q4NCEw
— Karadi Tales (@karaditales) October 27, 2020

I spend a lot of time reading the Indian Constituent Assembly Debates, and I have long heard rumors that the audio (and some video recordings) exist. I am THRILLED that @prasarbharati archives are digitizing it and putting it online. And they are magnificent to listen to(1)
— Rohit (@itihaasnaama) October 22, 2020

The secret to the US economy's huge innovative success in one graph: the global flows of inventors into and out of various countries. Reversing this is going to end up be a very bad idea for the long-term success for US startups & the economy in general. https://t.co/kOZYEkMkjO pic.twitter.com/qL14XHsdn4
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) October 26, 2020

It's easy to guess who someone with a “MAGA” hat or Biden-Harris tote voted for. But Cool Whip or loose eggs?

We wondered if it was possible to identify Trump and Biden voters based on what's in their refrigerators.

Take our quiz to see how you do 👇 https://t.co/dfqx7YpjWF
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 28, 2020

Tweets for 24th October, 2020

Sometimes you have to state things concisely and sometimes you have to give examples.

The quoted tweet is just saying, "A stitch in time saves nine," but it hits different. https://t.co/ZpxxGxnC7p
— Navin Kabra (@NGKabra) October 22, 2020

1/ India's macro-trade-development puzzle stemming from 2 surprising facts

new paper w/@shoumitro_c: https://t.co/elTcvuRC7M

Puzzle

Post-1991, world's 3rd fastest manufacturing export growth (Fact 1)

despite

Massive under-exports of unskilled labor goods (Fact 2) pic.twitter.com/8E6MZ44dyO
— Arvind Subramanian (@arvindsubraman) October 21, 2020

I am teaching an advanced PhD class on macroeconomics this Autumn at the University of Warwick and I plan to make the lectures publicly available. You can access them by registering on my website https://t.co/sS62MWktGU Please pass on the word to anyone who may be interested pic.twitter.com/E6VsOKAHI3
— Roger E. A. Farmer (@farmerrf) October 20, 2020

YouTube subtitles not disappointing as usual. pic.twitter.com/gRjrxVKIZh
— Aroon Deep (@AroonDeep) October 20, 2020

It's World Statistics Day, and I have to leave you with one cricket stat.
Sachin Tendulkar scored 8717 international runs between 1st Jan 1996 & 31st Dec 1999.
He hit 34 centuries at an average of 61.05 in tests & 47.84 in ODIs in those four years! pic.twitter.com/xwJOXf04Jc
— Joy Bhattacharjya (@joybhattacharj) October 20, 2020

Tweets for 25th July 2020

I have absolutely no idea how to code. Closest I have come to coding is writing sql queries. In last 4 months, I have explored many no code platforms to build my startup. My goal was to minimize time to market. Sharing my experience with these tools…
— Vaidehi Bharadwaj (@bvaidehi_) July 21, 2020

Tangzhong based sandwich milk bread (with recipe) pic.twitter.com/zCTAe0Scyf
— Krish Ashok (@krishashok) July 20, 2020

1/ The cold email

the second most powerful tool for landing a job behind “my dad is the CEO.”

I’m a big fan of the cold email for one reason in particular

it helped me land my current job at @MorningBrew

a thread
— Toby ☕️ (@tobydoyhowell) July 18, 2020

From a small shop in Bikaner to a $1 Billion revenue in 2019.

The story of – Haldiram's.
A thread 🧵👇 pic.twitter.com/U7BWjP5bkq
— Palak Zatakia (@palakzat) July 18, 2020

It's time to gradually exit Twitter.

While Substack is great, it's better to set up a paid newsletter at your own domain. You can do this in an hour and maintain it for less than $30 per month.

I wrote up a tutorial here to walk you through it:https://t.co/VCJH4vmtIV
— Balaji (@balajis) July 18, 2020

Tweets for 18th July 2020

Enjoyed this podcast where @deepakshenoy chats w the ever interesting @kunalb11

Brief thread of what I found interesting.
(there is also a transcript if you prefer that)https://t.co/FBQkUn1ayJ
— Sajith Pai (@sajithpai) July 14, 2020

For my next trick, I will now attempt to summarize @ole_b_peters very insightful paper in @nature :

The Ergodicity Problem in Economics

At the risk of being hyperbolic, I think it is one of the most important papers ever published in economics. pic.twitter.com/diLp6wsdys
— Taylor Pearson (@TaylorPearsonMe) July 13, 2020

The point isn't that Hobbes is real to Calvin; it's that Calvin is real to Hobbes, in a way that he isn't to his teachers, his classmates, or his parents. https://t.co/nH6LGRfUrv
— Brendan O'Kane (@bokane) July 11, 2020

By now you've probably seen the vitriol against "irregardless" being considered a "real word". I wanted to discuss the actual science (linguistics) behind words like this because quite frankly, it's beautiful and a little surprising. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/sdliyTfhdZ
— Ariel Cohen-Goldberg (@arielmc_g) July 9, 2020

Which G7 and BRICS countries will recover the fastest from coronavirus-induced recession? Beyond presumably impressive quarterly growth, what will their GDP look like in Q3? Findings from our latest report in this thread [1/6] pic.twitter.com/iHgztEQbHO
— Economist Intelligence: EIU (@TheEIU) July 15, 2020

Tweets for the 11th of July, 2020

Happy birthday, Sourav Ganguly.

One of the finest leaders who backed unheralded young players to be the match-winners. Such an invaluable contribution.

On his 48th birthday presenting 48 interesting facts to celebrate Dada's legacy. Stay tuned@SGanguly99 #HappyBirthdayDada
— Sarang Bhalerao (@bhaleraosarang) July 8, 2020

CBSE reduces syllabus by 30% due to Covid. Actually, they could reduce it by any amount, even 90%, and in two important ways, it won't matter at all. The first has to do with learning, the second has to do with children's progress. Schools and boards are only incidental to these.
— Ashwin Mahesh (@ashwinmahesh) July 8, 2020

This egg dish from Surat seems a nice combination. Just wait for it. pic.twitter.com/gqYdadWIHK
— Darshan Pathak (@darshanpathak) July 6, 2020

[THREAD: FOURTH OF JULY]
1/60
Long before there was a United States of America, there was British America, a subset of which was called the Thirteen Colonies, an assortment of European settlements on the Atlantic coast, the precursor to what we know today as the USA.
— Amit Schandillia (@Schandillia) July 6, 2020

My long association with Business Standard ended last week. Today I start a new phase of my career as an independent journalist with this story on Life After TikTok in India for KrAsia,. And I’m enjoying this newly-gained freedom of freelancing (cont…)
— Namrata Acharya (@NamrataTWEET) July 8, 2020

Tweets for the 4th of July, 2020

Tweets I found interesting this week, in no particular order:

[THREAD: AKSAI CHIN]
1/50
Napoleon Bonaparte and Czar Alexander met on a raft on the Neman River in July, 1807 to sign the first Treaty of Tilsit. Among the terms was Russia invading Britain in return for French support against the Ottomans. pic.twitter.com/RdGwEG2x2w
— Amit Schandillia (@Schandillia) May 25, 2020

Periodic reminder to not get worked up about "incorrect" word usage by people. If a large number of them use it "wrong" for long enough with a specific and identifiable meaning, it becomes a real word@MerriamWebster delivers a whack to the non-believers https://t.co/Pzns3QiQvK
— Navin Kabra (@NGKabra) July 2, 2020

Just in case you haven’t seen a bird flying around with a shark that it just plucked out of the ocean… pic.twitter.com/ILKqd9wrFG
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) July 2, 2020

I never thought I’d ever see photos like these of an Indian city. Lockdown, say hello to the monsoons! Photos courtesy of @lancelot_pinto who took these amazing shots. pic.twitter.com/imwUC9RWos
— Reuben Abraham (@nebuer42) July 2, 2020

Writing a great essay is among the most powerful things one can do in 2020.

– essays can catch on like wildfire
– often result in serendipitous inbound
– serve as a resume of sorts (shows how you think)
– force you to really learn about your topic
– attracts interested people
— Patrick OShaughnessy (@patrick_oshag) July 2, 2020

Twitter Roundup

Some tweets that caught my eye recently:

My paper today with Mark McClellan. We can sharply reduce the #COVID19 threat with technology and have the chance to develop and deploy these tools right away. We need to take some new policy steps to achieve these goals. We outline those steps here 1/n https://t.co/gWKLd93sod

— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) March 19, 2020

Parents. A thread of useful literacy resources for you for the coming weeks.

— Wyl Menmuir (@Wylmenmuir) March 19, 2020

Well, one issue is settled: China can indeed innovate! Now everyone else is looking at their tactics. Here's what they did.

1) Official guidehttps://t.co/XUZdujRwwG
2) Overviewhttps://t.co/gKN3NDHGTf
3) WHOhttps://t.co/DiwlHEe5gX
4) Zhejiang bookhttps://t.co/LzN1bU0Yfs pic.twitter.com/mIGJOIOwe3

— Balaji (@balajis) March 18, 2020

I've been mulling over the @MRC_Outbreak modeling report on #COVID19 mitigation and suppression strategies since it was posted on March 16. Although mitigation through social distancing may not solve things I believe we can bring this epidemic under control. 1/19

— Trevor Bedford (@trvrb) March 19, 2020

My struggles with a lackadaisacal boomer today: @ShashiTharoor insists on going to Parliament with hordes of other people pressed together in close quarters even as Indian government enacts significant measures to begin imposing social distancing. This is nuts.

— Ishaan Tharoor (@ishaantharoor) March 19, 2020

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