عمر @omarjavaid

CEO Spectra7 omarjavaid.substack.com 1KYAE Joined February 2008

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James Graham @jamesd_graham

2 days ago

The London Stock Exchange is dying. We have dropped out of the top 20 IPO markets, falling behind Mexico. In 2006 London raised $51bn, this year it was $248m. A 99% decrease. Some thoughts on why this matters and how we change course 🧵

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LindyMan @PaulSkallas

13 hours ago

We aren’t living in a culture of literacy anymore, we’re back in oral culture. From that lens, everything makes sense: short attention spans, virality, popularity, who makes money, even populist politics all follow orality Lets study the oral rules lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/the-return-o…

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LindyMan @PaulSkallas

2 days ago

Are you bored? Most likely it's because you're at the extremes of information Too little change produces redundancy and monotony, each new fact adds nothing to what is already known. Monotony boredom. Waiting rooms, factory work, etc. Too much change creates noise and chaos,…

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

2 months ago

This means IQ explains 1% of the variations in performance. The sample includes people outside the left side of the curve, that is the clinically cognitively impaired that cause the higher correlation between test and performance (since IQ measures ONLY learning difficulties).

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Michael A. Arouet @MichaelAArouet

2 months ago

During 40 years under socialism Poland‘s GDP barely changed. Switch to capitalism and free market in 1989 triggered an economic boom making Polish people much wealthier. Socialism always means bitter poverty and misery for all. Why are young people so fascinated by socialism?

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Overfit Quantitative Strategies @OverfitQuantit1

2 months ago

I'm not sure the $130k cost for an MBA at the University of Chicago is justified tbh

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Roger Seheult, MD @RogerSeheult

2 months ago

Want to sleep better tonight? First step is getting outside in the morning: "This study examined associations between daily self-reported sunlight exposure and next-night sleep quality in 103 adults for up to 70 days. The timing of sunlight exposure predicted next-night sleep…

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cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic

2 months ago

Hans Zimmer performing the Interstellar theme live in Prague is nothing short of breathtaking.

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Rob Henderson @robkhenderson

2 months ago

"George Orwell highlighted how the predominant social justice movement of the time, while ostensibly egalitarian, was primarily a product of professionals...Social justice discourse, he argued, was often used by elites as a means of enhancement" press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

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Culture Explorer @CultureExploreX

2 months ago

Built in the so-called Dark Ages, this isn’t fantasy, it’s Rocher Saint-Michel d’Aiguilhe near Le Puy-en-Velay, France. Pilgrims once climbed this for salvation. You can do it for awe.

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Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood

2 months ago

An elderly Italian man living alone in New Jersey wanted to plant his annual tomato garden, but it was challenging work, since the ground was hard. His only son, Vincent, who used to help him, was in prison. The old man wrote a letter to his son and described his predicament:…

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DaVinci @BiancoDavinci

2 months ago

This floor contains 400 tombs of the great Knights of Malta, decorated with polychrome marble and bearing the knights' emblems. Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Valletta (1608 AD).

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James Lucas @JamesLucasIT

2 months ago

15 cafes that look too beautiful to be real 🧵 1. New York Café, Budapest

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Marc J. Randazza 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇧🇷 @marcorandazza

2 years ago

“The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.” ― H.L. Mencken

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عمر @omarjavaid

2 months ago

ChatGPT is great

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lusso @luusssso

2 months ago

Favorite current interior design trend Wood paneled walls making a comeback

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

2 months ago

CARDIO DU JOUR: This is big. Close to HALF of veteran competitive endurance athletes (>50) have cardiac fibrosis, 5x higher risk of (non-benign) ventricular arrythmia, (that is, 20% of these). Ditch your Strava, enjoy zone 1-2, avoid too many races, walk at flaneur pace.…