Compound Learning @CompoundLrnBlog

Better and better, a day at a time - learning about how the world works, applying understanding to work and life compoundlearning.net Joined March 2018

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Steph Smith @stephsmithio

4 years ago

In 1994, Jeff Bezos famously spotted a stat that made him leave his high-paying PE job to start Amazon: 💡 The Internet was growing 2300% per year. What are the generation-defining stats of today? I'll post a few to kick things off...

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Ed Conway @EdConwaySky

4 years ago

That's why in charts like the one I tweeted last night you'll see that our need for graphite for our future gigafactories is actually GREATER than our need for lithium. Look at the height of the bars! But cathodes are sexier than anodes so no one pays much attention

Ed Conway @EdConwaySky

4 years ago

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Ed Conway @EdConwaySky

4 years ago

The Humber Refinery in NE England. This place looks and smells like a ghost of fossil fuel history. It's where they turn crude oil into petrol, jet fuel & many other petrochemical products. It won't seem the obvious place to start a thread abt batteries. But bear with me 🧵

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Ryan Petersen @typesfast

4 years ago

Yesterday I rented a boat and took the leader of one of Flexport's partners in Long Beach on a 3 hour of the port complex. Here's a thread about what I learned.

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Nat Bullard @NatBullard

4 years ago

In 1965, nuclear power generated slightly more electrons than renewable power. That gap widened for 40 years, tightened for 15, and now Renewable Power > Nuclear. bp.com/en/global/corp…

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Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

4 years ago

Your periodic reminder that Nobel Prize winning is mostly driven by chocolate consumption.

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@jason @Jason

4 years ago

What three businesses do you think will follow this Blockbuster boom/bust cycle next?

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Compound Learning @CompoundLrnBlog

6 years ago

‘A chess player can burn up to 6,000 calories a day while playing in a tournament, three times what an average person consumes in a day.’ @kumaraishwarya espn.com/espn/story/_/i…

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Compound Learning @CompoundLrnBlog

6 years ago

Useful infographic on the escalating US-China trade war. ‘So far, Washington has imposed tariffs on some $250bn of Chinese goods, while Beijing has retaliated with tariffs on $110bn of US products.’ bbc.com/news/business-…

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Compound Learning @CompoundLrnBlog

6 years ago

A good piece by @NickPaumgarten on #measles and #antivaxxers - also a good reflection on the idea that one of the most urgent challenges society faces is how to stop outright wrong ideas. newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…

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Compound Learning @CompoundLrnBlog

6 years ago

This is a great thread from @Foone that deserves a read all the way to the end.

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Compound Learning @CompoundLrnBlog

6 years ago

‘Putting ideas on paper is the best way to organize them in one place, and getting everything in one place is essential to understanding ideas as more than the gut reactions they often are.’ @morganhousel collaborativefund.com/blog/why-every…