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Top YouTube Channels to Master Tech Skills.
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my review of the new Andrew Roberts
Napoleon and his Marshals
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if you can't be arsed to click the link I'll tell you that I liked it a lot & I wasn't overly distracted by setting the record straight about ABBA's 1974 hit "Waterloo"
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai:
"If you don't learn how to orchestrate agents now, you'll spend 2027 catching up to people who started today"
In 30 minutes, he explains why the best engineers are moving from writing code to running agent graphs
Researcher ā Writer ā Tester ā Reviewer ā Fixer
The human becomes the operator, not the bottleneck
Agents ā Orchestration ā Graphs ā Autonomous Systems
This interview is worth more than most $500 agent engineering courses
Bookmark and watch it today
Then read the full article on graph engineering below ā
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Very valuable!
"The Penguin History of Economics: New and Revised" by Roger E. Backhouse (published in 2023).
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"The definitive guide to the history of economic thought, fully revised twenty years after first publication. Roger Backhouse's definitive guide takes the story of economic thinking from the ancient world to the present day, with a brand-new chapter on the twenty-first century and updates throughout to reflect the latest scholarship. Covering topics including globalisation, inequality, financial crises and the environment, Backhouse brings his breadth of expertise and a contemporary lens to this original and insightful exploration of economics, revealing how we got to where we are today."
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$200 BILLION in debt & Jacinta Allan still refuses to even acknowledge it.
The sheer arrogance, racking up catastrophic debt, then snapping at Nat for asking questions & dodging every answer.
This is reckless & unsustainable.
Wake up, Victorians before itās too late!
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This is the reason why we can never reform healthcare in the UK ā or even have a sensible debate about it.
The moment anyone suggests alternative/additional ways of funding health Labour rushes out privatisation smears and claims US private health insurance is being proposed.
Labour has been doing it for decades. It explains why the NHS is effectively beyond reform.
The two worst health systems in the rich world are in America and the UK. Itās why nobody has ever copied them. It would be mad to go from ours to theirs (or vice versa).
But Europe is awash with health systems that can call on several sources of funds, including many with compulsory public health insurance schemes. They have better health outcomes than the NHS. They are free at the point of use (like the NHS). Most of them are better funded.
But Labour puts them out of bounds, refuses even to discuss or consider. So patient care suffers. NHS struggles on.
Labour is always telling us we need to get closer to Europe. Itās where we belong. But not when it comes to health, where it insists no lessons can be learned. Pretty pathetic, really.
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Christian Horner shouldnāt return to Formula 1.
He should start a new Formula.
Formula V10.
Get Bernie and Ron involved.
Bring back cigarette sponsorship.
Iād watch.
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Why do so many international strategies fall apart in the real world?
In this episode of Business Beyond Borders with @CynthiaDearin, Mike Todd @twodeck unpacks why global expansion rarely goes to plan, but why having no strategy is even riskier.
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Too many politicians treat the world like a student union. Abstract, simplistic and completely disconnected from reality. The world is not a debating club. It is a dangerous place where power matters, where democracy is fragile and where enemies donāt play by the rules.
Thatās why we need to be clear: supporting Israel is not just right ā it is necessary for our own national security. Israelis are at the front line in the fight for the West and for our shared values.
First, Iran is a direct threat to the UK and has been for years. Our security services have stopped multiple Iranian terrorist plots and assassination attempts on UK soil. Its ballistic missiles can reach Europe. We should support any ally that seeks to damage Iranās nuclear programme and eliminate the threat posed by the terror-exporting Revolutionary Guards.
Anti-British sentiment is almost as central to the ayatollahsā deranged ideology as their obsessive hatred of Israel and the United States. They use the term āLittle Satanā interchangeably to refer to both the UK and Israel.
Iran uses influence through mosques, schools and fake charities to radicalise and corrupt our own population: taking advantage of our democracy to advance its theocracy.
Second, Iran and Israel are not moral equivalents. Israel is a vibrant democracy that protects women and minorities and encourages them to vote, speak and dissent. In Iran women are brutalised by a theocratic dictatorship. Their ability to travel and work is restricted. They are beaten for showing their hair. Tortured for asking questions. Executed for demanding freedom.
Anyone who canāt see the difference between a liberal democracy and a terrorist regime needs to spend less time on social media and more time understanding reality.
When Iran launched its latest barrage of missiles, it didnāt target military installations. It targeted city centres. High rise housing. Hospitals. Civilians. This is a war crime, plain and simple. No excuses. No spin. And still, we have western politicians giving copy-and-paste statements as if this were a playground spat between equal players in a ācycle of violenceā.
Israelās response, in contrast, is surgical. It decapitated Iranās offensive capabilities with extraordinary precision and minimal civilian casualties. Images of holes made by guided bombs in the sides of flats occupied by specific regime operatives are testament to Israelās values. When Iran attacks, millions of Israelis hide in bomb shelters. When Israel attacks, Iranian dissidents record the impact against regime targets and cheer.
Military strategists will be studying this campaign for decades as a model for how to defend your people without losing your moral compass and in compliance with international law.
Israel has a right to defend itself. Iran has been openly committed to the destruction of Israel for decades. Through its proxy, Hamas, the regime orchestrated the murder of 1,200 people on October 7 and has said it would do it again. Any democracy facing such an existential threat from a genocidal regime would and must act to defend itself.
Most Arab nations understand this; some say it openly. Many ordinary Iranians bitterly oppose their regime which for 46 years has been robbing them of their future. They know that Israel is not the problem. They condemn violence, yes, but they have no time for the delusions of the western left. Theyāve had enough of people in Islington pretending to speak for Gaza while doing nothing for peace.
But of course, the usual crowd in Britain and beyond rushed to condemn Israel. They ignore the facts. Because itās not really about Israel ā itās about their own moral posturing.
While Israel takes on the arrayed enemies of the West, fighting terrorism on multiple fronts, and facing Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and Iran at once, their so-called allies condemn them.
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Elon Musk explains why he slept on the Tesla factory floor for 3 years
āI was living in the factory in Fremont and the one in Nevada for three years straight. That was my primary residence. Iām not kidding. Literally. I slept on a couch, and at one point a tent on the roof, but for a while there, I was just sleeping under my desk which was out in the open in the factory.ā
As Elon explains, he did this for an important reason:
āI slept on the floor under my desk so that during shift change, the entire team could see me. This is important because if the team thinks their leader is off somewhere having a good time, drinking Mai Tais on a tropical island [itās demoralizing]ā¦ Since the team could see me sleeping on the floor during shift change, they knew I was there. That made a huge difference, and they gave it their all.ā
This principle that leaders must be visible is something Elon emphasized in a memo to Tesla employees ending remote work and requiring a minimum of 40 hours per week in person:
āThe more senior you are, the more visible must be your presence. That is why I lived in the factory so much ā so that those on the line could see me working alongside them. If I had not done that, Tesla would long ago have gone bankrupt.ā
Video source: @BaronCapital (2022)
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A country that doesnāt make anything quickly dies. Former US trade representative Robert Lighthizer explains how Trumpās tariff program can stop Americaās slide.
(0:00) Why Do We Need to Reinstitute Tariffs?
(6:10) The Slow Death of Americaās Working Class
(13:35) Donald Trumpās Plan to Fix the Economy
(14:26) Was There an Organized Effort to Destroy Americaās Free Market?
(19:52) The Trifecta of Stupid
(26:12) We Are in an Economic Emergency
(32:16) The Three Ways to Balance Global Trade
(34:45) Can America Be the Worldās Biggest Manufacturing Power Once Again?
(38:47) Why Lighthizerās View Differs From Establishment Economists
(49:13) How Washington and Big Business Benefit From the Death of the Middle Class
(56:44) The Two Parts to Trumpās Tariff Plan
(1:03:25) Will We See Inflation Due to Tariffs?
(1:07:50) The Economic War With China
(1:11:49) How China Is Trying to Avoid Trumpās Tariffs
(1:25:50) Reestablishing an Economic Relationship With Russia
(1:31:34) The Lies Youāve Been Told About the Nasdaq
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Mike Todd retweeted
The ban on #cousinmarriage is one explanation for the origin of The West's genius & exceptionalism
I discuss this in my @triggerpod interview š
Harvard's Prof J Heinrich argues that the Western mind evolved differently & was a global anomaly because of the 9th century Western (Catholic) Church's ban on cousin marriage.
Up to that point, the structure of societies across the globe was defined by kinship clans - large extended families where your first, second, third, fourth cousins were as much part of the family as brothers and sisters.
These clan societies were based upon nepotism, obedience to authority and conformity. Strangers were regard with distrust and hostility.
In the West, the ban on marriage between certain degrees of consanguinity resulted in the birth of the nuclear family, which didn't exist elsewhere.
Today, 75% of the world still has cousin marriages. According to Heinrich, approx. 90% of the world doesn't have the same notion of the exclusive nuclear family that we have.
The birth of the Western nuclear family devoid of its external connections to clanship, directly let to the emergence of individuality and innovation.
With kinship clans destroyed, the nuclear family had to rely on contact with strangers. This led to the development of high levels of social trust in the West. Social trust is one of the most important criteria for a society's economic prosperity and social cohesion.
With high levels of social trust, these medieval European nuclear families were able to come together & cooperate for their mutual benefit. They achieved this, for example, by establishing guilds, confraternities, universities and charter towns.
These uniquely Western institutions helped to foster the cross-pollination of ideas and skills, through which innovation exploded.
The exclusively Western notion of individualism was core to this, as well. And much of that is due to Protestantism.
I explain all this in greater detail in this video:
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X Has Already Won
Elon Musk closed the acquisition of Twitter, now X, in October of 2022. Once that deal was closed, a bunch of advertisers left the platform out of fear of their brands being impacted by the new āFreedom of Speechā rules that X was looking to implement.
The premise was that ads would be shown next to content that advertisers donāt want to be associated with, and because X would now allow more āimproperā content, the chances of having a negative ad experience could increase.
After leaving the platform for a few weeks, almost all advertisers have come back, albeit with lower ad spends. However, earlier this year, X gave guidance that the platform is near cash-flow neutral, minus debt obligations. This means that even though the platform has suffered losses in terms of ad revenue, the company is close to being self-sufficient.
In other words, no outside cash has to be brought into the company to keep it alive, as long as the trend continues.
Fast forward a few months, and after controversial comments made by Elon and an effort by Media Matters to encourage advertisers to boycott the platform, advertisers left again.
However - just like the first time, after a few weeks, advertisers are beginning to come back. Thereās confirmation that Netflix has started to spend ad money on the platform again, and per Elon at his recent conference in Italy, advertisers are beginning to come back to the platform en masse.
I think all of this points to something quite clear - the Overton Window is beginning to shift, and with it, a massively profitable endeavor for advertisers.
For those that are not familiar, the Overton Window is a term used to express what is āacceptableā to be discussed in a given time period. If you compare what is acceptable to be discussed on X today, vs what was acceptable on Twitter pre-acquisition, you can very clearly see that the āacceptableā topics are much more diverse and plentiful. This means that the Overton Window has shifted.
Another example of this is also on YouTube. A few days ago, Mario hosted a space with Elon Musk, Alex Jones, Andrew Tate, and other folks discussing Alexās reinstatement and a bunch of other topics. These topics pre-acquisition would not be admissible under Twitterās former rules. Whatās really interesting is that after making this edited content available on YouTube, YouTube has a) not taken down the content from the platform and b) allowed monetization on the content.
This implies that advertisers are now becoming comfortable advertising on content that they werenāt comfortable with in the past.
What does this mean for X? Itās quite simple - Xās willingness to stand for Free Speech, even when the CEO makes statements that cause the business to temporarily lose revenue, is creating a brand new market for advertisers that previously did not exist precisely due to an unwillingness to embrace Freedom of Speech.
And because Xās entire approach has been to uphold Freedom of Speech and accept the repercussions that come with it, the platform has positioned itself as the premier place for content that will be generated on this principle.
This same content is a market that advertisers have had 0 access to in the past because of the unwillingness of platforms to embrace Freedom of Speech, and the skittishness of ad agencies to sully their brands with controversial topics. On top of this, itās a market that is untapped, which will generate billions of views, and billions of dollars, for creators and advertisers alike.
I do not suspect weāll see another advertisers boycott in the future because of this dynamic. Thereās way too much money to be made, and now that the Overton Window has shifted to where the āpublicā is now ācomfortableā with listening to dissenting and controversial opinions, advertisers will be tripping over themselves to advertise on X over the long term.
In my opinion, people respect the notion of being allowed to think for themselves, and because this has been subdued for far too long, there will be an avalanche of interest for content that is specifically challenging and controversial. Ultimately, this will be massively profitable for advertisers due to the engagement and attention itāll receive from the public.
I posited when Elon bought the platform that X would win if they could make Freedom of Speech profitable, and I think weāre starting to see glimpses of this being the case.
Mike Todd retweeted
'She's now abandoned the UK and wants to be President of the United States, I mean what is it with this woman, is it a mental illness?'
David Mellor and Scarlett MccGwire clash over Meghan Markle after reports suggest that 'Britain has seen the back of the Duchess of Sussex'
Mike Todd retweeted
Dreadful news, which I feel duty bound to share. Activists in my mentions are trying to organise yet another boycott of my work, this time of the Harry Potter TV show. As forewarned is forearmed, I've taken the precaution of laying in a large stock of champagne.
Mike Todd retweeted
If you own or plan to start a business, AI will make or break you
You should be focusing on growth. Let #AI handle the small stuff.
I've made a list of the top 10 AI tools for owners
3 are in the thread below ā¬ļø
RT and comment āAIā and I'll DM you ALL 10
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Wife just asked me to mow the lawn. Told her she should be ashamed for concerning herself with such trivialities āin the week that climate scientists laid out compelling evidence for an existential threat to life on earth as we know itā. She soon piped down. #Priorities
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I think she likes him nitter.gq/Edwin07011/status/1612ā¦
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Full one hour interview with Jordan Peterson has more than 2 million views on YouTube. Heās in career best form.
youtu.be/gfGOSpg9Pds
Wonderful interview here. I fear Jordan Peterson is right, the masses will accept the social credit system. Congrats to @RitaPanahi
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Hey mask zealots any comments š¤·āāļø
Matt Hancockās straight from the horseās mouth admission to @IsabelOakeshott on mask wearing. An unearthing of how a government duped an entire nation into compliance.
