@daniel_egan

Behavioral science & design. Mobile app engineer. My opinions only. On 🦋 now (better tech & experience).

 New York, NY
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Joined February 2010
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Very meta, if untrue. (cc @cleoabram )
Alberto Acerbi@acerbialberto12h
About 60% of experts believe that in social media "falsehoods spread faster than truth", a widely repeated over-generalisation of a single, carefully scoped result. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…

Do Experts Agree About Misinformation? Evidence From Three Annual Surveys - Sacha Altay, Sebastián...

How much do experts on the information environment agree about the scale, spread, and effects of misinformation? We drew on three annual waves of the Internatio...

journals.sagepub.com
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Um @crunchlabs @MarkRober I'm told this was your idea? You got some 'splainin to do. 😁😉
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My daughter upon seeing this: "You look really old."
Brendan Frazier@jbrendanfrazier25 Mar 2024
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@daniel_egan bringing the 🔥🔥
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The maturation of every investor starts with absorbing almost everything and ends with filtering almost everything.
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Genius.
Soren Iverson
@soren_iverson31 Jan 2024
E-Trade take a small quiz to verify you know enough about a company to trade their stock
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“Isn’t this just paternalism?”
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Crazy thought: this is the best possible world. Everyone thinks and says "things are horrible (silently: but I'm doing pretty good)" The inverse ("everything is great but I'm doing badly") would suck.
Justin Wolfers
@JustinWolfers7 Dec 2023
There's no question people are telling pollsters they're miserable about the economy. But riddle me this: Why can't we find evidence of this pessimism in anything other that public opinion polls? Every non-poll based indicator of confidence suggests folks are optimistic [thread]
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Long $WMT forever
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ROU Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly Cc @cultureshipname
SpaceX
@SpaceX18 Nov 2023
Replying to @SpaceX
The booster experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly shortly after stage separation while Starship's engines fired for several minutes on its way to space
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These bags full of leaves are then loaded onto trucks which, burning fossil fuels, move them to giant areas called "landfills" -- where the leaves, trapped in plastic, undergo anaerobic decomposition, and, rather than releasing their nutrients back into the soil,
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The neighborhood kids when the biggest kid gets a new bike.
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Me: So Apples are harvested in fall and cost $2.99/lb and Oranges are harvested in summer and cost $3.99/lb. Some philosopher: Nooo, you're not allowed to do that!
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1/ 🧵How much skill (alpha) a concentrated stock picker needs to beat a fully diversified benchmark index? Variance lowers expected geometric return. To compensate for the idiosyncratic variance drag, stock picker needs skill to catch up with and to exceed the index return.
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- Why are we training AI to be like us? They should be complementary! - How do humans learn concepts with so much less data? - Why would you invest in education when AI seems competent? Some good questions from this interview by @DaveNadig youtu.be/1sx7CIX2j4k
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You think Succession is about a business family. I think it is about how over many summers a pasture becomes a forest. We are not the same.
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Annual Consumer Financial Decision Making conference zen kickoff.
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iPhone, Android, Web … Whichever way you invest with us, we use the latest tech to give your employees a delightful experience on any screen. Learn how we code with @FlutterDev to serve up new features faster during today’s #GoogleIO developer keynote: io.google/2023
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"Bike lanes" on my ride home today.
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My 7yo just got mad at his brother and called him ugly, and his brother got really upset about it and started crying. They’re identical twins. Identical. Twins.
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