While @elonmusk is in the headlines for many reasons these days, this particular chart probably doesn’t get enough… https://t.co/fUJ6c9Y2iw
— patrickc (@patrickc)
“When the boy cried wolf, the village committed Type I and Type II errors, in that order” remains the best hypothesis testing mnemonic.
— patrickc (@patrickc)
I'd pay a *lot* more for books if I could see the highlights, annotations, and marginalia of friends or people I fo… https://t.co/JhrnfedZ6U
— patrickc (@patrickc)
The extreme human temptation to compromise on hiring (and to fail to confront mistakes) is one of the main entropic… https://t.co/UJhmSkH3BC
— patrickc (@patrickc)
TL;DR: if you think someone’s work is good, and important, tell them! It really can make a surprisingly large diffe… https://t.co/NVhaV4zgJh
— patrickc (@patrickc)
Why can’t you easily search all of the text you read on any screen (desktop + mobile) over the past day? It’s stra… https://t.co/8Vn1RHun8G
— patrickc (@patrickc)
Feels like podcasts are still quite underrated. Hard to do apples/apples comparison, but: Joe Rogan claims 30 milli… https://t.co/HHcsWEMMNt
— patrickc (@patrickc)
Thanks to crypto, the kinds of people who hung out on bitcointalk in 2012 are going to be allocating a *lot* of cap… https://t.co/3QPZt8EOyN
— patrickc (@patrickc)
We held a planking contest last night. Times in the 3 - 4 minute range. Unimpressed, Mom—60 this year—entered and c… https://t.co/pgECc7aeDo
— patrickc (@patrickc)
As important as the acquisition itself, IMO, is the news that @natfriedman is becoming CEO of GitHub. Nat is one of… https://t.co/WFmtNIVgT4
— patrickc (@patrickc)
A genre that I wished existed: short autobiographies that cover ages 10-20. So much formation happens there and yet… https://t.co/1EpHmQpgHM
— patrickc (@patrickc)
I've been using @DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine for a few weeks and it's been working great. What a remarka… https://t.co/AgBJeKGU5V
— patrickc (@patrickc)
It’s getting harder to build an internet product that’s available to anyone, anywhere. This is an under-discussed t… https://t.co/EbiobtO5Po
— patrickc (@patrickc)
AirPods are the new USB cables: the first orientation you try when replacing in case is always wrong.
— patrickc (@patrickc)
"All lists of private companies contain degrees of subjectivity and error, but the Wikipedia ranking of unicorn sta… https://t.co/3zlIaPQLPC
— patrickc (@patrickc)
I used to wonder whether recognition from others is relative (such that we can only reallocate it) or absolute (we… https://t.co/lmgkRu08D5
— patrickc (@patrickc)
We still haven’t quite figured out the right UI paradigms for deep work… But for close collaboration on a deadline… https://t.co/gkHNDtPwxT
— patrickc (@patrickc)
Roommate got a MinION DNA sequencer. It’s about the size of an iPhone and costs less than the iPhone Xs. The future… https://t.co/7Ar4b9KqlO
— patrickc (@patrickc)
Where do you most often come across interesting ideas—especially weird or surprising ones?
— patrickc (@patrickc)
In San Francisco, we talk a lot about helping the disadvantaged… while designing systems that place opportunity fir… https://t.co/wXRPtzAUvY
— patrickc (@patrickc)
Thinking a lot about this lately. (Added to https://t.co/sIARplhLJm.) https://t.co/c4Wq4XMtqG
— patrickc (@patrickc)
Even more amazingly: US aside, every single G8 country is a net *exporter* of inventors. The same is true for China… https://t.co/8xNYfHY1Nr
— patrickc (@patrickc)
It's that most festive time of the year. Holiday cheer, cosy evenings, a moment for reflection, and a seventeenth r… https://t.co/ieNf1ZKaxA
— patrickc (@patrickc)
We’re proud to support @cayimby’s work to make California more affordable for all: https://t.co/2uc1ScKPUA https://t.co/idmbnk6CcB
— patrickc (@patrickc)
Singapore will be Stripe’s fourth global engineering hub: https://t.co/qTESwXs7Aj
— patrickc (@patrickc)
I don't often tweet about hiring because… we're always hiring. But salience always seems to matter more than I'd ex… https://t.co/NSd5rQOihr
— patrickc (@patrickc)
There are just under 500,000 registered motor vehicles (including 55,000 trucks) in SF. The SFMTA just capped cheap… https://t.co/0jOr0mrZ8m
— patrickc (@patrickc)
Perhaps anecdotal, but it feels that there’s been some swing from “attention economy” to “creation economy” over th… https://t.co/cBBhedwug2
— patrickc (@patrickc)
From: Titus Labienus To: Caesar Subject: Gentle bump Just wanted to get this back to the top of your inbox. Hoping… https://t.co/1uodFQlt42
— patrickc (@patrickc)
Great meeting with @leehsienloong. Look forward to growing @stripe here and helping to advance the Singapore tech e… https://t.co/WkbBt9OOcs
— patrickc (@patrickc)
Stripe is #1 for the second year in a row. Proud of the global Stripe team. We're still just getting started. https://t.co/DhsZID0tnJ
— patrickc (@patrickc)
Thanks to podcast interviews, most contemporary non-fiction authors are preparing their own neatly-distilled summar… https://t.co/Pca0mwGGnh
— patrickc (@patrickc)
Upon walking into @LauraDeming’s VC firm, you face a display of scientists in their youth. It’s surprisingly inspir… https://t.co/Fjt5LQLF0t
— patrickc (@patrickc)
The people I know who get a lot out of Twitter approach it with a “yes, and” mood; those who find it frustrating se… https://t.co/7XIRwueAOa
— patrickc (@patrickc)
One of my favorite recent uses of Stripe: @Spotify's new platform that helps independent artists get paid. https://t.co/uXBRPlsSRK
— patrickc (@patrickc)
Bloomberg’s best books list, led by @JonHaidt’s excellent “The Coddling of the American Mind”. https://t.co/34PKpq920X
— patrickc (@patrickc)
Today, our engineering offices are in San Francisco and Seattle. We’re adding Dublin to that list—and we’re hiring. https://t.co/Hw6vQRAeHR
— patrickc (@patrickc)
I've been enjoying @3blue1brown's math videos. Waiting for the moment when the YouTube recommendation algorithm ste… https://t.co/xIroJTgWy5
— patrickc (@patrickc)
Me, in chat app: I would like to copy some messages. Chat app: Woah, woah cowboy. You'll also be needing 17 randoml… https://t.co/vAOO6KID1g
— patrickc (@patrickc)
The Art of Approximation in Science and Engineering taught me a lot when I first read it (https://t.co/cRx2cwOLXT;… https://t.co/AWFy2utLMr
— patrickc (@patrickc)
The US remains among the most pro-immigration countries in the world, and support continues to rise:… https://t.co/n7M7z44OcU
— patrickc (@patrickc)