Walked past a woman in Trader Joe's today. She had a baby strapped to her chest, wailing inconsolably. The woman looked quite stressed.
I said, "Hang in there, you're doing great!" She smiled and said thanks.
Walked past her in the parking lot later, and she said that I
Stuart Buck
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Executive Director, Good Science Project
Formerly: @arnold_ventures, @harvard_law, @kellogghansen
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- Replying to @DOGEI can read books I own that are 150+ yrs old, but cannot do anything with floppy disks or cassette tapes that I had in the early 2000s. Maybe paper records are actually better for agencies that need to maintain records for several decades?
- How the vast majority of people and organizations think about evidence:
- Hospitals: "we demand to charge $15,000 for a service that costs $5,000 in Australia. We never tell the patient the price in advance" Insurance company: "That is too high, we will only pay $12,000" Commenters: "The insurance company is so heartless and cruel!!"
- This Harvard Business Review chart seems to have been made by someone who didn't know what most of the terms meant: hbr.org/2018/10/which-…
- Boss: We need a name for our film studio Me: Let him go first, he'll copy my idea 1-up Karl: No I promise I won't Me: Ok my idea is 19th Century Fox 1-up Karl: *looks at camera*
- Replying to @extrafabulousIt's been all over the news (Twitter and TikTok).
- Replying to @PatrickJBlumThe cafeteria here is the only one I've ever been to: si.edu/museums/americ…
- Replying to @1followernodad and @animalologistI grew up in the 1980s, and at age 11 or 12 on, my cousin and I would ride our bicycles for miles outside of town. No one knew where we were for hours.
- Driver: My God… that weasel… Onlooker: He just went… “pop”… Weasel’s family: *sobbing* Ice-cream man: I’ve got an idea for a song y’all.
- This is why DOGE should do just a tiny bit of homework before trying to cancel items that they don't understand. The program below was launched by DARPA in 2018 in order to prevent cyberattacks and phishing that happen via social deception. darpa.mil/research/progr…Reuters was paid millions of dollars by the US government for “large scale social deception”. That is literally what it says on the purchase order! They’re a total scam. Just wow.
- Replying to @CJHandmerCanceling food deliveries to starving babies is one of the worst possible ways Luke could use his talents, and nothing he has done could make more than a trivial difference to the budget, particularly given working for an administration that is adding trillions of extra debt.
- It's easy to romanticize the past . . . My grandfather was born in this farmhouse in Arkansas. Life was so hard that he couldn't afford new shoes--he had to repair old shoes with tire rubber. He hoped I would grow up to "get an indoors job." google.com/maps/@36.39537…











