Weekend Reads

July 10, 2022

This Week on the Lindy Newsletter

Stepping into a car is like driving an iPhone.

I write about my experience using a turntable with knobs and buttons

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Weekend Reads

Elon Musk announced that he was terminating a $44 billion deal to buy Twitter. The reason, he said, was an ongoing disagreement over the number of spam bot accounts on the platform. How many people are actually using Twitter? I see people using Instagram and Tik-Tok all the time in public, but I never see anyone using Twitter. Could there be a small minority of actual people and the rest is just bots pushing products, crypto, political viewpoints?

“In lieu of @ElonMusk walking away from @Twitter's transaction, my team did an analysis on Twitter's user base as of this morning. The last two stats are the most "telling."”

It is difficult to overstate how much of our behavior is driven by a desire to impress others. It is such an ingrained part of our culture it is hard to just say you don't care.

I remember working in business parks, I didn't like it. This video explains it

Used car prices are sometimes baffling. This truck with over 200,000 miles would seem to be worth $3,000. Instead it's much higher

It sure seems like movie reviewers are giving out high ratings lately. In a time when movies as a whole are pretty bad. And it turns out, it's true.

That is, well over *half*, for a group that makes up 6% of population. It's hard to grasp just how wildly disproportionate the toll really is.

You optimize in one dimension, you lose on another.

I couldn't tell you who any actors under 40 are. Part of stuck culture is aging Hollywood. Remember when there was age-ism? That's gone. Top actors and actresses are getting older.

This is an interesting piece on how a whole lot of us have sort of unconsciously become much better cooks than our grandparents/great-grandparents

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