While You Were Away – The best of Twitter: Week of 11-7-21

Natural History Museum's Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards.

Incredible.

— Steph Smith (@stephsmithio)
3:01 AM • Nov 8, 2021

Do your best to identify essayists, thread writers, newsletters, and time-generous operators that can help you identify market shifts and opportunity.

Be proactive not reactive.

That means devoting daily time to studying the job that you're doing as if it's your first day.

— Web Smith (@web)
3:21 AM • Nov 10, 2021

In 2021, Peloton has seen its market cap fall from $50B to $17B. The “iPad on a bike” joke is trending but it’s a bit unfair.

Peloton’s design smartly uses many psychological hacks to get people hooked on exercise (and it's worth learning from).

Here are 9 of them🧵

— Trung Phan 🇨🇦 (@TrungTPhan)
4:53 PM • Nov 7, 2021

48 million Reddit users
200 million Twitter users
740 million LinkedIn users

Your marketing doesn’t need to reach all of them.

In fact, it shouldn’t.

THREAD: How to find the right customers, readers, listeners, and social followers...

— Amanda Natividad (@amandanat)
3:24 PM • Nov 8, 2021

MSCHF bought an original Andy Warhol for $20,000 and made 999 exact forgeries.

They mixed the original in and sold 1,000 pieces that *might be a real Warhol* for $250 each.

That’s $250k 🤌🏼

Here's what they did:

— Colin Landforce (@landforce)
4:24 PM • Nov 7, 2021

The Eisenhower Decision Matrix is a powerful tool for prioritization and time management.

Here's how it works:

— Sahil Bloom (@SahilBloom)
2:02 PM • Nov 8, 2021

My client's e-book hit $250k in lifetime sales in just over a year.

His goal was $100k.

And we've spent less than $20k on ads.

Here's exactly how we did it 🧵

— Alex Garcia 🔍 (@alexgarcia_atx)
1:16 AM • Nov 9, 2021

At only 27, this son of Taiwanese immigrants went from being fired on Xmas day to bootstrapping a BILLION dollar company.

The best part?

He built the whole thing by solving his family’s problems 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

— Jesse Pujji (@jspujji)
6:38 PM • Nov 12, 2021

Kids have a built-in desire to learn.

As they enter school, learning becomes forced. They have no choice in the subjects, the pace, or the way lessons are presented.

They enter a system that leaves little room for choice and curious exploration.

No wonder they lose interest…

— Ana Lorena Fabrega (@anafabrega11)
3:34 PM • Nov 8, 2021

Accounting is the language of business.

If you buy stocks, you MUST learn how to read a Cash Flow Statement.

Here’s everything you need to know:

— Brian Feroldi (🧠,📈) (@BrianFeroldi)
1:02 PM • Nov 11, 2021

On this day in history, November 12th, 1930:

In a construction feat never tried before (or since), the eight-story, 11,000-ton Indiana Bell Building successfully shifted 52 feet and rotated 90° after 30 days of moving.

The craziest part?

No one inside felt a thing.

A thread:

— David Zabinsky (@DavidZabinsky)
1:03 PM • Nov 12, 2021