{"id":1073,"date":"2007-12-26T12:59:39","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T10:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/general\/thought-nuggets-from-twitter-part-1.html"},"modified":"2007-12-26T12:59:39","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T10:59:39","slug":"thought-nuggets-from-twitter-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1073","title":{"rendered":"Thought Nuggets from Twitter &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t twit in the traditional sense of the term (internet tradition is measured in months not years).  I don&#8217;t generally tell people what I am doing.  Instead I twit what I am thinking about.  For year end I will post what  Evan Williams, founder of Twitter, appropriately called thought nuggets.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>laptops still need to be lighter, faster, less hot and with daylong batteries<\/li>\n<li>the problem with psychology is one of marketing, nobody likes to be called a mental patient, how about changing titles to &#8220;life trainers&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Immigrants make 8% of the population of USA but the companies they built account for 25% of US mkt cap<\/li>\n<li>The Spaniards disagree on staying Spanish. The French want to be French, but they disagree on the regime they want.<\/li>\n<li>How can the French have both, the largest supermarket chains in the world and the petit marche au coin?<\/li>\n<li>Most countries have cultural centers in Paris. USA does not need one. Its culture rules is pulled, not pushed.<\/li>\n<li>Height is one of the most overrated virtues<\/li>\n<li>using windows is like smoking, people know its bad for them, but they still do it cause they are addicted<\/li>\n<li>digesting the time warner news, tremendous coverage in the States<\/li>\n<li>Waking up to the cries of my baby son I enjoy the congratulatory messages<\/li>\n<li>Truth is a moving target<\/li>\n<li>Google rank should be language based<\/li>\n<li>sugar and milk, if u stir well you end up with dulce de leche, if you don&#8217;t with curd milk<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t care about what most people do. I do care about what a few people think.<\/li>\n<li>As u roam the world: what does your footprint look like?<\/li>\n<li>Does the instinct to kill have anything to do with eliminating competitors?<\/li>\n<li>My iPod is designed by Americans, buit by Asians and populated by Africans<\/li>\n<li>In Hollywood movies bad guys were first German, then Russians, then Arabs, lately&#8230;.Americans<\/li>\n<li>Guns don&#8217;t kill people. People kill people. But people with guns kill more people.<\/li>\n<li>If u make Ducatis, should u feel remorse for all the people who die riding them?<\/li>\n<li>If speeding is dealt with fines so should illegal downloads.<\/li>\n<li>Is evolution about species or about DNA itself building a diversified survival portfolio?<\/li>\n<li>Can u be both very smart and very poor in America?<\/li>\n<li>Are keyboards so bad to give us a chance to think about what we write?<\/li>\n<li>Sorry twitter but I am still not telling u what I am doing right now.<\/li>\n<li>Can u do a newspaper for the chinese that is in english?<\/li>\n<li>considering how islamic Saudi Arabia already is it is remarkable that the people who fight that regime are those who want it more so<\/li>\n<li>Its unfortunate Koreans, Chinese and Japanese dislike each other when there&#8217;s so much they can do jointly.<\/li>\n<li>I am a green, but i am in favor of prudent use of Nuclear Energy and GM food<\/li>\n<li>While the world changes aircraft dont<\/li>\n<li>School is a poor model for real life<\/li>\n<li>If u think of air as a fluid flying becomes sailing<\/li>\n<li>is the richest country the one with the richest people or the one with the richest poor people?<\/li>\n<li>politics is a winner takes all game, that&#8217;s why politicians trash each other even more than competing businesses<\/li>\n<li>I allow my kids to bring their boyfriends\/girlfriends to sleepover at home after a one year relationship, in USA I could be sued I was told<\/li>\n<li>In Spain the law works so slowly that people are forced to get along<\/li>\n<li>in the 70s maoist terrorists killed in Europe, now they are simply outdated, hope the same happens to islamic terrorists in a decade<\/li>\n<li>music is a collection of sounds that somehow make sense<\/li>\n<li>Israelis are realizing that the Lebanon invasion made Hezbollah more powerful<\/li>\n<li>babies show that falling asleep must be a very scary experience for the uninitiated<\/li>\n<li>Is having children a humanitarian act?<\/li>\n<li>I have loved hip hop since RunDMC in the 80s. Almost nobody else I know does.<\/li>\n<li>sarko and sego&#8217;s debate looks like a matrimonial dispute<\/li>\n<li>a single engine turboprop that i used to own fell in the Mediterranean yesterday<\/li>\n<li>craig&#8217;s list is like the bad looking guy who gets all the cute girls<\/li>\n<li>Nazis killed 3 times as many Russians as they killed Jews. Why are there so many Russian Neonazis?<\/li>\n<li>The toughest job that immigrants are doing in Europe is having and raising children.<\/li>\n<li>gtalk is not a download anymore, that makes it so much easier to use!<\/li>\n<li>we hear about gold diggers, we hear less about beauty diggers<\/li>\n<li>Why are women more religious than men?<\/li>\n<li>Men make most rules but women tend to follow them better<\/li>\n<li>www.fotolog.com one pix per day diet leads to more page views than flickr all u can eat<\/li>\n<li>why can&#8217;t France get the heart of sego with the brains of sarko?<\/li>\n<li>everyone in Europe likes the welfare state, but the French are addicted to it<\/li>\n<li>the 35 hour French assumes that work is punishment, i favor freedom for all, workaholics and workphobics to work as they negotiate<\/li>\n<li>European garage designers are in cohoots with body shop owners<\/li>\n<li>my father used to argue that the 7 day week in which we all work 5 days and rest 2 does not make sense, he proposed shifts and a 6 day week<\/li>\n<li>at least on twitter I am a follower of Barack Obama<\/li>\n<li>beaurocrats exist thanks to unnecesary laws and regulations<\/li>\n<li>on the earth we move until we run out of energy, in space we move until we encounter energy<\/li>\n<li>Wish Turkey was the role model in the Muslim World as far as separation of mosque and state<\/li>\n<li>Curse: to only be happy til u find someone else who is happier<\/li>\n<li>In Europe people rarely talk to strangers and ask them where they r from.<\/li>\n<li>In the last decades capitalism clearly won. But democracy?<\/li>\n<li>we have the social router, the fonera, should we launch the fatera a social scale for collaborative weight loss?<\/li>\n<li>the Chinese r only one political party away from American style democracy<\/li>\n<li>God&#8217;s probably an Atheist cause he does not believe in a superior being who created him<\/li>\n<li>Good funk doesn&#8217;t die, it&#8217;s remixed.<\/li>\n<li>the American election will be a gender, race and generational contest<\/li>\n<li>Blair and Bush made the same mistake in Iraq, but for different reasons.<\/li>\n<li>Best measure of national food success is that which foreigners like the most.<\/li>\n<li>In Spain it&#8217;s blind people who sell lottery tickets. A lesson on trust.<\/li>\n<li>Many people I know are migrating to Mac or Ubuntu. I have yet to find one person who loves Vista.<\/li>\n<li>USA alternates left and right in decades, Reagan, Clinton, Bush and now?<\/li>\n<li>Are Netlog and Meetic the two largest communities in Europe?<\/li>\n<li>sms is the technology that has been pronounced dead most often, and Americans are just discovering it&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>In Spain birth rates collapsed in the 90s, the country had to import 8% of it population in the last 7 years<\/li>\n<li>Spain has the most proislamic press that I have seen in Europe.<\/li>\n<li>The best diet is to eat whatever u normally eat, but less. I don&#8217;t believe in eating weird stuff.<\/li>\n<li>In England high school ends at 16, college goes from 16 to 18 and university starts at 18.<\/li>\n<li>USA&#8217;s fights illegal immigration at the border, Europe in the streets.<\/li>\n<li>It would be arrogant of us to believe that only on earth there&#8217;s life<\/li>\n<li>sometimes my body seems to have a mind of its own<\/li>\n<li>Europe is 46% of Google&#8217;s profits. Where is Europe&#8217;s Google?<\/li>\n<li>Eric Schmidt says Google has the LAX theory of corporate culture&#8230;if u r stuck at LAX for 6hrs with the candidate&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Why is it that most oil in the world is own by non democrats? Coincidence or does oil allow rulers disregard the views of others?<\/li>\n<li>the second tear most successful web communities like bebo, netlog, fotolog or twitter have a real hard time making more than $500K per month<\/li>\n<li>www.jamba.de spends 70 million euros in TV advertising, and it&#8217;s profitable<\/li>\n<li>ad based companies reach a ceiling that is only pierced when they get into the virtual property business a la facebook gifts<\/li>\n<li>the bubble test: when only vcs and not crowds fall in love with your idea<\/li>\n<li>Countries don&#8217;t attack countries in which they have invested a lot of money, unless they are about to lose it&#8230;.<\/li>\n<li>twitter without IM is not fun as I twit from my blackberry using jabber, fix this please!!<\/li>\n<li>Most of the people who speak Spanish are poor.<\/li>\n<li>Best cities to visit: NYC, Tokyo, Berlin, BA, Barcelona, Rome, Paris, San Fran.<\/li>\n<li>the different between a first wife and a second wife is that with the first u lost all arguments, with the second&#8230;most<\/li>\n<li>Berlin is by far the most interesting city in Germany<\/li>\n<li>Israel was built on the premise that Jews needed a safe home. Now the least safe place for Jews is Israel.<\/li>\n<li>The best incentive that we could offer Russia to reform is membership in the EU<\/li>\n<li>Why do ethnic groups who frequently murder each other stop doing so the moment they immigrate to USA?<\/li>\n<li>Yasmina Khadra says that the 2 choices of islamic youth r to emigrate or become terrorist.<\/li>\n<li>Paradox: The place in which Palestinian&#8217;s live best is Israel. The place in which they are worse off is Lebanon.<\/li>\n<li>skype is better than google talk but google talk keeps showing up everywhere, on twitter, blackberry, gmail&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>The most educated countries are those with the lowest police to crime ratios.<\/li>\n<li>The richest countries are those with the richest poor people.<\/li>\n<li>To what extent are new generations taller because of widespread availability of C Sections?<\/li>\n<li>genetics is getting to the point in which while we cannot know our genetic future knowing our genome we can now do a genetic &#8220;horoscope&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Argentina has a huge trade surplus with China because China is the first industrialized country that does not subsidize its own food<\/li>\n<li>Is China the rising tide that lifts all boats?<\/li>\n<li>Only robots and communities yield extraordinary profits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1073\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t twit in the traditional sense of the term (internet tradition is measured in months not years). 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