#Retrospect

1/ If you’re a founder you’ve probably heard someone say “oh, I’ve seen this idea before - it didn’t work” or “isn’t this just like that other thing that person/company
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server: Can I get your name for the order?me: Eh . eh.. .. eh. ..... Eh.... .... Evanserver: Took you a minute there, did you forget your name?me: * on
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FOB Munich • 4/8/18 So I started queuing when it was still dark which was weird as I've never done that before. However the queue was awesome and I had
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Book thread to hold me accountable (and also pat myself on the back for reading lol) Nonfiction read about how data gathering and automation of certain public services works to
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An observation: people outside of the Beltway political establishment who look at the graves in Arlington and wonder if they’d have had the stones to potentially pay the ultimate sacrifice,
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Today is exactly one year since I went to New York so maybe a thread of photos and memories because it'll be on my mind all day/next week. These are
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In retrospect it would have been better for white anti-racists to side with racists in the early 20th century and establish strict racial purity rules for countries. Perhaps we should
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What is the new right and what distinguishes it from the old right? For one thing, we are NOT conservative. Open your eyes, what do you see that you want
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Every time someone asks me what my favorite Juan Luna painting is, I always surprise them when, instead of Spolarium or La Bulaceña or an even more famous painting, I
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There's SO much more important stuff going on, but I said I would follow up on this @wamu885 story, so I will: Inside WAMU’s long struggle to dismiss a suspected
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ok so I’m going to take my own advice and just machine gun tweet about my book until I find a riff that I feel really hits the spot.The book
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You know twitter fanwars can often make you victims of mental harassment. Earlier this year, I suspended my main account when things got too toxic. I’m just tweeting shit to
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Yeh Jawaani Hai DeewaniThe greatest ‘Slice of Life’ film of our generationA film that teaches you to prioritize your ambitions over friendships, but also to retain the relationships you really
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I just. I just don't have time for fandom discourse anymore. I am begging people, on my hands and knees, to realize that there are so many more pressing matters
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The Death Loafers story is gone due to auto-deletion (a small price to pay), but bc of my birthday, I’m going to retell it here.https://twitter.com/matthewfdesmond/status/1301242994620854272 Let me start out by
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John Walker's path to becoming Captain America, from Captain America #333, written by Mark Gruenwald and Tom Morgan. I think this was Gruenwald giving readers the "Captain America for the
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