Kurt Thams
@thams.com
FinTech founder, Glider Pilot. Building social media that is… social! Retired CTO of http://PayNearMe.com. Economics enthusiast. Meteorology geek.
If you have suffered that indignity, but want to take a second whack, I can’t recommend this book enough.
It’s particularly relevant as some national leaders work to undo things that have kept the world largely at peace, and profoundly growing, over the last 70 years.
/6 (fin)
It’s particularly relevant as some national leaders work to undo things that have kept the world largely at peace, and profoundly growing, over the last 70 years.
/6 (fin)
March 9, 2025 at 3:41 AM
If you have suffered that indignity, but want to take a second whack, I can’t recommend this book enough.
It’s particularly relevant as some national leaders work to undo things that have kept the world largely at peace, and profoundly growing, over the last 70 years.
/6 (fin)
It’s particularly relevant as some national leaders work to undo things that have kept the world largely at peace, and profoundly growing, over the last 70 years.
/6 (fin)
Most of us have been forced to sit through at least one eye-glazing economics class. It’s a shame because when you grab the subject in context rather than in abstract charts and formulas, it can’t *help* but be fascinating.
/5
/5
March 9, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Most of us have been forced to sit through at least one eye-glazing economics class. It’s a shame because when you grab the subject in context rather than in abstract charts and formulas, it can’t *help* but be fascinating.
/5
/5
The book tells the story of the people who transformed the global monetary system, and did so, and only could do so, because of the horrors of the two world wars. These were machinations of some brilliant minds who wanted to make sure there wasn’t a third.
/3
/3
March 9, 2025 at 3:39 AM
The book tells the story of the people who transformed the global monetary system, and did so, and only could do so, because of the horrors of the two world wars. These were machinations of some brilliant minds who wanted to make sure there wasn’t a third.
/3
/3
It can do that because the stakes to remake the world financial system in the 1940s could not have been higher. The intrigue was real. It involved personal and national jockeying for vast power. Oh, and money money. Lots and lots of money. And spying.
/2
/2
March 9, 2025 at 3:39 AM
It can do that because the stakes to remake the world financial system in the 1940s could not have been higher. The intrigue was real. It involved personal and national jockeying for vast power. Oh, and money money. Lots and lots of money. And spying.
/2
/2
“The guiding spirit of Instagram isn’t Rumi. It’s Hobbes.”
February 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
“The guiding spirit of Instagram isn’t Rumi. It’s Hobbes.”
We may not have the flying cars the Jetsons promised us for this century, but if computing and communication is your jam, the future vastly outpaced the imagination. /4 (fin)
January 5, 2025 at 5:05 AM
We may not have the flying cars the Jetsons promised us for this century, but if computing and communication is your jam, the future vastly outpaced the imagination. /4 (fin)
When my algorithm needs something more, it grabs it from another system, and it appears (back of the envelope as I wait for it) that the new data floods in at a billion something bytes per second. /3
January 5, 2025 at 5:05 AM
When my algorithm needs something more, it grabs it from another system, and it appears (back of the envelope as I wait for it) that the new data floods in at a billion something bytes per second. /3
Yet that system is coughing up processing power for me at 72 trillion calculations per second, working against a data set that is more than a trillion bytes. And I’m not even making it break a sweat. /2
January 5, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Yet that system is coughing up processing power for me at 72 trillion calculations per second, working against a data set that is more than a trillion bytes. And I’m not even making it break a sweat. /2