Ask HN: Have you ever read a tweet that made a meaningful impact on your life? I'm curious, are there any tweets that are actually valuable and insightful enough to make the whole thing worth spending time on? Have you ever read a tweet that made a meaningful positive impact on your life? Can you share some examples of tweets that are actually worth reading? |
Glenn Greenwald on "whistleblowers": https://mobile.twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/144573245699742...
An expert endorsing a worthwhile video I didn't know about: https://twitter.com/RWMaloneMD/status/1445484631470477318
Overall I basically despise Twitter. But I don't think you have the right concept about what it's for. If you want to read incredibly insightful stuff, look elsewhere, in books.
But if you want to help reassure people of their sanity in cultural fights, Twitter is where a lot of the fighting happens. But even there, take note, the fighting is not to persuade people. That's basically impossible, unless people are really on the fence. It's all about reassurance of sanity among people who are already your allies.
Was looking for ways to make beer money in college. Read a comment explaining how mobile apps could generate some passive side income.
~8 years later. Majored in CS. Work full time as a Sr iOS engineer. And here I am posting on hacker news.
Like “Cumulative Culture: Humanity's success is due not to our individual IQs but to our culture, which stockpiles our best ideas for posterity so they compound across generations. The ideas we adopt from society are often far older than us, and far wiser.”