Awesome & wholesome: Slashdotters were dunking on @stevewoz for selling his Apple stock… then he showed up in the comments with the most grounded reply. Gave away his Apple wealth, funds museums, pays his taxes, and measures life by joy: “Happiness is Smiles minus Frowns.”

I've got ~$20k of medical bills for rabies shots insurance is not covering most of it. going to use chat GPT to help me navigate. let's see how this goes! 💪 (un)fun facts: - rabies is 100% fatal once symptoms present. one of our kids was bitten by a bat and best guess is a 5-10% chance that bat had rabies. - there are ~60k rabies vaccines administered per year in US. the vaccine is very effective but needs 4 rounds. about 10 ppl die from rabies per year (50% have no idea they were ever exposed b/c bat bites can be imperceptible).

Europe’s Tiny Balls 🔵🟢 One of the striking revelations in the Draghi Report on European non-competitiveness is number of $100B European companies forming in the past 50 years — zero. MIT’s McAfee took the analysis a step further, lowering the threshold to $10B. Spotify is the biggest new company to come out of Europe in the past 50 years. Bubble size is public company market cap. Blue balls are non-tech companies. (And yes, Elon has morphed Tesla from blue to green IMHO, so the big balls are truly greener in America) Overall, the U.S. is 70x the EU. One contributing factor to European constriction: the squeeze of over-tight regulations. As Draghi says on p.2 of the report, “innovative companies that want to scale up in Europe are hindered at every stage by inconsistent and restrictive regulations.”

NEW: Is the internet changing our personalities for the worse? Conscientiousness and extroversion are down, neuroticism up, with young adults leading the charge. This is a really consequential shift, and there’s a lot going on here, so let’s get into the weeds 🧵