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Yes this is like saying a Formula 1 car doesn't need a pit crew because it's faster than a Honda Civic. The opposite is true: high performance requires operating at the absolute li…

What stands out to me in your recounting is: the duration between change and full impact keeps getting smaller. Broad strokes: Consciousness -> 100,000 years Civilization -> 10,000…

This is really cool. I work in the plant industry, and most people don't know this but huge numbers of the plants bought in the U.S. are grown from tissue culture. I would guess it…

Advertising makes up only 9% of Duolingo's revenue and is also usually a small part of the revenue of most mobile games. Mobile games rely on "whales" (people who pay a lot , like …

You could use Greg [0] to learn how to grow plants. Disclosure: I'm one of the co-creators :). There's also a thriving community [1] that has become honestly surprisingly healthy/s…

Greg | Senior Software Engineers (Backend, Android, iOS, Web, Data Science) | Remote | Full-time Greg ( https://greg.app/ ) is a plant app for people who find plant care mysterious…

"a cool database where you can filter by those factors" => this is one of the inspirations for Greg, the plant care community I've been helping to build after leaving Tinder. Think…