📡 Twitter after Jack

Pulse #155 — whether or not to give a f*ck

Hello you!

I wasn’t sure if I’d make it this week, but I did… I like keeping streaks — unless it’s on Snapchat!

Now, since I’m here, let’s jump straight in.

— Behrouz

something to listen to while reading → Le Marais by Leon Noel.

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In Today’s Issue

• This Week in the News

• Article: Twitter — new CEO, new business model?

• Podcast: Financial bubbles

• Tweet: fuckworthy

• Tool: Bitwarden

• And a gift for you.

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This Week in the News

• Crypto exchange BitMart says it suffered a hack resulting in the loss of $150M in crypto, after its Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain hot wallets were breached [link]

• Google is investigating a report that a Pixel 5a, sent to an official repair center in Texas, was used to bypass 2FA on a number of owner's accounts [link]

• Apple sues Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service challenging the order to allow developers to inform App Store users about the alternative payment options [link]

• Spotify removed the work of hundreds of comedians, including John Mulaney and Kevin Hart, amid a fight with royalty administration agency Spoken Giants [link]

• Nvidia’s Arm problem, Didi’s delisting, and an NFT [link]

• The new BLOCK on the block, Crypto ads on Meta, and Tesla’s latest product [link]

• GS+AWS, Oculus, and Cyberwhistles [link]

• Meta’s Giphy problem, FIFA’s battle against offsides, and Cyber Monday sucked [link]

• Bye Bye Dorsey! [link]

if you’re not on telegram, now you can read the daily news on our website.

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One Article

Twitter Has a New CEO; What About a New Business Model?

Credit: Edgar Moran on Unsplash

By now you probably have heard about Twitter’s founder, Jack Dorsey, stepping down as the platform’s CEO. He was one of the last [big] tech founder/CEOs still in charge of their companies, beside Mark Zuckerberg. A lot has happened around Dorsey’s companies since his resignation from Twitter — rebranding Square to Block was one of them.

But the main question remains: will Twitter be able to improve its business and business model?

Ben Thompson writes about this in this post…

read more on Stratechery.

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One Podcast

Bubbles, Bikes & Biases

From a single stock to the entire stock market, Dutch tulips to American houses, Beanie Babies to crypto currency, a bubble can form around pretty much anything that can be bought and sold.

It can be hard to spot a bubble from the inside, and devastating to be caught up in one.

This episode of NPR’s Planet Money talks about financial bubbles. It’s a super interesting episode.

listen to it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or Google Podcasts.

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One Tweet

fuckworthy

Mark Manson@IAmMarkManson

Maturity is what happens when one learns to only give a fuck about what's truly fuckworthy.

4:51 PM · Nov 30, 2021

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438 Reposts · 2.97K Likes

but what is truly fuckworthy in your life? other than health, mood (happiness), and how you invest or what you pay attention to?

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One Tool

Bitwarden

an open-source password manager available on pretty much all platforms… it does offer free and premium plans, but its free version is really good and feature-packed.

download Bitwarden

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🐶 One gift for you.

who’s the passenger?

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And that’s all for the Pulse 155. Stay curious. I’m not joking.

See you next week!