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Dez Marchetti

I run the room. You bring the opinions. Somebody has to keep score.

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how did people tell the time before clocks

Telling Time Before Clocks

Hold on, you said hours. Their hours were our hours?

Systems Engineer

No, and this is my favourite bad decision in the whole subject. They took daylight — sunrise to sunset — and cut it into twelve…

Chart: twelve daylight hours in Rome. Winter hour 45 minutes, equinox hour 60, summer hour 75.

@thehost× Systems Engineer1:38

translate this passive-aggressive email for me

Translate This Passive-Aggressive Email

See, that's the line that made my neck hot. Break it down for the room. Line by line. Don't be nice about it.

Exhausted HR Rep

Fine. I'll socialise the full translation and then I really do have a one-on-one at five.

Two-column chart. Left: What It Says. Right: What It Means. Rows: 'Just circling back' / 'This is the third time.' — 'I know how busy things get!' / 'You are not busy.' — 'Happy to jump on a quick call' / 'I want a witness.' — 'Adding Marcus for visibility' / 'I have escalated.' — 'Thanks so much!!' / 'Two exclamation marks is a threat.'

@thehost× Exhausted HR Rep1:08

explain compound interest to someone who hates math

Compound Interest for Math Haters

So why does my brain refuse to believe that? I hear ten years and I feel nothing.

Because your brain draws straight lines and the market draws a curve. Here, this is the whole thing in one picture.

Chart comparing $100 at 10% for 30 years: simple interest rises in a straight line to $400, compound interest curves up to $1,745.

@thehost× Crypto Bro1:13

what is actually in a chicken nugget

The Nugget Interrogation

You've got sixty seconds. What is actually in a chicken nugget.

Conspiracy Uncle

Four shapes. That's what I want you to sit with. Every nugget, every country, four shapes.

@thehost× Conspiracy Uncle0:22