"children are the living messages we send to a to a time we will not see." Neil Postman - The Disappearance of Childhood

"American culture is hostile to the idea of childhood." Neil Postman, New York City, 1994.

🇪🇸 Spain 0-0 vs Cape Verde 4-0 vs Saudi Arabia 1-0 vs Uruguay 3-0 vs Austria 1-0 vs Portugal 2-1 vs Belgium (the only match where they conceded) 2-0 vs France

If 🇦🇷 Argentina is so good, why do they always have to "come back"?

Japan Côte d'Ivoire Cabo Verde Egypt Morocco

If you love craft beer and visit Kyoto, don't skip these places medium.com/@bog-dan/the...

I put the memento mori in memento amori.

A new book by @helenpearson.bsky.social — BEYOND BELIEF— takes us through an 8-decade progression for what is the now considered best medical evidence. Our conversation gets into some incredible historical examples, such as sudden infant death syndrome. erictopol.substack.com/p/what-const...

40 Product Podcasts for Product People bog-dan.medium.com/40-product-p...

A short blog post after the Startup Grind Global conference. startup-iq.com/the-startup-...

We came to the Startup Grind Conference to think outside of the box.

Startup IQ ready to listen to the most pressing questions from founders and investors at Startup Grind 2026.

Rabbit Rabbit! Happy first day of March everyone (is it really March already?)! Spring is coming soon, warmer days ahead. Looking forward to new growth this spring! #SmallFarmLife 🐇

The vibe coders dilemma

Jack Nolan at the RIoT State of the Region 2026 event riot.org/event/state-... where a new joint venture between NC IDEA and WRC was announced to expand support for entrepreneurs in North Carolina.

"naming what's happening isn't complaining, it's risk management. ecosystem transformation takes 20 years, technology translation takes 10-15, and yet we're measuring success on 1-3 year grant cycles! The math doesn't work." ecosystem-edge.kit.com/posts/the-ma...

Enter with your 2-minute pitch to win a $1,000,000 investment for your startup. www.deel.com/the-pitch-by...

Great Seed The South event (the official pre-Summit kickoff) by Innovate Charlotte tonight at The Line.

"A 1 percent increase in the number of entrepreneurs at the county level, for instance, corresponds with a 2 percent gain in household income. [...] every 1 percent increase in entrepreneurial activity in a state correlates with a 2 percent decline in poverty."

wow! A couple of surprises here for me, and I know a few people in my network who are going to be deeply disappointed. time.com/7358185/top-...

"It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know." - Henry David Thoreau

An absolute Polish gem from writer + director Aga Woszczynska. Psychologically nuanced and beautifully shot. Cannot wait to see her other work. Jean-Marc Barr (The Big Blue, 1988) makes a surprising appearance (I didn't recognized him). www.imdb.com/title/tt1521...

"People live by love: love of yourself is the beginning of death; love of other people and of God is the beginning of life." - Lev Tolstoy

“The only thing an old man can tell a young man is that it goes fast, real fast, and if you’re not careful it’s too late. Of course, the young man will never understand this truth.” — Norm Macdonald

Who's in the control group for this experiment?

oh shit tomorrow is circle back day already

Stack Overflow’s monthly question volume peaked during the height of the COVID pandemic and has been in decline ever since. The steepest decline happening after ChatGPT launched in late 2022. This was once a key part of every developer’s toolbox and the site is now effectively dead. End of an era.

There’s a “mirror neurons” joke in here somewhere

Tempted to make my goal for 2026 to be like “white people be like” but its all just Slavic memes

Werner Herzog's feature films are just documentaries of his imagination.

To the bsky hivemind: what do you think? Have you seen this? If yes, how did you deal with it?

This is extremely important

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

What a terrible time to be a good person

Real Estate: Look Who You’ve Become

We've seen some remarkable outcomes in people with advanced, refractory cancers, including pancreatic, melanoma, and renal, with personalized neoantigen mRNA vaccines. But this work is now endangered. www.scientificamerican.com/article/pers...

Everything so stupid but I have faith it can get stupider

Once ur basic needs are met how does anyone find the motivation to want anything other than a regulated nervous system?

I told my kids to get into Technology.

Same here. I’ve never even seen a group of friends.

dude whaaaaaaaaaaat

Daughter setting up improv event called ‘Do the damn thing’

8yo got a packet of sunflower seeds in her trick or treat bag, probably the best treat anyone got! 🌱🌻

Ominous Halloween Zoom update

Startup IQ is going to the New York State Innovation Summit, hosted by FuzeHub and supported by NYSTAR. Register here nysinnovationsummit.com/register/

Mini-team meeting with the blessing of the Greek Gods. They gave us gyros and baklava. #RVA #Boston

From a new @thelancet.com article today entitled "Health care in the USA: money has become the mission" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

A bunch of unlovable cars in the receiving lot, just waiting to be matched with their unlovable men.

The post war system was built on the specific experience of how systems failed humans. Niceness was never the issue. Being human was.

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you