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The Tweets That Stopped Me Scrolling
Discover the insights worth a double-tap
David Burns
May 22, 2025
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Sometimes, the best way to find inspiration is to step back and soak up the brilliance of others. Here are five tweets that caught our attention this week.
My Favorite Finds This Week
What happens to the $3 trillion car industry when everything becomes self-driving with AI?
1. Maybe car interiors will be designed by Four Seasons and Herman Miller instead of Ford and Honda.
2. Maybe the true premium will be in which AI finds the most spectacular sunrise
— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg)
5:34 PM • May 20, 2025
I remember how the Jetsons made us dream about flying cars. Now, AI is taking this to a whole other level.
70% of second businesses fail after an exit. Anastasia Koroleva studied post exit founders for 13 years and came on Moneywise to explain why.
Her exit:
-Built a bootstrap company to a "nine-digit" exit (over $100M)
-Lost half her net worth through divorce and "stupid mistakes"— Sam Parr (@thesamparr)
2:30 PM • May 20, 2025
The biggest post-exit mistake? Rushing the comeback before the hangover’s over.
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This famous photo, from 1969, of Jerry West, became the basis of the NBA logo
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes)
10:06 PM • May 15, 2025
When your silhouette is more iconic than most players' careers.
I just saved around $5,000 by drafting a legal agreement with Gemini 2.5 Pro, which ranks #1 on LegalBench.
Once the context window is big enough to encompass all of a corporation's historical legal records, cap table, financials, etc (it probably already is), I struggle to see
— Andrew Wilkinson (@awilkinson)
12:50 PM • May 19, 2025
The next legal powerhouse might not be a partner, it might be a prompt.
A Thoguht for the Day -
“It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?”
– Henry David Thoreau
— Mike Hoganson (@OmniaColorado)
6:47 PM • May 16, 2025
Activity is not achievement…this is why setting SMART goals goes such a long way in business.
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