Alex McCauley
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Founder/CEO at Brightfox Education, building the world's best afterschool education experience. Former early TWTR, GOOG, education industry.
NYC
Joined February 2009
RT @EricFinnigan: For the first time in the US, more babies are now born to moms 40–44 than 15–19. This marks 2 historical shifts for the….
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When exactly does SF become the next Detroit?.
The @zumper May rent report is in! 📝. Here's a big story -. 🌉SF is back, and back big. The AI boom is real. SF is ⬆️11.9% annually, the highest annual rent growth rate in the top 10 markets. 🗽NYC remains the most expensive, ⬆️10.0% annually, up to $4,620 median for a 1BR
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RT @GoogleWorkspace: Live speech translation in Google Meet is here. Speak naturally—your words are translated in near real time while pres….
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Great advice from @nkatragadda and co on raising the first round.
We can't wait to meet the next generation of NYC founders. Apply now:
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Seeing haters of the ultra thin iPhone Air, but anyone who carries their phone in their pants pocket - almost all men and many women - will be interested. Having to take it out when sitting is especially annoying. iPhone Air + perm Low Battery Mode to offset smaller battery 😍.
1/6 Images of the rumoured iPhone 17 series are making the rounds, and the so-called iPhone 17 Air is the most interesting one. It’s incredibly slim, as thin as the side buttons. Question most folks are asking is, Did we ask for a thinner phone?
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A monthly subscription to a sports gambling site to get better odds is a smart business move but a dark turn for society. Gambling already ruins many lives. The ability to do it from your phone 24/7, and now this likely “Amazon Prime effect” technique, will ruin many more.
Very late here, but some thoughts on DraftKings "Buy Better Parlay Odds" via a $20/month subscription (link to story in replies):. 1. Parlay payouts are a black box. Not regulated at all. DK could give you a "boost" of 10% on your payout while simultaneously reducing the base.
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I asked ChatGPT for my total lifetime chance of getting these cancers in absolute terms if I never drank, versus moderately drank. Non-drinkers: 7.5%.Moderate drinkers: 9.2%.
NEW: Today, I’m releasing a Surgeon General’s Advisory on the causal link between alcohol consumption and increased cancer risk. Alcohol is the 3rd leading preventable cause of cancer in the U.S., contributing to about 100,000 cancer cases and 20,000 cancer deaths each year.
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Yep, investing in alcohol is catching a falling knife. There’s enough data and content out there reminding you that it’s bad, that health conscious people cannot ignore anymore. Sleep tracking confirms this. Also support groups online to help you quit. Weed a legal alternative.
What we’ve all noticed anecdotally, now with data. Alcohol consumption in San Francisco has fallen off a cliff; particularly red wine.
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Investing in alcohol is like catching a falling knife right now. People don’t drink like they used to, esp those under ~35. My guess is that remote work foot traffic loss, a weird part of DTO Oakland, and a decline in liquor drinking is the majority of the problem here….
Sad: The Kon Tiki Bar in downtown Oakland is closing. Read the sad reality of running a small business in Oakland.
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I made ChatGPT my default search when typing into the Chrome top bar, replacing Google as my default search engine. It's superior ~8/10 times, with the exception being stuff like the Google Maps integration. I am asking it way more questions than I would Google. Give it a try!.
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People would buy a super slim TV from Apple that looks like artwork when off, tightly integrates w/ your iPhone to stream photos or videos, has an advanced Facetime feature, etc. Won't be a high margin item but it would sell well.
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Large French ski resort to close as snow shortage leaves it struggling to build a future. “40% of ski resorts in the French Alps now rely on artificially made snow to stay open. In Italy it’s 90% and up to 80% in Austria.”.
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Going to community college and then transferring to a UC (guaranteed admission if you have a certain GPA) is a no-brainer strategy…I was shocked when I first learned about it, given how hard kids work for freshman admittance.
I just learned that the national merit finalist from our Irvine high school who was rejected from all 6 UC campuses to which he applied, and went to community college for a year, was accepted as a transfer student this fall to @minilek ‘s @UCBerkeley computer science dept. 😊.
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This is progress. Next up: build 5-15 stories of housing above each store….
The phenomenon of outdoor outlets always being designed as fake walkable European town centers, surrounded by the most suburban, car-dependent land use imaginable, is always so ironic to me.
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The four day work week is definitely gaining steam.
Dutch software company AFAS introduces a (mandatory) 4-day workweek:.- all Fridays the head office will close.- aimed to provide more of a scarce item, time.- aimed at providing time for self-development, voluntary work, informal care, etc. - employees will be paid and build a.
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It seems like state tax variability is talked about way more than it should be. When you look holistically, not cherry-picking certain types of tax (hello income tax for 1%ers in California), we’re talking a couple of percentage points. Cost of housing is another story.
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