I feel like this every year highlights the difference between “the data” and “the story” better than any other example I can think of.

For the past four years it’s been my job - nay, my PLEASURE - to be the tweeter behind the @OKWildlifeDept account. This is my final post. It’s been my absolute honor to roast and ratio some of you into the ground in the name of science. Let’s take a trip down memory lane: 🧵

it was such a weird thing as a kid that everyone kept calling me a “computer genius” bc i knew how to…read what it says on the screen. what was up with that.

Maybe everybody already knows this but if you use Excel, you Control-Shift-V might be the greatest shortcut ever. It pastes just the values, no formatting, as plain text including flattens formulas into their result. It's saved me SOOOO much grief. That is all.

Whenever I see an interface that looks like it’s been around a while, I wonder what the story is. Here’s one :) Now on to wondering how long it’s been since the Outlook rules editing screen has been touched…

TIL: Stripe deploys changes to it's core API services 400 times per day 🤯

That’s it, I’ve found it. My favourite tweet of all time.

Yes to this. Of all the punctuation rules I learned, this one made the absolute least sense and I don’t even know what’s second place. I’ll fight if you’ll fight.

I love the troubleshooting process here - digging and dividing and then no giving up on something that just feels wrong.

This is me. Many thanks to everyone who has sent lovely messages and comments in the past couple of weeks in response to this video. Very happy that my first ever viral video is a positive message about love and kindness, which is way more important to me than fitness ❤️

Lesson here - when you’re trapped in a remote location with somebody, just keep spoilers to yourself.

Does anybody that sees this have a blue sky code that they can spare? Feeling about done here.

5 Reasons Why You Should Participate in the Microsoft Excel World Championship! 🏆 Now you really don't have any excuses to not participate anymore! Get your ticket while it's not too late! Sign-up closes on October 6: https://t.co/Mi8G1sEZLy

I can’t recommend the @heavyweight podcast enough - I’ve loved @J_Goldstein since #Witetap days, and the show takes dry humor, awkward phone calls, ridiculous what-if rabbit holes, and mixes in incredible storytelling and deep emotion into an absolute masterpiece. Every episode.

read this. DO NOT look up anything about it. just read it. it's only like 1,200 words u can download it on instapaper and it'll read it to you in two minutes. do it right now i'm very extremely serious.

This is so timely - my daughter’s (15) book club decided each person would pick an “epistolary” story for the summer and when she told me I immediately said “I KNOW ONE I KNOW ONE”. I loved this book and had forgotten just how much - it’s modern poetry and also great sci-fi :)

I was absolutely floored by this book - all the ways that male-default thinking impacts our design and our safety. Things that were totally transparent to me an an average-sized male since the world was built for me by default, but now so obvious everywhere. We need to do better!

The plight of the Kens in this thread is amazing - I cannot stop laughing at some of the stories, and I think my daughter gathered her Barbies around a trash can and they ritually sacrificed Ken on the regular. Also, the Barbie movie is going to be amazing.

NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got. My column: https://t.co/dBIhT9eZLv And some utterly damning charts. 1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.

This is what clenched it for me when I chose my current employer - 20 weeks of paid leave for both parents and birth or adoption. We’re done having kids and it’s a benefit I’ll never personally use, but for me it showed that they get that your job isn’t your life.