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Joined June 2009
Hi all, I wrote an article about lessons learned raising capital from angels and VC's for @ZenLedgerIO Would love to hear your questions and ideas medium.com/@PatrickLarsen/wh… Thanks @MSCasady @nic_carter @bendavenport @mikojava @datarade @chrisamccoy @patrissimo @DHannum8
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I finally have all 1.2 million raw image files from my latest mission to ISS! Here is a sample of one of my favorite Milky Way photos, taken from the Cupola with Nikon Z9, Arri Zeiss 15mm lens, T1.8 with custom sidereal drive that cancelled out star motion relative to our orbit.
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Folarin Balogun on why he shook the ref's hand postgame after he was given a red card. (via Tom Bogert, Paul Tenorio and Henry Bushnell)
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Short read: My biggest takeaway from this year's Carolina Hurricanes.
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In a corner of parliament at the far end of the Royal gallery a box lies permantly open containing sand from all five Normandy beaches -a reminder to both houses of the sacrifice & the cause of freedom fought for by brave service people on DDay June 6 th 1944. #DDay
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Japanese high school teacher Hirotaka Hamasaki draws amazing blackboard art for his students, then erases it to show the beauty of letting go.
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This is probably one of the better animations I have found that illustrate clearly, the mission path of Artemis II. You can see the precision planning needed for a spacecraft to rendezvous with the moon.
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In celebrating the Artemis II mission launch, it's interesting to note the last mission to the moon, Apollo 17, was Dec 1972. So the people most heavily involved were born from 1910-1940 or so.
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Governor Shapiro is doing a wonderful thing. Giving kids longer recess is so important, and so few leaders are talking about it. Combined with phone free schools, PA students will be more engaged in school than they were before. Bravo @GovernorShapiro
The best thing we can do for our kids right now is to just let them be kids. Kids are getting cell phones sooner than any generation before them, screen times are up while real human connection is down, and foundational skills aren’t being taught enough these days. We need to take a step back. It’s why I just signed a bipartisan bill into law, requiring cursive handwriting to once again be taught in PA public schools. It’s also why I’ve called on the legislature to pass a bill requiring schools to both implement a bell-to-bell cell phone ban and guarantee recess for every Pennsylvania student.  Let’s continue our work to set young people on a path to success — and let our kids be kids.
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Joshua Paul (fit_4_football on Instagram) uploaded this a few days back. That’s a fantastic life lesson to teach the young kids he’s coaching.
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What happened at the World Juniors? How did Sweden succeed vs. Czechia in the final & how did Canada fail in the semis? Here's what I saw when reviewing the video. (Warning - long thread with tons of clips)
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Youth sports stories often highlight the worst aspects of the culture. Here’s the opposite. While waiting an extra few minutes for the Zamboni to finish, Junior Kraken Girls were dancing when their opponent (Spokane boys team) joined in. Youth sports can/should be fun!
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Tax season just got easier on Sui 📣 @ZenLedgerIO now supports Sui, giving users and enterprises automated tax reports, accounting, and audit ready workflows across 300+ exchanges and 40+ chains. Read the blog 👇 blog.sui.io/zenledger-crypto…
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I didn’t start doing physics until I was 33 and now I work on a cutting edge research project at one of the top labs in the world. You can just do things
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6-12 months from now, the big story in crypto is going to be credit and borrowing. It will explosively grow over the next few years. Two vectors: 1. There’s nearly $4 trillion dollars of crypto and growing: when people can borrow against this crypto, rather than sell, they will. 2. There’s over $60 trillion in public equities alone in the US. As assets tokenize, someone with $7,000 of a stock will be able to borrow against that for the first time, Onchain. Crypto is going to reshape capital markets. It’s just getting started.
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Seems like a good time for an update on a graph from my 2015 post on AI.
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Bitcoin at $94k, yet — Google searches for "Bitcoin" near long term lows. This hasn't been retail driven. Institutions, advisors, corporates, and nations have come into the space. The types of investors buying Bitcoin is expanding.
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This is the SNL NHL skit we all need @usahockey @nbcsnl
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