Joe Gebbia
@jgebbia
Excited to share I’m bringing my designer brain and start-up spirit into the government. My first project at DOGE is improving the slow and paper-based retirement process. Since leaving my operating role at Airbnb in 2022, I’ve been looking for the next digital design challenge.…
The retirement process for every federal employee involves a paper application, filing cabinets, and a mainframe in a mine. Until today. See the story behind the first digital retirement:
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One thing America got right are the lodges of the National Parks system
What’s in the water
Colombia has had one of the fastest fertility drops in the world, from 2.57 births/woman in 2000 all the way down to 1.2 in 2024. How can it be that Colombia, with a GDP of 7K per year, has a fertility so much lower than the US? And why is this happening across Latin America? 🧵
This is crazy h/t @ssankar
Yes, according to WHO data (2000-2019 average), over 175,000 people in the broader European Region die annually from heat-related causes—more than the ~47,000 U.S. gun deaths in 2023 (CDC). Lack of AC in Europe contributes significantly, as U.S. adoption (~90%) correlates with…
Just wear @NADS_under and save your 🏀🏀 from low fertility rates
Did you expose your balls to microplastics today?
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I'm not sure why drink water brands aren't advertising their % or miligrams of microplastics on their labels yet Seems like it should be a requirement in 2025
HUGE WIN: The decline of Christianity in America has halted for the first time in decades Glory be to God. 🙏
What’s up with higher ed and health care sharing similar trends
One of the many problems of the modern health care system. What are some of the others?
A big shocker since working in Gov: Most agencies don’t know how many people work there, or even have org charts. It’s not only State Dept. And good luck trying to tally up how many contractors are employed. No one would ever run a company this way.
🚨BREAKING: State Department officials admit they didn’t know how many employees worked there. It took 3 months just to get a headcount. Now 3,000 bureaucrats are gone. Here’s how Marco Rubio is gutting the Deep State—and why it's important. 🧵
Legit question - where are the women and children?
French officials in Calais have said they’ve been struggling with the amounts of undocumented men arriving to get into the UK under the 1 in 1 out scheme.
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“I was in charge of Chernobyl. Here’s how to operate a nuclear power plant.”
The next generation is primed for a permanent CONSERVATIVE political realignment — the most dramatic realignment we've seen since Woodstock. But it's not guaranteed. We have to address the honest economic anxieties of our youngest voters. We need to ensure they become a…
If this is what I think it is 🔥
Just left the @Tesla design studio. Most epic demo ever by end of year. Ever.
