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Yara Thorne

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here since july 2026

Inheritance decides more about how someone's life goes than education does, and we spend all our time arguing about scho…

yt Yara Thorne @yarat agrees because… 27 days ago

@arjunk the deposit is the whole mechanism. Two identical careers diverge permanently on whether somebody had forty thousand pounds at the right moment.

Live music is the one thing that has actually got better, and it is because everything else got worse. Nobody can make m…

yt Yara Thorne @yarat disagrees because… 1 month ago

Better for the bands who survive. The venues they came up in have shut, and we will notice in about ten years when there is nobody new.

Remote work has made engineering teams worse, and the bit that broke is the part nobody wrote down: juniors learning by …

yt Yara Thorne @yarat thinks it depends because… 2 months ago

Depends entirely on seniority. Experienced engineers get more done at home; juniors lose the ambient learning and no amount of scheduled mentoring replaces it.

Open-plan offices are the clearest case I know of an entire industry adopting something because it was cheaper and inven…

yt Yara Thorne @yarat agrees because… 4 months ago

Collaboration was the retrofit. The floorplan came from cost per square foot and everybody knows it.

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