On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
Twitter lists now get descriptions. Yes you created a list and now have it on display. But viewers may need to know more about that list. A simple list with a heading is not enough. You can now state clearly what this list is about and other descriptions you might want to add. If you have a list title maybe techie-bloggers-i-think-are-way-too-geeky. Techie is a key word and many people searching will find your list along with a hoard of other lists matching the word techie. Now you can add a description to say what the list is really about and not bother too much about the title. Brings clarity to the whole list thing. Lists will not begin to get much more professional and maybe an interactive feature to be added to list will make a world of difference. An original post by Sociolatte