Modern Wisdom · 2026-06-01 · 148 min · 28,657 words

Does Tim Ferriss Dream In Japanese? - Rabbit Hole #3 - #1105

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British supremacy in messaging services. We need to try and get everybody to use WhatsApp. This superior messaging system and Americans refuse to use it. Do you not think? We were talking about this earlier as to why Americans don't use WhatsApp more.

One of the theories is that uh America had free SMS before anybody else. So us Brits had to pay. How much wood did it used to be for a text back in the day? 15p, maybe? 15p?

10p, 10p. that would ramp up very fast. But that was why people used to use leap speak, right? That was why you was there and like L Y because you were trying to snap everything to under 160 characters. Yeah.

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