Ari Paul ✓

@AriDavidPaul · Antarctica · joined 31 Mar 2017

Lifelong student. Practical idealist. Founder of BlockTower. Board of Strobe VC.

229 705Followers

2 467Following

7 194Posts total

110.7KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views13 847this account4 404median for 100K–1M

Reach, %6.03%this account1.84%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.51%this account1.47%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	13 847	4 404	3.14×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	6.03%	1.84%	3.28×
Engagement rate	0.51%	1.47%	0.35×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

13.8K30 Aug

14.3K31 Aug

21.1K

58.1K

912

782

1.7K

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.03%30 Aug

0.39%31 Aug

1.01%

0.31%

0.44%

0.51%

0.63%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.47%.

What the audience does

Likes71.2%488 in total

Reposts1.9%13 in total

Replies14.6%100 in total

Quotes0.9%6 in total

Bookmarks11.4%78 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

@AriDavidPaul planes are 80% coach and 20% business class. They make you put your seat back in the upright position to make clean up easier. Now the crew doesn't have to bring the 80% of the seats back to their original position for organizational/ aesthetic purposes. Business c 1.7K views · 9 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 31 Aug 2026 @AriDavidPaul Have you see the mental midgets on planes nowadays? Looks like a greyhound bus station. They can barely board the plane in a timely manner. Airlines are managing to the lowest common denominator and it's quite low... 782 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 31 Aug 2026 @AriDavidPaul Most business class they are polite but insistent about things like shoulder belt, bag stowage, etc. even in intl first. They will just help you stow stuff 912 views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 31 Aug 2026 Coach: sir, your seat is reclined by 2 centimeters. Fix it now or we’re dragging you off the plane. Business: Be comfortable, what else do you need? Private: you’re not traveling with anything radioactive that will blow up in the plane mid flight? Good to go. I don’t get 58.1K views · 137 likes · 2 reposts · 37 replies 31 Aug 2026 Standard LLMs are now better than 95% of doctors in 95% of specialties. If you’re not at least comparing your doctor’s advice to an LLM, you’re leaving a lot of health on the table. In a year I expect this to change dramatically such that medical LLMs will be 10x better than 21.1K views · 177 likes · 7 reposts · 26 replies 31 Aug 2026 Next time I need to fundraise for something, I’m pulling the Leone-SBF combo: going to pitch over zoom from a dentist’s chair while getting a root canal with no anesthetic. Will add a following drone camera so the meeting can continue while I run from the chair faster than 14.3K views · 42 likes · 0 reposts · 13 replies 31 Aug 2026 It’s kind of wild that there’s no clearly functioning quantum computer a decade after dozens of papers and tens of billions raised claiming working quantum computers. There’s an entire industry of quantum optimization claiming working software. All smoke and mirrors as far as I 13.8K views · 115 likes · 4 reposts · 22 replies 30 Aug 2026 Stay hungry. Stay humble. Stay ambitious. Stay curious. Be a student, always. 0 views · 8.6K likes · 2.4K reposts · 861 replies 28 Jan 2018