The fundamentals of building a great body are not complicated. The 80/20 solution here is actually quite elegant and simple.

I'm a relentless jaywalker, sometimes unconsciously, and my career has only been in tech startups. Coincidence?

So we need to encourage more Germans to jaywalk?

We need to teach Germans to push back against artificial, external rules that limit them. Not sure jaywalking is the best rule to start with...

Limit them how? What is it that you think the Germans are suffering from that requires them to be more like the residents of Silicon Valley?

German here: I found myself much more limited by artificial, external rules when I lived and worked in the states than here in Germany.

I think we germans are doing alright actually

figuratively in startups, maybe, yeah. Not that I condone breaking the law, but startups like SideCar, Uber, Lyft and AirBnb wouldn't be around if there wasn't a bit of an appetite for breaking the rules and risking getting in trouble. More of a mentality thing.

Hey, Kim Dotcom(megaupload) is actually German and he surely did risk (and managed) to get in trouble with the law for his startup, so not all Germans are completely risk-averse ;)

Good news everyone, my account has been fully restored. Special thanks to the Twitter support guardian angels.

Update: I made an interim Twitter account so that I can communicate with support here https://twitter.com/yesgothacked

Good question xSwag, I suppose I don't. I clicked the wrong link in an email.

My email was not hacked but the Twitter account was compromised.

t1's dead post: What was the password (in terms of what it contained)? Was the password more like 'baseball' or 'B@s3B41122984'? It's possible that someone has the copyright or convinced support they were you if the password is indeed complex. You can contact twitter support. https://twitter.com/crystal -----

Of course, we don't know if zaru is actually the rightful owner of the account. He could be trying to convince us (and Twitter support) in an attempt to take over the account...

Understandable remark cynix but I am definitely @yes. You can ask any of my friends and followers. I do believe they keep the history of your user account, my biggest concern is recovering my account now that the hacker removed all my person info from it.

I think and hope that twitter has a history of changes in the account. So that they can find the takeover.

Probably these dudes: http://www.yesworld.com/

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Thanks for the advice everyone