Nokia’s downfall shows that comfort is the biggest enemy of growth, and innovation is the only language the future understands. 👌🏽
The real danger is not doing something wrong , but doing the same things for too long and believing they will always work . ⚠️
Data: the PaintColorHQ database — 26,597 paint colors across 13 brands (12 decorative paint brands + the RAL classic standard), snapshot July 2026. Color values come from each brand's published palette data.
Method: CIEDE2000 (ΔE 2000) color difference computed across cross-brand pairs. I counted a color as "duplicated" when another brand sells a twin under ΔE 1.0 — that's below the threshold most people can distinguish even with the two swatches side by side. It's the same formula paint manufacturers use on the factory line for batch quality control.
Results: 66.6% of colors have at least one such twin at a competing brand. 749 hex values are exact, digit-for-digit copies sold under different names. The most duplicated color is a warm off-white sold by 12 of the 13 brands — Benjamin Moore's "Flurry" and Dunn-Edwards' "Swan White" are numerically identical (ΔE 0.00), and Farrow & Ball's "Pointing" is in the same cluster.
Tool: Python + matplotlib. Each strip is the brand's entire palette sorted by hue; the white bar under each strip is the share of the palette no other brand sells near-identically.
Full write-up with the per-brand tables and methodology: https://www.paintcolorhq.com/blog/most-duplicated-paint-color
My main takeaway from this is that I need to chill tf out - you can check out the git here
Update for some folks asking about the animation - it’s a time lapse!
#MondayNuggets :
I’ve realized that the biggest differentiator isn’t the technology you know but the mindset you bring.
Stay curious even when you think you know enough .
Take ownership instead of waiting for someone else .
Be willing to learn , unlearn and relearn.
Team work , because success is rarely achieved alone.
Attitude determines how far you go 👌🏽
Made a bar chart race of career red cards across football history. The surprise: Sergio Ramos (30) and Pepe (21) are nowhere near the top — the record belongs to Colombia's Gerardo Bedoya with 46, a Guinness-certified record that's 16 clear of Ramos.
Data: Wikipedia, Transfermarkt, Guinness World Records. Career totals across all competitions; all featured players are now retired.
Full animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4lzfIi0F7c
I built this. It is a free tool called TreeAlive that takes a family tree (a GEDCOM file, or a FamilySearch import) and animates each person's path across period-accurate historical maps, decade by decade. The clip is my own family spreading across America over 400+ years. A static lineage chart shows how people connect. I wanted to see the movement too.
It is FamilySearch Compatible and free. You can try the built-in examples (lines like Washington's and Lincoln's) without making an account, or load your own tree at treealive.com.
Happy to get into how the geocoding and the historical-map overlays work, since matching each ancestor to the right period map was the hard part. Not a replacement for a good wall chart, more the moving companion to one.