Brought to tears by the kindness of my family this evening. I moved here for them, and they make me feel so lucky. I'm really glad to not be thousands of miles away from them.
A pause to say: this is, so far, the best season of modern Doctor Who. It's not just nostalgia pulling me along; this is great TV.
In which our hero, having finally reached a milestone, made some popcorn, stopped working for an hour or so, and settled into Doctor Who.
I've had a lot of nice feedback about this short piece on the Internet of everything. https://medium.com/building-an-open-startup/the-whole-internet-5a1204852b46
If you haven't read the Bros Funding Bros post, it's a really important read that profoundly affects our industry. https://www.theinformation.com/bros-funding-bros-whats-wrong-with-venture-capital
People keep sharing that article about bros funding bros and all I can think of is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvQTTA9raJU
This insight about Steve Jobs cements my belief that the original Silicon Valley and the counterculture are one. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2015/10/steve_jobs_the_movie_gets_one_crucial_th...
AMP's special tags is a technical discussion we can continue to have. But giving certain vendors platform status is inherently closed. Bad.
The next version of @withknown will have experimental AMP support but I do have concerns. Most pressingly: whitelisted ad networks & embeds.
@mikepetruzzo Definitely huge (& growing!) social problems being caused by tech workers. But it's down to us to drive change. @BenedictEvans
@mikepetruzzo @BenedictEvans I think a large number of us in tech would be very happy for there to be well-funded government infrastructure.
@BenedictEvans There's no excuse for urinating on a playground, obviously. But we still need to find a solution to it.
@suchprettyeyes Indeed. The pendulum will swing back to nuance and diversity online as soon as the current funding boom starts to fail.
@suchprettyeyes Right. The web wouldn't have grown if it had been managed this way. Almost as if a distributed model is better ... ;)
@BenedictEvans Sure, but it may be caused by the lack of a culture of community responsibility that led to the toilet shortage to begin with
@suchprettyeyes Suspect they've calculated paying user revenue is lower than revenue from advertising. Consumers generally don't pay, sadly.
@suchprettyeyes My guess it's about prepping for a sale rather than ongoing revenue.
@anildash I like to think of vaporizers as tiny wind instruments for dogs. Fun to watch people on the subway playing tiny subaural toots
@jasonlk @hunterwalk Better yet: give your employees the opportunity to be on stage instead of you.
@BenedictEvans The thing I struggle with: programming. I would love to use another device for this, but nothing works well yet. Opportunity.
@michaelbyrne @actualham (Mine's from crowdfunding them) @hypothes_is
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