I don't for a minute think the Internet mobs attacking progressives are purely organic. Curious how they're being orchestrated and by whom.
@DankOvenMemes If you're taking Donald Trump to be a sign that you're doing okay, just watch and see what happens.
@DankOvenMemes Cool, so you already know what the dustbin of history feels like.
@DankOvenMemes So your answer to feminism is fascism? Because that's basically what you're talking about.
@DankOvenMemes Time, mostly. Society keeps evolving. It's not a fight - just an ongoing, positive change.
@Just_a_Texan Seriously. It seems like a lot of people want to drag us back to a time of bigoted values. Let's keep moving forward.
I really appreciate the #MasculinitySoFragile hashtag. The traditional masculine archetype is oppressive. Let's consign it to history.
Convinced the optimum tech founding team = one business lead, one developer, one designer. Everyone tech savvy, everyone can write & speak.
I would pay @LinkedIn for a way to bulk-block development outsourcing shops from trying to add me. Many times a day now.
Of course you'll want lots of perks if you live at work. You should. But sensible hours and a humane vacation policy seem more valuable.
Less interested in lots of workplace perks, more interested in workplaces that give employees the time, money and space to live well.
Ad tech, not ad blockers, break a fundamental social contract. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2015/09/23/how-adtech-not-ad-blocking-breaks-the-social-contract/
I wish we had more people like @baconmeteor in our industry.
(Which is a 21st century sentence if ever there was one.)
Pinboard's Maciej Ceglowski is, again, a hilarious, insightful must read. On advertising, privacy & funding: http://idlewords.com/talks/what_happens_next_will_amaze_you.htm
Oakland is about to get interesting. And by interesting, I mean "further gentrified within an inch of its life".
Here's a fun story from 2014 about the guy with the $750 drug. Could it be a short selling setup? http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-04-17/retrophins-martin-shkreli-the-biotech-short-seller-w...
Fascinated that pulled pork has become hipster food in the UK. And pasties are becoming hipster food here ...
Met two more people who have been touched by idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis this week. Hoping for a cure for this awful disease.
"There are people on my team right now who are so diverse they don't even fit into my worldview!"
PowerPoint decks full of bullet points: because nothing says "leadership" like "I don't care how the audience feels".
Flashback to that one time I saw the Pope. https://www.flickr.com/photos/benwerd/5003854679/in/photolist-8Cb4Ex-8Cb4vK
Noam Chomsky is one of my heroes. A good interview with him about Sanders, Corbyn and more: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/09/noam-chomsky-bernie-sanders-greece-tsipras-grexit-austerity-neoli...
Phil @Windley's Personal Learning System maps closely to what we've been trying with @withknown: http://www.windley.com/archives/2015/09/personal_learning_systems_and_life-long_learning.shtml #edtech
@tomcoates New web spinoff idea: Davros At Home. Kombucha, oolong tea, and a surprising amount of pickling.
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