One of my most toxic traits is that I really like April Fool's Day and I've been thinking hard about how to make fools of you all
Making openness as usable and interesting as possible is far more interesting than making a closed ecosystem. Build the web, not CompuServe.
What’s the best way to get a Getty image printed and framed for my own display at home? Reuse rights feel like overkill for this.
If people are this upset about high gas prices, wait until they see water prices a decade or two from now.
Heading to Philly for a short trip soon. I already know it’s a huge, interesting city, but what are some non-obvious things I shouldn’t miss?
I'm still mad that you can't share an AirTag with an iCloud family. Great, so now I'm the only person who can find the car keys.
Or a show with an unreliable narrator where the “previously on” recap is a lie.
A show where the “previously on” segments contain snippets of something that wasn’t in the show itself, clawing its way through time towards the protagonists …
Centralization - of information, discourse, applications, power - is a deep societal harm that I think we’re only beginning to really understand.
Companies telling their employees to get back to the office right now are transparently putting their own interests over the health of the people who work for them. At least it should clarify where their priorities really are.
If "watching the Superbowl" means "rewriting Jira tickets all day long until I think I'm going cross-eyed", then I guess I'm doing it right.
What's the best way you've encountered to share a calendar of milestones, company events, and other events with a team? Neither product tools nor Google Calendar really cut it.
Salespeople who spoof their caller ID to look like they're calling from a company I already use: be assured that I will never buy your product.
I’m late to Succession, but I’m hooked and appalled and enthralled.
A lie that misrepresents science and leads to unnecessary deaths is not an “opinion”.
Idea: an encrypted vault of credentials (like a 1Password vault) that you can buy and sell. So for example, you could build up a following across social media and sell them to a buyer all at once. Escrow service requires that services are connected to verify.
Sadly didn’t get a single blog post out this week, except for an internal post at work. Just too much going on. But I’ll be back on the wagon next week. I get a lot of pleasure from it.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you're whitelisting people who can get an exceptional deal on an asset that will rise in value based on their previous experience doing same, you're creating a systemic inequality that makes the world worse.
Getting the man with a constitutional fear of authority from his childhood time in a concentration camp to actually get the medical attention he very clearly urgently needs is the hardest problem in computer science.
I've started two end-user open source social platforms: Elgg and Known, from the web2 desktop and mobile era respectively. Imagine I was going to create an open source community platform today. What would be different about it?
Thinking that February sounds like a good month for a centralized social media break. Will keep blogging, obvs.
I'm always trying to work proactively rather than reactively. Right now, the biggest force making my workday scattered is Slack (and sometimes SMS). I find constant synchronous interruptions pretty stressful. What would an asynchronous alternative look like? Don't say email.
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