How thousands of text messages from Mark Meadows and others reveal new details about events surrounding the Jan. 6 attack

“If POTUS allows this to occur… we’re driving a stake in the heart of the federal republic.” Remarkable. [Link]

My journey down the rabbit hole of every journalist’s favorite app

“Otter and its competitors, which include Descript, Rev, Temi and the U.K.-based Trint, are digital warehouses whose advantages of speed and convenience are bracketed by what experts say can be lax privacy and security protections that may endanger sensitive text and audio data, the identities of reporters and

Bionic Eye Patients Are Going Blind Again After Manufacturer Decides They’re Obsolete

“Currently, Second Sight is planning to merge with Nano Precision Medical, another biotechnology company, to stave off complete financial ruin. However, it doesn’t have any plans to support their bionic eye patients — and likely never will again.” [Link]

A Vibe Shift Is Coming. Will Any of Us Survive It?

“Monahan reassured me that it’s okay not to survive the shift. We all have permission to stay stuck at whatever makes us feel comfortable, and if that’s in 2016 or 2012 or 2010, that’s fine.” How about 1997? Asking for a friend. [Link]

Who gets to be a Metamate?

An interesting juxtaposition in my feedreader today: On one hand: For its final value, Zuckerberg added “Meta, Metamates, Me” to the list, pushing the company's metaverse rebrand one step further. He said this one relates to “the sense of responsibility we have for our collective success and to

San Francisco police linked a woman to a crime using DNA from her rape exam, D.A. Boudin says

“San Francisco Supervisor Hillary Ronen said she was alerted to the alleged practice this weekend, and that she has submitted an inquiry to the City Attorney’s Office to draft legislation to prevent DNA evidence — or any sort of evidence collected from a victim’s rape kit — to be used

Surveillance Too Cheap to Meter

“Even ignoring the fact that lawmakers have generally made the collection of surveillance data a requirement for mobile network licenses, it would cost the telcos more money to stop the surveillance of their customers than to continue doing it.” [Link]

Rick Klau on OKRs

I’ve been really enjoying Rick Klau’s series on OKRs. Rick worked at Google on Product and then at GV as Partner, and is now California’s Chief Technology Innovation Officer. This week on OKRs as institutional memory: In the absence of OKRs, an organization’s mistakes made and

Inspired by gravity

“Today, being weird online means one of two things. Either you’re trying to get there before other people do, not missing an opportunity, changing the rules to your advantage. That’s the excitement some folks feel right now: they feel like it’s possible to rewrite gravity.” [Link]

What using RSS feeds feels like

“To me, using RSS feeds to keep track of stuff I’m interested in is a good use of my time. It doesn’t feel like a burden, it doesn’t feel like I’m being tracked or spied on, and it doesn’t feel like I’m just another

The career dojo

Every job I’ve had has been a kind of dojo. At every position, I’ve had the privilege of meeting and working with a bunch of smart, interesting people; I’ve got to work on disparate products with real-world applications; and I’ve learned a lot about new markets

Oh, God, how it hurts to write this

“I came to this black wall again to see and touch your name, and as I do I wonder if anyone ever stops to realize that next to your name, on this black wall, is your mother’s heart. A heart broken 15 years ago today, when you lost your