Now that Google+ has been shuttered, I should air my dirty laundry on how awful the project and exec team was.I'm still pissed about the bait and switch they pulled by telling me I'd be working on Chrome, then putting me on this god forsaken piece of shit on day one. | Continue reading
THREAD: I'm looking at a Huawei P20 from China, let see what can I found | Continue reading
10 years ago today, I had the idea for an app I thought was interesting. I called it Bump, and sent this email to Andy Huibers. Here’s a thread with some memories and lessons learned in the last 10 years. https://t.co/jjfOrOlOVj | Continue reading
I think the challenge with educating folks about data privacy is really amplified by the fact that we’re living in austerity and the convenience of giving up personal information seems like a small price to pay for feeling something resembling joy. We’re trading data for joy. | Continue reading
Amazon just filed a new patent for an Alexa system that can tell when you're sick (so it can sell you cough drops). Technical description: a voice-processing algorithm that detects when a user's emotional state is abnormal https://t.co/RBpxksltrX | Continue reading
Thread: There are over 400 startups trying to be the next Warby Parker, but history shows that 90%+ of e-commerce companies will fail. What separates the successes from the failures?Here are 5 things I look for to figure out if an e-commerce startup is a good opportunity --> | Continue reading
Today's headlines about the new IPCC report on climate change are beyond scary: "The planet is on a fast path to destruction. The media must cover this like it’s the only story that matters." I left my career in tech to focus on climate change. Here's what I've learned so far... | Continue reading
1/ Lemme do a 1-slide presentation since I'm feeling job sick. Title: How to Actually Manage Attention Without Smashing Your Phone and Retreating to a Log Cabin https://t.co/kEPZUh7g50 | Continue reading
Advice for new programmers: become comfortable with `git rebase` now instead of waiting a few years to realize how much effort you could have saved yourself.You can be highly successful and not know much about git, but you’ll be even successfuller if you do! | Continue reading
Look how Russian information warfare works: | Continue reading
[A thread on 'Zombie Startups' in Europe]Here's a paradox: the healthier the European startup ecosystem gets, the more difficult it is to make the difference between lively startups and zombie ones.That's because there's now much more for the zombies to feed upon 1/ https://t.co/ … | Continue reading
1/ Like many, I woke up to this today. Struck by so many saying matter of time, expected (esp FB login)…Responding to major, potentially existential, incidents (quality, security, privacy, abuse) as large org is unique. Thoughts on living through and coming out the other side. ht … | Continue reading
0/ Traditional enterprise GTM strategies are being eaten from the bottom by bottoms up adoption (SaaS, open source, dev tooling) and from the top by services. | Continue reading
Here are the @buffer August 2018 numbers:- $18.4m ARR- $1.53m MRR- 78,499 paying customers- 79 people in the team- $232k revenue per team member- $4.8m in the bank- 30.28% EBITDA marginI'll share a few further thoughts in attached Tweets. https://t.co/yX0jztjGjF | Continue reading
Two under-appreciated skills for VCs: 1) How to run an M&A process. 2) Relationships with alternative forms of capital (family office, strategics, tier 2 & 3 VCs). Both can help make or break outcomes for portfolio companies as markets and funding climates change. | Continue reading
THREADIn July 2018, a horrifying video began to circulate on social media. 2 women & 2 young children are led away by a group of soldiers. They are blindfolded, forced to the ground, and shot 22 times. #BBCAfricaEye investigated this atrocity. This is what we found... https:/ … | Continue reading
Tomorrow Atiyah will talk about his claimed proof of the Riemann Hypothesis. It's all about "the music of the primes". Here the function that counts primes < n is being approximated by waves whose frequencies come from zeroes of the Riemann zeta function.(continued) https:/ … | Continue reading
1/ It’s interesting to look at career strategy applied through the lens of risk.Most people think about financial risk, but reputational risk is far more insidious inhibitor of people pursuing ideas that at first seem weird but then become widely held.Exhibit A: Crypto. | Continue reading
Hi all, I want to share more info about recent changes to Chrome sign-in. Chrome desktop now tells you that you're "signed in" whenever you're signed in to a Google website. This does NOT mean that Chrome is automatically sending your browsing history to your Google account! 1/ | Continue reading
1/ My experience is that most pitches go sideways because the investor is lead to believe there is more maturity in a company than their is. And then they leave unsatisfied because there wasn't sufficient focus on the important metrics for the assumed stage. | Continue reading
Just got this Twitter data breach notification (Dutch)! Due to a bug probably 1 or more of your private messages or protected tweets were sent to #Twitter developers. Bug since may 2017 but only discovered 10 september 2018. No proof of abuse.#Infosec #cybersecurity #databreach h … | Continue reading
1/ A thread on the brain as a computer (tl; dr: 🧠=💻): | Continue reading
Let's talk about how to give feedback for a minute. Giving good feedback is a skill, and it's not easy. But people's ability to receive and act on feedback has a lot to do with how it's delivered. This matters for *both* manager and employee. | Continue reading
A minimal Turing test (McCoy & Ullman, 2018):“Say one word that convinces us you're human.” https://t.co/ZhPkVQiIxH | Continue reading
1/n Visa today has a $328B market cap, bigger than virtually every bank on earth (JPM at $384B is the only one bigger). And yet it started out as a non-profit owned BY banks. How did it become more valuable than its “parents”? https://t.co/CNKd20Uozf | Continue reading
Coders don’t matter—users don’t know or see what code does.Researchers don’t matter—users don’t see research’s impact.Project managers don’t matter—users can’t see how projects came together.Only visual designers matter—their production is closest to what users perceive. | Continue reading
Big day! iOS 12 is out! I hope y'all love it.I'm going to highlight a few iCloud Keychain, Safari, and WebKit features and improvements that mean a lot to me. (Thread…) | Continue reading
The most powerful memory technique in the history of mankind(that school NEVER taught you) is...THE MEMORY PALACEHere's a Brief History & How-To Use One (Thread) 👇 https://t.co/adiQgHMAA7 | Continue reading
From a peak of 50 million users, a $500 million valuation and a $100 million offer from Google just months into live service, Path is finally shutting down. What a ride though. https://t.co/eEaSkRMOWI | Continue reading
I’m super geeked ➡️ this is video of @MatthewGuz playing a game generated by a ML algorithm trained on video of Super Mario Bros., Kirby, and Mega Man https://t.co/ZaxKrxCCGB Everything is learned from scratch: level design and mechanics/rules. Paper: https://t.co/v2u4HO7oqe | Continue reading
HN went on a polarizing rant yesterday about digital nomadism. And it shows the giant misperceptions the mainstream now has of digital nomads. 🎒 Hold my backpack, and let me explain: https://t.co/d6fUCIrYHf | Continue reading
I talk often about the importance of maintaining a Day 1 mentality. It's always Day 1, and I work hard to apply that mindset to everything I do. It was a Day 1 outlook that made me reach out to ask for suggestions on approaches to philanthropy last year. By so many important meas … | Continue reading
Fast growing organizations produce lots of bad news as teams & systems adapt. Decision makers find this emotionally overwhelming, and react instinctively by shooting the messenger. I personally find it very hard, and struggle to remind myself:"This is why you're here. To list … | Continue reading
1/ Product Management isn’t a major one can study, few folks graduate into, and most people learn by apprenticeship. There are number of dangerous myths about what the PM role is. Here is a thread with five… | Continue reading
You know what our problem is, in Britain?It's this little lot. Thread. | Continue reading
Well crap. It looks like JavaScript library Feedify got owned and were serving Magecart 😬 any comment @_Feedify? https://t.co/KP2JJTj07g | Continue reading
How to stay happy as a Data Scientist 😄🔇Ignore pretentious data scientists and focus on your work.📈 Don't be afraid by auto-ML, see it as a productivity boost.🤝 Make friends: meet the community at events, share your views with data scientists on Tw … | Continue reading
My speech to @Europarl_EN about tomorrow's copyright/#SaveYourInternet vote (Thread):Dear colleagues— Copyright law is complex. When it comes to tomorrow's vote, you're getting a lot of mixed messages. Here's why: | Continue reading
I joined Twitter on September 3, 2013. Today marks my fifth anniversary. I wanted to take time today to share some lessons I have learned, usually the hard way, that have help me along the way | Continue reading
I'm realizing more and more that startup equity in itself, while being a potential payday, is also structured in a way that's beneficial to those who have the financial privilege to exercise said options. And that's not even including the taxes that people have to pay on it. | Continue reading
Let's talk about influence. As an engineer, how do you get it, earn it, wield it, or lose it? (The answer is NOT "become a manager.". In a well-functioning org, managers have mostly separate sphere of influence. If this is not true of yours, change it or leave.)Thread. | Continue reading
1/ For years, people have been waiting and hoping for crypto's "Netscape" moment. The gateway to the web that brought the internet to the main stream. IMHO, looking for the Netscape for the #crypto space is not a relevant or applicable analogy. Here's why... | Continue reading
When interviewing engineers people love to say, "I want to see how the candidate solves problems," when what they really mean is, "I want to make sure the candidate solves problems like I do, or I'll assume incompetence."And sadly, this perpetuates the monoculture. | Continue reading
ROM sites shutting down only feels as big as it does because of the completely abysmal job the video game industry has done keeping its games available. There is no alternative BUT piracy for like 99% of video game history. | Continue reading
1/ I like looking back to the early writing of some now-famous bloggers. These aren't meant to poke fun at authors' dated thoughts, but, rather, to show that these now-big-voices have grown out of humble beginnings: | Continue reading
I am about to tell you an epic tale about subterfuge, dating in the 21st century and the fall of human civilization. This actually happened to me and it could happen to you too. Get some popcorn. *Thread* | Continue reading
The three browsers holding JavaScript back the most are:1) IE 11 (2.7% of the web)2) Android 4.4-4.4.3 (0.94% of the web)3) Chrome 49 (0.71% of the web)If we stopped supporting these browsers, we wouldn't have to transform most modern JavaScript syntax features... (cont) https:// … | Continue reading
Twitter Q2’18 shareholder letter is now available. Read: https://t.co/hAzoEu506S #TWTR | Continue reading