That's nice. I'm a huge fan of your laugh too, also you...
@JPaskin That's nice. I'm a huge fan of your laugh too, also you have a quizzical way of saying, WELL....., that never gets old. And your hair is good!
I don't know, but I wonder if the stats show it just...
@felixchi I don't know, but I wonder if the stats show it just doesn't matter and people come in through Google looking for "BMW Philadelphia" or "Red BMW"
I wanted it to keep going until the entire DC Universe...
@patbits I wanted it to keep going until the entire DC Universe showed up, then the Transformers, and, finally, Grumpy Cat—then pan up over the Empire State Building to show...a Star Destroyer.
It's different! We were in a different studio and are...
@jmiralva@PostlightStudio@richziade It's different! We were in a different studio and are working with a different editor, so it sounds different. We're trying a few new things but expect to get back to the nice shiny tone in time.
I think I actually just find this process fascinating...
@rustyk5@goldman I think I actually just find this process fascinating because, sort of like M&A where enormous value is destroyed by cultural mismatch, the drama recurs over and over in organizations that grow and scale. But there's enough money in the mix to fuel forward motion.
Well but you want/need to grow and you take VC—who...
@rustyk5@goldman Well but you want/need to grow and you take VC—who transparently want a specific kind of growth and outcome, that's VC—and then you're in this stressful position where your ethics needs to be connected to growth, which is actually a defensible proposition up to a certain point.
What interests me is the attempt to codify ethics into the...
@goldman What interests me is the attempt to codify ethics into the corporate structure via the B Corp. Systematizing that, and then that shows tremendous stress under public pressure.
I took my kids for a meditative walk through a cemetery and...
I took my kids for a meditative walk through a cemetery and they found a way to make it about cookies. RIP Mrs. Miller-Dawson we will make your spritz cookies and enjoy them in your memory. twitter.com/...
I watched the Thriller video tonight with the 6yo twins. My...
I watched the Thriller video tonight with the 6yo twins. My son was terrified and clutched onto me and made me promise that we would ban the video from our home forever. I look over at my daughter and twitter.com/...
I keep imagining all the harassment men bringing their PR...
I keep imagining all the harassment men bringing their PR reps to Thanksgiving dinner. “Aunt Jane, he isn't taking questions on that subject right now, but my client is glad to talk about football, mentoring programs, and gratefulness in general.”
I'm ALSO that, minus brown, and literally in the pocket of...
@anildash@speckledwords@ikasliwal I'm ALSO that, minus brown, and literally in the pocket of giant corporations, AND believe that all future astronauts should be trans.
So on the podcast we made a concerted effort not to...
So on the podcast we made a concerted effort not to complain about LinkedIn, and ended up complaining about Facebook instead. trackchanges.postlight.com/...
Technology sure has changed things. Remember before we all...
Technology sure has changed things. Remember before we all had mobile phones and you'd have an alarm clock to wake you up? I thought of that this morning when I woke up at 6:40am to my wife calling multiple senators to leave messages about guns in schools.
I guess as in all things it's not either/or. Maybe the role...
@slavin_fpo@dens@libovness@jrlevine I guess as in all things it's not either/or. Maybe the role of the "curator" will migrate to someone who can tweak, modify, and supersede the various selection algorithms. Big platforms do this all the time with anonymous humans.
So at some level we're back to Art in the Age of Mech Rep,...
@slavin_fpo@dens@libovness@jrlevine So at some level we're back to Art in the Age of Mech Rep, where there is the "aura" around certain things (artifacts made by humans) and other things are mass-produced (algorithmic playlists).
Right so there is pop/global culture and then there's a...
@slavin_fpo@dens@libovness@jrlevine Right so there is pop/global culture and then there's a kind of opt-in culture that you affiliate with because it mirrors your sense of self and represents aspirations, too. Spotify is hard to have a personal relationship with, so it gives us good algorithmic playlists.
I remember pretty clearly that in the early 2000s they had...
@noahlz I remember pretty clearly that in the early 2000s they had a few experimental coffeeshops because they wanted to capture people who were worn out on Starbucks.
This makes perfect sense, kids are gonna discover things...
@DearDara This makes perfect sense, kids are gonna discover things they can have a personal relationship with and measure themselves against. While preserving the option to participate in big dumb pop culture too without much stress about it.
Anyway I'm not saying either/or. Centralization is very...
Anyway I'm not saying either/or. Centralization is very helpful when you need stock prices or to find a book or a recipe. It's probably an anti-pattern for human conversation and I expect humankind to reject it.
Centralization is many many many things but it is never...
Centralization is many many many things but it is never cool. Which is why brands, including political brands, are utterly dependent on centralized platforms for reach, I guess, but scenes and movements start decentralized.
I mean this is why Facebook just kills it, right? It allows...
I mean this is why Facebook just kills it, right? It allows people to define their own in-group and then has a monopoly on communication across in-groups. You have to pay to reach more than your friends.
If I understood the first thing about hardware I'd be...
If I understood the first thing about hardware I'd be building little devices that create weird social scenes. People need scenes and clubs and groups way more than they need access to all historical information ever.
I wonder if in a decade or two having all recorded music...
I wonder if in a decade or two having all recorded music available to almost everyone over networks will seem lame and teens will instead have weird USB headbands with just “their” music that they download over scene VPNs.
I keep drifting back to...Outlook. Strange to say but it's...
@leahculver I keep drifting back to...Outlook. Strange to say but it's really good, the UX is never surprising, and it's overall very consistent and integrates nicely with Gmail/Calendar.
Oh god, maybe in the far future our consciousnesses are...
@avibryant@isaach@mathowie@sippey Oh god, maybe in the far future our consciousnesses are going to be transferred to iCloud and represented by speaking, feeling AI emoji—and we'll spend digital eternity yearning to be used inside of tweets, desperately mugging and hoping for hearts. Actually wait that's now.
Sometimes you do toy with fools and I think that sends up a...
@tressiemcphd Sometimes you do toy with fools and I think that sends up a kind of fool-attracting signal that fools find irresistible. Like a non-fool would say “I should stay back and be quiet now.” But by their very nature the fools keep rushing in, despite the examples before them.
Like 3pm on a Tuesday all is well and nice weather and...
@tressiemcphd Like 3pm on a Tuesday all is well and nice weather and folks talking about footnotes or what have you and then BOOOOOOM a huge explosion and it's your mentions.
You use it to indicate a substitution in chat.
> I told...
@Johann_MG You use it to indicate a substitution in chat.
> I told Jim to buy the car.
> Whoops s/Jim/Bob/
It comes from a text editor command in Unix. It's been around for decades so it shows up in lots of programming contexts as a shorthand. unix.stackexchange.com/...
Awwwww BuzzFeed took down its CMS docs which I was actually...
Awwwww BuzzFeed took down its CMS docs which I was actually looking forward to reading. I'm sorry BuzzFeed people, I didn't know they were secret, I was just googling for CMS stuff and they came up and I thought that was cool.
I believe that the joy of just having your own LOCKING...
@speckledwords I believe that the joy of just having your own LOCKING UNICORN DIARY can coexist with a vibrant, shared, intersectional commons that enriches all.
My daughter got a new locking diary for a good report card...
My daughter got a new locking diary for a good report card and loves it so much she can barely speak. @maureenflaherty put the key on my HOPE lanyard because instilling a culture of OpSec is part of our family values. Also the unicorn is “fuzzy” and I had to pet it. twitter.com/...
I wrote! About a cool new thing, Datasette, by @simonw,...
I wrote! About a cool new thing, Datasette, by @simonw, which makes it reaaaally easy to publish your SQLite DB as a website with an instant API. It makes it so much easier to share out lots of data, and that's very cool. trackchanges.postlight.com/...
Wait until there’s a blizzard, everyone is so sweet and...
@robynkanner@jenniferdaniel Wait until there’s a blizzard, everyone is so sweet and goofy and thoughtful (as literally every major system that binds and protects us collapses for the day).
Me: Where’s the jacket we just bought?
Son: I don’t...
Me: Where’s the jacket we just bought? Son: I don’t know. Me: Okay, so orange jacket. Son: But— Me: [Fights bad zipper] What’s the white stuff on the collar? Son: Bird poop. Me: Green jacket. [Fights zipper] This one too? Son: I chewed it. Me: What’s in your hair? Son: Hazelnut.
We talked to @mlieber, co-founder of podcast studio...
We talked to @mlieber, co-founder of podcast studio @gimletmedia, about very interesting podcast things on our podcast. If you like thoughtful people who methodically co-build large, growing media companies, this is the podcast about podcasts for you. trackchanges.postlight.com/...
It wasn’t exactly those words, I couldn’t hear clearly over...
@karenmcgrane It wasn’t exactly those words, I couldn’t hear clearly over the crackling. I just knew that my soul was leaving my body and looking down at the flames enveloping my corporeal form.
Today @karenmcgrane said to me, with tremendous patience,...
Today @karenmcgrane said to me, with tremendous patience, “One thing you might want to consider using to manage this content, Paul, is a content management system.” A burn so bad that I am actually a skeleton now.
I listen to Automatic every couple years or so, so it...
@goldman I listen to Automatic every couple years or so, so it doesn’t really beat me up. It’s just such a classic, familiar album. Achtung Baby being 26 blows mind because it's supposed to be from the F U T U R E.
Its great! It makes it easy for people to publish data in a...
@tflynn_mm Its great! It makes it easy for people to publish data in a way that encourages others—lots of others!—to explore it with very little effort. That’s really powerful for so many orgs/NGOs who make so much data and just sort of publish it as CSVs.
This is a Chrome plugin by @noahpryor (inspired by the...
This is a Chrome plugin by @noahpryor (inspired by the @PostlightStudio podcast Track Changes!) that helps you purge all the people from LinkedIn who connect with you purely to NETWORK. github.com/...
You have always been real supporters of mine and it's...
@sogrady@monkchips@redmonk You have always been real supporters of mine and it's generous and kind, and very mutual, I so respect your work and the way you do it. And it's been great to have peers who understand the transition from writer/cultural type to business owner.
Concerned counterprediction: In two years every web...
@harrisj@pilhofer@derekwillis@forestgregg Concerned counterprediction: In two years every web platform language is going to compile to the webassembly VM running in the node runtime on the server, hooking into the npm ecosystem, with webpack essentially producing the 2019 version of .dll files for server and client.
You’re very little. There are cars everywhere. Nothing...
You’re very little. There are cars everywhere. Nothing makes sense. Kids make fun of your shoes. Your parents are always threatening to take things away if you don’t eat with a fork. The candy rules are punitive. And there is an omnipresent possibility you could pee yourself.
“Look...I just got off Skype and Shenzhen says that they...
“Look...I just got off Skype and Shenzhen says that they manufactured the full run of 36,000 units. So that's that, they're in the warehouse. So we need ideas.”
I really wish people would do more editorially with their...
I really wish people would do more editorially with their interesting data, and make some of that data available online. Maybe they do! I miss American Demographics magazine.
As someone involved with hiring, I think this is a great...
As someone involved with hiring, I think this is a great idea. I hope it helps people get their skills aligned with their titles and objectives. One thing LinkedIn could produce that would be amazing is a taxonomy of equivalent titles across industries.
(Clears throat.) America, like the Document Object Model,...
(Clears throat.) America, like the Document Object Model, is an example of what happens when you retrofit mission-critical systems on top of poorly managed mutable states.
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I have spent hours and hours over months of time trying to...
@TMobileHelp I have spent hours and hours over months of time trying to fix this. What can you do that’s different from 20 other customer support folks?
I put as many http://Gothamist.com urls in the spreadsheet...
I put as many gothamist.com urls in the spreadsheet as I could find, 57,000 #gid=557045072" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-EjULY_Ny5I-bt69lZQHl4bVowgahc5zAWtuwCMZr9I/edit#gid=557045072
we only bought music you couldn't get on the radio. before...
@TheMFingChisa we only bought music you couldn't get on the radio. before i got to the milt i listened to hold on 30000 times like anyone human and good.
Topic is good. It took 20 years but it’s a true magazine...
Topic is good. It took 20 years but it’s a true magazine for the Internet. (Yes, I know the precedents, and I know what magazines are.) twitter.com/...
I can vouch for @kevboh, who is an excellent thinker,...
@sogrady@kevboh@monktoberfest I can vouch for @kevboh, who is an excellent thinker, writer, and dev, and who would totally groove on the library/beer/open source vibe!