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Twitter, Responsibility, and Accountability
Twitter went too far last week for reasons that go back to 2016 and the unfair blaming of tech for media’s mistakes.
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Product-market fit for a B2B company
Some big cloud earnings this week
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Pattern Matching, Racial Diversity and the Hypocrisy of Big Tech Media
It’s Time to Watch the Watchmen – The Diversity Report of TechCrunch, Recode, The Information, Business Insider and Protocol. Prelude I have been writing about Diversity in Tech for over a decade now – a long time. However, my self-published posts have never really got the audience it was targeted
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Self-publishing and the 2nd edition of Ansible for DevOps
Five years, 834 commits, and 24 major revisions later, I've just published the 2nd edition of Ansible for DevOps, a book which has now sold over 60,000 copies and spawned a popular free Ansible 101 video series on YouTube. Making good on my promise to make the ebook updates free, forever, I've published a new revision…
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Let People Move to Jobs
When I argue that we should bring rents down by building more housing, one kind of response I've gotten is: Why are you trying to move more people into cities? There's lots of housing available in the US, it's just not in the currently trendy cities. Instead of moving people we should be moving jobs. Why couldn't…
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Sneak peek at future of SaaS investing
Sneak peek at future of SaaS investing — Tiny Capital and Buffer
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An Inside Look at CloudKitchens
A co-working space for restaurants of the future.
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The Antitrust Hearing, the Role of Congress, CEO Questions
Congress is exactly where discussions about tech and society should be happening. Then, a list of questions for every tech CEO.
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How to Build a Biotech
You’re intrigued by biotech and want to explore ideas in the area. Where do you start?
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Evidence-based Software Engineering – book beta
My book, Evidence-based software engineering: based on the publicly available data is now out on beta final release ( pdf , and code+data ). The plan is for a three-month review, with the final version available in the shops in time for Christmas (I plan to get a few hundred printed, and made available on Amazon).
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The Economics of Sex Robots
This is a lightly edited version of an article I wrote that first appeared in Jacobite. I had a great conversation about this article and evolutionary psychology more generally (link here) with Joh…
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American Airlines Bans Wearing Too Much Personal Protection Equipment on Board
It's not just passengers refusing to wear personal protection equipment that's a problem at the airline. It seems another problem is passengers who wear too much. So last week American Airlines sent a memo to its customer care agents on "Prohibited Personal Protection Equipment (PPE)."
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Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones (2017)
The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones
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TikTok and Microsoft’s Clock
I mean, WTF?
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DoorDash and Societal Arbitrage
$8 pizza profits were nothing compared to the real trade
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Mathematica v12.1
Biggest .1 release from Wolfram. 182 completely new functions, plus updates and enhancements. Includes full HiDPI support, computation with video, data structures, asymptotic superfunction, mathematical functions, plotting, geometric optimization, vector plotting, cross-hatching, computational topology, tabular data…
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Compaq and Coronavirus
Compaq’s descent from a company of action to a brand is a frightening parable for the the West’s focus on talk over action.
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Lessons for Early Stage Founders
In Segment’s early days, we hit countless problems as a founding team. And at the time, I thought those problems were unique to our own special snowflake of a founding journey. I chalked it up to us being new grads and first-time founders.
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Why I don’t usually meet startups in person (2019)
The other day, I tweeted. “Contrarian perspective here – it’s ok to *not* meet a founder in person before deciding to invest.” This set off a tweet firestorm — mostly …
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Don't Shave That Yak (2005)
The single best term I’ve learned this year. I want to give you the non-technical definition, and as is my wont, broaden it a bit. Yak Shaving is the last step of a series of steps that occur…
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The Wetware Crisis: the Dead Sea effect (2008)
[ Updated (06/16/08): Here’s a real-world project review memo , written several years ago, that described (among many other things) the Dead Sea effect. ]
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The Importance of India
This post sparked a great conversation on Hacker News! See the comments here. “Quantity has a quality of its own”–Attribution contested A significant factor in the power of states throughout history has been sheer numbers. Spain was able to control an overseas empire to a significantly greater degree than Portugal…