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Booz Allen ticketmastered America’s public lands
An arms dealer makes millions on junk fees from National Parks visitors.
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EV adoption in US is happening faster than predicted
How is electric car adoption accelerating in the US?
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Shopify Is Illegal in Germany
In einem konkreten Fall hat die Datenschutzbehörde die Nutzung von Shopify, bzw. der verwendeten Dienste für rechtswidrig erklärt.
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Bitcoin is not a store of value
Before we begin, I’m not just some crypto FUDster.
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Most books don't sell only a dozen copies
A little post on why publishing statistics are so confusing
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Are film critics losing sync with audiences?
A few weeks ago I was contacted by a journalist at the New York Times, who asked if I felt that film critics were losing touch with the tastes of the broader public.
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Avoid the Apple App Store
Have you ever though about building an iOS app? I did, but I now wish that I hadn’t.
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VCs are scared when they should be greedy
I originally wrote this essay for The Information, where it was published on July 6, 2022. I've read a lot of the advice that venture capitalists have given founders on the current state of the...
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Here comes the first TikTok war
Russia's invasion of Ukraine will be captured in incredible detail by smartphones and social media. This changes everything.
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Myths about construction
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Construction is something you probably either love or hate, depending on your commute or profession. Obviously, as a civil engineer, it’s something I think a lot about, and over the past 6 years of reading emails and comments fr
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The great VC pullback of 2022
Are we witnessing a major VC pullback? Is it temporary? What does that mean for startups? Certainly the topic du jour in startup circles. Here’s what I’m seeing
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GitHub will require 2FA by the end of 2023
GitHub will require all users who contribute code on GitHub.com to enable one or more forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) by the end of 2023.
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Evaluation of TikTok vs. Instagram Reels
Why can't Meta A/B test its way back to greatness? To move Instagram beyond short-term engagement metrics, we ran a personalized human evaluation asking 100 users to compare TikTok vs. Instagram Reels. Learn why Gen Z considers Reels the place where TikToks go to die, and what Instagram should do about it.
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It’s great to be a consultant
I spent 20 years slaving away at companies doing development, maintenance, troubleshooting, architecture, management, and whatever else needed doing. For all those years I was a permanent hire, working on technology from within.
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Gitlab Dedicated – our new single-tenant SaaS offering
Learn more about this offering, why we developed it and how customers can be added to our limited availability waitlist.
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Why Apple Will Switch to ARM-Based Macs (2014)
When Steve Jobs announced the transition from PowerPC to Intel processors in 2005, he revealed something that, in hindsight, seemed obvious to everyone who didn’t anticipate the switch: There are two major challenges in this transition. The first one is making Mac OS X sing on Intel processors. Now,
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Human attention has become a commodity
Fake news. Misinformation. Mental health crises. Election meddling. Extremism. Partisanship. Eating Disorders. Body Dysmorphia. Vulnerability porn.
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What good cash-strapped hiring looks like
Bootstrapped operators who take their hiring seriously all eventually end up designing a system with the same fundamental approach. Here's how you can do it too.
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Taking action against scraping for hire
An update on what we're doing to protect people from scraping data on Facebook and Instagram.
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Web3: A VC-funded gig economy of securities fraud
If you look at a “Web3” offering and just think of it as a pump-and-dump onto retail investors, everything will make much more sense.
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Meta Myths
Meta deserves a bit of a discount off of its recent highs, but a number of myths about its business have caused the market to over-react.
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Why is selling software so weird?
Building software looks a lot like building a house, but selling the two couldn't be more different.
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The Twitter Advertiser Exodus
A $750,000 a month advertiser has left Twitter. One of hundreds. But in her post she explained the bases for the decision vis-a-vis her advertising investment in a neutral, non-ideological way. Peo…
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The Twitter whistleblower story is worse than you think
Twitter's security issues might be "egregious," but they're also all too common.
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Startup Restructuring 101
Because your lifeblood, Revenue and Funding, are drying up
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The case against a C alternative
Like several others I am writing an alternative to the C language (if you read this blog before th…
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My First BillG Review (2006)
In the olden days, Excel had a very awkward programming language without a name. “Excel Macros,” we called it. It was a severely dysfunctional programming language without variables (yo…