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“The more senior you are, the less you speak, and the more y…
“The more senior you are, the less you speak, and the more you listen.”
– former Amazon Principal Engineer Carlos Arguelles https://t.co/LqmTwppH7d
Category: Thoughts
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Twitterfav archive 02/03/2022
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Twitterfav archive 02/01/2022
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Now thats just a world of trouble https://t.co/T8JD8NUiDO
Now thats just a world of trouble https://t.co/T8JD8NUiDO
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Twitterfav archive 01/30/2022
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Are we there yet with an open things consuming data from m…
Are we there yet with an open #metaverse things consuming data from many sources and not locked into one place? I mean I/we did try nudging it that way in 2006 l, as written in this actual book 🙂 https://t.co/ozqX7e7goA
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Daily twitter archive 01/27/2022
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Being a great returner is all about prob…
Being a great returner is all about problem solving
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Has anyone tried playing this? https://t.co/mfsv36sFFJ
Has anyone tried playing this? https://t.co/mfsv36sFFJ
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1/n Two interesting findings thus far from my analysis of Pe…
1/n Two interesting findings thus far from my analysis of Pew’s March 2020 COVID-19 survey. First, white (and especially ‘very’) liberals are far more likely than all other ideological-racial subgroups to report being diagnosed with a mental health condit
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Day 6 of likely covid live tweeting. Energy finally returned…
Day 6 of likely covid live tweeting. Energy finally returned to almost normal levels. Feels good man.
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American Trends Panel Wave 64 | Pew Research Center
17/n Link to original dataset https://t.co/VAMXl41SZj
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You can’t vouch for your own bug. You wi…
You can’t vouch for your own bug. You will always see it as the most beautiful bug that ever did bug. Doesn’t matter if you’re the one who does the thing, or even if you’re right. If it needs a vouch, recuse yourself. It’s ok. It’ll hold up on its own,
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Actually it has to do with the way your eyes perceive colors…
@TalbertSwan Actually it has to do with the way your eyes perceive colors and shadows. People seeing it as grey/teal are seeing it as the exact colors displayed on the screen (as seen by using a color picker) but people who see it as pink and white, their
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For those who are interested in research…
For those who are interested in research-based solutions to stop police violence, here’s what you need to know – based on the facts and data. A thread. (1/x)
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I think it’s time for a thread on the cu…
I think it’s time for a thread on the cultural history of this tweet. (1/?) https://t.co/qSIJ0IeRTZ
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it pays to play video gamesesports is love, esports is lif…
it pays to play video games
esports is love, esports is life https://t.co/g6qt2nJDg1
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This is how to graph likeability vs. realism. https://t.co/P…
This is how to graph likeability vs. realism. https://t.co/PgAuamPpRi
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Steve Jobs in 1990: Interpersonal networked computing (through great software and UX) will give rise to decentralized orgs that allow people at every level work together remotely
Crazy how Jobs could see clearly 30 yrs into the future!
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My mission director ‘s favorite piece of my memorabilia. My …
#TBT My mission director @Buzzs_xtina’s favorite piece of my memorabilia. My travel voucher to the moon. #Apollo11 http://t.co/c89UyOfvgY
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People asking about my red fingernail. It’s for my mom. I we…
People asking about my red fingernail. It’s for my mom. I wear my dad’s ring and my mom’s nail polish. It reminds me of them. Momma’s boy.
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Daily twitter archive 01/28/2022
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Two complimentary takes on NFTs and landlords. https://t.co/…
Two complimentary takes on NFTs and landlords. https://t.co/meKoShr7qe
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Corrected. 30 years of https://t.co/zXTnKONaUA
Corrected. 30 years of #Vishwatma https://t.co/zXTnKONaUA
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The Founding Murder and the Final Boss
We have to talk about WeWork again!
So I guess they’re postponing the IPO after all, now that we’ve spun the roulette wheel and landed on “too toxic to handle” rather than “trillion dollar market opportunity for community enlightenment”. I guess we’ll have to wait and see what happens to WeWork. But in the meantime there’s something fascinating going on: how the rest of the tech community is spinning its wheels overtime in order to make sure that WeWork’s failure to IPO does not inflict any collateral damage on the rest of the ecosystem. It’s a great excuse to dive into one of my favourite topics: the norms and rituals and beliefs that make up the Silicon Valley Kayfabe, and what happens when we face a credible threat that our belief system might fall apart.
First, let’s go on a little journey. Longtime Snippets readers may remember one of my…
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Technology Is as Biased as Its Makers
The road ahead is going to be turbulent as more people realize the extent to which technology can be biased. What we do about now will possibly set the direction for the next few decades…
Lizzie O’Shea | an excerpt adapted from Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Teach Us about Digital Technology | Verso | May 2019 | 30 minutes (8,211 words)
In the late spring of 1972, Lily Gray was driving her new Ford Pinto on a freeway in Los Angeles, and her thirteen-year-old neighbor, Richard Grimshaw, was in the passenger seat. The car stalled and was struck from behind at around 30 mph. The Pinto burst into flames, killing Gray and seriously injuring Grimshaw. He suffered permanent and disfiguring burns to his face and body, lost several fingers and required multiple surgeries.
Six years later, in Indiana, three teenaged girls died in a Ford Pinto that had been rammed from behind by a van. The body of the car reportedly collapsed “like an accordion,” trapping them inside. The fuel tank ruptured and ignited into a fireball.
Both…
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Whose advice should you take?
A useful way to look at advice…
My wife finds it irritating that I often take a long time to get round to following her recommendations, even though the ones I follow almost always turn out to be successful. This post is about what sort of advice is worth taking – my view of the evidence is, not much – and why a (very basic) bayesian attitude is worthwhile.
Everyone wants their advice to be taken, but almost no one actually wants or ever follows unsolicited advice. That paradox is worth thinking about.
The quality of people’s advice varies considerably depending on how specialist it is.
Even those people who are experts offering expert advice may not be that useful to you. A 2014 meta-study found, ‘deliberate practice explained 26% of the variance in performance for games, 21% for music, 18% for sports, 4% for education, and less than 1% for professions.’
All that practice will give…
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Facebook’s Crypto Strawman
This is their first attempt after all…
If you haven’t heard already:
Welcome to Libra | Facebook
Facebook announces Libra cryptocurrency: all you need to know | Josh Constine, TechcrunchI mean, hey, good for Facebook for… going for it, I guess? After two-plus years of being called all sorts of nasty names – a threat to democracy, a nest of lies, a horde of children playing run-the-universe, you get the idea – Facebook has announced their newest plan to get everybody mad at them: they’re launching a new cryptocurrency / payments product for their users around the world. They call it “A simple global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people.” And it’s called Libra.
The actual mechanics of the Libra blockchain protocol are a real Rorschach test: whatever it is you already thought Facebook was doing, you’re probably going to keep thinking that, but armed with more talking points:
- Libra is a private…
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You should’ve asked
Here is the english version of my now famous “Fallait demander” ; now available as a book with other stories :
Orders available here or here or here ^_^
Thanks Una from unadtranslation.com for the translation 🙂
