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Meetings != Communication (always avoid double negations)

A more apt comparison would be Antarctica. But even in Antarctica you can go outside and feel the sunshine on your face in the summer. You can't really do that on a space station o…

It always troubles me when people talk about the future and futurism optimistically and without understanding the historical context and why it might be a bad idea. For you that do…

I don't think he is talking about "high priority" in the project management sense, rather in the visual or cognitive sense that the presentation of a feature to the user is highly …

Yes, but the only feedback provided was that my argument was a straw-man. I.e. they disagreed with the point I was trying to make. And as far as I understand, the social contract o…

I didn't claim that a sustainable businesses can't do good work. I simply claimed that sustainability is at odds with producing good things. Which is a fairly different claim. Thou…

Why am I being down voted for this? It is not spam and not intended as flame bait. It is not off topic and it is not pointless humor. It is a serious comment that needs to be debat…

That something is enjoyable does not make it inherently good (unless you ascribe to Utilitarianism). There are of course other factors beyond pure enjoyment that contribute to the …

The point I was trying to make with the McDonalds example was simply that a scalable and successful business model necessarily implies that they are unable to create the "perfect" …

This is the paradox of capitalism. Focus on creating something inherently good and it will not be sustainable. Focus on creating something sustainable and profitable and it will mo…

I have experienced this scenario first hand. It made me quit my otherwise fairly well paid new job.

I was talking about Facebook the tool, i.e. how it is actually being used by people. Not Facebook the business model, which I agree with you is exactly as you describe, but is some…

But you are profoundly fooling yourself if you believe that that is what Facebook is. If all you want to do is CC a list of people some photos, there are way better tools out there…

That's great! My concerns seems to have been unfounded then. The jury is still out on the new privacy stuff though.

The macro difference in philosophy between Facebook and Google+ is that Google+ encourages social silos and obscurity (typical characteristics of geek/hacker culture, inherited fro…

But that is exactly what is counterproductive about it. Because it forces you to make assumptions about the people you interact with. Have you asked all of your friends wether or n…

Facebook Places is the feature I've been using the most on Facebook since it was introduced. And I can probably say the same thing about the rest of my circle of friends. It is ver…

The Twitter geo feature sucks big time compared to Facebook Places. Maybe they should do something about the user experience instead of the scalability masturbation they seem so ob…

> You know, stuff that actually kinda matters, and can improve people's lives. Are you arguing that social networks don't improve peoples lives?

The problem with this model is obviously going to be producing the content and I'm surprised Gruber doesn't mention that. Distributing books this way will add a lot of complexity a…

The possibility to unify all my communication around common threads makes sense, being able to use it as a replacement for chat & email - as it has properties of both Hey, I think …

This solution is utterly stupid. Why do they pay their engineers millions of dollars if they don't even know the basic semantics of the HTTP protocol? Per RFC 2616, the POST method…

Does anyone know where I can buy the PINO Digital Kettle Pro in Europe? Amazon refuses to ship it to my address in Sweden.

I like to call this the post-industrial synchronization psychosis . Our societies irrational desire for order that inevitably leads to total chaos.