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"we were promised social networks, what we got was social media" -- Elad Gil

briefly reminded me of my MATLAB days... back in the 2000s/early-2010s it was all the rage. Great IDE too

the USENIX YouTube link took me down quite the rabbit hole

I think the most tragic of all is that, based on my experiences in both startups and corporate cultures, most of that work people are killing themselves for is just "busywork" hand…

your last sentence I think puts the 2nd pillar into the problem, which is not only technological (i.e. the abstraction problem mentioned in the original article) but also cultural

VICE seemed to make sense at a given time + place + context: * Gonzo journalism: "On my way to North Korea I'm gonna stop by my auntie where over lunch she'd beg me not to go" * Pe…

interesting how certain industries were never "disrupted" by startups, no matter the amount of hype that was generated in the mid-2010s [1]; banking is a major example (no startup …

This is also recommended by Donald Knuth in one of his technical writing guidelines [citation missing] so +1

not according to Pew - Instagram is still strong amongst teens https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2022/08/10/teens-social...

Shazam belongs to that class of iPhone apps that when they were released I was like "wow, the future is here" -- this alongside the first accelerometer and AR ones

+1+1 spot on -- it's a very common issue nowadays that few people actually touch upon, or be able to verbalise

omg Ars Technica is still around! that takes me back..

nit: there are some fragments, say the speech of Spartan King Archidamus, which are recorded in sources like Thucydedes -- these you _may_ consider them as sources that reveal Spar…

curious if this is a direct challenge to Google by people like Thiel who have had a historic beef with them [0] - according to the "Super Pumped" book [1], it was Larry Page who pe…

A few anecdotes from my side: - I had one colleague and a former boss, both staunch Democrats, who knew GW Bush from Yale; they both independently mentioned to me how likeable he i…

reminds me of a super-nerdy magazine column we had back in college, printed (on paper) in raw LaTeX

well, no matter if you agree or disagree with JL, I think it's great WIRED can still occasionally publish great articles like that

typo: "Email would probably..." ;)

"sweary, ranty YouTuber" -- how original

as @gexla mentioned down below, I prefer looking for leadership/culture advice on historical / biographical books. For example, "Making of the Atomic Bomb" was recommended to me, f…

von Neumann, Oppenheimer, Bohr, Einstein, Rutherford, Turing, Teller, Szilard, Wigner, Meitner... the list goes on... -- how did that time produce so many people of colossal intell…

there's a lazy sensationalist style on that article that I find off-putting -- the relevant Wikipedia page is more sober and actually (or because of that) makes you more in awe of …

and by the way, where on earth are Larry and Sergei?

I've been a social smoker for ~15 years; I attempted Juul-ing about a month ago -- had to stop it as I was immediately (from the 1st puff) feeling unwell, super dizzy and occasiona…