Love the "Hi mom!" shout out at the end
I resigned from Twitter
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#22Here’s a different take on the situation: I think this is bad for Twitter. Twitter has started building and shipping incredibly well, they’re getting more products out than I ever remember seeing. I was very confident in the trajectory they were going in. For all the toxicity people complain about with Twitter, I remember the early days. They’ve made huge progress in community quality. Most importantly, Twitter is th…
> they’re getting more products out than I ever remember seeing
None of them are products people actually want. They're killing them off as fast as they are launching them.
> You can make your Twitter a chronological timeline instead of an algorithm feed.
You always have been able to, but they have incessantly pushed you to not use it. They used to keep automatically switching you away from the chronological one every few weeks of use. They've stopped doing that but that is such a minimum effort thing I do not want to give them any credit for fixing the thing they broke on purpose.
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#23> Agrawal in November 2020 interview: "Our role is not to be bound by the First Amendment... focus[ing] less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed."
Expect accelerating changes to the “free speech arm of the free speech party”
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#24Ona tangentially related matter: Interesting that Parag Agrawal is being named CEO. This makes 3 CEOs (that I know of) that are of Indian descent (other two being Microsoft's Satya Nadella and Alphabet's Sundar Pichai).
I wonder if it is just apophenia or if there is some underlying reason why in the last years we've had an increase in Indian CEOs.
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I think we'll cope without Twitter.
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#26Ona tangentially related matter: Interesting that Parag Agrawal is being named CEO. This makes 3 CEOs (that I know of) that are of Indian descent (other two being Microsoft's Satya Nadella and Alphabet's Sundar Pichai). I wonder if it is just apophenia or if there is some underlying reason why in the last years we've had an increase in Indian CEOs.
https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1465353324803211267
> Google, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Palo Alto Networks, and now Twitter run by CEOs who grew up in India.
The other day I was watching a news video on advancement on battery tech, two seperate companies, both had indian ceo
I guess it just worked out for them, or perhaps we notice them more because they stick out? isn't there like a name for this effect?
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#27Here’s a different take on the situation: I think this is bad for Twitter. Twitter has started building and shipping incredibly well, they’re getting more products out than I ever remember seeing. I was very confident in the trajectory they were going in. For all the toxicity people complain about with Twitter, I remember the early days. They’ve made huge progress in community quality. Most importantly, Twitter is th…
It keeps showing me fake notifications that in fact are recent posts from influencers that I don't follow and have no interest in doing so. Or at least it was because I stopped using it.
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#28Ona tangentially related matter: Interesting that Parag Agrawal is being named CEO. This makes 3 CEOs (that I know of) that are of Indian descent (other two being Microsoft's Satya Nadella and Alphabet's Sundar Pichai). I wonder if it is just apophenia or if there is some underlying reason why in the last years we've had an increase in Indian CEOs.
https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1465353324803211267 > Google, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Palo Alto Networks, and now Twitter run by CEOs who grew up in India. The other day I was watching a news video on advancement on battery tech, two seperate companies, both had indian ceo I guess it just worked out for them, or perhaps we notice them more because they stick out? isn't there like a name for this effect?
apophenia?
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#29Here’s a different take on the situation: I think this is bad for Twitter. Twitter has started building and shipping incredibly well, they’re getting more products out than I ever remember seeing. I was very confident in the trajectory they were going in. For all the toxicity people complain about with Twitter, I remember the early days. They’ve made huge progress in community quality. Most importantly, Twitter is th…
Although influential, surely Twitter's recent run isn't because of Jack himself, but the new culture he instigated? Him leaving doesn't change the dynamic there now, just another person who's been influential in the process signing off on the big ticket things.
That's a good point, I hadn't thought of it that way.
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#30Here’s a different take on the situation: I think this is bad for Twitter. Twitter has started building and shipping incredibly well, they’re getting more products out than I ever remember seeing. I was very confident in the trajectory they were going in. For all the toxicity people complain about with Twitter, I remember the early days. They’ve made huge progress in community quality. Most importantly, Twitter is th…
> they’re getting more products out than I ever remember seeing None of them are products people actually want . They're killing them off as fast as they are launching them. > You can make your Twitter a chronological timeline instead of an algorithm feed. You always have been able to, but they have incessantly pushed you to not use it. They used to keep automatically switching you away from the chronological one eve…
I really like the audio rooms, and use it pretty frequently. I want the decentralized Twitter option they're exploring with "project bluesky".