Insider headlines intrigue me, but I can't justify yet another $12/mo subscription. There has to be a better way?
My career would be in a very different place if I hadn’t focused on caring for my mother. Of course, it wasn’t even a choice: family and loved ones come before work and money, always. There are plenty of people like me; many (most) had it much harder. Money is not value.
If what excites you about decentralization is the prospect of doing business without taxation or oversight, then honestly, you’re on the wrong train, and you must be stopped.
Decentralization doesn’t mean elevating the individual over community. For the disempowered, community is a way to build. Unions, welfare systems, support networks, representative governments: all vital to building the future.
For me, the most exciting thing about decentralization is eliminating centralized stores of data and wealth - and therefore power. The world must become more equal. Empowering independents with meagre resources won't get us there in a vacuum, but it'll help.
Considering building a job board for tech companies that don't care about school or degree, publish salaries, support remote work, and have great work-life balance and an 8-hour workday. Neither employer nor prospective employee would be charged. Any interest?
Sesame Street is such an incredible international treasure. I’m glad it exists, but could it possibly get off the ground as a new show today?
The Toast QR code payment experience is absolutely magical. It takes all of 20 seconds. But how much of the tab does Toast take from the restaurant?
I have a t-shirt that used to say “focus, simplify, kill” (best and most succinct startup advice I ever received; I made it into a shirt).
These days it just sort of says “jdjdiehsj ejdgjeejehdj k”. Which, honestly, seems about right?
You can take the man out of Costco, but you can’t take Costco out of the man.
Not really into memes making fun of how Boris Johnson looks. His ideology is exclusionary and murderous. His party has destroyed lives and is undermining progress. He’s not a buffoon; that’s just the veneer. The substance is what must be challenged.
Where’s your favorite quirky but safe place to stay in Brooklyn?
I feel guilty complaining about this, but it's 49 degrees (9 degrees C) in the house. Up from 36 degrees (2 C) when I woke up this morning. Wrapping myself up in a blanket; I'm honestly glad to be shutting down the house this weekend and leaving next week.
Thinking that one of the biggest changes I can make to lower my footprint is to give up meat. I've tried several times before, and it's always the peer pressure that does me in. Vegans, I salute you. And it's about time I got back on the bandwagon.
Still very much on the Firefox train as my default browser, and grateful that it exists. Hooray for open source and open community.
Any system that gives more power to people who have more resources is not making the world better.
I had a really vivid dream where I worked for a corporation that fired me for blogging. Now very mad at this completely fictional company that my brain made up for me.
Told my sister I was building a new website for a writing project and she asked me how anyone was supposed to find it if it was its own independent website instead of a bigger site and boy howdy I’ve been failing in my indieweb duties
Did you know? Everything is terrible. Not a lot terrible, but not nothing terrible, either.
I’m really bothered by that VC declaring the right masculine response to having a child (working a lot to be A Provider rather than being there for your family and spending time with your baby).
How dare he dictate how a man should be? Particularly in those oppressive terms?
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: we, the people who enabled several genocides around the world and a right-wing coup against American democracy, now wish to own reality itself
Hanging out in Cambridge, MA for the next couple of days. It’s been ages since I’ve been here, but it’s one of my favorite places.
Foursquare’s location database used to be superb, but man, I’m constantly having to fact check it now. I think it’s time to wean myself away. Is there something better than Yelp for finding places to eat that my friends enjoy?
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