End mid-century modern

Best thing I’ve read on the topic: www.noahpinion.blog/p/no-you-are...

Is it finally time for this app to become the schelling point of the twitter exiles?

Hello Blueskis (is that the right word?)!! What’s everyone watching (tv or movie) this weekend?

most important word in the english language these past few years: tokens

a conference of trees

So should I switch my username to my domain? Or keep my first name at bsky.social … because first name?

SF is so back

A sure way to tell whether an online community is here to stay is if its members start organizing IRL meetups.

I do long runs because for that time the world ceases to exist. Just the straight road and a meandering train of thoughts.

Basically the difference between a company that runs on Slack and another that runs on email is the difference between an oral culture and a written culture

I’ll posit that intuition vs data was the difference between early Twitter and early Facebook. Easy to go wrong with either extreme - you need intuition to ship and data to check your intuition. Especially because social or marketplace-like products can behave very non-intuitively.

Hill I will die on: Magnesium > Vitamin D

Every time an iOS update has new emojis, I wonder what critical security hole they’ve patched that they need to find a way to get everyone to update asap 👀

For the Krzysztof Kieslowski fans https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/three-colours-blue-growing-old-gracefully/ This makes me want to watch them all again.

Latest entrant to the library

One of my favorite spills of ink on a page:

I could be doomscrolling on my laptop and people will still think I’m working hard. I could be intensely doing work email on my phone and people will think I’m goofing off and make me to do the dishes.

This piece by Nadia is hands-down the *best* thing written about SVB: https://nayafia.substack.com/p/a-bank-of-ones-own

Someone asked me why I am on all the new social apps. I sent them this tweet :) https://twitter.com/umang/status/1538254341127032832

Reputations are being made or unmade today

“chaos is a ladder”

@support-team.bsky.social I keep getting logged out of my account multiple times a day. Anything you can do to make it stick?

@why.bsky.world @pfrazee.com @bmann.ca @nr.bsky.social @katherine.bsky.social @emily.bsky.social @courtneylee.bsky.social @chris.bsky.social @mtclai.bsky.social @catman.bsky.social @wills.co.tt @ian5v.bsky.social

Let’s do #FollowFriday — who should I follow on here? (yes, I know it isn’t Friday today but what can I say, I’m impatient)

more alpha gets dropped in the restaurants of downtown SF and the cafes of downtown PA than the rest of the world combined

Hung out in downtown Palo Alto today after ages. I used to work here 12 years ago and the vibe is so different now. Much more … chic?

What fraction of journalism today is (a) filler content around tweets or (b) their personal opinion / criticism from the sidelines because they have an audience?

Since folks on here might be more in favor of algorithmic choice, here’s a counter I tweeted a while ago. Would love to hear your thoughts on it. https://twitter.com/umang/status/1586090495729577984?s=46&t=kj1v9jeOEGfCPBxIWkktjg

Starting a thread of feature requests and such for Bluesky (cc @jay.bsky.social)

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