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Phil Libin
@plibin
Co-founder and CEO of All Turtles and mmhmm. Co-founder and former CEO of Evernote. Generally enthusiastic.
mmhmm.appJoined March 2008
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When the economy is strong, it’s a good time to sell things. When the economy is weak, it’s a good time to build things.
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Phil Libin
@plibin
The most important question about a meeting is not “in person or video?” It’s not “can we make it a little shorter?” It’s “can we replace it with something better?” Ask yourself that question each time before inviting or accepting.
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Phil Libin
@plibin
In-person experiences are important for furthering trust and connection; have dinners, go camping, do trust falls if you have to. But don’t waste precious time together in brain-killing meetings.
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Phil Libin
@plibin
This is the right diagnosis, but the prescription is too meek. Useful meetings are ones where most of the participants take turns speaking and listening for the purpose of reaching a non-preordained conclusion. We used to call these conversations. Replace all others with async.
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Adam Grant
@AdamMGrant
Time in meetings has more than tripled since Feb 2020. Nearly a third of meetings are unnecessary—wasting $25M a year for every 1k people. There are 4 reasons to meet: to decide, learn, bond, and do. If it doesn't serve one of those purposes, cancel it. bloomberg.com/news/articles/
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Phil Libin
@plibin
It’s helpful to think of meetings as an organizational virus: finely honed by millions of evolutionary iterations to produce more meetings. Eventually killing the host but not before spreading to others.
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Phil Libin
@plibin
Dynamic Island is such a well done feature. I keep thinking that it’s gonna be a stupid gimmick and it keeps being delightful and useful. I want to snark all over it, but I love it. Much respect.
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Phil Libin
@plibin
Don’t know what this says, but the conversation with
@BarJack
was a lot of fun!
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Barnaby Skinner
@BarJack
Der Gründer @evernote, heute Chef von @mmhmmapp @plibin über das Ende seiner Firmenzentrale und darüber, warum die Banken beim Homeoffice ein falsches Spiel spielen. nzz.ch/visuals/es-gib
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Phil Libin
@plibin
Good riddance to proof of work Ethereum, quite possibly the stupidest idea in the history of the world. Welcome to proof of stake Ethereum, a significantly less foolish idea! I’m still a skeptic, but glad to see a right and brave step on the long road to making Web3 useful.
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Phil Libin
@plibin
Resilient people do amazing work. Thanks
@LizzyLaw_
for helping us tell the
@Sora_Union
story!
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Lizzy Lawrence
@LizzyLaw_
Millions of people have already been displaced by climate change and conflict. What if they could rely on a stable, remote job? This is the goal of new startup @Sora_Union, launching in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine war. protocol.com/workplace/sora
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Phil Libin
@plibin
If you would’ve said “big Apple announcement” and “Dynamic Island” to me yesterday, I would have assumed it was an
@AndySamberg
reboot coming exclusively to Apple TV. Just as excited that it’s a stretchy notch tho.
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Phil Libin
@plibin
Looking forward to this conversation later today!
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CannonDesign
@CannonDesign
Let’s redefine the way we live by changing the context of how we work. Join our CEO @Lukanicbrad for @dialogue_co Living Well: The Future of Work, with @plibin @rbeaulotto @RimmaBosh Wed, Aug. 31 1-2:30PM PT. Register today: tinyurl.com/4p7a5kp3
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@plibin
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Need advice
Has any token-based project ever had durable, mainstream success? Have any tokenomics-as-a-growth-hack startups created a product with significant long-term users or revenue not primarily motivated by speculating on the value of the token itself? Honest question, I don’t know.
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Aaron Levie
@levie
Finding customers is already hard enough for most startups. The risk of adding tokens into the mix is you lose important signal of who your real users are vs. speculators, thus distorting the normal supply/demand process that leads to finding product market fit.
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Phil Libin
@plibin
Don’t know what’s in it, but judging solely by the name, I think we can all agree that the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is gonna increase inflation.
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Phil Libin
@plibin
This was a really fun conversation with
@StephanScheuer
. No idea what they’re saying in German in the intro, but it sounds cool and mysterious!
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mmhmmDeutschland
@mmhmmappDE
„Abschwünge sind eine sehr gute Zeit, um Dinge von Wert zu bauen“ sagt @plibin im Gespräch mit @StephanScheuer im @handelsblatt Disrupt Podcast. handelsblatt.com/audio/disrupt-
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Phil Libin
@plibin
How
@mmhmmapp
makes money.
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mmhmm
@mmhmmapp
mmhmm is the product, not you. We only make money when people and companies enjoy our product enough to pay us for it. We don’t have ads and we never monetize your data. Watch @plibin explain it here: ooo.mmhmm.app/watch/z_BI9Q7X #madewithmmhmm
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Phil Libin
@plibin
I’m honestly surprised that the results are net-beneficial, however slightly. It’s been interesting to have some self-reflection about crypto these past few weeks.
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Phil Libin
@plibin
Honest question: Does hearing me talk about how crypto/web3 is pointless, stupid, and bad for the world make you more or less likely to be a crypto fan?
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Phil Libin
@plibin
Honest question: Does hearing me talk about how crypto/web3 is pointless, stupid, and bad for the world make you more or less likely to be a crypto fan?
  • More likely.
    14.2%
  • Less likely.
    21.3%
  • No effect.
    39.4%
  • You’re anti-crypto?
    25.2%
127 votesFinal results
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Phil Libin
@plibin
An interesting observation by
@KTmBoyle
. I think the common underlying cause is that both have become overstuffed with money-linked bullshit. Because incentives differ upstream, this manifests as angry shouting in one, and milquetoast mumbling in the other.
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Katherine Boyle
@KTmBoyle
Sometimes surprised that American political culture has become harsher and more biting while almost every aspect of American corporate culture has become softer.
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Phil Libin
@plibin
Oh goddamnit, now that Jim Cramer agrees with me that crypto “has no real value”, I have to seriously consider the possibility that I’m wrong.
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Phil Libin
@plibin
Web3 will eventually succeed, because 3 is the number after 2 and if we’re now at Web2, something will come next. Likely, it’ll be created by some of the people working on Web3 trying to solve real problems. I doubt it’ll have anything to do with blockchain or current crypto tho.
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