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Product DesignerNYC / SF / 🎿ev.medium.comBorn 1972Joined March 2006

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Twitter's Who to Follow algo has been showing me the same person at the top for years. Not every time, but often. I still don't want to follow them. Opportunity for optimization there, gang.
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“I think we’re in for a hard ride for maybe half a century. Then it will either be the end of civilization or a reborn humanity with a different set of ideas about who we are and where we belong and how we must relate to things in order to survive.�
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"Research has shown that of all forms of human motivation the most effective one is progress." -Greg McKeown, Essentialism
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Heart’s out to the tweeps getting laid off today. 💙�
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FWIW, I was always a fan of an idea we called "Commercial Accounts" internally—which was to charge businesses for Twitter use. Features would include verification, stats, and profile customization. Someone smart put this deck together in Q209 but...priorities.
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Today we’re launching LiveKit Cloud, the result of a year of talking with devs building live video and audio products with our open-source WebRTC stack. Here’s what we learned:
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Extremely proud of as they take a stance to amplify the voices of the Iranian people in their global fight for women’s rights. Please share and retweet. #beourvoice #iranprotests #opiran #MahsaAmini #freeiran #Woman_Life_Freedom
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Here's what we're reading about Iran's #MahsaAmini protests and the global fight for women's rights. To add your voice, publish on Medium and tag your story "Iran." We'll be updating this list with more of your perspectives: medium.com/@MediumStaff/l
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Looking for a developer to help me with a little side project. It's an existing app. Python/Django backend, Next.js frontend. Part-time, contract. Could be a whole thing! (But probably not.) DM me.
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Aussie question: Was just told it’s illegal to have a hot beverage in a vehicle in Australia (Queensland). Driver cited “transport law.� I can find no reference to this on the internet. Is there any truth to it?
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MEDIUM: the intervening substance through which impressions are conveyed to the senses or a force acts on objects at a distance.
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Ten years ago, I was brainstorming with about a publishing platform. We talked about having a constraint (like Twitter) — not too short, but not too long. I went to the whiteboard and wrote "MEDIUM." Whatever it is, I said, we should call it that.
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"If you change your mind about the importance of writing, you will also change your mind about everything else. Even if you decide never to write a single line of a manuscript, you will improve your reading, thinking and other intellectual skills just by doing ..."
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