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Shipped a relatively bug free Nos to the App Store. Facilitated the pivot to Communities.
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Linda 1 year ago
Dan Hon’s latest newsletter asks an interesting question about whether we’ve solved all the easy problems with maths and what remains are the people problems which are much more difficult to solve. Scratching the surface of content moderation tools in recent weeks, it certainly feels like the people problem is going to require more than maths…
s18e06: Low-Hanging Fruit, Information Processing, and People Problems
0.0 Context Setting A grey Thursday morning in Portland, Oregon, on April 4, 2024. For April fools this week, Florian and I switched the homepage o...
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Linda 1 year ago
Great read on why startups fail which can also be applied to products.
A Smart Bear
Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy
Why do startups typically fail? It turns out that
 #1 on the list Didn’t talk to customers (and listen) If you didn’t talk to customers before you started, and especially after you started, that’s a blunder. If you talked to them and weren’t honest with yourself about what they were saying, that’s your faulty analysis. You should have used the Iterative Hypothesis Method or some other reputable framework.
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Linda 1 year ago
Reflections of the evening light image
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Linda 1 year ago
One of the opportunities we have with Nostr when it comes to building both apps and even NIPs is the ability to shift our current ways of thinking. Today we think of a post almost as something inscribed in stone - someone posts something and its always there. But that’s only one way of looking at a post. We could instead think of posts as something that sprouts and grows over time - similar to the garden metaphor used in this article regarding feeds.
Feeds are Not Fit for Gardening — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho
—at least, in their current instantiations with RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, etc.
 We should embrace the freedom we have to think outside the box.
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Linda 1 year ago
Insurance companies have been increasing premiums for house and building insurance for several years due to climate change induced disasters. Simultaneously these same companies have been insuring fossil fuel projects. CT is proposing legislation to put a fee on companies who continue to insure fossil fuel projects thus enabling them to move forward. Its nice to see some innovation in-the legislative space.
Grist
Connecticut wants to penalize insurers for backing fossil fuel projects
A new bill from the Connecticut legislature could impose a fee on any insurance company underwriting a fossil-fuel project in the state.
Grist
Connecticut wants to penalize insurers for backing fossil fuel projects
A new bill from the Connecticut legislature could impose a fee on any insurance company underwriting a fossil-fuel project in the state.
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Linda 1 year ago
@@Meredith Whittaker is correct, the left does need to pay attention to free speech and the increasing concentration of power of platform social media. “The problem here is the platforms themselves. There is something deeply wrong with the whole form. With their self-reinforcing business models, their reliance on surveillance, and their role in undermining an independent media ecosystem and replacing it with their monolithic feeds. “ “The right is fighting to take control of these platforms, while liberals and some on the left are fighting to expand vectors of platform control, without thinking hard enough about who will wield this power and who is likely to get hurt.”
LPE Project
Social Media, Authoritarianism, and the World As It Is
Before we move to further concentrate global surveillance and propaganda power in the hands of the United States, we should be clear-eyed about the...
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