For real though instead of NFTs can't we just docusign stuff?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 12 March 2021 03:24 (three years ago) link
the toilet
― Bruno Ganz and Babaloo Mandel (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 12 March 2021 03:43 (three years ago) link
xp - seriously, why isn't Grimes headlining the Docusign conference?
― sarahell, Friday, 12 March 2021 05:46 (three years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/mmdI3ioIOf— Nitasha Tiku (@nitashatiku) March 12, 2021
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Friday, 12 March 2021 07:12 (three years ago) link
I'm howling
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Friday, 12 March 2021 15:50 (three years ago) link
is this intentional or unintentional comedy?
― sarahell, Friday, 12 March 2021 16:05 (three years ago) link
The North Sentinelese in the Andaman Islands don't have wheels or smallpox vaccines. They may have toilets and/or bowls, nobody knows.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 12 March 2021 16:14 (three years ago) link
The part about watching Jackson do design work live on twitch is the clincher.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 12 March 2021 16:18 (three years ago) link
why does she speak like TTS software?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 12 March 2021 19:27 (three years ago) link
This is extremely good and fascinating. Still not done with it:
https://www.thedigradio.com/podcast/counterculture-to-cyberculture-with-fred-turner/
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 29 March 2021 16:21 (three years ago) link
Anyone gonna watch this? I don't know.. the founder guy looks kinda like the Night Stalker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVAESeO7dgc
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 8 April 2021 18:58 (two years ago) link
Mind Capitalism: Braindreessen Horowitz pic.twitter.com/2OxuHn8r0s— Ed Zitron (@edzitron) May 4, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 01:37 (two years ago) link
What?
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 01:42 (two years ago) link
Okay at first I thought it was inexplicable, then I thought it was some kind of sinister prank the universe was playing on me, but now I'm just really enjoying how dumb this tweet is. Man just had a thought and tweeted it without any of the wiser parts of the brain stepping in, they were just as transfixed as the rest of us.
― lukas, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 01:46 (two years ago) link
this whole basecamp thing has been amazing
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 13:47 (two years ago) link
It's been a case study in how to set your company on fire
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 14:03 (two years ago) link
I’m learning some leadership lessons certainly, like “don’t call in to the very sensitive all-hands from bed”
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 14:43 (two years ago) link
my grad school adviser was a huge basecamp stan so I've been following it a bit, the whole thing to me really smacks of all the white tech guys I've encountered in undergrad/grad education at tech schools—the reactionary way of dealing with these conversations is basically an across-the-board thing, especially the general "I just want to build cool shit, why do we have to talk about things that are so ambiguous and divisive? also I have not experienced white supremacy or done it so it doesn't exist."
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 16:07 (two years ago) link
wait, what is this thing?
― sarahell, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link
https://www.platformer.news/p/-how-basecamp-blew-up
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 16:46 (two years ago) link
if you're outside tech then they're obviously awful people just based on this story, but there's a huge amount of schadenfreude inside tech too because they've written a bunch of very strident "here's how to run a company" books.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 17:02 (two years ago) link
Picked this book authored by the Basecamp co-founders off of the shelf and opened it to a section I had highlighted when I first read it. 🙄 pic.twitter.com/aJHptrC8XK— JT (@thejoshtorres) May 4, 2021
― lukas, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 17:16 (two years ago) link
more coverage: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/3/22418208/basecamp-all-hands-meeting-employee-resignations-buyouts-implosion
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 17:46 (two years ago) link
I thought this had to be a joke
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 17:59 (two years ago) link
dan m, I think that Verge piece is exactly the same as what mookieproof posted?
weird, I assumed since it was a separate URL that it would have been different, my bad
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 18:10 (two years ago) link
So this kerfufle was triggered by employees posting to ilx's "Abysmal Real Names" thread?
― everything, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 21:21 (two years ago) link
Feels good to not know what Basecamp does.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 21:35 (two years ago) link
^^
― DJI, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 21:56 (two years ago) link
dan m, I think that Verge piece is exactly the same as what mookieproof posted?― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Tuesday, May 4, 2021 1:59 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Tuesday, May 4, 2021 1:59 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
i think the author has a deal where he's allowed to post his stuff to his own site (which he sells subscriptions for) and the verge pays him to syndicate it.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 22:02 (two years ago) link
the basecamp thing is definitely one of those “we’re the good guys” scenarios where leadership was even “doing the work” by telling the employees about the books they were reading, only for the employees to say “hey, maybe we’re doing some things wrong” only for the boss to point at the “we’re the good guys” sign on the wall
― mh, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 14:56 (two years ago) link
Ha otm.I read their book about remote work when I went remote and it’s no better than any airport business book but it’s written in that y combinator style that simulates clear thinking.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 15:07 (two years ago) link
Ironically for ilx I am reading this right now https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3828902 (who was into this idea and posted about it in re: Arsenal? I can’t remember). I kind of thought it was a cult 70s thing like the whole earth catalog and chaos theory etc. bit I saw it recommended a bunch and it is at least very short so I’m giving it a shot.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 15:09 (two years ago) link
I was going to post "The Limits to Growth was a huge deal" but my supervisor is writing a book about the history of models, so I may have a pretty skewed perspective on this
― rob, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 15:33 (two years ago) link
Re not knowing what they do. This talk of "building cool shit" is much funnier when you do. What a bizarre economy.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 15:56 (two years ago) link
the line between the Whole Earth Catalog and Q running through silicon valley, the free software foundation, and gamergate is a very bright and straight one
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 15:57 (two years ago) link
someone on twitter reminded me that the guy who was canned from Google for “just asking questions” originally had @Fired4Truth as his twitter handle
this will never not be funny
― mh, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 17:14 (two years ago) link
I'm asking what you think. You say it's a bad idea to hire people who say things for shock value. Presumably you mean to include Antonio, or you wouldn't have mentioned this. So are you saying that in a world of properly run companies, he should never work again?— Paul Graham (@paulg) May 13, 2021
― mh, Friday, 14 May 2021 12:41 (two years ago) link
I ain’t clicking through on that
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Friday, 14 May 2021 13:40 (two years ago) link
I think you can get the point without clicking. PG just being obtuse and acting like “don’t hire jerks” means that all of our best thought leaders will be unemployed
― mh, Friday, 14 May 2021 13:50 (two years ago) link
Ex-Facebook VR exec says he'll turn U.S. troops into 'invincible technomancers,' just raised $450 million https://t.co/xufDyzkh0n— CNBC (@CNBC) June 17, 2021
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 17 June 2021 20:52 (two years ago) link
"ex-facebook vr exec" doesn't really capture that guy's bio tbf
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 17 June 2021 20:54 (two years ago) link
Is that the worst beard in the world?
― DJI, Thursday, 17 June 2021 20:57 (two years ago) link
Indeed. I don't usually notice facial hair but that's outstandingly bad
― kinder, Thursday, 17 June 2021 21:07 (two years ago) link
an acquaintance launched the public sale of his startup's crypto token, yesterday. it aims to eliminate global poverty by creating "a regenerative, bottom-up universal basic income (UBI) that can elevate all participants above the global poverty line."
"if the Torus can return $2/day to its participants (as Anatha Token), it can make poverty a disease we’ve cured"... so, peak silicon-valley optimism. it would be cool to see crypto/distributed finance eliminate poverty at any scale.
https://anatha.io/blog/token-salehttps://www.morningstar.com/news/globe-newswire/8255815/anatha-announces-its-accessible-equitable-public-token-sale-accepting-fiat-and-crypto
― davey, Thursday, 17 June 2021 21:37 (two years ago) link
xpost that Facebook guy is Parker Luckey, who I interviewed once and might have been the most awkward conversation I've ever had, absolute basement boy
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 17 June 2021 21:40 (two years ago) link
his sister is engaged to matt gaetz.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 17 June 2021 21:51 (two years ago) link
the Oculus acquisition still baffles me. "we integrated the phone with the ski goggles. now we want 3 billion dollars."
― butyrate humbucker bobbins (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 17 June 2021 21:57 (two years ago) link
India was the Y combinator of the British empire— Daniel Tenreiro 🦧 (@TenreiroDaniel) August 5, 2021
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 6 August 2021 13:59 (two years ago) link