I respect Nilay’s ability to be firm and ask questions he knows are going to upset his interviewees without actually becoming confrontational.

Except he’s saying that let’s just keep extracting value and ride this baby into the dirt, rather than advocating for societal change.

About 10 years old, but… https://www.techdirt.com/2015/08/18/why-patent-trolls-love-east-texas-why-congress-needs-to-fix-it/

The ties don’t exactly match. The orange one made sure his tie was the longest and stupidest looking.

I have heard from many sources that at least the past ~4 years, if you are seen using the fun office things, you’re seen as not busy enough and will be pipped/fired

Which they will unceremoniously murder after it fails to get enough traction in a month after launch.

How so

Growth hacking. Shake loose more market share with the “FREE!!” version and then the frog boil

Ahh!! Leeches!

This is my question too. What changed?

FIS👏CAL👏CLIFF👏

Unless the goal is to make a political statement with your departure.

• theft?

• piracy?

• … scalping?

• selling on margin?

It took me like 4 attempts and 100 pages before I was able to get into it but it dramatically changed my understanding of reality

Neil Stephenson is a high effort author to read but the payoff more than makes up for it. I have yet to convince anyone else to read Snow Crash 😔

Mr Beast is a fascist

Why now? Maybe they are seeing high profile defections at a higher rate?

To determine if this company is actually a poor widdle guy or just trying to look like their hands are tied with respect to paying artists, look up how much Daniel Ek is worth, and then look up what he does with his money