Umang J

End mid-century modern

No, you are not on Indigenous land Pieces of territory belong to institutions, not to racial groups.

Best thing I’ve read on the topic: www.noahpinion.blog/p/no-you-are...

they seem to be re-running all the mistakes of old twitter

Is it finally time for this app to become the schelling point of the twitter exiles?

https://www.threads.net/@umang

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Hello Blueskis (is that the right word?)!!

What’s everyone watching (tv or movie) this weekend?

most important word in the english language these past few years:

tokens

That is an implicit vote on the evolution of decentralized social :)

a conference of trees

So should I switch my username to my domain? Or keep my first name at bsky.social … because first name?

Read most of it in college - think I got to book 8 or 9 before dropping off.

SF is so back

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A sure way to tell whether an online community is here to stay is if its members start organizing IRL meetups.

I do long runs because for that time the world ceases to exist.

Just the straight road and a meandering train of thoughts.

Basically the difference between a company that runs on Slack and another that runs on email is the difference between an oral culture and a written culture

I see. Yes - it needs to grow (more importantly, retain) and in a way to break Twtr’s network effects. That is problem #1 to solve.

Protocol’s success depends on the first reference client and the first client is a Twitter clone, so beating Twitter is the game.

Is it eternal September here already?

I’ll posit that intuition vs data was the difference between early Twitter and early Facebook.

Easy to go wrong with either extreme - you need intuition to ship and data to check your intuition. Especially because social or marketplace-like products can behave very non-intuitively.

Hill I will die on: Magnesium > Vitamin D

exactly!

perhaps the copy can be explicit and say “mute notifications” instead of “mute thread” because mute means different things in different contexts?

Yeah! Connective tissue (in this case, physical proximity) between humans is ageless.

Every time an iOS update has new emojis, I wonder what critical security hole they’ve patched that they need to find a way to get everyone to update asap 👀

Three Colours: Blue — growing old gracefully Thirty years on from its release, Three Colours: Blue remains as vivid a depiction of grief as ever.

For the Krzysztof Kieslowski fans https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/three-colours-blue-growing-old-gracefully/

This makes me want to watch them all again.

Absolutely. Threads was already tugging in that direction, can’t imagine why they didn’t see it coming.

Someone (think Sarah Tavel?) said the core of a social network is its format, and it’s so true.

Latest entrant to the library

One of my favorite spills of ink on a page:

I could be doomscrolling on my laptop and people will still think I’m working hard.

I could be intensely doing work email on my phone and people will think I’m goofing off and make me to do the dishes.

It works!!