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Why Beautiful Apps Always Die the Same Way Arc's Big, Beautiful Exit

Every beautiful app dies the same way:

• Mailbox
• Sparrow
• Wunderlist
• Sunrise
• Arc

I wrote about why in today's @theindexmedia.bsky.social

www.theindex.media/p/why-beauti...

Sunset over Lake Michigan

Can’t believe summer is almost over.
#LakeMichigan #DuckLake

This. 100% all of this.

Hey Kinsey - looks like I can’t DM you, but if you’re open to some tedious administrative tasks, lmk.

I have a few professional acquaintances that work there. What’s up?

Welcome! Glad you’re here.

YouTube video by Undecided with Matt Ferrell How CATL Made Batteries 90% Cheaper (And What Happens Next)

Chinese battery maker is launching mass produced sodium ion batteries with claimed 3.5x lifespan lithium and $10/kwh. Lithium is $115.

If true, fossil fuel use for almost any purpose is done. Solar & wind combined with cheap grid & home storage changes everything.

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

Why a Maximum Viable Promise Beats an MVP Sell the Dream, Ship the Excuse, Raise on the Delta

You can invent the future and still lose it. It has nothing to do with whether your product works. It's because your promise didn't land. Here's why the "minimum viable product" model is backwards:

This. All of this.

Ask your doctor what treatment the supreme court decided is right for you.

Cloudflare again. No surprises. Just this time it brought down GCP instead of Microsoft.

Very bored of seeing papers like this

#OnYourSide

Every 30-year-old I know has the trauma of a 60-year-old coal miner and the coping mechanisms of a raccoon with Wi-Fi.

I just… what in the actual…

“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).

The American Dream of Being an Expat I confess that I'm a little lost presently.

Maybe this was never the place I thought it was. That image is likely just the selective memory or the idealized version of it all as filtered through a more naive, less aware, more optimistic version of myself. Still, the sense of loss is the same.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-americ...

This! 100% this.

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Please repost this if you want to be on starter packs.

This will help me make more good starter packs.

Let's grow big and strong together!

Yes. THIS. 100% this.

I mean… of course they are…

US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say | CNN Politics Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have b...

First, there was the meeting in the Oval yesterday. Then the announcement the Hegseth was halting CISO operations against Russia. Now there’s this article on CNN. The more the dots connect, the more terrified I feel.

www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...

Our allies just witnessed Vance and Trump beating up Zelensky in service of Putin. They realize that US is no longer a trusted ally but a potential enemy. They will unify to protect themselves. We will be further isolated.

Pure retaliation. 😠

I feel this 100%.
I hope Anthropic is working on a solution to this or people are going to start moving to alternatives.