We use the term “developer” way too much. The word makes some people build things, but makes many, many more people not build things. At work, especially, the word discourages tinkering, learning, diving in. “I’m not a developer” is what you get a lot. Or: “That guy’s not a developer”. “We’ll need to hire the […]
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joelkbournejr.com
Just launched a website for a buddy of mine, Joel Bourne, whose End of Plenty is hitting the stores now. End of Plenty is a book about food shortages and world populations, agronomy, climate, industry. Solutions. Joel’s a writer for National Geographic (and many other magazines) and the smartest guy I know about the environment, […]
I bought Twitter followers
Well that was interesting. I read this absorbing, insider article in the New Republic (“The Bot Bubble: How Click Farms Have Inflated Social Media Currency”) about the business of selling followers in bulk on Twitter, Instagram, and wherever attention is a kind of currency, as it is for so many of these services. The article […]