Aaron Parecki

Layoffs announced in the last day:

- Lyft 13% of workers
- Opendoor 18%
- Stripe 14%
- Chime 12%
- Twitter 50%
- Morgan Stanley (% unknown)

3 questions you need to answer before making every thumbnail:

• How is my video unique?
• How is my video interesting?
• How is my video remarkable?

In the answers is a clickable thumbnail.

I work with amazingly talented & ambitious people here at Twitter and this is not a normal moment in time. We are less than 1wk into a massive business & cultural transition. People are giving it their all across all functions: product, design, eng, legal, finance, marketing, etc

Ironic that those who claim to do their own research did so little when we worked on group projects in high school.

Good article! Small notes re Portland:

1) It's true that in year 1 of our new zoning, ~1/2 of projects in low-density zones were still oneplexes, but almost all were in those first 6 months. In the second half of year 1, oneplex construction nearly halted in favor of 4plexes.

1995: PHP is dead, learn ColdFusion
2002: PHP is dead, learn ASP​.net
2003: PHP is dead, learn Django
2004: PHP is dead, learn Ruby on Rails
2010: PHP is dead, learn Flask
2011: PHP is dead, learn AngularJS
2016: PHP is dead, learn Next.js
2022: okay this is awkward

Spammers and bots are just gonna pay the $8 because they are going to make way more 💰 tricking people into clicking their links, stealing their credit cards, crypto and NFTs. Nothing is going to change 😂 GM

So much money poured into web3 and you all weren't ready with a decentralized version of twitter?

You learn something from every single YouTube video you make.

I work with creators ranging from 37,000 subscribers to 3,000,000.

Here are 5 retention-killing traps I've fallen into as a scriptwriter over the last year 🧵:

Everyone on social media should know about the Illusory Truth Effect

If you see something repeated enough times, it seems more true. Multiple studies show that it works on 85% of people. Worse, it still happens even if the information isn't plausible & even if you know better.

Remember: the chaos is the point. This is a green light to trolls, election meddlers, and disinfo peddlers. Elon loves the trash fire. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-01/twitter-limits-content-enforcement-tools-as-us-election-looms

Scammers are using potential Twitter verification news and updates to trick folks into giving away their credentials via phishing emails fast. Cyber criminals often use breaking or current events and platform updates to trick via email or social media message. Example below.

Teach your kids how to dial a rotary phone, connect to the internet via a dial-up modem, use 1-800-CALL-ATT, hook paper up to a dot-matrix printer, scan documents with a hand-held scanner, log on to IRC, and any other real-world skills your ancestors were taught.

You could probably divide twitter’s staff right now into a few groups: (a) people who want to leave and will (if they’re not fired) but are hanging on for a payout (b) people who want to leave but can’t because of visas/family (c) a few who want to fight for it (d) Elon cultists.

I wish I could go on Twitter without people flooding the timeline with whining and over dramatizing things about Twitter.

It’s a social media site. We’ll all be fine. Life is so much bigger than these things.

Go hang out with your family or pet. Send a nice message to a friend.

I’ve spent more time inside the Twitter codebase than 99.9999% of humanity and folks, I literally don’t understand what it would mean to give someone a quick “tour” of “the Twitter code”

i love to update the operating system on my television. its so cool that there's another little computer in there which does nothing for me that i despise and have to take care of

When I retire someday I want to teach this class because:

1. It will be super fun
2. In the moment kids will hate it and not understand why this is so hard
3. Ten years after they'll (hopefully) say its the one CS class they still use everyday

Monday would be the perfect day for Google to announce that they're bringing Reader back from the dead.

Well @elonmusk now owns this place so here’s a warm welcome to him and his fans
https://t.co/eMpXNrdc46