Aaron Parecki

Live show is proceeding on schedule today! Well, sort-of… I’ll be joining @aaronpk to test a new YouTube feature that brings streamers together. We really have no idea how well this works… why test, when you can just GO LIVE!! 10am Pacific (in 25 min.) https://youtu.be/93xaRo4yhnE

Manufacturing consensus in the age of Slack: add an emoji reaction to your own messages to give bystanders something to click on, hence agree with ;)

The algorithm doesn't "punish" you. That myth kinda stems from creators that just chuck stuff at a channel without thinking about it.

The system now takes into account shorts and long form views, so viewers that watch your shorts will get recommended longer videos & vice versa.

Last night, friends from the birdapp reached out to us, asking us to publish a layoff guide for their coworkers.

It is written thoughtfully and with great care. If you work at the company, we encourage you to take a look.

https://collectiveaction.tech/2022/a-layoff-guide-for-tweeps/

P.S.A.
If you can't explain the gist of your video in 5 words or less your audience won't be able to do it either.

Look at the most viewed videos when searching, 9/10 are very simple concepts with an extremely good reason to click.

Clear over Clever.

No identity verification, & 8 bucks for a verified account?
Get ready for the new cyber criminal playbook: use stolen credit card to buy verified Twitter account, impersonate real customer support channels, trick users into handing over account details in DM, account takeover.

Lol

“To help ensure the safety of each employee as well as Twitter systems and customer data, our offices will be temporarily closed and all badge access will be suspended.” 2/

Being on twitter this week kinda feels like when you're watching a tv series you've heavily invested in and you know its going to be the last season based on how bad the storyline, plot and episode quality has gotten

And unfortunately, it's not rocket science. We have very clear mathematical models of orbital trajectories. We have no such understanding of how to arrange humans at scale in a way that doesn't send into the ocean (perhaps literally). We only know enough to know it's hard.

It’s pretty simple: Google Meet (original) was previously Meet, which was the rebranded Hangouts Meet. Meet has been merged with Google Duo, which replaced Google Hangouts. Google Duo has been renamed Meet, and Meet has been temporarily named Google Meet (original), for clarity

Watching Musk stumble through Twitter's first 15 years of mistakes and oopses and design decisions within the first 15 days has been one incredible speedrun of ignominy.

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?