👉 Tech Twitter TLDR - JULY ROUNDUP
The most polarizing, funniest, interesting stuff from tech twitter for the month of July -
Yo! Here’s all the everything that happened on Tech Twitter for the month of July.
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Most interesting - Career Paths (@TZhongg)
Ever wonder how tech superstars became superstars? Check out this insane thread on different people’s career paths. See Issue #3 for more.
@sarahtavel @beller @justGLew
Geoff Lewis: from P&G brand manager to hedge fund to startup to Founders Fund partner to Bedrock founder
h/t @sarthakgh
Most Polarizing - Superhuman (@rahulvohra)
People got really upset that Superhuman tracked email read statuses without the recipients’ consent. See Issue #1 for more.
Superhuman is an email surveillance app that encourages its users to spy on friends and co-workers without their consent. Why the ethics of this matter and what it says about Superhuman as a company. New post on Mike Industries:
So. This Superhuman thing
(1) Any news is good news for em tbh. Their top of funnel has likely been great past 2 days
(2) I can understand both sides. But there's a strong correlation between the people outraged by privacy and the people that I think are dumbasses in the valley
The @Superhuman discussion is fascinating, especially from tech Twitter.
Twitter DMs, FB Messenger and other messaging tools have a read receipt: either a time stamp or a ✔️
The professional world is increasingly flexible & geo-agnostic. Email needs to catch up.
3/ I am so very sorry for how our read status feature made folks feel. We did not imagine the potential for misuse. Now we are learning and changing.
This statement defines 2010s tech: “When we built Superhuman, we focused only on the needs of our customers. We did not consider potential bad actors.”
Techmeme @Techmeme
Most Hype - Tandem.chat (@Tandem_HQ)
Everyone seems to really stoked about this new remote work startup.
The hype around tandem.chat is revealing at a meta level:
“Remote” is a major part of the unconscious zeitgeist. And the world is thirsty for a new productivity tool. It’s been a while.
Funniest - The 10x Engineer Trolls (via @skirani)
The tech industry is still recovering from the onslaught of hilarious trolls connected to Shekhar’s well-meaning, albeit flowery tweet about 10x engineers. See Issue #1 for more.
10x engineers
Founders if you ever come across this rare breed of engineers, grab them. If you have a 10x engineer as part of your first few engineers, you increase the odds of your startup success significantly.
OK, here is a tough question.
How do you spot a 10x engineer?
Tweeter of the Month - Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan)
Lenny has been absolutely on fire this month sharing incredibly valuable insights on product, startups, and life. While he has written a number of full-length articles lately, most of his ideas start and develop on Twitter.
Managing up is an essential skill at every level (even CEO). It enables you do your best work, and get the recognition you deserve.
A few tips for managing up well (thread 👇)
How do you prioritize a roadmap?
First, take a step back and remember that a business is just a group of people solving problems for other people in exchange for money. Your job is to (1) figure out the problems, and (2) solve them in the most efficient way possible. Thread 👇
Thank you all for the incredible feedback on this thread! I've gone through every comment, and have updated the list to be the most comprehensive list of ways to differentiate your product or service I've ever found. New thread below.👇
Go team!n
Lenny Rachitsky 🤗 @lennysan
Been thinking about ways companies can differentiate. What am I missing?
1. Lowest price (Walmart, Amazon)
2. Highest quality (Whole Foods, Ritz)
3. Most convenient (Uber/Lyft, 7/11)
4. Best user experience (Apple, Zoom)
5. Best customer experience (Zappos, Nordstroms) 1/2
And here are some highlights from the last week:
More Mass Shootings
Nothing to do with tech but everything to do with being a human being in the US. This needs to stop.
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Now Praying for the families of Texas. So sad & horrible. When do we ban military assault weapons? US can follow the lead of New Zealand in banning these military weapons of war. NZ parliament voted 119-1 ban these weapons after their horrible massacre. https://t.co/8yRelPOJeT
Marc Benioff @Benioff
Hey @Walmart, maybe you could, hmm, I don’t know, stop selling guns?
Walmart @Walmart
More PG wisdom
As usual, PG has been sharing some incredible advice over the past week.
The reason most founders are surprised by the difficulty of fundraising is that they're learning something about themselves, not something about fundraising. They know fundraising is hard for startups that don't seem appealing to investors. They just didn't realize they had one.
Someone Doesn’t Like LambdaSchool
A few loud critics of LambdaSchool shared some thoughts about LambdaSchool. Click in to read the threads.
When people ask me about accessible ($$$) bootcamps, I would tell them to look into Lambda School.
But I've recently heard some things from people who have attended, and I can no longer recommend them.
From what I've learned, Lambda School is trash.
Thread.
Conclusion...
If you have a college degree, professional tech experience and/or spent a year at another boot camp... then yeah. Take the risk. You’re probably gonna land a job in tech with a starting base salary > $50K.
And they’ll probably feature you on the bootcamp website.
Interesting Stuff
Prediction: Weekly Sabbaths will make a comeback.
The anxieties of the modern world come from abundance, not scarcity.
That’s why Stoicism and intermittent fasting are so popular.
Next, we’ll find ways to disconnect from technology.
24 hours at a time.
Old status symbol: wearing a suit to work
New status symbol: wearing jeans and a t-shirt
Old status symbol: working 80 hours a week
New status symbol: sleeping 8 hours a day
Humans are mimetic. Updating our status symbols may be the best way to create sustained systemic change.
This color changing e-ink dress was presented at the Uniglobe Kisco’s Booth at Display Week 2017: it utilizes an extremely flexible E-ink Prism film that can change colors and patterns instantly [source and full video: buff.ly/2YwkzdS]
Funny Stuff
Create your own new age startup wisdom with my Marianne Williamson x VC generator
perchance.org/marianne-vc
I find it poetic that in San Francisco, the two most important streets are Market and Mission.
Because in this city, that is all you need.
Consider this my good deed of the day:
Back in 2008 two bodybuilders were arguing on the Internet about how many days are in a week.
It is one of the greatest Internet threads of all time.
If you haven't read it, stop what you are doing and read it:
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