sthommes

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by sthommes 10y ago
Merry Christmas! My holiday message of hope (repost from http://www.generalstore.co/hope.html ). As I look around my little Bay Area town, and especially my Facebook and Instashrams, I am struck by how fortunate we all are.
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Lies, Damn Lies and Advertising: Chevron ad relies on a gullible public(paidpost.nytimes.com)
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by sthommes 10y ago
Underlying driver here is that users are migrating en masse to Facebook now for their professional updates and post streams. Twitter is most impacted, but LinkedIn too. That's why TWTR selling, LNKD sold. The market for users attention
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by sthommes 13y ago
Shame is really hard to assign and even more difficult to self apply. So while society (let alone our small, sometimes dark programming/tech back lot) is a long way from where we should be, each of us does have a responsibility to more
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by sthommes 13y ago
At a very early stage but well-funded startup, where everyone is relatively equal in age, capability or experience, I think the idea of everyone making the same 'monthly nut' money, like $100K per annum could be appealing. In the
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by sthommes 13y ago
Hello, Mr. Cook, yes, yes, your EA here. No, no, you heard me right, God, Sir Isaac Newton and John Lennon are on the line. No, no. I don't know who reports to who. Do you want me to guess? What's it about? uh, let me ask. Ok. the
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by sthommes 13y ago
Really, really smart hire by @dickc. and @adambain knows this so it's no threat to his juggernaut advertising business- commerce and content could very end up two equal legs in a three-legged awesome @biz stool (sorry for the twitter
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by sthommes 13y ago
I love this. I not only illustrates the concept of the false negative (which is presumably as likely as the false positive)- it also showcases that disciplines and best practices, even policies hr, finance, sales ops and yes, even product a
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by sthommes 13y ago
Personally, since we're in PG's House I chose to filter out the actual content and focus on the pretty sweet visualization. As an awesome UI for navigating large datasets where context and metadata edges of the graph are more rele
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by sthommes 13y ago
+1 - I've always thought the Gregorian calendar was arcane and awkward, a weird artifact. Is there like an ICANN for the calendar?
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by sthommes 13y ago
Lot of truth and good POV here, zaroth
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by sthommes 13y ago
Suggestion for the biz dev team at Loom: how about a "Loom Mortgage" for unlimited > 5GB storage. Like a family home, all of your thousands of photos should be an heirloom that passes on to the next generation. If it were say 1
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by sthommes 13y ago
When I was 12 I had treasure chest- an orange Vans shoebox full of printed cards, which I had accumulated via acquisition (new, wrapped, plus stick of gum from the Ice Cream truck) or trade. Included rookie Fisk, Killebrew and Ryan, and an
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by sthommes 13y ago
In 30 years, my children will be starting to have children of their own. Apple is only 36 years old. Google just turned 15. You're right, this is not a problem for VC's investment attention horizon. People need a solution here tha
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by sthommes 13y ago
As an early beta tester, I wanted to share my thoughts - not a feature by feature analysis or comparison to anything else out there associated with photos. I use all sorts of apps and software to create, share and store photos: Facebook, Tu
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by sthommes 13y ago
A better abstraction will happen. It is inevitable. And my impression of Jan is that he is neither myopic nor naive. Files are an old, ugly metaphor born of the file cabinet. Remember when you had to label a file and then figure out where t
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by sthommes 13y ago
pg is right- fundamental. angersock also touches on a higher level, fundamental need here: the ephemerality of human memories. Technology should be able to help and this is exactly the problem that Jan and his team at Loom are trying to sol
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by sthommes 16y ago
Each side has its perspective and points. Each side points fingers: "Scum", "incremental", "non-compete", "stole our idea", "couldn't breathe". I'm not sure which side Amy Wallace falls out on, but both sides are right. And both sides are w