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What Makes Telegram Special
August 6, 2024
Telegram is a secretive social media platform with 900 million users. Their employees aren’t allowed to talk about their jobs. It only has one product...
How Twitter Changed Since Elon's Takeover
July 28, 2024
We’ve all seen these posts about how Twitter fired 80% of its employees, and then nothing happened. Seems it ultimately did affect their revenue: Internal...
What The EU Should Have Done Instead of DMA
July 13, 2024
The Digital Markets Act is a bad law. I can understand the idea that led to it. Digital tech companies have a lot of power, and existing regulations don’t...
The United Internet is Collapsing
June 24, 2024
The internet is probably my favorite invention in the whole world. It’s hard to compare it with penicillin or electricity, of course, but I still remember...
Why Arc is The Best Browser
June 15, 2024
Arc is an alternative Chrome-based browser with a unique interface. It’s become so popular that The Verge reports on pretty minor updates. I switched to it...
Can Markets Regulate Themselves?
June 7, 2024
People arguing about regulation tend to favor one side of the argument and believe that either the government or the market has the capabilities and the...
Why Execution Eats Ideas For Lunch
May 18, 2024
Most people tend to overvalue ideas and undervalue execution. In my experience, that holds even for many people in the tech industry. In general, this...
The Unsettling Battle Between Media and Technology
April 5, 2024
Balaji started a discussion on Twitter that finally pushed me to put down my thoughts on the matter. Some time ago, around the early 2010s, a tectonic shift...
The Unstoppable EU and The Immovable Apple
March 5, 2024
The European Union and Apple are locked in a fight nobody wants to cede. First was the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which made Apple create an entirely new...
Why AI Doomerism is Flawed and Misguided
November 23, 2023
Most politicians are populists, which is the natural result of the basic rule of communications: the larger your audience is, the simpler your message should...
My Default Apps
November 7, 2023
I saw this post on Matt Birchler’s blog and thought it was an excellent format to share what apps and services I use daily. ✉️ Mail service: Gmail 📬 Mail...
Communicating with Numbers
November 3, 2023
One of the strongest moves in communications is pushing slightly wrong numbers out so that many people start quoting them and associate with your business...
Does Blogging Even Work?
November 1, 2023
Blogging became popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s, with the rise of platforms like Blogger and WordPress, which made it relatively easy for people to...
Why Superhuman Is Worth $30
October 24, 2023
Superhuman is a productivity-focused email app initially designed for founders and executives that has massively expanded its focus since then. Its “the...
Uber is Good, Actually
October 8, 2023
There’s a widespread notion that Uber is getting more and more expensive. You can find multiple series of articles produced on this topic each year and...
Basecamp is a Contrarian Marketing Operation
September 9, 2023
Basecamp and DHH specifically know how to trigger people and use this all the time to drive awareness without spending a dime. They take stuff that’s...
Web Apps Are Better Than No Apps
August 29, 2023
There’s a certain community in tech that’s very vocal about their preference toward native apps. I share that sentiment, yet sometimes people take this idea...
Sorry, But Google Meet Is Better Than Zoom
August 19, 2023
It seems that we’re finally getting out of this weird period of collective gaslighting where people tried to convince everyone Zoom was the best conference...
Finalist: A Simpler To-do App
August 15, 2023
MacStories ↗ Finalist is a new iPhone and iPad task manager that combines elements of note-taking apps, Kanban boards, and calendar apps in a unique and...
Omnivore Review: An Underrated Read-Later App
August 12, 2023
Omnivore is an open-source read-later app. And that’s the first thing that differentiates it. Of course, consumers don’t really care when things are open...
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