Author Archives: Davy
fdsdfsdfWhat seven years at Airbnb taught me about building a company
Altijd interessant, zo’n artikels zoals deze van Lenny Rachitsky: Since leaving a few weeks ago, before I get too deep into starting my own thing again, I‘ve been jotting down my biggest lessons from these experiences. I quickly realized I should share these lessons with anyone else working to build their own company.
Why we need to reinvent democracy for the long-term
Filosoof Roman Krznaric: We treat the future like a distant colonial outpost devoid of people, where we can freely dump ecological degradation, technological risk, nuclear waste and public debt, and that we feel at liberty to plunder as we please.
Silicon Valley isn’t just a technostate – it’s something much bigger
Interessant opiniestuk van Navneet Alang in het Canadese The Globe and Mail: A concentration of powerful companies is nothing new. The idea of petro-states is firmly in our political-science lexicon, and multinational companies in industries such as aerospace, pharma and telecom have long lobbied governments for sweetheart deals. But with Big Tech, the scale is […]
Apple Watch’s ECG App and Irregular Rhythm Notification Expand Across the Globe
MacStories: Countries that now support the ECG app: Belgium…
Waarom de verderfelijke teksten van de Christchurch-terrorist helaas niet te negeren zijn
Dimitri Tokmetzis op De Correspondent: Wie zich verdiept in online media weet allang: de ideologische voedingsbodem is er al. En het uitspitten van dit manifest kan helpen om grip op deze extreme denkbeelden te krijgen, om ze te leren herkennen.
Marie Kondo Your Twitter Feed
Tokimeki Unfollow lijkt een geweldig handige tool: Take a deep breath! Let’s look at your follows together, one by one, and think about if each one still sparks joy, intrigue, inspiration, or is in any way still important to you. If not, hit that Unfollow button! Ik deed het een tijdje geleden zelf manueel: (via […]
The strongmen strike back
Epische longread van Robert Kagan als opinie voor The Washington Post: Much more is at risk than our privacy. We have been living with the comforting myth that the great progress we have witnessed in human behavior since the mid-20th century, the reductions in violence, in the brutality of the state, in torture, in mass […]
A Mass Murder of, and for, the Internet
Kevin Roose op The New York Times: There is no offline equivalent of the experience of being algorithmically nudged toward a more strident version of your existing beliefs, or having an invisible hand steer you from gaming videos to neo-Nazism. The internet is now the place where the seeds of extremism are planted and watered, […]
What Chris Cox’s departure means for Facebook
Casey Newton op The Verge: When the history of Facebook is written, mark down March 14th, 2019 as the end of the News Feed era. Cox helped design the first iterations of the News Feed and oversaw it during its most successful phase. It will not disappear overnight, and at its enormous scale may demonstrate […]