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Cowan Life Lessons
Sriram Krishnan calls Tyler Cowen one of the best talent spotters. I take a few life lessons from Tyler, who I consider a mentor even though we've spent, at most, dozens of minutes together in the past several decades. (Don't constrain your mentors by their availability, engage with their work!) He has blogged consistently on Marginal Revolution since 2003. As he learns he shares, and that's a lighthouse beacon attracting smart people around the…
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Melt Your Butter
In my life I like to experience things high/low, to stay grounded. So while I've been taken on culinary adventures with the best chefs in the world like René Redzepi or Kyle Connaughton, sometimes I find myself on a United flight, as I am today, ordering the chicken. When you move between two extremes it's not the big things that bother you, for example I'm sure this…
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WP21
It seems like just yesterday WordPress was becoming a teenager, and in a blink of the eye it's now old enough to drink! 21 years since Mike and I did the first release of WordPress, forking Michel's work on b2/cafélog. There's been many milestones and highlights along the way, and many more to come. I've been thinking a lot about elements that made WordPress successful in its early years that we should keep in mind as we build this year and beyond.
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Sabbatical Wrap
Today is my first day post-sabbatical, getting back in the swing of things with Automattic. W.org, all the things. What a unique experience! I found the lead up to the sabbatical and planning process to be infinitely valuable, the sabbatical itself to be interesting experentially, and I'm curious to see what the post-sabbatical effects are. I have that nervous excitement like it's the first day of school, which I haven't felt in years.
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Karaoke Hacks
You can't sing. I can't sing. But we both should sing, from the depths of our bellies because it's good for your soul. We don't sing enough in modern society! Hence, my love of karaoke. Live band karaoke is the best, which I've done everywhere from the basement of Hill Country BBQ in New York to someplace random in Davao after a WordCamp, but when you don't have a four piece band a there are electronic substitutes.
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Illuminate has crossed the funding threshold it needed to actually kick off the project of bringing the Bay Lights back to San Francisco, as Heather Knight writes for the New York Times. The upgraded lights will be visible not just from San Francisco but also in Oakland, Treasure Island, Berkeley… all across the Bay. It’s felt like the lights have been the lumen-physical embodiment of San Francisco’s struggles: sparkling and inspiring at the start, then facing troubles,…
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Mouth Biohacking
I'm not one to shy away from random things I find on the internet, so when I came across the Scott Alexander article on a discovery in the 80s about people who don't get cavities, my first thought was "how far is Honduras from Houston?" So on February 28th, my friend Rene and I became the 50th and 51st people to get our normal mouth bacteria scrubbed away and hopefully replaced by a genetically modified strain of…
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Beeper & Texts
It's such a delight when a plan comes together and unfolds, especially when it's something you've been working on for many years. Today the announcement went out that we're combining the best technology from Beeper and Texts to create a great private, secure, and open source messaging client for people to have control of their communications. We're going to use the Beeper brand, because it's fun.
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My old HSPVA friend and classmate Joe Santa Maria has a really cool album that I can only describe as if a Chris Potter big band decided to play Indonesian gamelan music, a type of trance-like rhythmic music which I originally discovered through Aaron Taylor Kuffner’s Gamelatron. You can listen or buy the album here. This is the first album I’ve bought in… forever, I’ve gotten so used to streaming. Feels kinda nice. I need to explore Bandcamp more it’s so cool.
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Tom Scott on APIs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxV14h0kFs0 https://ma.tt/2024/03/tom-scott-on-apis/
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Paul Davids and Jacob Collier http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WknTbYOet4c https://ma.tt/2024/03/paul-davids-and-jacob-collier/
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Hugo on Vision Pro
Many of my friends are ridiculous overachievers, and Hugo Barra is no exception. In response to my birthday blog post present request he has published a magnus opus of over 10,000+ words on his thoughts on the Apple Vision Pro from his perspective having been present for some foundational moments for Google, Meta, and Xiaomi. This is my dream, to get people writing more.
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Amazing Brad Mehldau Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oT7O-ujYoo https://ma.tt/2024/03/amazing-brad-mehldau-interview/
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@fraying Please don't believe the hit piece article. I'll comment more when I'm back in May.
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On the Reddit IPO
I'm looking forward to the Reddit IPO, and I think it's awesome that they opened up a top-tier IPO tranche to their community. People with 200,000 karma points or 5,000 moderator actions on Reddit will get access to something that has previously been reserved for the most elite allies of financial institutions. Wow! I'm sure this was not easy to do so Reddit users should understand that at this very important juncture in the company's history it has…
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Super Bowl!
Going to the Super Bowl with my friends Jaime Waydo and Jason Hoffman was a peak experience, everything about the day felt par none. I captured some Spatial Videos so friends with Vision Pros could watch some of it, but there's no good way to share those on blogs yet. Friends have asked for some photos from the day, so here they are.
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On StellarWP Podcast http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dAELT6F6_A https://ma.tt/2024/02/on-stellarwp-podcast/
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Vision Pro + Drone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT2UNpNv8T4 https://ma.tt/2024/02/vision-pro-drone/
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WordPress, Taylor Swift, Super Bowl, oh my
There has been quite a bit of buzz in the WordPress community because during the Grammys red carpet Taylor Swift's website went down and this is what everyone saw: Hey there! That looks familiar. What a beautiful WordPress logo! (Hat tip: Alexa Scordato for telling me about this.) The website also had some ups and downs, we haven't been able to get in touch with anyone on Taylor's tech team, but if you're there, we're standing…
https://ma.tt/2024/02/wordpress-taylor-swift-super-bowl-oh-my/
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Debt vs Equity
Balaji Srinivasan posted a great essay on how founders should think about debt vs equity, unfortunately it's on X/Twitter so the format isn't great, but the content is gold. As we exit the ZIRP world and go back into normal interest rates, I think this is really important concept for entrepreneurs to understand.
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