Notices by Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm), page 21

Motherboard found that firms linked to a16z and general partner Chris Dixon bought numerous copies of his new book promoting cryptocurrencies, which became an NYT Best Seller.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7emkx/chris-dixon-a16z-read-write-own-nyt-bestseller

#ChrisDixon #andreesenhorrowitz

" 'Wherever you get your podcasts' represents ... the triumph of exactly the kind of technology that's supposed to be impossible: open, empowering tech that's not owned by any one company, that can't be controlled by any one company, and that allows people to have ownership over their work and their relationship with their audience." 🤌 by @anildash
https://www.anildash.com//2024/02/06/wherever-you-get-podcasts/

@adam @js never forgot the lessons we learned at the start!

Great product design is about skating to where the faster horses are going to be, which is how it looks. If you ask people what they want, they'd say where the puck is, but real product is cars — and that's how it works.

@thomasfuchs @molly0xfff because the MAN is keeping him DOWN by forcing him to buy FULL PAGE ADS in the NYT

@manton in my experience, it's not much more complicated than "it's easier, more attractive, and more fun". Those aren't the only things that matter, but they do matter to millions.

@ingrid @molly0xfff I was telling @beep it's really incredible to have A16Z strongly endorsing the resurgence of unions at this critical time. 😎

@dylanmorgan @joshhunt things are proceeding exactly as I had hoped

Fun fact: in his promo for this book, Chris repeatedly describes smart contracts on the blockchain as being equivalent to collective bargaining, presenting this as an obviously meritorious thing. Clearly, workers at A16Z portfolio companies should pursue those virtues, no blockchain required!

From: @molly0xfff
https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/111892004052606215

@joshhunt sure but the site often considers the author before the content. A good sign of my declining relevance.

@danhon I'd go the other way. Bluesky (and whatever else happens on the AT Protocol) is part of the fediverse, as are all the non-Mastodon AP servers.

Having a bit of cognitive dissonance about having one of my blog posts appear on the orange site, and everyone... seems to like it? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39287163

This article by @anildash about podcasts feels like a warm hug: https://www.anildash.com/2024/02/06/wherever-you-get-podcasts/

@ernie @andy I think the technical way of talking about this would be a define profile of Atom that you specifically want clients to support. And then the trick is figuring out the incentives nad rewards for everyone embracing that subset of the format. (This is how OpenID evolved into being useful.)

@anildash We need that radical openness that podcasts have across mediums. It is the purest gatekeeper-free medium that we have; we need to duplicate it.

“He don’t miss!” — me, about myself, while reading my blog

@billseitz there aren’t any good ones, it’s too tied to Prince’s style

@alcinnz @ernie the point is that iterating the format also necessarily updates expectations for client apps, instead of a piecemeal voluntary set of improvements.

@ernie @anildash yeah there’s absolutely no reason we couldn’t just have HTML as an RSS enclosure

@anildash We desperately need an RSS-like medium for written content, but with respect for formatting and branding.

To me, I think the reason why audio has long remained the perfect object for the medium of podcasting is that an audio file can’t be modified. It’s delivered as the creator intended.

I think email won the war for newsletters because it does a better job respecting the “as the creator intended” truism than RSS does.

I’m sure people will push back on this POV. But it’s so obvious.