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Some good examples here of how small software design decisions affect human interactions:
theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
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Sometimes when he’s on the road and I’m missing him, I just take a deep breath and watch this to remind myself what we’re here for.
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Chirp's #dealoftheday is THE GOOD GIRL by @MaryKubica
A New York Times bestseller! When Mia is abducted from a bar, her mother, Eve, and detective Gabe will go to the ends of the earth to track her down. You’ll want to keep the lights on for this one.
chirpbooks.com/audiobooks/25…
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Today, we’re thrilled to announce that BookBub is entering the exciting world of audiobooks! Introducing: @Chirpbooks 📚🎧🐣 bit.ly/2UlxIRs #publishing #audiobooks
"What we need is not to disagree less, but to disagree better. And that starts when you turn away the rhetorical dope peddlers — the powerful people on your own side who are profiting from the culture of contempt." nyti.ms/2Vw3onl
Why we should read classic works of literature that also offend us: nyti.ms/2HbGkb8?smid=nytcore…
AI Super Powers by @kaifulee was an eye-opening book for me. I highly recommend it: bookbub.com/reviews/10725970…
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Some of my favorite books from 2018: bit.ly/books-2018
What the Times got wrong about kids and phones cjr.org/criticism/times-sili… via @cjr
Finished Things Fall Apart this morning. What a heart-breaking, elegant, and important story: bookbub.com/reviews/16664530…
Creative Selection, the new book about Apple's software development process by a member of the original iPhone team, is excellent: bookbub.com/reviews/40656214…
"I think we have to make room in our minds that some of the stories that we’ve been told for so many years could be framed differently." nytimes.com/2018/09/20/books…
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This is the sort of spectacularly bad take you write when you have no fucking idea what you're talking about but want to sound like you do. xitter.cf/elonmusk/status/999364…
“One of the things we’ve seen in the past few years is that technology doesn’t just accelerate and amplify human behavior ... It creates feedback loops that can fundamentally change the nature of how people interact and societies move.” nyti.ms/2I1qmk4
“We don’t completely blame Facebook,” said Harindra Dissanayake, a presidential adviser in Sri Lanka. “The germs are ours, but Facebook is the wind, you know?” nytimes.com/2018/04/21/world…
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Pumped to be expanding our partnership with Google 🔥 xitter.cf/bhalligan/status/96632…
HubSpot & Google take its partnership to a new level!
medium.com/@HubSpot/growing-…
