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Re: Is Glitch the answer to API devrel?

Anil Dash — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:07:21 -0000

To be fair, I'll totally concede that my characterization doesn't apply to good devrel — it's more of just identifying how too often, things can go wrong. I appreciate you rolling with what was supposed to be a lighthearted point to see what's valuable in Glitch For Your API overall. :)

Re: bijan sabet — Opportunities lost in a sea of growth rounds

Anil Dash — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 11:37:06 -0000

There's a particular importance here for communities and networks, where culture is critical to the sustainability of the business. Hypergrowth is pretty much incompatible with nurturing a healthy community, akin to how hardwoods are slow-growing trees.

Re: A Response To Ms. Thorisson

Anil Dash — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 16:17:20 -0000

Nothing makes privileged folks more angry than if you tell them they're privileged, I guess?

Re: How to fix the Internet economy

Anil Dash — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 18:54:15 -0000

I think when Readability did this for publishers (on behalf of users who read while removing ads) their competitors did a good job of making it seem evil and awful.

Re: Does tech have critics?

Anil Dash — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 20:15:40 -0000

Aren't there a lot of tech critics? Isn't that what you and I do, or Kevin Roose, or danah boyd, or Shanley Kane, or Tressie McMillan Cottom, or Zeynep Tufekci or Kate Crawford or countless others? Is there a categorization here that I'm missing the subtlety of?

Re: A Massive Rockaway Gas Pipeline Is Being Built Right Under Our Beaches

Anil Dash — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 14:24:51 -0000

Photo credit missing on the 5th image; Should point to Phillip Van: http://www.phillipvan.com/R...

Re: Meet ThinkUp: Your personal social media guru

Anil Dash — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 12:28:31 -0000

Hi Lucy, thanks for the feedback. I'm the CEO of ThinkUp, and I think you're right. We do intend to add a free trial in the future, and I hope you'll check back with us soon when we do!

Re: Politics necessarily creates divisions

Anil Dash — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 18:27:57 -0000

"Will you have to know the politics of every person you do business with in the future?"

Many of us have not have the luxury of thinking of our participation in capitalism through anything *but* a moral lens. It is through connecting morality to economics that Gandhi worked, that Martin Luther King worked, that Rosa Parks worked. We only have to know what an institution rewards, accepts and tolerates to form an opinion of whether it's worth our investment. My own marriage would have been illegal during your lifetime, Dave, and I'd be damned if I'd work for someone who sought to criminalize it; More to the point, employees said this person was not able to lead them, which is the primary qualification for a CEO.

Re: Newswire The Melker Project drops its Trill Collins EP, which is just what you'd think it is

Anil Dash — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:45:44 -0000

"makes sense in the ‘00s"

Wait, aren't we in the '10s?

Re: Why Joanne Wilson Rocks

Anil Dash — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 12:07:53 -0000

The bigger issue is social justice. Marijuana possession faces markedly different prosecution and sentencing rates depending on the race of the person accused. Put simply, we put a lot of people, mostly men of color, into jail for marijuana "crimes" that others get away with.

I don't smoke, and I don't drink, and I never have and probably never will. But I care a lot about pretenses for unequal incarceration and giving millions of people arrest records that permanently impact their career prospects. That's the moral justification for decriminalization, separate from any hand-wringing about who's altered in what way.

Re: But Why Can’t I Urinate In My Seat At The Movies?

Anil Dash — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 10:51:59 -0000

This is pretty funny, and a well done mockery of my piece. It is worth noting that this actually supports my point - theaters have bathrooms for people to use if they want them. Theaters don't have "Quiet Car" (or connected?) screenings for people who want them.

Re: How Not to Debate What We Should Be Doing at Movie Theaters

Anil Dash — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 18:21:23 -0000

Good news! I've never done any of those things.

Re: How Not to Debate What We Should Be Doing at Movie Theaters

Anil Dash — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 14:51:34 -0000

Really? I'm not sure you know much about me to make that judgment.

Re: How Not to Debate What We Should Be Doing at Movie Theaters

Anil Dash — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 14:47:09 -0000

That's interesting, because I've never had my phone on, let alone texted or tweeted, during a movie. But you want to spill drinks and kick seats. Because you're in favor of people acting... politely (?) at the movies? Okay.

Re: On Cinema Etiquette

Anil Dash — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 14:09:41 -0000

So that's interesting, because I agree with you. It's Tim League and the other shushers who think such a thing shouldn't exist. Perhaps you should save your insults for them?

Re: How Not to Debate What We Should Be Doing at Movie Theaters

Anil Dash — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 14:03:00 -0000

I think the kid-friendly screenings are great. It's the shushers who are arguing they shouldn't exist.

Re: How Not to Debate What We Should Be Doing at Movie Theaters

Anil Dash — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 14:02:31 -0000

Really? What would inspire you to do that?

Re: On Cinema Etiquette

Anil Dash — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 13:46:46 -0000

Do you support the existence of separate screenings for those who have different standards for what they expect out of going to the movies?

Re: Shakshuka

Anil Dash — Sat, 29 Jun 2013 08:00:31 -0000

Taboonette has an excellent Shakshuka. Reminds me I should head back there.

Re: Amazon Likely Paid $1 Billion For Goodreads

Anil Dash — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:05:39 -0000

This valuation is preposterous, because the methodology is preposterous. There is zero evidence that either the markets or investors use some arbitrary "multiply users by a dollar amount" calculation to determine a valuation for these companies. Using such a formula to arrive at an absurd number is especially egregious here because people will now use the authority of this publication to say "Businessweek reports that Goodreads sold for a billion dollars", though that's almost certainly not the case.

Re: Spike Lee -- go see Django -- please!

Anil Dash — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:34:27 -0000

"Why can Patti Smith whose music I love sing a song with nigger in the title, but it's not cool for Tarantino or me to use the word?"

Well, I think actually you point out the truth -- you can, and you have. It's merely about context; There are actually precious few contexts where it's not as acceptable to use the word, and even in those contexts you still could, if you're willing to accept the consequences.

I'm comfortable not using it because there's literally no idea I need to express that's limited by not using it; I suspect the same is true for you.

Re: Gruber. The beard. Horace. Fuck em.

Anil Dash — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:36:29 -0000

You've stated here, clearly, that you are better qualified to analyze Apple than even one of its own board members. Obviously, she couldn't know as much as you because... why exactly? You've literally said you wouldn't decline to speak even if she offered because you're the "best" and she's not. Well, congratulations, I suppose?

Re: Some people like to eat out

Anil Dash — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:53:43 -0000

FWIW, I don't see the web as broken, though I know Felix sort of interprets my words that way. I think it's great and we should just go back and revisit a couple of the pieces we haven't worked on in a while.

Re: Writing Every So Often: The Personal Essay Makes A Comeback

Anil Dash — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 10:44:15 -0000

Sort of tangential to your point, but Matt's RSS feed is at http://feeds.feedburner.com...

It's telling that many of us don't even advertise our feeds anymore.

Re: My favorite movies

Anil Dash — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:46:42 -0000

Curious what you think of two of George Clooney's best, Michael Clayton and Up In The Air. They seem of a piece with many of the films you mention.