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Re: Reminder: American Express Platinum Design Cards Can Be Ordered From Tomorrow, January 20th 2022

Jud Valeski — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 19:42:18 -0000

Yea. I’ll bite.

Re: What’s Going On With The Ritz Carlton Yacht Collection And How Much Will A Sailing Cost?

Jud Valeski — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 14:46:55 -0000

Typo… article reads “May 6, 2021” and I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to be “May 6, 2022”

Re: Everything you want to know about HEPA filters

Jud Valeski — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 16:29:46 -0000

airlines have touted HEPA filters in response to air quality questions for years. they’re useless unless they’re swapped out frequently. I’d love to see some commentary on how often the various airlines actually change them out. given the cost of the filters, last time I poked around on this topic 10+ yrs ago, I got the impression airlines are reticent to change them at all.

Re: one: Education In Isolation

Jud Valeski — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 13:03:12 -0000

I’m not sure, I don’t follow her/their remarks (she’s not qualified for the role).

Re: Tesla Cybertruck will launch a disruption in the camper/trailer industry

Jud Valeski — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 16:53:46 -0000

has anyone shown the math on range-to-weight distribution? I'm assuming it can go impractically short distances with 14k lbs on in-tow. the combination of weight and incline for typical camping situations (trailer into the mountains) is going to make this use case all but useless.

Re: Why Boulder Blocked Electric Scooters

Jud Valeski — Sun, 15 Sep 2019 15:09:54 -0000

The real issue is parking. Boulder prides itself on being bike friendly, however the overwhelming majority of public parking is only available to cars. There are miles of bike paths, yet a dearth of places to park bikes. Permitting commercial escooters without providing parking for them in an already overwhelmed alternative-to-car parking situation won’t work; the sidewalks are littered with bikes already.

I’d love to see the city open up car parking spots to alternative forms of transportation (including scooters). Holding car parking infrastructure as sacred is archaic.

Re: Unlimited Capital

Jud Valeski — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 13:56:33 -0000

"now that it is a public company subject to the rules of rational capital markets" - I would argue U.S. public equities markets are very far from rational. “The majority of equity investors today don’t buy or sell stocks based on stock specific fundamentals,” said JPMorgan’s Marko Kolanovic. quote from here.

Re: one: Tipping and “The Apps”

Jud Valeski — Mon, 20 May 2019 12:27:54 -0000

it's an ecosystem problem... not sure it's solvable one-app-at-a-time. when the delivery person arrives at my door, do I tip them with cash, or via the app? if the latter, how do I know if they're getting the tip or not? maybe the solve is in a binding from a given delivery app to a delivery person's digital wallet? that way, I know the business intermediary is fully out of the loop.

Re: This guy took apart his broken iPhone 4 and framed it

Jud Valeski — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 09:23:43 -0000

I’d like to commission one of these for myself. Interested?

Re: one: Women, Confidence & Trying to Father A Daughter

Jud Valeski — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 18:04:18 -0000

thank you for sharing Laura.

Re: Apple Watch Diary: The two things that might sell me on an Apple Watch Series 4

Jud Valeski — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 11:26:11 -0000

if you're not getting the "tap when I'm ready" from Siri, you're relatively stationary in your watch use. you get this _all the time_ if you're a heavy traveler/mover (e.g. SF... NYC).

Re: Facebook’s changes

Jud Valeski — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 11:13:02 -0000

it's a relatively simple, quick, change FB can make to appease some of the pitchforks. civility indeed becomes the challenge. while FB obviously has the resources to do this "right" (better at least), that will take time. in the end though, it's a lost cause as FB needs to generate ad revenue, and they've done that in cheap way to-date; they'll likely just get more sophisticated about it.

I left mass media a few years ago. I left FB a few months ago. they're cess pools.

my hope would be that if this is seen as a threat to "publishers" on FB, that it could cause flight back to independent website/blog publishing (like buzzmachine :) ).

I have near-zero hope that existing publishers/socialnetworks can solve this. I have a lot of hope that the Basic Attention Token will get traction and win. https://www.reddit.com/r/BA...

I hope you're well Jeff!

Re: A Better Way To Do Bike Share

Jud Valeski — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 21:41:00 -0000

We’re hammering away on a solve for this (starting in the U.S.) at http://urbike.com/

Would love to chat. jvaleski@urbike.com if you’re interested in connecting.

Re: Money Is A Consensual Hallucination

Jud Valeski — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 10:50:17 -0000

the process of getting "large" volumes USD into crypto wallets is a powerful reminder of just how abstract all of this is. mind bending really.

there is no spoon.

Re: Learn To Do Everything Lightly

Jud Valeski — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 18:58:10 -0000

*love.* timely. thanks for sharing this.

Re: Colorado and The Importance of Startup Density

Jud Valeski — Wed, 24 May 2017 14:31:51 -0000

Richard Florida's "The New Urban Crisis" book digs into this notion as well. It is _all_ about the density.

Re: The Dissonance of Snow in Boulder in May

Jud Valeski — Thu, 18 May 2017 10:27:01 -0000

one of my favorite posts by you. thanks.

Re: Fueling a flight to quality

Jud Valeski — Wed, 03 May 2017 09:25:44 -0000

the relationship between "publisher" and "domain" has challenged me significantly since my kids came online. parents trying to exert "parental control" over their home networks run into this immediately. it's easy to block "badwebsite.com" at the DNS/router level, but very difficult to block "youtube.com/user-generated-...". there is great content on youtube.com for kids, but there is also bad stuff. so... domain-level only goes so far when you consider top-level services like youtube to be publishers in addition to just another "service" provider. this is why we're finally starting to see things like https://kids.youtube.com/

I'm curious to see how "fake news" starts fueling tech that can help with "parental controls" and vise versa. Apple has taken weak steps to help parents. Google's starting to make some strong moves. The Wireless Carriers have done almost nothing (biggest offenders of bad content moving across their networks sans control). It's only recently with the advent of Google Wifi and Eero, that network control has started making its way into consumers hands.

Content control... on deck :).

Re: Fueling a flight to quality

Jud Valeski — Wed, 03 May 2017 09:14:28 -0000

great, broad, post. excited about the Storyful/Moat initiative. it would be worthwhile consulting with OpenDNS on the domain front. see https://community.opendns.c... I believe they have one of the largest community driven domain tagging repositories out there.

I like where you're going on the "advertisers will make better choices if they have better data" front. I agree, but, still trying to rationalize that with advertising in general. maybe we improve things greatly by focusing here, but, we're still fueled by commercial advertising interests as an industry, and, I don't want to let go of the prospect of instead having consumers pay for content directly (clean and pure).

my highlights from the post: https://www.highly.co/hl/k5...

Re: Back From Vacation

Jud Valeski — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 18:47:26 -0000

I've been away on an extended vacation, and what scares me the most about re-entry this time is the reclamation to wake-up time and bed-time. rising and falling based on nothing other than natural/internal clock has been heaven.

Re: one: Women, Confidence & Trying to Father A Daughter

Jud Valeski — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 09:54:09 -0000

:). I'll let you know for sure. I do make a point to convey compliments when there's no makeup... no hairdos... etc. good times man. I hope you're well.

Re: AVC, Gotham Gal, and Feld Thoughts Communities Rally $100,000+ For The ACLU

Jud Valeski — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 09:13:43 -0000

beautiful

Re: one: How Did Gnip Get The Twitter Deal?

Jud Valeski — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:12:30 -0000

we never did that. it was pitched as total package... estimated as total package... priced as total package. we front-ended everything. if you came to us asking for T data, we'd talk with you about your overall Social Data needs... you'd often come away with data from sources you didn't realize were relevant. T data was "just another" source.

Re: one: How Did Gnip Get The Twitter Deal?

Jud Valeski — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 00:10:30 -0000

great question. of course there was an average, but it was truly meaningless. we had customers spending 99% of their invoice, via Gnip, on the "Twitter Data" line-item, and then literally the reverse... with effectively all of the invoice going to Gnip. it was highly variable. 100% dependent on how much data they consumed. if you were interested in finding a single tweet amongst the billions that moved through the system in a given quarter, you might pay Gnip tens of thousands of dollars a month, for zero data. on the flip side, you might pay Gnip a few thousand a month, for hundreds of thousands of dollars in data per month. highly dependent... very hard to manage :). disclosure... that data is old and crusty and unofficial.

Re: Admin: blogger.com comment notifications not working

Jud Valeski — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 16:57:19 -0000

right... your link works fine... the _Moderation settings_ link that yours points to that would actually solve my problem doesn't :)