Jon Sagara
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"I wish I'd thought of it." Leigh Gallagher on the time when Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky met with Warren Buffett:
One of Chesky’s biggest source triumphs was his audience with Buffett. A little over a year ago, Chesky reached out and asked if he could travel to Omaha to have lunch, in part to talk about how Airbnb might help expand the number of rooms available in town during Berkshire’s annual meeting weekend. The discussion ended up lasting 4½ hours. Chesky’s biggest takeaway: the value of not getting caught up in the noise. “He’s literally in the center of Omaha,” Chesky says. “There’s no TVs anywhere. He spends all day reading. He takes maybe one meeting a day, and he thinks so deeply.” The experience made such an impact on Chesky that he went to the airport, and, afraid he would forget the conversation, immediately wrote a 3,600-word report and sent it to his team. For his part, Buffett says he sensed in Chesky a genuine passion for building his company: “I think he would be doing what he’s doing if he didn’t get paid a dime for it.” Buffett’s take on Airbnb? “I wish I’d thought of it.”
No TVs anywhere. Reading all day. One meeting a day. These are the things we aspire to.
Indeed.
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A cartoon by Benjamin Schwartz, from this week’s issue.
So good.
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When I casually hand off the on-call duties as an outage strikes
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Fucking Christ
These are technically still facts.
buzzkill facts totally need to be a thing
Buzzkill facts
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When I ask the team if anybody wants to take my on-call rotation spot
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It’s 11:39pm, Ferguson news is erupting over the latest developments in the murder of a young man, protesters have flooded streets in cities all over the US (including my own), and yet Facebook decides to show me stuff like this—posts from friends and a page that are anywhere from 10-24+ hours old.
This is bullshit on so many levels, I don’t know if Facebook posts have a high enough character count to handle it.
Facebook, your algorithm is wrong. It is broken, and it is wrong. This is a disgrace, and you should be ashamed of yourselves.
You claim you have no editorial control, that the technology is agnostic. What you don’t get—or what you are blatantly lying about—is that every decision that crafted your algorithm, every tweak to the choices it makes in the name of your business or our supposed happiness or “engagement”—is an editorial choice.
The technology cannot be agnostic because it is built by you and you, dear human beings, are incapable of being agnostic. You are making us all worse off because of your belief in these falsehoods.
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When we decommissioned MongoDB
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digg:
The Ramenrrito is here to save you
