Ev Williams – Medium

Jul 12

New Decade, New Ideas

Next month will be the tenth anniversary of the launch of Medium. As we gear up for the next decade, I’ve decided to hand over the CEO reins. Back in 2012, I wrote: Now that we’ve made sharing information virtually effortless, how do we increase depth of understanding, while also…

Medium

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Feb 22

…t in real effort to keep it online. After all, we don’t really buy domain names; we just rent them. And if you publish on somebody else’s domain, you’re at their mercy: Geocities, MySpace, Facebook, Medium, Twitter.

02022–02–22

Jeremy Keith

This is true.

This is true. But for the record, except for things removed by the author or in violation of rules, everything published on Medium since inception (10 years ago) is still accessible at its original URL (or it redirects if the author set up a custom domain or subdomain), same with everything put on Twitter (for 16 years), and even everything published on Blogger (if hosted on blogspot.com)—for 22 years.

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Feb 15

Reliability versus Validity in Strategy

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Roger Martin

Yes, the fundamental tension, not only in strategy, but in business and, perhaps, all endeavors.

Yes, the fundamental tension, not only in strategy, but in business and, perhaps, all endeavors. Innovate or optimize.

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Yes, the fundamental tension, not only in strategy, but in business and, perhaps, all endeavors. Innovate or optimize.

Jan 27

Hybrids are a sham concocted by an antiquated industry to deceive the market and regulators, and one backed up by governments that subsidize something that should never have qualified for any kind of support. Consumers buy them because they seem to address their concerns for the environment. In short, hybrids are the last, poisonous, gasp of an obsolete and profoundly harmful technology.

It’s time to expose the sham of hybrids

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Enrique Dans

🔅⚡️🚗

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🔅⚡️🚗

Jan 24

Samsung has unveiled at CES its Eco Remote, a new, battery-less version of its TV remote control, powered by the energy it is able to capture from the WiFi networks around it (RF energy harvesting).

Finally, a remote control that doesn’t run out of batteries

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Enrique Dans

That's amazing

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That's amazing

Jan 13

The 7 Most Innovative Plant-Based Meat & Dairy Brands

Janay Laing

This all looks yummy.

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This all looks yummy.

Jan 13

Ten Predictions: Knowledge Work in 2022

James Joaquin

That was puntastic

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That was puntastic

Dec 16, 2021

We are hopefully entering our last wave where we are still a bit on our back foot. The future of this pandemic will be less chaotic, more science based and easier to manage. We need to be cautious, but not paranoid. As I mentioned earlier, most people will get exposed to Omicron, it’s almost inevitable…and getting it does not mean you did something wrong..it means you’re a human in the petri-dish of 21st century life. The good news is that human ingenuity has developed effective vaccines and we are in the precipice of viral treatments. And not that we want more variants, but this might be the one that has the characteristics that provide an offramp to this two year shit-show of uncertainty.

Omicron (70x), Winter Waves and Real Hope | Dispatch #20

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Jordan L. Shlain MD

Good perspective!

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Good perspective!

Dec 14, 2021

12 taglines for Odeo

I found an old file called taglines. For context, Odeo was a podcasting product, and these were likely thought of as being delivered in audio. Keep listening at Odeo dot com. Odeo: We put the O in podcasts and still have an extra O. Do you hear what we hear? Odeo dot com. Listen to more podcasts at Odeo dot com. This podcast and more at Odeo dot com. Believe everything you here at Odeo dot com. Oh. We say oh. We say oh-oh dee oh. Odeo dot com.

From The Archives

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Dec 9, 2021

Any engineer who has spent years on a complex application knows that you always have a layering challenge. If you pick too low a layer to build on, you end up having to recreate a lot of pre-existing functionality that is not fundamental to your product mission. But if you pick too high a layer, you end up constantly struggling to get it to behave or evolve the way you want; it’s like trying to paint a portrait with a 4 foot paintbrush. 99 out of 100 engineers would prefer to err on the side of picking too low a layer. Of course, idea…

Yuck, Office HTML

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Terry Crowley

What layer to work at is a question that applies at the engineering, company, and career levels.

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What layer to work at is a question that applies at the engineering, company, and career levels.