Twitter has a bunch of problems. Let’s solve some. Stickiness Comparing time spent on the various social media apps, TikTok takes the cake. Then Instagram, then Twitter. Why? For me, it’s because I open Twitter, scroll until I hit tweets I’ve already seen before, and close the app. Contrast this…

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We Lived Comfortably During the Pandemic And when they fired millions without healthcare, and refused to take care of our medical workers, while lying to our faces, and sacrificing countless lives in a shameless money grab, we protested but not enough, we opposed them but not enough. I was in my bed, around my bed America was falling: invisible house by invisible house by invisible house. I took out my computer and ordered some groceries.

In Product Management there’s a technique called the 5 Whys which is used to get to heart of issues. For instance, if your website goes down, you might ask: Why did the website go down? Because too many people went at once. Why can’t our website handle that sort of…

In the past, I’ve produced and directed a few shows, from my high school’s TV program, to live news and sports shows, to interview series. …

Recently, Facebook announced the demise of M, a chatbot assistant that once promised to be the future of conversational interfaces. First introduced in a limited public beta in August of 2015, the service was free to use and featured nearly limitless offerings. M’s use of a human-trained AI allowed it…

With the ascent of the smartphone into our every waking hour, a generation is growing up so plugged in that their social lives are suffering. So we watched as an array of dating applications emerged to facilitate interaction. The issue with platforms like Tinder is a superficiality which ignores a…

I wrote this many years ago, and recently learned that the subject of this piece has sold his company for a large profit. So, I dug this up, and decided to post it. Images added in 2017. In what looks like an old abandoned factory in Cumberland, RI lies a…

I listened to my first podcast on an actual iPod, back when Apple still made them. In those early days, the lineup included Marketplace, News from Lake Wobegon, and The Apple Phone Show (this was before the iPhone was announced). …