Lillian Sheng

Froth is the foam on top of the thing. It’s all the stuff that’s in the corner of your eye, that’s peripheral. I think there’s great value in that stuff.

Twitter can charge third-party developers for API access to its microservices – like user, graph, timeline, and posting – and let them build independent third-party clients for Twitter.Giving people the choice of other experiences would mediate concerns around content moderation and Twitter’s centralized power. 

Professional media will turn to recommendation media

I read a David Lynch book about meditation when I was like 16, and I didn’t realize how influential it was until I got older and started to realize that I was doing the technique he talks about automatically. It was called Catching the Big Fish or something, but the idea is, you close your eyes and let all the ideas go through your head. You don’t... See more

What I do, instead of focusing on order or arc, is I try to bathe people from all different directions in a way of thinking.

There are a few guiding principles behind what I think Twitter should do: 1. Make Power Users Happy, They’ll Keep Everyone Else Engaged. 
2. Power Users Want to Do More in the Twitter Ecosystem. 
3. The Twitter Graph is One of the World’s Most Valuable and Undermonetized Assets.
4. Twitter is More Than a Social Network. 

To ensure that level of accountability, Magic Eden has a comprehensive screening process for new hires. Before every new person joins, they do a one-week work trial at the company, during which they’re onboarded and work alongside the rest of the team. This approach has been successful—the team is now over 100 people.

The technology industry is a vehicle for individual wealth generation like few other industries are, with possibilities including an acquisition exit, an IPO, or RSUs. A large contingent of users on Blind view tech as a game to be won: witness a discussion on how to get to $1 million in total compensation or a polls on the highest-paying FAANGs.... See more