Peter Hagen
@peter
Curious about better reading, incentives / game design, bootstrapping, and too much more. Hopeful that Sublime will be a better Twitter for ideas.
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In 2021, growing share of Americans said they used YouTube; Facebook remained one of the most widely used online platforms among U.S. adults
pewresearch.org“You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.”
Introducing TypeChat - TypeChat
microsoft.github.ioCode wins arguments. If we tested a feature and didn’t like it, we rebuilt it until we landed on the best version. For some surfaces, like the activity feed, we rewrote it three times before we finally landed on an implementation that felt good enough.
Jesse Chen • Threads: The inside story of Meta’s newest social app
the goal of a book isn’t to get to the last page, it’s to expand your thinking.
Jim Nielsen • You Are What You Read, Even if You Don’t Always Remember It
To return to information overload: this means treating your "to read" pile like a river (a stream that flows past you, and from which you pluck a few choice items, here and there) instead of a bucket (which demands that you empty it). After all, you presumably don't feel overwhelmed by all the unread books in the British Library – and not because
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Treat Your to-Read Pile Like a River, Not a Bucket
This is the superpower of the Walk and Talk — putting adults into a situation they may not have experienced since they were a kid: new people, unknown environs, continuous socializing, intense conversations. The walls breakdown quickly on a Walk and Talk and by the third or fourth day, you are no longer walking with strangers but seemingly old... See more