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This is the culture of Facebook. The engineers get what they want. All of us on “Sheryl’s side” are lesser mortals who do the things the engineers don’t want to trouble themselves with. We’re not to bother the engineers.
Sarah Wynn-Williams • Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
I like the way Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom put it when discussing the recent launch of his news recommendation app Artifact. “[B]uilding the algorithm is enormously editorial. Because what you choose to train your algorithm on—the objective function, the data you put in, the data you include, the data you don’t include—is
... See moreEvan Armstrong • Recommendation Algorithms Are a Necessary Evil (Sort Of)
“One day you’re beating up on Facebook for leaving up too much hate speech, and the next day, you’re beating up on them for taking down too many legitimate ads.”
Alex Kantrowitz • Is the Tech Press Bad? With The Verge's Casey Newton
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Competing with giants: An inside look at how The Browser Company builds product | Josh Miller (CEO)
youtube.com“We're basically mediating our lives and our communication through these small, glowing rectangles. I think that that's not really how people are made to interact. A lot of the meetings that we have today, you're looking at a grid of faces on a screen. That's not how we process things, either.”