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The Microsoft Wireless Ergonomic Keyboard was a great product and very necessary for folks like me with carpal tunnel. They don’t make them anymore, and used ones are extremely rare. Here’s one on eBay for $600! ebay.com/itm/Microsoft-…
At the extreme other end of the spectrum is this cramp-inducing POS from Apple.
Demand for the Microsoft Ergonomic keyboard was so great that they finally put the wired version back into production. I still have a couple of the old wireless ones, but I tend to wear them out after a few years.
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The first truly brilliant programmer I ever met, and one of the smartest people I ever knew, and who I started a company with, was a libertarian and a legendary asshole. I regret to say that I learned a lot from him. It has taken me decades to unlearn it. 1
IMO, the single largest obstacle to collectivizing tech practitioners is the way we place brilliant programming savants on a high pedestal. 2
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What I mean by that is that your compensation is not just YOUR issue. It is one shared by the entire community. Because your compensation affects your entire community. 1
The fact that some actors in the community (such as employers like yours) don’t play along is a societal dysfunction. They treat the success of their employees as an externality. This tears at the fabric of society. 2
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I’ve been to many tech and business conferences over the years and heard many, many presentations. Most of them were by men. Some of them were good some of them were bad. A few were excellent and a few were execrable. 1
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001/ [article content in this tweet series 001-180 reproduced with permission from Martin Howe QC of Lawyers for Britain @lawyers4britain]
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The leveraged loan boom is storing up some nasty, nasty problems.
ft.com/content/ffeda2…
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Great tech companies:

1: First build the great #product.
2: Through that, they establish the best distribution.
3: Build superior traction.
4: Raise higher resources.

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