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It is *fascinating* to me that, having had the idea that they could do this with a computer, the WSJ would go through on doing it.
“Why?”

Because seeing someone in a stipple portrait once persuasively suggested that they had been featured in the WSJ, a status of esteem for some people.

And they just wrecked that for all future profiles *and all previous ones.*
I’m not opposed to dynamiting status hierarchies in principle, but I’m extremely surprised that the WSJ would choose to do it over a feature that probably 1% of their readership will use.
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Patrick McKenzie
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One of the biggest themes in software right now is the increasing professionalization of the software *company* supply chain.
Previously there were a few geographical markets which had some pipeline to take one particular type of company (venture-backed startups) through several rounds of professional money and then exit opportunities, but the intake process for that was "a little YOLO."
These days increasingly I'm seeing persistent networks across firms in the same way that there appear (to this outsider) to be persistent networks in e.g. real estate or Hollywood.

Products increasingly derisked, sometimes by expertise and sometimes by network, prior to code.
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Patrick McKenzie
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A thing which has been saving my bacon in Superhuman: making a special split (tab) for upcoming meetings (identified by tagging them "meeting", which takes two keystrokes).

I love how customizable it is to "However you work *right now*."
Similarly, when I do something which generates a standing wave of email (e.g. blog post or similar), I often make a temporary split to corral that out of my inbox so that I can be in the right headspace for a solid hour rather than interleaving with work or other commitments.
That is probably the best habit I've picked up from Superhuman, incidentally: I don't know if it is my sometimes limited ability to focus through task switches or something more widely applicable, but I get *much more done* when processing email by genre versus by timestamp.
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Patrick McKenzie
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Retweeted for endorsement. It's so effective it feels like cheating.
"Hello can I offer you an extremely large basket of high-variance options."
"I suppose that depends on the price."
"Oh it's a coffee or email each."
"Wait, what."
"Yeah nobody wants them."
"The world is mad."

(Also feels like the right thing to do, but that doesn't get it done.)
Is the financial angle helpful here? *shrug*

Conceptually speaking: helping someone out in a very minor way gives you some exposure to their future upside.

Basically everyone underestimates how much people can grow/accomplish in, say, 10 years, particularly among outliers.
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Evan Donovan
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The NY Times had 93 questions on Day 1, so we'll start with #94 today, as I may have missed some while doing TV.

94th question, from Sen. @PattyMurray (D-WA):
Can you further clarify the WH counsel's arguments that the subpoenas issued before the impeachment vote were invalid?
@PattyMurray Rep. Lofgren:
House issued rules on January 9, 2019, and the House's standing rules give each committee subpoena power to conduct their business. We have more power after an impeachment has been authorized.
@PattyMurray SOME DRAMA on the Senate floor -- 95th question is from Sen. @RandPaul -- and Chief Justice John Roberts declines to read it.

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Matthew Willis
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The 2019 🎾 Season (ATP) in GIFS, a mega-thread.

Some obscure, some obvious.

All made by me (unless credited otherwise).

What a year it's been...
1/ 2019 kicked off with the Hopman Cup.

Awesomely entertaining matchups of Federer vs Serena, Tsitsipas/Sakkari, Zverev/Kerber et al.

One of the rare moments in tennis where we got to see men & women championing each other on court.

So of course, the ATP scrapped the event🤦‍♂️
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Murray: 'I went from world No 1 to not being able to walk'
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What we're moving on to: *other* ballot measures that council may want to advance.
If you thought Carlisle's idea of paid council assistants was done and dealt with, you're wrong. We're talking about a ballot item to hire assistants for *every* council member, among other options.
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So Contact is one of my favorite sci-fi movies, and part of why is about how "real" it feels. It's far less fantastic-feeling than most sci-fi.
Part of that is the contemporary setting, sure, but the visual direction plays a big part of it.
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Most of the time when we see it, it's not the big sweeping show-off-the-effects shots. We see it through TV screens, through windows, over shoulders.
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