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26 Jan, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Amazon hired a graphic designer?!
My favorite part is the homage it pays to Charlie Chaplin.
Anne Frankly, it's out of Mein Kampfertzone.
I'm stunned that the Amazon.com marketing folks were alt-right with it.
I'd imagine now that it's been pointed out that they're Göring to fix it soon.

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26 Jan
Congrats to @revue on their @Twitter acquisition. Now, some thoughts on paid newsletters.
Last Week in AWS (lastweekinaws.com) is my snarky email newsletter. I have ~23000 or so subscribers.

There are some folks (Revue is one, @substack is another) that would urge me to write a paid newsletter, to which subscribers are the revenue source.
Unfortunately for my model it's a complete non-starter. Basically none of you you would pay say, $100 a year for my ridiculous ranting nonsense. I might be wrong on that but I seriously doubt it.
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26 Jan
How productive have you been lately?

We turn now to @GitHub's VP of Strategy, Research, and Ass-Kicking, Dr. @nicolefv and her report on productivity from last month.

octoverse.github.com
You can get insightful research around data.

You can get awesome graphics.

But only @nicolefv combines the two.
So big pull requests suck, humans suck at repeatable things, open source makes for a fun hobby, and devs are weird.

A bonus fifth item: anything can sound obvious and dumb when I reduce it to something absurd on Twitter.
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22 Jan
So I bought two accounts on your service--one for personal use, and one for business use. Please react, large companies!
Microsoft: WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING OH MY GOD PLEASE KILL ME AND END MY TORMENT
Slack: You're my favorite two daily active users.
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21 Jan
One of my favorite recruiter stories is how one once sent me an unsolicited anonymized résumé out of the blue (spam, basically).

It turns out it’s not exactly hard to figure out whose résumé it is. I reached out directly, interviewed them, and hired the person.
A bit more detail: I originally reached out to figure out if the person was aware their résumé was being spammed out.

“No! My god that’s awful!” We kept talking, they applied directly, and there you have it.
It’s true. That’s how I met / hired @setient.
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20 Jan
Let's go back in time and put on my Analyst / Marketing pants. It's years ago, I'm advising @elastic, and @awscloud has just come out with "Amazon Elasticsearch." This feels bad, since (as attested in court) they didn't give a heads up, and there's the danger of brand confusion.
First, I've gotta admit that I'm fighting a rearguard action in some ways. "Elastic Compute" predates the founding of the company and its trademark by a lot, and there are a bunch of other "Elastic" terms people equate with AWS.
In effect, the odds are basically zero that people already aren't equating our stuff as being an Amazon offering. I'm only half kidding when I suggest "Stretchy-Go-Findy" as an alternate name.
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20 Jan
Another day, another "fuck you for paying us" from Google.
If you don’t think sharp edges like this on your consumer products shape opinions of your business (read as: cloud) products, you’re dead wrong.
(This is my “personal” account; it’s my 20 year old vanity domain for personal email; nobody else has an account on the domain. The only way to have a custom domain is to pay Google—which I’m normally okay with until I hit nonsense like this.)
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