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Board @ https://t.co/xv6igOotbm, https://t.co/GwHcRRNf9t & https://t.co/NZzxUEzMzz. Helping launch https://t.co/bzqiCW5cwP. Former Dep US CTO, Twitter & Google. Tinkerer of code, law & more. Curious.
Oct 17, 2019 4 tweets 9 min read
@Klonick @jilliancyork @rmack @daniellecitron @daphnehk @nicolewong @McAndrew @dswillner @helloyouths Tuning in now. Is there no way to watch it at double speed? @Klonick @jilliancyork @rmack @daniellecitron @daphnehk @nicolewong @McAndrew @dswillner @helloyouths FB has 2 responsibilities: "(1) remove content when it can cause real danger as effectively as we can & (2) Fight to uphold as wide a definition of freedom of expression as possible & to not allow the defn of what is dangerous to expand beyond what is absolutely necessary"
Sep 10, 2019 11 tweets 3 min read
New paper from the @PrincetonCITP / @CEIPTechProgram (and me) convened encryption policy working group
Full paper carnegieendowment.org/2019/09/10/mov…
Some key takeaways here:
carnegieendowment.org/files/Encrypti… [pdf]
And below.
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It's the result of good & vigorous convos among people w/ divergent views. We pushed hard to try to find consensus. It will surprise no one that we didn’t get consensus on any way to give exceptional access to encrypted info for law enforcement that we believed was worthwhile.
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Jul 5, 2019 15 tweets 5 min read
This @mikeindustries post re @superhuman is good and reminds me of a service design decision in the early days of @gmail with ethical ramifications (more on that below)

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Sometime in early mid 2004 (I think, this is all based on foggy memory + @paultoo or others may remember better), the @gmail team started noticing that a lot of gmail was being marked as spam across a wide range of email hosts and ISPs.
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Mar 6, 2019 14 tweets 6 min read
This is a worthwhile watch. Zuckerberg interviewed (not very confrontationally) by @zittrain who does a great job making the conversation useful, funny & interesting:

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Lots to unpack, incl this @finkd gem:
~"I think about [Facebook] as a decentralizing force … my generation got into tech because we believe tech gives individuals power & isn't massively centralizing, now you've built a bunch of big companies in the process but…"
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Jan 28, 2019 11 tweets 6 min read
A quick bit on impostor syndrome, conferences, + what you can do as a speaker & organizer to help others w/ it based on attending #ORDCamp (one of the most intentionally inclusive exclusive events I've ever attended -- though the bar is low).
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Impostor syndrome is a feeling of self-doubt that one's accomplishments or belonging to a group will be discovered as a fraud.
It is extremely common. I often have it. So do many other folks.
Even truly amazing people like @MichelleObama.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_…
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