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Sep 20, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
Requiring guests to do some cleanup (dishes in washer, beds stripped) is fine if it's a huge vacation home or the stay is <1 week. That said, @Airbnb should require pre-booking disclosure of cleaning policy; guests should report if a hosts asks for more.

wsj.com/articles/airbn… Idea for Airbnb: automate this for hosts. Make it easy to create a checklist of cleanup tasks and determine which ones are required after stays of certain lengths. If you're renting a place for a month you should be expected to do a bit more than if you rent it for the weekend.
Mar 29, 2022 85 tweets 6 min read
Hey everyone. I’m drinking a black cherry White Claw on a plane. For every like I’ll post a hot take. 1) Toy Story is a bad movie. It teaches kids to remain stuck in childhood and attribute human traits to inanimate toys.
Feb 13, 2021 15 tweets 3 min read
Who wants a thread about an underscrutinized element of tech journalism that I think is key to understanding this overhyped industry slugfest? I know you don’t, but I’m going to post it anyway. I was a tech reporter in that weird era between the two dotcom booms, but it was also the era when the medium we worked in was starting to *seriously* evolve to digital. And there was a huge gulf in many cases between the reporters who were equipped to be business journalists...