Why? Because designing proteins is the first step towards replacing factories 🏭 and farms 🐄 for a more sustainable future.
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This is a protein. It's like a small machine. It twists and turns. It grabs a molecule and takes it apart. Or combines molecules into a new thing.
Multiple proteins work together like an assembly line in nature's small factory: the cell.
May 21, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
It seems like almost every day now a new tech company announces that they will have all or a large portion of their employees work from home permanently.
Tech talent will spread out over the globe 🌏
I wonder what this will mean for “tech hubs” like San Francisco (or Amsterdam) — there will be less of a need to have an office in a hub. Distributed teams will be more viable for funding.
Apr 14, 2020 • 10 tweets • 1 min read
I expect journalists to talk to Apple and Google in the coming days. I have questions 👇
Will they provide code (examples) for both the clients and back-end?
Will they provide apps that can easily be used by governments, or will every government build their own implementation in this phase?
Apr 14, 2020 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
The Dutch government is asking Dutch companies to propose plans for the contact tracing app. Deadline is today.
They want to start testing this weekend 👀
*insert any Product Manager joke here*
This is just not realistic.
Not realistic to do a good interface design or a technical design. Not realistic for implementation or testing.
Furthermore, I don’t think Apple & Google’s APIs will be available? 🤷🏻♂️