A story about Follower counts and the Orange Fool...

1/ I have 159,000 followers. This isn’t because I’ve ever done anything particularly important in the world, and it’s certainly not because I’m full of profound insights on this service. 2/ Somewhere in the early days of Twitter a Product Manager sorted out that one key to better retention was getting new users to follow accounts of interest to them on day one. But the world was without shape, and Twitter had no machine learning.

Everyone! start your meme maker: Mock the Golden Arm with precise photographic evidence! Share your cel-drawn horoscope with the world! Photoshop your own head onto action star @KevinHart4real! That’s right, @quibi has screenshots. Kinda. 1/6 Of course, it wouldn’t be Quibi if we didn’t give the Twitterverse something to dunk on, so here’s the opening: it’s not your grandfather’s screenshotting. Yep, screenshotting the way pop-pop did it in ‘09 still produces ugly, blank rectangles straight to your camera roll. 2/6

When I was 24 and working at Apple I found myself in a heated debate with an engineer that I'd not met before.

Since I was young and knew everything, I was lecturing this man on some nuances of how drag and drop should behave when activated on a text selection. In particular I had strong feelings about when a drag of selected text ended, what circumstances should initiate a copy of the selection, & what should initiate a move of the selection. I was going on and on while not letting this, much more experienced, engineer get a word in