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I commented this on the other thread, and reading your comment, I think you’re 100% right. The IPO dream right now is to try and tap in to the type of casual audiences that YouTube and Twitch maintain, and the best way to accomplish that is a dedicated fleet of power users that generate content, are barely compensated, and do 99% of the marketing for the platform.

If I was a VC, I would want a glut of ad-sensitive, lowest common denominator users. Think your Aunt on Facebook, or your sister on VSCO, or your young nephew on TikTok. I don’t think those people are necessarily attracted to the overall community attitude(s) currently on Reddit.

I would never call the ex-Hacker News/Digg Redditors smart. But.

Those users do have certain proclivities that make them EXTREMELY unattractive to investment dollars. Strong interest in anti-mainstream topics, including the 3Ps (Privacy, Piracy, and Pornography) doth not good ROI make. This exodus of users and elimination of features, outside looking in, seems like a misstep. I’d be skeptical.

Man… ain’t that the truth. My hope is that people can adopt sort of a cold abstraction from the situation. I know realistically, that’s not the typical case.

Others have touched on this, but isn’t this a good thing? You should NEVER quit without recourse - it makes you ineligible for unemployment. Scenarios:

• you want to leave, you tell your manager, they resolve the issue, you stay and are happier

• you want to leave, you tell your manager, they don’t resolve the issue, you engage in getting fired, you get fired, you file for unemployment

• you want to leave, you tell your manager, they don’t resolve the issue, you engage in getting fired, you don’t get fired, you collect wages for little/no work while job hunting

• you want to leave, you don’t tell your manager, you engage in getting fired, you get fired, you file for unemployment

• you want to leave, you don’t tell your manager, you engage in getting fired, you don’t get fired, you collect wages for little/no work while job hunting

• you quit, you get nothing

It’s like a weird game theory problem, but IMO quitting is the WORST choice. Sure, the employer could challenge the unemployment claim, but many don’t, and those who do don’t typically win.

You know, thinking about this… men’s clothing seems so diverse, it seems to avoid a lot of the issues that women’s fashion suffers from.

There’s a huge range from cheap to absurdly expensive; you can get jeans for $9 with Kohl’s cash or $9,000 from Chrome Hearts.

There’s a huge range in functionality; I’ve seen designers lean into hyper utilitarianism and ridiculous impracticality.

There’s a massive range in aesthetic; guys could wear Online Ceramics on Tuesday and Stefano Ricci on Thursday… no one would bat an eye.

I never really thought about it, but it does seem like guys have so much more flexibility IMO. And pockets.

If I had to change anything, I think that cheap IG-driven “built for you” suit manufacturers (Indochino, Proper Cloth, Sene) are kinda corny and predatory on young guys who don’t know better. Similar to luxury whitelabeled Fossil watches and Luxottica glasses in a way. More marketing, really.

Assuming you shot this on a phone, it’s NUTS how good mobile cameras / post-processing has gotten in the past couple years. Fantastic pic.

Probably. I write half my comments drunk, so I wouldn’t use them as a basis for ESL learning 🙃

It’s a good catch!! Apologies for any confusion.

I agree wholeheartedly. Whenever some is doing app design, I always tell them - just because the PNG submission recommendation is 1024x1024px, there’s only one time people will ever see it at that res (in the store); after that, it gets scaled down as small as 120x120 for Home Screen use (or 58x58 in settings).

There’s a reason boring, flat vector design wins - fast, universal legibility.

It’s nice art… for anything mass adoption, I always recommend flatter/less detail. No one like FB Buck Alegria, but man does it work for global tech deployments.

This is a really good oversight (see: insight, overview, etc). Honestly, for anyone actually interested in this stuff and what makes the internet tracking/advertising machine tick, take some of the HubSpot Academy’s courses. There’s definitely other courses out there, but the HubSpot ones are all free, and the topics aren’t hard once you get immersed in it.

Plus afterwards you can put the faux-certs on your resume and knife fight with the 20,000,000 other adtech people that just got laid off.

These look perfect. Charred corn? Pickled onion? Cotija? Sign me up.

I was like… yeah weird, but some people are weird.

Then I saw Elvis.

And then I saw the car in the garage.

And then I saw the outdoor fence.