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https://nyti.ms/2R7ovxI Mr. Mossberg, a veteran of The Wall Street Journal, The Verge and Recode, said on Monday he would be deactivating his Facebook account, along with the Facebook-owned Messenger and Instagram apps.

“We kept saying this was not a one-off. This was a toolbox anyone can use,” Ms. DiResta said. “We told the tech companies that they had created a mass way to reach Americans.” She Warned of ‘Peer-to-Peer Misinformation.’ Congress Listened. https://nyti.ms/2jkZH6e

I understand the free services like LinkedIn, Yahoo, Google, Facebook are supported by ads.  But the ads are not well targeted or creepy and repetitive, too much in your face (2nd post on LinkedIn, every 5-7 posts on Yahoo.com) and ultimately waste a lot of my time scrolling pass them in order to see relevant content. […]

Sign of the times, no more freebies. I am not sure how this will convince me to stay using Evernote or pay for it.   It only makes me want to export my notes out to Google docs or One Note. “At Evernote, we are committed not only to making you as productive as you can […]

It’s not incompetence, but competence, that causes companies to be disrupted. That applies to big companies and small, as well as people too. Or so argue Clayton Christensen and Marc Andreessen in this podcast, based on a conversation at Startup Grind (moderated by Derek Anderson) between the a16z co-founder and Harvard Business School professor Christensen […]

What I want for Christmas from LinkedIn Incentivize people to actually update their profiles and update with a real resume Either make resume (in PDF) a first class part of your LinkedIn professional profile. (do not send an update to your network, I don’t mind my boss finds an updated resume, but I don’t want […]

http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/blog/how-to-successfully-build-great-products-with-small-teams – Tony Tam

Interesting look at automation at the task level..  the mundane parts of the job can be automated, but not the entire job. Automation Will Change Jobs More Than Kill Them http://nyti.ms/1kfj78b – Tony Tam

Evernote Basic subscribers can save up to five emails to their Evernote account. To continue using the feature, you must upgrade your Evernote account. Today when I emailed a note to my notebook, I got the above paywall message. I used to love Evernote.  You can create notes very quickly, you can email notes to […]

The best way to tell if your speech is going to go well is to give your speech. The best way to find out if your new product has market appeal is to try to sell it. The best way to become a teacher is to teach. There’s a huge need for study, refinement and […]

It wasn’t Professor Plum in the Library with the Candlestick. So what killed Twitter? Source: Why Twitter’s Dying (And What You Can Learn From It) — Bad Words — Medium

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/10/18/why-im-no-longer-interested-in-square-after-seeing.aspx?source=eogyholnk0000001&utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=article – Tony Tam

From Pamela Fox of Kahn Academy http://blog.pamelafox.org/2015/10/voice-coaching-what-i-learned.html I use my voice a lot. I give talks at conferences, I teach workshops for GDI, and I record videos for Khan Academy. But I’ve never loved my voice. I grew up with British parents, so I spent my life wishing I had an accent that sounded as […]

https://medium.com/backchannel/pebble-is-trying-to-run-circles-around-apple-a87d96590d3 – Tony Tam

Even though I work in high tech, I don’t really understand business that loose money during their entire existence.  How can that be a business?   I invest in a restaurant that is luckily profitable after 1 year.   We offer a product people value and are willing to pay for.  We have investors who want to […]

After owning the I Prive restaurant for over a year and helping run the digital infrastructure  as well as posting job openings on Craigslist, I have a theory that a lot of people who used to work part time at restaurants are now working as drivers for Lyft or Uber. The hours are probably more […]

(dinner at the restaurant that I own in Burlingame, I Privé ) / stepping up my high horse I would love to see this in the perfect world for a product support experience. 1) Takes me zero effort to report a problem, make this as easy as possible.  Realtime chats, email. 2) I get an […]

I love listening to podcasts.  This is a good list of podcast by developers for developers.  I am currently catching up on the old episodes of ‘Debug’ http://simpleprogrammer.com/2014/03/10/ultimate-list-developer-podcasts/ – Tony Tam

“From conducting Equity Research at Thomas Weisel to entering tech as the CFO of Playdom (which she helped sell to Disney for $760mm), Christa Quarles went on to senior roles at Disney and Nextdoor. She is now the CFO of OpenTable and is in charge of figuring out the strategy for what OpenTable does next […]

http://www.rosietheriveter.org/ “As the U.S. faced a new and daunting challenge of a global war in the 1940s, people on the home front came together as never before. The stories of their struggles, which broke barriers and shaped many of today’s best social innovations, chart a path for new vision today. Rosie the Riveter is a […]

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(repost from 1/9/2007) I believe I have a healthy relationship with money. I know how to invest my money, I know how to earn money, and most importantly I know how to spend money on the people in my life. I usually don’t make such bold statements since I’m usually a humble person. Money in […]

In 2013, public relations executive Justine Sacco tweeted an offensive AIDS joke before boarding a flight to South Africa. By the time she landed, she had been denounced around the world, and lost her job soon after. Did Sacco deserve her public humiliation? Or was she yet another victim of social media shaming and a […]