I just started reading "Change: How to Make Big Things Happen" by Damon Centola. Twitter's rise features pretty prominently in the book's premise — that a complex contagion (like the rise of the social network back in 2009) comes about through a lot of strong ties reaching critical mass, rather than through the weak ties of a mass influencer — so I'd be interested to know what you think if you know about the book.

Also, do audiobooks count as reading? Because that'd be about 80% of my list, hah.

https://www.damoncentola.com/

And by “experience” I meant “UX,” but I’ve never liked that description for semantic reasons, haha.

I know, right?

I'm kind of wincing watching this. Is Andreessen Horowitz really partnering with Adam Neumann, the guy who bears at least _some_ responsibility for Softbank's current woes?

(https://www.ft.com/content/951f7a93-92e1-4d74-bdf0-9c461b98e4a2)

AND Saudi Arabia? Don't they kill dissenting journalists for sport over there?

Hey Marc and Ben, blink twice if you're being held hostage!

I liked it too. And apparently very true to the actual story, according to interviews with Rogers and Pajitnov in Time mag:

https://time.com/6266810/tetris-movie-apple-tv-true-story/

Also, pardon the typos and grammatical errors. It’s late for me. 😴

I agree with your analysis of Mr. Musk’s motivations, although as a creative by nature and marketer by trade, I can’t help but feel my profession being a little unfairly singled out by your use of it as a pejorative. I mean, marketing is just a tool we’ve developed to promote the best ideas out there.

This is my first night on Nostr and I’m already promoting to those friends I know will get its relevance. That’s me “marketing.”

Like with all tools, it is largely about how you use them. I use a pen to doodle, but I could also use it to stab someone’s eye if I was into violent stuff.

Still, I agree with the sentiment.

Though I take the kinder view: Musk is what happens when you we lose track of our own internal values, stop using them as a compass and let adulation go to our head.

It could happen to anyone, even founders, engineers, etc. In fact, after many shitty experienced in Silicon Valley with founders who drank too much of their own koolaid and used others ideas to aggrandize themselves, I know for a fact that it does.