Year: 2021

“The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald

.@benedictevans: “it seems to me that the real rebrand this week wasn’t Facebook to Meta but VR to Metaverse.”

From https://t.co/03V4CYcanK

@voidStern I have mark read on scroll disabled as well, but only because it would be disastrous for certain feeds I need to triage carefully and over days/weeks. Others, where discard/process decisions can be made immediately, just looking at the title, read on scroll world be frictionless.

@voidStern “Mark read all above this point” is too convoluted. I tried many times and with multiple readers (so nothing personal), but it’s just too much cognitive load for the kind of processing speed I’m trying to reach.

@voidStern Another setting I’d really love to have *per folder* or *per group* is how articles get marked read: some feeds I critically need to keep unread and manually mark them read; others I wish they could be marked read as I scroll the article list.

All part of my news triage process

“75% agree that their employers are focusing more on hiring new staff rather than investing in the existing workforce.”

Another sobering report about #career changes during The Great Resignation (as they are calling it): https://t.co/lTlqTJdpXn https://t.co/wredqJFwUW

Actual link to the report: https://t.co/ugH0mEZ1hq

I wonder if COVID-19 has triggered the biggest global job reset since the industrial revolution.

Why don’t we organize more IT conferences in #Iceland?

After playing for a bit with the private beta of @OpenAI #Codex, I got access to the @GitHub #CoPilot beta. It’s like witnessing the birth of something extraordinary: https://t.co/3qBNQVzgX4

1/ Sub-day delivery (for every good, not just grocery) will be the inflection point for the retail and logistics industry. Something that will be facilitated by urban drone fleets. After that, very few people will want to go to a store anymore, and for very few items.