@paulg Not as crisp as your other essays, IMO, but it links to the exceptional “What You Can’t Say”. It’s a great opportunity to read the latter.

Good: an admission. And yet another proof that chatbots don’t work outside most simplistic scenarios (as if today’s interactions wouldn’t be enough). Insisting that they make a difference is delusional.

Amazon: AI can’t solve every conversational problem https://t.co/MGdzisJ1uj

And that’s the proof. No matter how many articles focused on Zoom security and privacy issues appeared on leading international newspapers, people still went for it because it’s frictionless:

https://t.co/7z6b6wyeyb

I would love an iOS version, @miximka.

Shout-out to @miximka, for his clipboard manager for macOS CopyLess. I tried so many, and CopyLess 2 is significantly superior in so many aspects (from UX to features). And it’s also free for 99% of capabilities (but I paid anyway). I can’t imagine why it’s not more popular.

Complicated products (as in the opposite of frictionless) kill companies.

3/ It’s probably something I can do with @Zapier or @IFTTT, but I’d rather love to see it as a premium feature in a Twitter client like @tweetbot or @twitterrific. Given the new API that is coming out, maybe this is a good moment.

@Twitter 2/ It would be nice to have an automated system that tracks what a new follower of mine says. After 1 week/month, I receive a report from the system with the summary of all her/his tweets. So I can assess if I want to continue following that person or not.

1/ I don’t treat @Twitter like a TV. I pay a lot of attention to what the people I follow say. I don’t see how somebody can follow thousands and have any chance to really catch any meaningful thought. Also, time is limited. So here’s an idea:

When you discuss with a VC about the growth and trends of a certain industry segment and you discover that the founder of the startup they are evaluating is somebody you carefully observed 15 years before.

Being in enterprise IT for two decades gives you a lot of perspectives.