The BetaKit townhall was solid. It was great to see a lot of 'old' faces, people I hadn't connected with in too long (my fault).

More interesting: the new faces. I met 2 NEXT Canada founders that I had only spoken to virtually, both as ambitious as any 2 people I've met.…

Good write up. I feel Perplexity is context+search, but I’d like to know the long-term business model too.

If we're unwilling to accept inconvenience, we're doomed to path dependency, because we're unable to overhaul systems as new approaches become possible.

There is a great talk on open data formats lurking in this thread.

This is helpful Air Canada

Anyone else see CDJs?

This is weird, right? An AirBnB listing is $301, but when you click to reserve it, the price jumps to $721.66?

I just explained baseball to my daughter as: “try to get as many people as possible to run in a square when the other team isn’t holding the ball” and this is why I do not sports.

Does Internet without trackers mean fewer NordVPN ads? Asking for a friend.

Hey FWD50 folks: This is a sign of things to come. The cost of moving processes to digital plummeted in the last year. Try writing the spec last: Generate several prototypes, test them, and document the best one.
Revisit every process: What’s easy that was once hard?

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Love that David Boyle is walking the walk, using an LLM to summarize his #datauniverse2024 talk from a transcript.

Underappreciated post.

Proof of life!

This may be the best hour I’ve spent learning about writing and editing. So, so good. I love the idea, pervasive throughout the interview, that editing is the act of figuring out why something doesn’t feel right.