#Personal

It's a category error to describe Spotify as a music company, or Daniel Ek as someone who has any interest in what music really is, how it works, what its
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1. Starting Friday at 5 pm, face coverings are required in the state of North Carolina. Here is a thread with some highlights of the Executive Order. Please note that
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The middle and upper class left-wing white and BAME Guardian set have literally groomed their own children for activist academics by politicising them throughout their childhoods and neglecting their cultural
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It's been a rough year, so I don't begrudge anyone's choices that help them find some joy. My wife put up our Christmas tree yesterday, because it makes her happy.
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1/Just had a drink at the Millerton Inn on Main T. Server asked me after I paid, if I wanted to ‘leave my name and email in case there is
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I don’t tweet many personal things but why the fuck not. I am 32. Single and not looking. No kids, no thanks. I work from home and have quarantined since
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part of the reason a lot of mentally-ill people or people dealing with trauma relate to villains is because a lot of the time, esp in mainstream ip content, villains
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THREAD: Canada’s COVID-19 #ContactTracing app, COVID Alert, goes live today. Thanks to the involvement of Canada’s privacy oversight bodies the app passes muster . But the announcement also highlights why
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If you spend enough time in the startup world, you start to recognise "life-stage startups": companies whose genesis lies in what the bulge demographic of founders is currently dealing with
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Niggas born in 92 and were on their parents health insurance until they were 25 always are the ones on twitter asking what Obama did for the black community Your
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Some personal news: Today is my last day at The Knot Worldwide. I’ve been in the wedding industry for over a decade and at TK for 5.5 years. I’ll be
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1/ Thanks to all who participated in my little quiz on an old, obscure little personal computer. I’m cutting it off early because I got hundreds of guesses, some of
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FTC vs Facebook – a few thoughts:1) This, plus Visa/Plaid, shows the FTC is treating nascent competition really seriously. The cost of that is making it harder for startups to
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Big theme developing today seems to be acknowledgement of the human need a little madness or neuro-queer thinking to really engage with life in healthy ways. Whether framed in authorial
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THREAD: Here's some advice about how to manage your personal finances if your employer (probably the federal government) is doing the payroll tax deferral. 1/ First, let's distinguish the taxes
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REASONS TO STAY - A THREAD THAT WON'T FEEL LIKE GUILT TRAPPING! : 1. you won't hear the next album by your favourite artist. 2. that book you love? yeah,
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