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Like pitching "drive rideshares for only the cost of your time & gas"

This is why we took business ethics & I know Dario had to too

How will your project/decision look on the front page of the Wall Street Journal? Well when a whistleblower reveals what everyone knows ($9b->$30b rev jump w/o servers growing on trees simultaneously = tough decisions), it's gonna be public anyway.


FIRE!

-crowded theater (negative value example)

Words can be pretty much actions depending on who you are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_no_one_rid_me_of_this_tur...


“We also won’t be first against the wall when the revolution comes (see this very blog for proof of innocence)”

This is going through some people’s minds the more pushback grows (see Altman molotov, Maine data center moratorium)


For decades we moved to a knowledge based economy, now we have perversely wealthy people saying they're coming for those jobs. The thought of 10s of millions of people with nothing to do but starve to death ought to scare those wealthy people.

Especially since many of them are some of the brightest minds around.

If (1) many bright and very online people are going to lose their jobs, and (2) the response has not been mass unionization, might I rethink [1] a more likely future of work or rethink [2] the psychology of the average/collective knowledge workforce, or...

"where union" in short.

Perhaps the concept is too foreign for white collars, or on average folks think they'll be OK and it's the juniors who'll go... maybe too focused on immediate needs... a belief unionization is the wrong response... (and I'm not advocating for anything in particular btw)


...and in America there are more guns than humans, and more potentially unemployed white collar workers than the police, military, and national guard combined.

Nick Hanauer understood this fourteen years ago. Very few others did. And despite him spending his own time and money to explain it in simple English, nobody in his peer group wanted to hear it -- his TED talk on the subject ... took several years before it was published. Just a coincidence, I'm sure.

FA (for a decade or so) FO, I guess?

https://www.ted.com/talks/nick_hanauer_beware_fellow_plutocr...

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchfor...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2gO4DKVpa8ns than humans, and more potentially unemployed white collar workers than the police, military and national guard combined.


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They're experts at divide and conquer. They'll probably be able to convince us that we did this to each other.

Just like they convinced the younger generation that "boomers" stole their future.


Zatanna

Kampala (had to double check it wasn’t Harris)

Just mulling these names over, how’d you come up with them?

PS: clear value prop!


Zatanna is a DC comic book character. I’m not sure if either of us have even read comics, so not sure where that came from. For Kampala, when I started this I was trying Conductor for the first time. The generated workspace name was Kampala (the capital of Uganda). We even have a 3rd name. We actually incorporated as NoPoll. That one’s a bit less inspiring though lol.

Gotta ask, did you talk to legal in any way before naming your company after someone's IP

Are they allowed to reuse Thunderbolt when it's already taken in the same industry?

They have enough money for a legal dept. so I imagine so. But it's a confusing choice IMO. Not just because thunderbolt but also because thunderbird as someone else pointed out. But maybe they are trying to make thunder their 'thing', like apple puts an 'i' in front of everything?

Coming soon the browser rebrand to Thunderfox! :)


Very happy to update to Thunderfox.

I wonder how much slower Firefox would have to be to invalidate the mental health gain not imagining every single keystroke going directly to Sundar.

Did I seriously click on a Mozilla product and see AI? You guys at Mozilla read the Internet right?

Doesn’t this have to be done under another name to prevent massive company-killing pushback?


Are they convinced that claiming they have technical issues while continuing to adjust their internal levers to choose which customers to serve is holistically the best path?

Time/frustration

If it’s all slop, the smallest waste of time comes from the best thing on the market


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