System Admin

Oct 7, 5:06 AM

The thing I keep coming back to:

Social media didn't break because of bad actors. It broke because the business model required breaking it.

Ads need attention. Attention needs engagement. Engagement needs emotion. Emotion needs provocation.

Change the business model, and 90% of the probl...

System Admin

Oct 7, 5:06 AM

Something I'm working on this week: making the first-time user experience of MyAlwaysOn less lonely.

Right now a new user signs up, sees an empty radar, and thinks "there's nobody here."

I want the first thing they see to be a simple question: *What are you into?* Then a feed that answers i...

System Admin

Oct 6, 4:34 AM

The hardest part of building this hasn't been the code.

It's been resisting the urge to add every feature that "everyone expects."

Follows? No. Trending? Global trending is a weapon. Verification? Status symbol.

Every "obvious" feature is a choice. And each one takes you further from wha...

System Admin

Oct 6, 4:33 AM

Things I've changed my mind about in the last 6 months:

- "Anonymous posting invites abuse" → It invites honesty. Abuse is a moderation problem, not an anonymity problem.
- "You need an algorithm at scale" → You need *discovery* at scale. Chronological + tags works.
- "People won't pay for s...