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Is it me or is this post almost completely content free?

He's going to be working at Twitter. Ok check, that's news.

Doing... what exactly?

You don't get it, because he did a cool thing a decade ago, this is worth us talking about.

Someone please wake me up when Kevin Rose decides to take a dump and someone else writes about it.

He has done more than just one cool thing: "Biz Stone: How I Faked My Way Into Google" https://www.wired.com/2013/04/fakeit/

He certainly has a knack for talking about himself in positive terms. I suppose that's a marketable skill.

If only there were a platform with a word count limit... where he could post the small snippet of information without all the filler...

People keep doubting Twitter's lifespan, but...

> Twitter has woven itself into the fabric of our global society.

Regardless of how long it actually has to live, I can't really argue with that.

Agreed. Most media outlets often embed tweets in their news stories. Live news feeds + tweets just go hand in hand. Not to mention the POTUS constantly making the news via twitter.

And yet, it has almost no actual impact on the real world.

The virtual world is the real world.

Much of human activity is moving out of the physical world and into the virtual world today, in the same way that it moved out of nature and into buildings thousands of years ago (but much faster this time).

The analogy doesn't really work -- the physical buildings still exist in nature. Many physical buildings try to incorporate natural elements.

The virtual world exists in nature, made from natural elements - where else would it be?

The whole notion of a virtual / reality divide is a farce

> The whole notion of a virtual / reality divide is a farce

It clearly isn't when so many think otherwise. Otherwise, you wouldn't need to call it "virtual reality", you could just simply call it "reality"

Inputs and outputs of the digital world live in nature too.

You still interact with the virtual world from inside buildings.

Many virtual environments try to incorporate familiar elements too.

"...The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation#cite_...

The President of the United States contradicted his own surrogates on Twitter this morning.

Those who are down-voting the above comment should think about being more sensitive to the possibility that the author has spent the last few months in a coma.

Yeah. I don't know if it's quite as beleaguered as we like to think around here, maybe it is, but either way it's pretty important.

And it all started from "people talking about what they ate for lunch".

I decided to read this article while anticipating that it was nothing but narcissistic fluff. I was not disappointed. This post's only redeeming quality is that it is short.

It's amazingly forward about it though.

I'd be a lot more interested if Noah Glass came back, personally.

Either way: so what? Twitter has huge endemic problems that someone who built the trash fire that was Jelly can fix.

It feels strange reading such things from someone working on a company that is widely known for ignoring their users.

Not surprising when 90% of your users are bots.

My top focus will be to guide the company culture, that energy, that feeling.

I wish he would have elaborated further on how he plans on doing this, given how fragile Twitter seems to be.

So they are paying this guy to run the beer pong on Fridays? How about focus on building a sustainable business?

I was wondering what Biz was up to; really dont understand the negativity here. This is probably a morale boost internally; Biz always struck me as the most passionate user-centric one of the founders. He brings a philosophy of horesing around and trying new shit without taking everything so bloody seriously.

I don't know the guy; but his interviews and writing don't paint a negative picture for me; don't get all the hate

I’m just filling the “Biz shaped hole” I left.

The writers for HBO's 'Silicon Valley' must have the easiest job in the world.

I laughed more than I should at this line.

The hard part is finding the things their audience would believe someone did or said out of all the things that actually happened.

I almost wished we lived in an alternate universe where the gist of the announcement was something like, "I'm coming back to twitter, and will work to make the platform decentralized and open sourced...like gnu social, mastodon, etc." Oh well.

Awesome. Maybe you can change the part of the culture that thinks it's good to censor troublesome (read: conservative) viewpoints.

why don't i care?

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