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They're obviously trying to curate the supply side of the knowledge marketplace.

Did you even read my whole comment? It's BS because he/she/they blanketed it without taking any nuance which i tried to do with my comment + an example!

Quote - "Speaking from work experience: A/B testing doesn't look into the nuances of usability or productivity, it looks at easy-to-quantify metrics like conversion rates and money spent"

This is complete BS. I run hundreds of a/b tests each quarter and I specifically refuse to run the types of experiments you allude to. My a/b testing is all about helping users achieve the things (the outcomes) that they want to achieve by using our product in the first place. If we can help them do that, with more ease, then we are creating a better experience.

Perhaps you should just agree that, "not all a/b testing is the same".

These topical experts as you put it, make more than $8/month today from their engaged audiences. What Twitter should do is build better engagement tools for them and then monetize that at much more than $8/month.

You think Stephen King, who is worth $500m, is going to drop Twitter for $96/year. That tweet itself was him doing a good job of using that platform (twitter) and his audience to get some free exposure.

"biases towards those with means rather than those contributing to the conversation"

I'm not sure this is a bad thing. If you are a user who actively contributes to the conversation and get's value out of being in that conversation, then it's likely you derive enough value to pay $8. The difference however is that now your contribution is more likely to be seen. You might even engage more now.

If you aren't that user, then maybe you don't derive enough value from conversation because you are mostly a consumption user. So you continue as you do today, consuming and occasionally replying to tweets but hardly ever having your response seen or acknowledged.

This is a bit misleading.He was a large stakeholder in Twitter before Musk announced his acquisition. Instead of being bought out of his shares like other shareholders at the $54.20, he opted to keep his shares and reduce the total cost Musk owed.

This is like Canada spending $54m to build the BASIC covid entry app, ArriveCAN...

Source: https://nationalpost.com/news/the-initial-cost-of-arrivecan-...

+1 What really matters are powerful experiences that allow people to get things done, easily. Eliminating workflows. Sorry that's overly simplistic but that's what it is.

"It is really unfortunate because the potential for much more impactful and meaningful work is lost."

I hear you and I'm sorry you're experiencing this as well. Unfortunately sometimes operating within the constraints of your priorities is all that leadership looks at in determining career advancement. You're doing more? That's nice, but if it's not tied to your OKRs, it's not promotion material. This, is the crux of a lot of FANGMA BS.

Ineffective managers are a real problem, I have first hand experience. There is nothing worse than being in a toxic environment where your manager doesn't support or showcase your work. The only solution to these situations is usually too look for other internal opportunities or resign.

The larger the organization, the more systematic this problem usually tends to be, this is just my experience of course.

I do this too but with a steam room.

I'm sure that's not their intent. What's notable though is how much innovation they are actually showing, that's rare imho.

All the downvotes.. Decibel is an independent venture capital firm created in partnership with Cisco, their play is to invest strategically in companies that Cisco can acquire. This isn't some made up witchcraft.

Future Webex (Cisco) acquisition, said it here first!

dear lord, I hope you're not a PM at Microsoft.

Nobody with decision making power actually cares whether any of the software in use in enterprises works well or not.

^this just isn't true. There's three camps of people. 1) The people who use Teams today and think it works just fine, they even enjoy it and find it simple to use (these people exist). 2) The people who use teams but are annoyed by many small issues that together cumulate to a poor UX. 3) People who will never like Teams for many reasons but make a point about being as vocal as possible about their hate.

Decision makers and leaders care about 1 and 2, which imho is good. I do agree that Teams isn't perfect and I also agree that it plays best, for now, with IT ecosystems. That said, end user love is critical and I think fixing that for group 2 will only help to secure Teams' undeniable comp advantage.

There's a whole team at Google that does just this. The ROI is self-explanatory, well done Google.

This is awesome, thank you!

That's probably intentional and a sign that it was a well designed A/B test :)

I think of it as validating and improving imperfect user assumptions.

"To me, A/B testing means you don't respect your users. You see them as just one factor in your money machine that can be poked and prodded to optimize how much money you can squeeze out of them. "

Your perspective is extremely short-sighted. A/B testing can result in this type of behaviour but that's just poor A/B testing. Good A/B testing focuses on removing distractions from the experience and helping users derive more value from the product. Bad A/B testing tries to make things more discoverable, where discoverability is often just noise and distractions. Good A/B testing ensures that the money machine, as you put it, pays its dues to users by making the product experience delightful.

I wish your homepage made it easier to more quickly engage in podcast discussion. Right now, my feedback is that it takes too long to get to proof of value, your UI is confusing and it's not clear to me what, or how, I can get to 'discussing podcasts'.

This is great, congrats on the launch, I love ecosystems! One thing I'd really love to get Stripe's take on is how they are thinking about utility of 3p apps within Stripe. For me, it's much easier to work within the native app than to figure out how to use that same app, with limited functionality, within Stripe.

I would not. That line along with EVERY SINGLE SPAC he has promoted (created) has absolutely devastated his brand. I am not certain that was his intent.

All I can think when I hear SPAC is Chamath and well, he should at this point be below everyones line.

I have had success using nymph as my start word.

This is an excellent move from Reddit. I've been appending Reddit to my Google searches for years. There is nothing better than testimonials from real humans within a focused interest community.

Fuel[1] accounted for a substantial portion of the overall lift, we've actually come in under expected inflation which is why you're seeing markets up today.

Gasoline, unleaded regular - +48.8% (+20.1% over last month)

[1]https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm

But do they know that they don't know!

Create a spreadsheet and include the following:

1. Your monthly net income (what goes into your account each month)

2. Subtract your fixed expenses from #1 above (mortgage, bills, other things you can't change like loans)

3. All of your monthly expenses categorized. Go back 6 months on your credit card bills and account statements. Download the data, put it into a spreadsheet and categorize every single expense. (Grocery, dining out, travel, sports, etc, etc)

4. Add up all the variable expenses in #3

5. Add your fixed and variable expenses together and subtract from your monthly net-income.

6. You will now see if you've saved any money historically. Now look at each category and figure out where you can trim to break even, then where you can trim even more to start saving each month. If you want to save, you need to spend less, if you don't want to spend less, you need to increase your net take home.