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dmbliton Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal

I've heard good things about https://teable.ai/ for airtable-like flexibility. With more standardized CRM scenarios I'm going to try https://twenty.com/ with the next opportunity

dmbliton Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal

People are reacting like Bending Spoons is going to make Airtable worse, whereas in fact being acquired by bending spoons is already the indicated of things being worse than ever. Which may be a little premature for Airtable but definitely not unexpected. As to what will bending spoons do with it - does anyone know (or care) what did they do with Evernote, or AOL?

Airtable felt stuck for a long before that, now is just the moment to remind ourselves not to be stuck with it.

dmbliton Map of the world's great castles and fortresses

Hi there and thank you, I guess we all love castles.

Just went to check a few randomly and saw the map lacks the Citadel of Acre, which is really quite impressive https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g297736-d324... (It's in Akko, northern Israel)

hope that will help you find and fix some other misses in your dataset.

dmbliton I hope you will never see this letter (1961)

I didn’t comment the letter, I commented your idea that he lived through the Terror and thus the letter. No, that wasn’t the case.

And once again: the terror the society experienced that was vivid to Gagarin was from the Germans and not from Stalin (although indeed it experienced both).

I don’t want to speak to the tone of the letter, you may interpret it as designed to do something and you may not. But to say that it is somehow influenced by the terror that happened before his time and not to someone in his family, the terror about which for all we know he knew nothing, and in society that had a major uniting experience since, is to put your thoughts in his head.

dmbliton I hope you will never see this letter (1961)

The Terror has ended by October 1938, when Gagarin was 4 years old. I wouldn’t call that “living through”.

I’m not saying there weren’t political prisoners or executions later. There were, but the scale is incomparable. We can safely say Gagarin met a lot of people who had won the war growing up, but he had not seen someone familiar taken to prison for no reason every other day, and I would assume had not heard much about it.