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Great post!

I was very disappointed to see that Apple's wow moment at the last product presentation was a robot that helps recycle iPhones.

Why would you want to build a business based on Twitter API and then if successful your access gets revoked?! It's just crazy how badly Twitter has been dealing with companies that are building on top of their API. For me, Meerkat was one of the worst examples. A lots needs to be done to improve the relationship with developers and tech startups.

This is a really great article. I've been asked several times about the right moment to join a startup, but truth to be told, it really depends a lot on your expectations. Do you want to join a super early stage company and do whatever is needed or do you prefer to join a funded and work on a very specific role. Important questions here:

1. What are your expectations? 2. Are you a generalist or a specialist? 3. Do you want to work in a small room with two or three guys with a pay check? 4. Do you want to join a more established startup, but have less impact?

Make sure you understand the pros and cons of each option!

Farfetch and Transferwise have raised more than $100m and both have valuations of more than $1bn.

100% agreed! Like always, Seth Godin touches in a very sensitive subject. Companies demand innovative ideas, but most of the times are not open to the necessary failures that happen. How can we build a company's culture that promotes innovation and creativity, without restraining it with the fear of failure?

I find fascinating what's happening at Zappos. Most people spend their entire work life complaining about their bosses and claiming more freedom and responsibility at work. Zappos introduces Holacracy that in theory looks amazing and the way to go and people just can't get use to it.

When you spend your all adult life working in a system where there is a boss and someone in charge it's really hard to wire into a new system. Will keep on following the Zappos experiment. Kudos to Tony Hsieh for the courage and leadership.

For quite sometime I've been thinking about becoming a digital nomad. This won't probably be something for now, but this article provided some interesting points to take into consideration.

Respect! This has been on my bucket list for a while, but I haven't still found the courage to do it!

I find this discussion fascinating. I'm an avid reader and until 4 years ago I wouldn't trade a physical book for a digital one. Still today, I have this romantic vision of a personal library with an eclectic book collection. But then, I bought my first kindle and things changed. Since 2012, I bought over 150 books, read half of those and if anything, the kindle made me read even more. Besides, I really believe that digital books are also democratising the access to knowledge and information. I'm based in Portugal and to buy the 150 books I mentioned above I would have to spend more than double the amount I ended up spending. Why? Because I would need to order them from USA and transport it's still very expensive.

I believe that ads are killing journalism. The focus is not on creating good content, but mainly create content that will be clickable and sharable. Unfortunately, in our world, there is no direct correlation between good and sharable content. I'm definitely willing to subscribe to media outlets focused on informing and providing great content to their readers or do some micropayments, basically pay for the content I read and care about.

I'm glad to see that more and more people are talking about this. People like Evgeny Tchebotarev, Rand Fishkin and Joel Gascoigne are pioneers for openly talking about depression, loneliness and stress. The dichotomy between what we really feel and what we need to show others can be really heavy and most of the times even friends and family are really open to understand what's going on.