Anil Dash
Person on 4 sites
Writer and technology executive; blogs at anildash.com, was CEO of Glitch, and helped build Movable Type and ThinkUp.
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6 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
Who people, organisations and podcasts are, and how they connect, with sources.
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3 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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19 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Shaming people out of using a harmful technology does not work, because the companies selling it have already priced the stigma into their plans. (opens korrents.com)
“In short, the venture capitalists and CEOs of Silicon Valley have priced the costs of shame into their business plans.”
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Stigma changes what people admit to rather than what they do: they keep using the platform and simply get quieter about it. (opens korrents.com)
“People being embarrassed or ashamed while still using the technology does not bother the authoritarian owners of those platforms in the least, as long as they’re profiting off of those ashamed users.”
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Critics of a technology only change anything by offering people a better alternative to move towards, rather than an argument to feel bad about. (opens korrents.com)
“He gave them an affirmative alternative to move toward, and in doing so, empowered both those people and himself to do something better.”
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Shaming people out of using a harmful technology does not work, because the companies selling it have already priced the stigma into their plans. (opens korrents.com)
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13 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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MacBook Air (opens rcmnd.app)
“These days I'm mostly on my 11" MacBook Air. I'm not a big hardware fetishist, but I have to say it's my favorite laptop I've ever owned, and remarkably fast.”
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Google Chrome (opens rcmnd.app)
“Well, I spend all day in Google Chrome, and that's where I do a ton of work, never really touching other browsers unless I'm testing something.”
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Movable Type (opens rcmnd.app)
“I still run my blog on Movable Type, nothing really new there.”
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MacBook Air (opens rcmnd.app)