I’ve been on a few trips to SF in the last few years where I got to take a Waymo. I’ve currently taken 11 Waymos. They are crazy! So futuristic. And yet, now they are doing over 100,000 paid rides per week. In May 2024, they were doing 50,000 rides per week. In late 2023 … Continue reading The self-driving cars are coming
Now that everything is digital, there are so many things to charge. Seems like it used to be that you just needed to charge your phone. But the more smart or tech items you use, the more you can end up charging. Now that I’m using so many of the Apple products you have to … Continue reading So many things to charge
I’ve been interested and tracking self-driving cars for a long time now, and finally a few months ago I was able to take my first ride in a self-driving car. My initial reaction from it was really that it was just a crazy cool experience, and I think this will become a lot more common, … Continue reading Notes from my first self-driving car experience
I’ve signed up for hey.com for email and have used it for personal email for about 7 months. Here are my thoughts and review on it so far. First, I think it’s a challenge to build a new email service and compete with something like Gmail. I think there are a lot of good parts … Continue reading Review of Hey.com Email
With Twitter finally suspending Trump’s account, and other social networks finally starting to take actions, the natural debate has followed on the role of moderation, censorship, and power in social networks. Should there be moderation, or should everything be allowed? Who should be in charge of the moderating? Should the companies be able to de-platform … Continue reading Potential risks of blockchain-based social networks
Here is a blog/tweetstorm, just to try it (view on twitter) Internet:Me: Ok, I will give you my opinion on distributed work now vs. before the pandemic, and after. We’ve been doing remote work for several years now, though I prefer to call it distributed work–I think it is a better way to describe the … Continue reading Remote/Distributed Work Thoughts Amid the Pandemic
Since this is an unprecedented time I wanted to document some of the new words and phrases that have popped up that are now commonplace that really were very uncommon before or I didn’t know about. Here’s a list of some of these phrases that come to mind, some people use in conversation, some that … Continue reading Coronavirus Phrases for 2020
Around mid-March 2020 we started quarantining due to coronavirus. It’s been a bizarre few months so far, in lots of ways. One thing personally that has been a bit strange is thinking what I was doing a year ago and what I am doing a year later. A year ago I was just starting to … Continue reading world travel, then 1 year later, quarantine
It’s a good idea–to make it easy for fintech companies to easily connect to consumers banks instead of needing to do the week-long process of verifying small bank deposits. That definitely speeds up the onboarding process for people to try out new apps. But the tradeoff is always with security and convenience and here it’s … Continue reading Plaid is Still a Phishing Site
The tech news story of the last few months has been WeWork. A private company with a meteoric rise to an almost $50 billion valuation is about to go to an IPO, but the questionable math spooks investors, the IPO goes bust, the company is written down by ~$40 billion and the CEO is kicked … Continue reading Icarus for Startups — Bug or Feature?
