This dude just cannot tell the truth even for a second.
Obviously nobody needs a VPN to watch something on a national broadcast and he's clearly up to SOMETHING that he shouldn't be under the guise of accessing his NFL game pass account.
This is continual sociopath behavior from someone who can't possibly believe that they could ever do anything wrong, and they are simply misunderstood.
He bought a house for his parents with the money from his allegedly-very-fraudulent business and is now living there. I think part of his bail money is also from a mortgage on said house.
Sure Google is a lot more than search at this point, so it's not the right mission. Though, I would say "organizing the world's information" is at least one of the right missions for the company.
Funny enough - Satya Nadella introduced a new mission statement at Microsoft shortly after he became CEO[1].
It's pretty anodyne, but by design - it's a way to push the company towards different ways of operating by creating a pretext to say "X project is part of the new mission and here's why" from a top-down perspective.
It sounds pretty generic for me. I mean, Google sells productivity tools and services. "Improving productivity" is just table stakes, not something that's a useful mission statement. Vague or overly broad mission statements are pretty much the same as no mission statement at all.
The End of an Error for the world's most disappointing note-taking app.
I think part of the struggle here is that no two people can agree on what ailed them.
From lack of innovation for years, to an incomprehensibly bad rich text editor interface that broke all established conventions, to 0-60 from "zero monetization" to "monetize every time you even think about clicking a button", to a ground-up rewrite that put it on part with it's counterparts from 2012, etc.
It's almost like it's failure was overdetermined.
Fascinating case study in a journey from ubiquity to obscurity.
The dichotomy between "marketing tracks, 1-to-1 emails don't" is false. There are hundreds of millions if not a billion installs of people using tracking for 1-to-1 email.
Sales people use dozens prospecting tools like Outreach.io, Salesloft, etc for tracking.
Likewise, millions of individual consumers use tools like Gmelius, Mixmax, Streak, etc.
This feels like either manufactured outrage or willful ignorance by a community of supposedly technology-savvy people who should know better.
First, tools like Streak have been criticized for years. And something like MixMax which is sold as an email marketing platform thing is scuzzy and gross, but it’s fairly clear to the person signing up what it’s for and that it’s for people who send out bulk email for marketing purposes.
Superhuman sells itself as an email client for professionals — it sells itself in similar ways to how Mailbox was presented before the Dropbox acquisition.
The investors and sycophants defending this product might say that it’s clear to everyone that this is just an email tool for marketers, but that’s not how its own webpage sells it. If anything, this is selling itself as an email tool for VCs or people doing biz dev.
And maybe every person doing M&A uses tracking pixels, but that seems like a stretch. And for there to not be an ability to turn the feature off (until the outrage), says a lot to me about the core values that went into designing this product.
I would never pay for something like this or for Streak. I understand that emails I get from a marketing company or a newsletter have tracking pixels. I’m savvy enough to know others might send them too. But I will absolutely push back on the idea that it’s the expected behavior for all or even most emails, let alone willful ignorance.
Email tracking is wrong, and personally I have gone through many steps to try and keep myself safe from it. That being said you are incorrect if you think this is limited to Marketing and Sales. Literally every E-mail in my inbox when I wrote my initial comment had a tracking pixel. GitHub uses tracking pixels when they send you notification of Pull Requests. Square sends tracking pixels for receipts. Every notification I had in my inbox was accompanied by a tracking pixel. Superhuman isn't even the first client to do this. I know that Nylas and Mailbird both had it and I couldn't even figure out how to disable them in Newton Mail on Android. To say this is somehow about Superhuman is to deny the problem, this is an industry wide problem that everyone is culpable for
You’re talking about transactional emails —- Superhuman isn’t a client for sending transactional mail (that’s automated anyway), it’s a normal email client.
It’s disingenuous to conflate transactional or marketing email tracking with a manual, non-automated email one person sends to another. Yes, I’m sure plenty of people track those emails, that doesn’t make it common or the expectation from a sender. The fact that there is this much upset about this proves that this isn’t the expectation.
I wonder if that speaks to the general issue that Twitter has had in terms of being an effective advertising platform - either in terms of targeting capability or demographics of the userbase.
If even the candidates who are spending money like it's going out of style aren't even using it...
Except most people's natural reaction when they don't understand other people's value systems is not empathy - it's criticism.
It happens on a much lesser level with food, music, movies, etc - the reaction from a non-fan to a 15 year-old girl's declaration that she loves One Direction is not "ok I see why someone could like this music and why this tribal affiliation is both socially useful to a teenager" but rather
Snapchat is the technology version of One Direction for a lot of adults. But also remember many adults couldn't understand why teenage girls went crazy for The Beatles in 1964 either.
As he mentions in the first paragraph, he didn't coin that term as we used it widely at McKinsey's office in the 90s, where he was a junior consultant. BTW, the practice of "International Idea Arbitrage" is applied since the early 1800s in all fields and segments.
This is 100% a decision in line with much of the core premium Windows audience - corporate employees who use Excel and other programs with numerical data entry on a daily basis.
There has been massive encroachment of MBP and MBAs into the corporate world as BYOD policies have been adopted.
Yuck. If you are doing this much data entry, you are probably not at a Starbucks and most likely, at a bigCo desk. In that case, a $5 numeric keyboard will be better.
The offcenter keyboard (and worse yet, off-center trackpad) is a much worse compromise.
