Co-founder of Wrapp, ex-Spotify CTO, ex-Stardoll. Technologist, advisor, angel. Values freedom. If you're wondering if a tweet was sarcastic, the answer is yes.
Saw a tweet claiming that capitalism causes poverty. That is backwards. Nothing *causes* poverty. It's the default state. The interesting question is, what creates wealth?
I wonder if RMS anticipated that 37 years after he founded FSF, Mercedes would be shipping these mini CDs with its vehicles to fulfill GPL requirements
Singaporean healthcare workers and frontline staff get a bonus. Executive leadership and parliamentarians take a pay cut. This is leadership. #COVID19channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore…
I miss pre-political tech so much... Or at least the time when tech politics had something to do with tech or was new and interesting in some way rather than the same left–right bs the rest of society is mired in.
It’s sad, because it wasn’t always this way. Diversity of thought was once a thing people valued and prized but now a monoculture is trying to take over and silence any dissent. I’m not talking about red vs blue, it goes deeper than that.
I just had to explain to a customer service representative from @swissairlines that Zurich is in Switzerland, not Germany. Maybe outsourcing your customer-facing org to the lowest bidder is not the greatest idea if you want to be perceived as a premium airline?
The default of all life is that you reproduce until you are consumed by other life or starve. Only recently did humanity figure out how to lift itself out of that.
Today, billions of people command unimaginable wealth by the standards of just 100 years ago.
Reading @DinaPomeranz tweets and comment threads is such a roller-coaster ride for faith in humanity.
📈 The data she cites on massive improvement of living conditions globally
📉 The replies by people who desperately want the world to suck
📈 Her relentless tenacity replying
