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Anil Dash tag:anildash.com,2011-07-12://1 2016-04-28T19:45:42Z A Blog About Making Culture Movable Type Pro 5.2.6 40.727093-73.978644http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/fb_pwrd.gifAnilDashhttps://feedburner.google.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PlusmoSubscribe with The Free DictionarySubscribe with Bitty BrowserSubscribe with Live.comSubscribe with Excite MIXSubscribe with WebwagSubscribe with Podcast ReadySubscribe with WikioSubscribe with Daily RotationThis is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site. Goodbye, Prince tag:anildash.com,2016://1.7570 2016-04-28T19:40:43Z 2016-04-28T19:45:42Z I've been struggling to find words to express how I feel in the week since Prince died. He's obviously the artist that's had the most... Anil http://anildash.com/
I've been struggling to find words to express how I feel in the week since Prince died. He's obviously the artist that's had the most impact on my life, and was in many ways the lens through which I processed the rest of pop culture and artistic expression.

I did tweet a bit about how I was feeling at the moment I found out, a series which both Fusion and Mic captured to try to explain Prince's importance.

Later, I spoke with All Things Considered about a few facets of Prince's innovative ways that perhaps get overlooked.

I'm sure I'll have much, much more to say in the future, but for now I just wanted to say thank you to Prince for all that he shared with us, and to wish the best for the incredible community of fans that he brought together around the world, some of whom are amongst my oldest friends today.
  http://anildash.com/2016/04/goodbye-prince.html Water for Gambhariganda tag:anildash.com,2016://1.7568 2016-03-22T03:00:55Z 2016-03-22T03:01:30Z Anil http://anildash.com/

Posted by Anil Dash on Monday, March 21, 2016

  http://anildash.com/2016/03/water-for-gambhariganda.html On the Hunt tag:anildash.com,2016://1.7569 2016-02-24T22:00:41Z 2016-04-07T19:05:14Z There are lots of conversations that I have over and over, one-at-a-time on social media like Twitter that I wish was captured more definitively. Fortunately,... Anil http://anildash.com/
There are lots of conversations that I have over and over, one-at-a-time on social media like Twitter that I wish was captured more definitively. Fortunately, I got the chance to do just that when I was asked to be on Product Hunt Live, the Q&A series for the Product Hunt community.

I really appreciated the chance to talk about some of these topics more specifically in a way that others can refer to in the future; I hope you'll give it a look and see what you think.
  http://anildash.com/2016/02/on-the-hunt.html Another Round on me! tag:anildash.com,2016://1.7567 2016-01-26T16:02:03Z 2016-02-14T04:12:35Z OMG I can't believe it! I got to be on my very favorite podcast, BuzzFeed's "Another Round". I can verify that Tracy Clayton and Heben... Anil http://anildash.com/
OMG I can't believe it! I got to be on my very favorite podcast, BuzzFeed's "Another Round". I can verify that Tracy Clayton and Heben Nigatu are every bit as amazing in real life as they seem to be when you listen to the show.

We talked about race and identity, we talked about what we need to reform in tech, and we talked about mangoes. Basically, everything that matters. Please do give it a listen!
   http://anildash.com/2016/01/another-round-on-me.html Awakenings! tag:anildash.com,2015://1.7565 2015-12-20T03:22:50Z 2015-12-21T02:52:49Z Hooray, The Force Awakens was great. Let me quickly gather some spoiler filled notes of reaction, now that it's been a day or so since... Anil http://anildash.com/
Hooray, The Force Awakens was great. Let me quickly gather some spoiler filled notes of reaction, now that it's been a day or so since I watched it.

(Do check out Jason Kottke's also-spoilerrific 15 thoughts about Star Wars: The Force Awakens, too.)

I read all the spoilers about the movie months and months ago, from great sites like Making Star Wars and I don't feel it diminished my enjoyment of the movie at all. Even knowing about That One Huge Moment With Han Solo a year ago didn't make me feel any less excited about the movie.

All of the new actors are great, though as part of the small minority of viewers who've seen Adam Driver in Girls and in Lincoln, it was hard at first to see him within this universe and not be distracted by the familiarity.

All of the characterizations (including those of the "classic" characters) were far more loose and natural in this film, as compared to Lucas' formal, even stilted, direction. For the most prat, that was fine and appropriate, but when it got more jokey or self-aware, it felt a bit like, "That's not Star Wars!"

Just as the characterizations were modernized, so too was the pacing. Parts of the original trilogy are downright languid, and of course parts of the prequels drag on endlessly. But in switching to contemporary, fast-paced editing we lose a little bit of the epic feel from the original trilogy. That's a fair trade, as quick reveals like the Millennium Falcon's unforgettable first appearance in the movie more than justify the change in style.

John Williams was very restrained in not relying very heavily on the themes from the classic trilogy, but as Creed (which is excellent!) showed, smartly deploying a legendary musical theme in the seventh episode of a franchise can have powerful effect. That was really only used well in the case of the Force Theme when Rey finally takes the lightsaber, which I loved. Otherwise, the new music in the film was pretty unimpressive. While it's fair to note that great themes like the Imperial March weren't in the first film from the classic trilogy, it's also worth noting that the prequels, for all their many shortcomings, averaged having at least one great theme per film.

The places where the movie references the rest of the Star Wars universe are great. The nods aren't generally too heavy-handed, and it doesn't veer into obsequious fan service. By contrast, the reuse of Star Wars story elements is just tedious. There is a direct analog for nearly every character in a New Hope. There's a trench run. There's a weakness in the battle station. Hell, the could have made the Starkiller at least shaped like a cube or something — that might show that the First Order learned a little bit from the Empire's shortcomings!

There was a lot of detail that will clearly reward repeat viewing. The Star Wars Leaks community is already assiduously cataloguing those (I didn't see a grave stone by Luke!) but I know I missed a number on my first viewing. At one point, Han and Chewie are standing in a ship doorway and Chewie does something that Han reacts to, but I didn't quite pick up what it was. I'm sure many other small character-building moments (or setups for payoffs like the crossbow blaster's shot power) are throughout the film waiting to be noticed.

BB-8 was a lot better a character than it had any reason to be.

Honestly just makes me even more excited about Episode VII. pic.twitter.com/d8CV6Pv1o3
— Anil Dash (@anildash) November 23, 2015
  http://anildash.com/2015/12/awakenings.html Beyond Doing Half the Parenting tag:anildash.com,2015://1.7566 2015-11-25T17:42:59Z 2015-12-20T04:04:18Z Doing my fair share for my son means I have to start carrying my weight in other areas at home. (function(d, s, id) { var... Anil http://anildash.com/
Doing my fair share for my son means I have to start carrying my weight in other areas at home.

Malcolm's first time sitting at a drum set. Gotta work on his grip but his timing is not bad!
Posted by Anil Dash on Saturday, December 5, 2015

Growing up as an Indian-American son, in a family-oriented culture, I considered it an inarguable truth that I would have kids when I grew up. So when I met my wife and she first introduced the idea that we should really think about whether we wanted to have kids—that we might decide to never have kids—it was as radical an idea as I'd heard. I loved the audacity of it, and the many logical, rational reasons to stay child-free.

Forgoing parenthood would mean more flexibility for things like travel, and a lot more freedom to take risks in our careers. We would of course have much lower financial obligations. And while I didn't know what other changes might be in store if we had a kid, there was a comfort in knowing that nothing really had to change.

Naturally, we eventually decided to have a kid. I wish I could say one particular argument in favor was persuasive, or that there was a single conversation that cemented our decision, but it was ultimately just intuition on our parts. We came to the conclusion that we could probably be pretty kick-ass parents.

I didn't take the decision lightly. We lived in a one-bedroom apartment and definitely did not want to move to a house in the suburbs. My wife and I are both entrepreneurs, each running our own startups, so we knew we'd have to carefully juggle our careers and our responsibilities as parents. And at a personal level, I had grown up in a household with very traditional old-fashioned gender roles, with my mother working full-time and then coming home to do pretty much all of the cooking, cleaning and housework. If I was going to have a child, I decided, I would have to commit to being a much more participatory father who was an equal contributor at home.

Before having a kid, I had imagined I understood what the commitment was like. It would involve, I was told, lots of diaper changing and sleepless nights. There were these vague, jokey refrains among parents that I heard most often, and I had imagined it to be a little bit like crunch time at a job, where you're staying up all night to get some project done.

For me, though, the lack of sleep was almost a footnote compared to the changes in perspective that arose. Before, my career (and more broadly, all the things I was interested in) occupied almost all of my waking hours, except for time with my wife. Immediately after my son was born, the entirety of my work life shrank from its central role in my thoughts. There's a clarity about what matters that I could only have found as a father. My son Malcolm is now four and a half, and I don't know if we're kick-ass parents, but he is a kick-ass kid. My son is one of my best friends, and I truly can't think of anyone I'd rather hang out with.

The pragmatic effect of my change in perspective has been that I actually became more efficient and effective at work. If I had five items on my to-do list in the morning, I might have checked off one or two of them by the end of the day before I had a kid. Now, I know I better get four or five done, or they're just not gonna happen. I thought I was unique, in that parenthood actually increased my productivity at work, but I've heard this from a lot of other parents as well. Life hack!

Spending lots of quality time with my son has turned out to be relatively achievable. I have a career that is flexible enough to allow me to be present, so I am able to do pretty close to 50% of the work of caring for my son. Both my wife and I can take time from work if needed for a dentist or doctor's appointment, and we alternate between which of us drops him off or picks him up from daycare. The exception is when my work takes me on the road, for meetings or conferences; almost all of the burden of parenting falls on my wife then, but I've tried to ameliorate the situation by cutting back on a lot of my trips and having all of us travel together when possible.

That said, one of the biggest stresses that parenthood puts on mothers and fathers is that doing things for the kid crowds out every other responsibility. In my case, that has often meant that while I'm doing my fair share for my son, I haven't always carried my weight in maintaining the rest of our family's life together. That could be anything from not doing the dishes to not always being intellectually and emotionally present during those precious few hours in a day when my son is asleep and my wife and I can have a conversation among adults. I'm still working on it, but it's among the hardest self-improvement challenges of my life, and that has been a humbling realization.

The challenge of actually doing half the work is probably amplified by the fact that I've tried to be an advocate for better inclusion and diversity in the technology industry that I work in. If women who choose to have children are going to be able to be full participants in tech, then those of us who are their partners have to carry half of the burden. And for many of us men, that's far easier said than done. Lately, I've begun to match the to-do list that I maintain at work with a mental to-do list at home; I want to take on more of the responsibilities that I used to say I was willing to do, but that often would somehow "mysteriously" land in my wife's lap.

Of course, this entire structure still depends on my wife being the lead parent handling all the responsibility, from household and parenting duties (which are really just two facets of the same thing) and then being responsible for educating me about my role, too. It has to change.

I know I'm not the only one who has the "right" ideas about inclusion when it comes to the tech industry overall, but who isn't doing the work at home to make that a reality. Interestingly, the biggest turning point in me starting to change my behavior was when I realized my son was becoming old enough to observe my actions, and that he would be learning from the example of whatever he saw me do. The idea of having your kid mirror your worst traits can be a powerful motivator to get off your ass and get to work.

I originally wrote this piece for Medium's Working Parents in America series. It's reprinted here with only slight edits.
  http://anildash.com/2015/11/beyond-doing-half-the-parenting.html A little less rocking with you... tag:anildash.com,2015://1.7564 2015-10-10T16:15:38Z 2015-12-20T03:20:57Z After talking to a friend about how Michael Jackson's "Rock With You" is so romantic if you just focus on the strings, bass and vocals,... Anil http://anildash.com/
After talking to a friend about how Michael Jackson's "Rock With You" is so romantic if you just focus on the strings, bass and vocals, I was inspired to mix down the tracks to feature just those elements.

Obviously the original is a perfect masterpiece, but there's a lot you can hear more clearly without the drums and (most of) the guitars. I also lowered the lead vocals so you can more clearly hear the harmonies. One of the biggest things that stands out is that Rod Temperton is kind of amazing and that Quincy Jones is a complete genius. Nothing else sounds like this.

These songs hold up because there's so much substance, and that's why I, and so many others, love this song so much.
  http://anildash.com/2015/10/a-little-less-rocking-with-you.html Fourteen is Remembering tag:anildash.com,2015://1.7563 2015-09-11T14:27:25Z 2015-09-11T14:41:30Z Last week I went and visited the memorial reflecting pools for the first time. I had been to the top of the new One World... Anil http://anildash.com/
Last week I went and visited the memorial reflecting pools for the first time. I had been to the top of the new One World Trade Center, but had deliberately avoided ever visiting (or actually seeing in person) the space where the old towers had been. And then I went.

I don't know what I was expecting to feel. Sad, maybe? And certainly that was there. The enormity of the overwhelming list of names weighed on me. But there were tourists around, smiling for selfies, checking off an item on their list of places to visit while in the city. And maybe that was okay.

For the first time, I clearly felt like I had put the attacks firmly in the past. They have loosened their grip on me. I don't avoid going downtown, or take circuitous routes to avoid seeing where the towers once stood. I can even imagine deliberately visiting the area to see the new train station.

But of course, this anniversary isn't about buildings. The horror of the lives lost on 9/11, of how they were lost… that's still my biggest impression of the day. I don't fault others who were further away, or too young to remember, for being less viscerally affected when they visit the site; their distance from that horror is entirely appropriate.

And I suppose finally I can see putting the events if that day, and my most aggrieved responses to it, firmly in my collection of memories. I remember it, I always will, but it's now clearly the past and has loosened its grip on me. I hadn't even known I was waiting for that to happen.

In Past Years

Each year I write about the attacks on this anniversary, as a means of recording for myself where I am compared to that day. I don't think I'm saying much that's profound or original, but it's a ritual that's helped me fit those events into my life.

Last year, Thirteen is Understanding:

 There's no part of that day that one should ever have to explain to a child, but I realized for the first time this year that, when the time comes, I'll be ready. Enough time has passed that I could recite the facts, without simply dissolving into a puddle of my own unresolved questions. I look back at past years, at my own observances of this anniversary, and see how I veered from crushingly sad to fiercely angry to tentatively optimistic, and in each of those moments I was living in one part of what I felt. Maybe I'm ready to see this thing in a bigger picture, or at least from a perspective outside of just myself.

Two years ago, Twelve is Trying:

I thought in 2001 that some beautiful things could come out of that worst of days, and sure enough, that optimism has often been rewarded. There are boundless examples of kindness and generosity in the worst of circumstances that justify the hope I had for people's basic decency back then, even if initially my hope was based only on faith and not fact.

But there is also fatigue. The inevitable fading of outrage and emotional devastation into an overworked rhetorical reference point leaves me exhausted. The decay of a brief, profound moment of unity and reflection into a cheap device to be used to prop up arguments about the ordinary, the everyday and the mundane makes me weary. I'm tired from the effort to protect the fragile memory of something horrific and hopeful that taught me about people at their very best and at their very, very worst.

In 2012, Eleven is What We Make:

These are the gifts our children, or all children, give us every day in a million different ways. But they're also the gifts we give ourselves when we make something meaningful and beautiful. The new World Trade Center buildings are beautiful, in a way that the old ones never were, and in a way that'll make our fretting over their exorbitant cost seem short-sighted in the decades to come. More importantly, they exist. We made them, together. We raised them in the past eleven years just as surely as we've raised our children, with squabbles and mistakes and false starts and slow, inexorable progress toward something beautiful.

In 2011 for the 10th anniversary, Ten is Love and Everything After:

I don't have any profound insights or political commentary to offer that others haven't already articulated first and better. All that I have is my experience of knowing what it mean to be in New York City then. And from that experience, the biggest lesson I have taken is that I have the obligation to be a kinder man, a more thoughtful man, and someone who lives with as much passion and sincerity as possible. Those are the lessons that I'll tell my son some day in the distant future, and they're the ones I want to remember now.

In 2010, Nine is New New York:

[T]his is, in many ways, a golden era in the entire history of New York City.

Over the four hundred years it's taken for this city to evolve into its current form, there's never been a better time to walk down the street. Crime is low, without us having sacrificed our personality or passion to get there. We've invested in making our sidewalks more walkable, our streets more accommodating of the bikes and buses and taxis that convey us around our town. There's never been a more vibrant scene in the arts, music or fashion here. And in less than half a decade, the public park where I got married went from a place where I often felt uncomfortable at noontime to one that I wanted to bring together my closest friends and family on the best day of my life. We still struggle with radical inequality, but more people interact with people from broadly different social classes and cultures every day in New York than any other place in America, and possibly than in any other city in the world.

And all of this happened, by choice, in the years since the attacks.

In 2009, Eight Is Starting Over:

[T]his year, I am much more at peace. It may be that, finally, we've been called on by our leadership to mark this day by being of service to our communities, our country, and our fellow humans. I've been trying of late to do exactly that. And I've had a bit of a realization about how my own life was changed by that day.

Speaking to my mother last week, I offhandedly mentioned how almost all of my friends and acquaintances, my entire career and my accomplishments, my ambitions and hopes have all been born since September 11, 2001. If you'll pardon the geeky reference, it's as if my life was rebooted that day and in the short period afterwards. While I have a handful of lifelong friends with whom I've stayed in touch, most of the people I'm closest to are those who were with me on the day of the attacks or shortly thereafter, and the goals I have for myself are those which I formed in the next days and weeks. i don't think it's coincidence that I was introduced to my wife while the wreckage at the site of the towers was still smoldering, or that I resolved to have my life's work amount to something meaningful while my beloved city was still papered with signs mourning the missing.

In 2008, Seven Is Angry:

Finally getting angry myself, I realize that nobody has more right to claim authority over the legacy of the attacks than the people of New York. And yet, I don't see survivors of the attacks downtown claiming the exclusive right to represent the noble ambition of Never Forgetting. I'm not saying that people never mention the attacks here in New York, but there's a genuine awareness that, if you use the attacks as justification for your position, the person you're addressing may well have lost more than you that day. As I write this, I know that parked out front is the car of a woman who works in my neighborhood. Her car has a simple but striking memorial on it, listing her mother's name, date of birth, and the date 9/11/2001.

In 2007, Six Is Letting Go:

On the afternoon of September 11th, 2001, and especially on September 12th, I wasn't only sad. I was also hopeful. I wanted to believe that we wouldn't just Never Forget that we would also Always Remember. People were already insisting that we'd put aside our differences and come together, and maybe the part that I'm most bittersweet and wistful about was that I really believed it. I'd turned 26 years old just a few days before the attacks, and I realize in retrospect that maybe that moment, as I eased from my mid-twenties to my late twenties, was the last time I'd be unabashedly optimistic about something, even amidst all the sorrow.

In 2006, After Five Years, Failure:

[O]ne of the strongest feelings I came away with on the day of the attacks was a feeling of some kind of hope. Being in New York that day really showed me the best that people can be. As much as it's become cliché now, there's simply no other way to describe a display that profound. It was truly a case of people showing their very best nature.

We seem to have let the hope of that day go, though.

In 2005, Four Years:

I saw people who hated New York City, or at least didn't care very much about it, trying to act as if they were extremely invested in recovering from the attacks, or opining about the causes or effects of the attacks. And to me, my memory of the attacks and, especially, the days afterward had nothing to do with the geopolitics of the situation. They were about a real human tragedy, and about the people who were there and affected, and about everything but placing blame and pointing fingers. It felt thoughtless for everyone to offer their response in a framework that didn't honor the people who were actually going through the event.

In 2004, Thinking Of You:

I don't know if it's distance, or just the passing of time, but I notice how muted the sorrow is. There's a passivity, a lack of passion to the observances. I knew it would come, in the same way that a friend told me quite presciently that day back in 2001 that "this is all going to be political debates someday" and, well, someday's already here.

In 2003, Two Years:

I spent a lot of time, too much time, resenting people who were visiting our city, and especially the site of the attacks, these past two years. I've been so protective, I didn't want them to come and get their picture taken like it was Cinderella's Castle or something. I'm trying really hard not to be so angry about that these days. I found that being angry kept me from doing the productive and important things that really mattered, and kept me from living a life that I know I'm lucky to have.

In 2002, I wrote On Being An American:

[I]n those first weeks, I thought a lot about what it is to be American. That a lot of people outside of New York City might not even recognize their own country if they came to visit. The America that was attacked a year ago was an America where people are as likely to have been born outside the borders of the U.S. as not. Where most of the residents speak another language in addition to English. Where the soundtrack is, yes, jazz and blues and rock and roll, but also hip hop and salsa and merengue. New York has always been where the first fine threads of new cultures work their way into the fabric of America, and the city the bore the brunt of those attacks last September reflected that ideal to its fullest.

In 2001, Thank You:

I am physically fine, as are all my family members and immediate friends. I've been watching the footage all morning, I can't believe I watched the World Trade Center collapse...

I've been sitting here this whole morning, choking back tears... this is just too much, too big. I can see the smoke and ash from the street here. I have friends of friends who work there, I was just there myself the day before yesterday. I can't process this all. I don't want to.

  http://anildash.com/2015/09/fourteen-is-remembering.html Let's Support The Girls Club tag:anildash.com,2015://1.7562 2015-09-04T15:53:18Z 2015-09-09T03:04:57Z Support the Girls Club In short: Tomorrow's my birthday. I'm asking you to help me support the Lower Eastside Girls Club, and I'll match whatever... Anil http://anildash.com/
Support the Girls Club In short: Tomorrow's my birthday. I'm asking you to help me support the Lower Eastside Girls Club, and I'll match whatever you donate through this secure form until midnight on September 5th.

The Neighborhood

Around the start of each new year, I try think of an issue that I want to learn more about and become an advocate for. In past years I've spent time learning about issues like criminal justice reform, or clean water and sanitation access.

This year I realized that I wanted to do something that would have real impact right here in my own community. My whole adult life has been defined by my living in the East Village, and so many opportunities have been given to me as a result, and I want to give something back. That's especially true now that we're raising my son in this neighborhood. Over the last 2 decades that I've lived here, the Lower Eastside has reduced violent crime by about 90% while preserving a racial and economic breadth that makes us one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the country. But while I am so glad for that progress, those advances haven't yet translated into a broadening of opportunity for all the young people in our neighborhood, especially young women, particularly in our community where most are girls of color. We have an enormous number of families that are struggling to get by, even as they live in the same city as some of the wealthiest people in the world.

So it felt like fate that earlier this year, I connected with the incredible community of the Lower Eastside Girls Club and was asked to serve on its board.

A Freaking Planetarium

When I first heard the name "Lower Eastside Girls Club" a few ears ago, I had imagined a small meeting room where some girls could do arts and crafts projects or something like that. While that's certainly possible at today's LESGC facility, most people don't know that the Club is innovative and indispensable 20,000 square foot facility that serves as a force for giving girls and their families access to an incredible range of resources:

The 64-seat East Village Planetarium where scientists teach lessons about our latest space discoveries

The Science and Environmental Education Center is a working green roof garden where girls can grow flowers and herbs

A full commercial kitchen where the girls can use those herbs to learn not just how to cook, but how to be culinary professionals

A super cool recording studio (complete with ProTools and Ableton!) located in a customized Airstream trailer that was hoisted onto the second floor of the facility

La Tiendita, a full retail shop selling fair trade goods made by the girls and by the Club's sister coops in Chiapas, Sierra Leone and Nepal

A Media Center that's not just "teaching girls to code", but teaching them how to create everything from digital media to understanding the way the web works

And of course, countless social programs addressing everything from elder care to literacy to fitness to tax preparation—the Girls Club's Center for Community was where so many in our neighborhood went for a comforting meal in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy while power and other services were still knocked out

There is so much more I can't even list it all. In short, the Girls Club is both a safety net and a launch pad for kids who might not otherwise get a shot. Getting to see this space, and all the services it enables, was one of the most affecting experiences I've had in the past year. And all of it is available to the girls in our community, to support them and their families, with most of these services free of cost. That's where we come in.

I'm Asking You To Give

I'm fortunate to have access to an incredible network of brilliant, talented, powerful and privileged people. I am surrounded by people who are loving, generous and kind. And I'm never more appreciative of it than the moments when I get to take some time to reflect.

Tomorrow is my 40th birthday. I have an incredible wife, a happy and healthy son and more good fortune and opportunity than I know what to do with. I want for nothing. But being surrounded by generous people means that many want to show me kindness on a milestone birthday.

So here's what I'm asking for: Give. Give a lot. Whatever you can afford. And I will try to match your gift, dollar for dollar. (I'm a working man with a family to support, so I'm a little nervous that we might end up having to raid the piggy bank to match your generosity. I hope we have that problem!)

What we can do together is open the door for these amazing, creative, endlessly inventive young women who deserve the same shot at seeing their dreams come true that you or I have had.

Support the Girls Club

So please take a moment and give what you can ($40 is a nice way to celebrate my 40 years!) and then email me or tweet at me to let me know what you gave. (If you want me to keep it private, just say so.) At the end of the day tomorrow, my birthday, I'll add it up and double it.

I'm so, so thankful to everyone who has helped me arrive at a big birthday like this one with my every wish fulfilled. Let's see what we can do to offer the same kindness to some young women who truly deserve it.
  http://anildash.com/2015/09/lets-support-the-girls-club.html "It is miraculous." tag:anildash.com,2015://1.7561 2015-08-20T02:16:37Z 2015-08-20T02:18:06Z Sometimes I get an idea in my head and I just can't let it go. For a few months, I've heard this nagging sound in... Anil http://anildash.com/
Sometimes I get an idea in my head and I just can't let it go. For a few months, I've heard this nagging sound in the back of my mind, asking me to revisit Amadeus, one of my favorite films ever.

Because who among us hasn't heard Jeremih intone, "shots...shotsshotsshots" and cursed god for capriciously gifting this man with such talent while the rest of us mortals can only bask in his genius?

Salieri, meet La Rose.
  http://anildash.com/2015/08/it-is-miraculous.html The Internet of Tweets tag:anildash.com,2015://1.7559 2015-07-11T16:00:00Z 2015-08-11T01:45:29Z Everybody's got advice on what Twitter needs to do at its current crossroads. The answer might lie in revisiting the moment they first broke geeks'... Anil http://anildash.com/
Everybody's got advice on what Twitter needs to do at its current crossroads. The answer might lie in revisiting the moment they first broke geeks' hearts.

I took it as a bad sign that Will.I.Am was hanging around backstage at a conference for software developers.

It was hard to understand why nobody's favorite rapper was in the building, since he had expressed no particular interest in software engineering prior to that moment. To be fair, Will.I.Am's interest in technology has become clearer in recent years; he recently put out a smartwatch called PULS, which is a good alternative to the Apple Watch for people who prefer a smartwatch that doesn't work. But back in 2010, Am's inexplicable presence at a technology conference was a good indicator that things were changing in a way that didn't necessarily favor the folks who were there to hear stories about Apple apps, not apl.de.ap.

We were at Twitter's first developer conference, an event called Chirp. And indeed, Will.I.Am's armchair interview was just one of a few clear indications that Twitter really wasn't just for geeks anymore. Instead, Twitter had suddenly blossomed into a company that aspired to be a player in media and entertainment and advertising, with its eye focused on becoming the giant, publicly-traded company it is today. Twitter began to take its first tentative steps away from its geeky roots, which set the stage for a nerd backlash that still hasn't fully abated.

But the business types whom Twitter had been courting as its new BFFs turned out to be just as mercurial as the early geeks once the company finally did go public. Investors and pundits have taken issue with everything from the company's CEO to its often-desultory product direction to its lackluster growth in the number of active users logging into the service each month. This led to a precipitous recent drop in its share price, the delivery of a 360-tweet-long diagnosis of the company's ailments from shareholder/cheerleader Chris Sacca, and culminated in today's announcement that Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is stepping down from his position.

While the Internet has never shied away from offering unsolicited advice to Twitter's leadership, it has perhaps never faced such impassioned arguments about how the company can get its mojo back from some of its closest supporters. While many businesses would envy the fact that Twitter has pretty huge revenues and a user base that is enormous in comparison to almost anything except Facebook, it's become conventional wisdom that the company needs to work to find its bearings again.

And oddly, getting Twitter back on track may mean taking another look at one small bit of news that got overshadowed by a Black Eyed Pea on that day five years ago.

Let's Get It Started

In the spring of 2010, Twitter was just graduating from being the hottest startup in tech to being a genuine cultural phenomenon. Chirp was the company's first big conference, a glitzy coming-out for the company and its leaders. Advertised as its "first annual" event (there have been none since), Chirp showed that Twitter was a big enough institution to be able to command the attention of a theater full of geeks and press. I found myself there as a sort of legacy admission, thanks to the fact that I'd been working on building some apps on top of Twitter's platform, and had known the founders of the company back when they were just ordinary geeks.

Twitter's spate of announcements at Chirp included big news like Dick Costolo announcing the company's first real foray into offering advertising. But within the tech industry, the real headlines started the night before with a low-key announcement that Twitter would be buying or making its own Twitter-branded apps for smartphones. (As absurd as it seems now, until that point, searching for "Twitter" on most devices wouldn't yield a Twitter app that you could just use to read or post tweets. Instead, a confusing array of Twitter "clients" offered a selection of blue bird icons and terrible portmanteau names beginning with "tw-".) At Chirp, Twitter made clear it would be offering its own, official app, just like Facebook and all the other popular services.

Then-CEO of Twitter Evan Williams at Chirp, explaining the biggest challenge facing Twitter as a company. (Photo by Scott Beale/Laughing Squid)

The announcement of Twitter's first-party mobile apps, coming just on the eve of Chirp's start, rankled some of the most influential developers in the crowd, despite the obvious logic of the company's rationale. These developers were independent coders who now faced the challenge of competing with the very company whose service made their products possible. From the standpoint of the market, or of regular users, Twitter was right to dismiss the complaints of these developers at the time. Twitter's decision to make its own client apps did yield a significant simplification of the experience for normal users, and set the stage for the company to be able to display ads on the service, which might have been impossible through third-party client apps.

But unfortunately, this dismissal of developer concerns, however legitimate, would leave a lasting mark on the company's relationship with the geeks who had first embraced the service. Even though the vast majority of programmers who built tools on top of Twitter weren't making client apps, the mood of the entire developer community was led by those who were. And once the developers got upset, their disgruntlement informed the attitudes of the entire early-adopter tech community. Later announcements to these same geek audiences would be plagued by vague messages, unclear goals, or accurate communication of actual bad decisions on the company's part. All of this merely confirmed the suspicion of many developers that Twitter didn't love them anymore. For nerds, Chirp could be seen in retrospect as marking the official end of Twitter's Good Old Days.

Where is the love?

Twitter's struggle to win over investors is mostly due to the fact that most folks on Wall Street don't really have a nuanced view of how social networking and social media platforms work. The market wants metrics, but picks and chooses which metrics they care about pretty arbitrarily, based on the whims of not-exactly-Zuckerberg pundits like Jim Cramer, or by looking at the numbers of other services like Facebook's much-vaunted Monthly Active User (MAU) count — the number of people who log in to use the service each month.

The thing is, MAU numbers are a pretty arbitrary measure of the utility of a media-based service like Twitter. Google's investor briefings almost never ask about how many YouTube users are logged in each month — they care about how many videos are watched, and how many ads are seen, and maybe they care a little about the fact that YouTube is the second most popular search engine on the Internet after Google itself.

By contrast, relatively few users go to Facebook to do a search on a news story or to find a particular video. And being measured against Facebook really only makes sense if there's a zero-sum game where people are replacing one service with another. For example, in the photo-sharing realm, Flickr's lead a decade ago has been almost completely supplanted by Instagram's dominance today. In that context, a user-for-user comparison makes sense.

But when Anita Baker and Cheryl Lynn have beef on Twitter, it's only on Twitter. And a ton of people are going to read about it by seeing their tweets embedded on a blog or news site, just like they discover YouTube videos that are embedded on those same sites. Whether they're logged in to the service or not is irrelevant. (The fact that no ads are displayed along with those embedded tweets certainly is relevant.)

So what about some non-MAU metrics? Would that appease? What about shifting the conversation entirely? Other companies have been able to broaden focus from their ad-based businesses by getting into nascent markets that hold a lot of promise. This is where we encounter things like wearable 3D goggles and smartwatches, but R&D-intensive hardware folly is generally the domain of much bigger (and richer) tech titans like Apple and Microsoft and Google. And, uh, Will.I.Am.

When Will.I.Am DJed the afterparty for Twitter's Chirp conference, he literally followed Don't Stop Believin' with Sweet Child o' Mine, which is hard to read as anything but contempt for the conference's attendees.

I Gotta Feeling

The funny thing about many developers being convinced that Twitter doesn't care about them is that it's pretty clear that Twitter is better to its developers than almost any other social networking or social media company. I was at Chirp because I'd helped built a tool that relied on Twitter's data, not as a client app but for analyzing and understanding a user's activity on the service.

Lots of other companies went that route, too—with a number of them selling for hundreds of millions of dollars as "enterprise analytics services", and many more getting lots of funding for the apps they'd built on top of Twitter. That's a striking contrast to the ecosystem around, say, Instagram or Pinterest, which have almost no similar success stories. In fact, if we look at the landscape of major social networks or messaging applications that developers could have relied upon in the years since Chirp, a striking pattern emerges:

Google: They launched Google Buzz (hey, remember that one?) and then mercy killed it a few years later. They're about to do the same thing with Google+. There has never been a meaningful client app for Google+ from any developers outside of Google.

Instagram: There are a few third-party tools that do specific tasks like regramming images or making collages, and some reading apps for platforms like iPad where Instagram was late. Still, Instagram hasn't really spawned many successful full-featured client apps. A handful of analytics apps exist, but none of them have gotten that huge.

Tumblr: The few attempts at building client apps or services have generally been stymied by the company. Almost none of the analytics services built for Tumblr have been very successful.

LinkedIn: There used to be a few ways to build apps and services around LinkedIn, but almost all of them were shut down over the past year.

Pinterest: The company promised an interface for developers for years, but has only shipped a limited release of some tools for brands to be able to interact with the service. There are no Pinterest client apps.

Snapchat: Pretty much nothing.

WhatsApp: Same deal, you take what they give you.

Facebook: They're not too bad, providing access to a lot of useful data, but recent privacy improvements for users have meant fewer features for developers that were relying on previously-accessible data.

The truth of it is, when compared to other social networking companies, Twitter ends up looking like one of the most developer-friendly big platforms.

As a developer trying to build on top of all of these services, most of the ones that were of the same vintage as Twitter screwed us. The newer ones don't care about third-party developers at all. None of these companies have ever cared about enabling developers to make a client app. Yet none of them has earned the same scorn or derision from developers as Twitter has.

This may be changing a bit, as we see a generational split amongst developers, with newer coders unaware of Twitter's polarizing past. Indeed, Twitter's recently made available a whole new suite of developer tools to simplify everything from displaying ads to keeping track of what's making a mobile application crash on your phone. It's still early, but every indication is that these new developer tools are already becoming popular, and that the developer services that Twitter acquired haven't lost any credibility by becoming part of the company's portfolio.

Twitter's Fabric is already the No. 2 mobile analytics SDK for iOS. http://t.co/HrrmQmBdJh (select itunes and analytics)
— dick costolo (@dickc) May 14, 2015

Enough years have passed that some of the older disgruntled developers may either have mellowed over time, or simply may not be relevant in shaping community opinion anymore. It's actually possible that Twitter has another chance to make its core platform appealing to developers again, if it can find the right tools to offer them.

Scream & Shout

If we go back to that day in 2010, we can find out exactly what kind of things excited Twitter's first wave of developers.

The start of the Chirp conference was a flurry of speeches from top execs, and of course the headlining Will.I.Am appearance. But by afternoon, the splashier news had passed, and it was time to get down to nuts-and-bolts developer conversations. The highlight for coders was a preview of an upcoming developer feature that seemed incredibly promising: Annotations. This nerdy new capability promised that developers would be able to pack more information into each tweet.

Annotations promised to upgrade tweets from being a 140-character postcard to being a 140-character message written on the outside of an envelope. What was inside the envelope? Whatever a developer could imagine.
 At the time, this idea for Annotations was radical. Twitter's core service had only just begun to stop displaying the fail whale, a whimsical and all-too-common illustration that popped up whenever the service was too overloaded to respond. To imaging going from not just being able to deliver tweets in realtime to anyone in the world, but to delivering almost any message in realtime to anyone in the world was a shocking leap forward.

And Twitter Annotations too. That's pretty exciting. I've been wondering about Twitter as a transport for non-social information for a while
— Tom Coates (@tomcoates) April 14, 2010

Reaction from developers was immediate, and ranged from enthusiastic to downright rhapsodic: "Twitter Introduces Annotations; Hash Tags become Obsolete"

Even some of the more sober analyses of Annotations saw the potential for Twitter to be transformed as a service. And the excitement over the feature was clearly justified — many of the ideas that developers immediately suggested for Annotations, such as including photos or videos in tweets, have become indispensable parts of the platform's current success.

Even Twitter's most interesting newer features, like the "cards" in tweets that show excerpts and thumbnails of linked stories, or the experimental "buy" button that the company has been testing to enable e-commerce, are all things that Annotations had promised to make possible years ago. These capabilities were hinted at in the first reviews of the feature written back in 2010.

But more exciting than the ability to add new little buttons or links within Twitter is what Annotations could enable outside of Twitter. But that potential was never discovered, because the company soon stopped talking about the upcoming feature, and eventually abandoned the effort altogether without even so much as a tweet marking its demise.

#thatPower

One of the fastest growing categories in consumer technology these days are smart devices, which take ordinary household items and connect them to the internet. Each one usually comes with its own app. One app will tell you when your smart lightbulb is going to burn out, and another app for your smart toaster will tell you when it's going to burn your toast. Each of the individual gadgets is pretty cool, but all of this noise on top of the nonstop barrage of notifications that light up your phone during the day seems like a recipe for message fatigue. It's not difficult at all to make the argument that these notifications would be a better experience as delivered in Twitter's signature stream.

Delivering these notifications is already done regularly by developers today, but each has to reinvent the wheel when it comes to handling tons of users or building the necessary code to support features on each new phone or device platform that comes along. If a smart device is fortunate enough to succeed, its makers get to face the same kind of fail whales that plagued Twitter for years. Piggybacking on Twitter's infrastructure and could solve a lot of these issues, especially if they relied on an updated version of the features that Annotations promised.

This concept already exists for coders — it goes by name like a "messaging bus" or a "message queue", though these services tend to be far more complex and expensive than it is to simply send a tweet. More to the point for developers, Twitter's also a lot more fun than using an "enterprise message bus" service.

There's a more subtle point here, too: Twitter enables connections between accounts. What exists today as a social network between people who follow and reply to each other could tomorrow expand to be an information network between devices that could follow and reply to each other. Telling your smart smoke detector not to set off the alarm when the smart toaster has said it's about to burn the toast is currently a task for only the most stalwart geeks. There's no reason that kind of connection couldn't be a new use for the "follow" button.

But the point here isn't to outline every possible interesting feature that can come from a fully-networked Internet of Things. Hell, I don't even know what the most interesting capability would be. The key here is that Twitter is the best service to offer these features. It's simple, fun, familiar, and available already on every device that matters. None of those things are true about the other "Internet of Things" platforms that have been announced.

Twitter could charge apps or devices (or humans!) that send high volumes of messages with Annotations, diversifying its revenue stream from simply being advertising-based, and building trust with any developers who still had lingering concerns about Twitter's developer strategy by making these new features sustainable.

Chris Sacca speaking at Twitter's Chirp conference in 2010.

Boom Boom Pow

The thing is, it's easy to write fan fiction imagining all kinds of features being invented by Twitter. I want a pony! And a new CEO who's from an underrepresented community!

But most of the smart suggestions are probably already on Twitter's roadmap, including those on Chris Sacca's list. These suggestions tend to assume, though, that the only audience that matters are Twitter's mainstream, non-technical users. This is an odd assumption given that many of Twitter's most engaging signature features were pioneered by its early adopter nerds.

And it's essential for Twitter to get out of the MAU metrics game with investors. We can imagine a hundred different ways to juke the stats and try to distract fickle financiers, but revisiting Annotations may be one of the few ways to do so in a way that's based on substance — actually providing the kind of meaningful platform innovation that developers actually want.

There's something unique and distinct in being an information network instead of just a social network. Twitter has been that network, and can be again.

Revisiting Annotations wouldn't be a magic bullet. But it could be a way to reconcile Twitter's past and its future, to appease both developers and investors. And it might be a chance to rekindle some of the unqualified enthusiasm that so many saw for the company at its coming out party half a decade ago, before it's 2000-and-late.
  http://anildash.com/2015/07/the-internet-of-tweets.html Why, Bobby Jindal? tag:dashes.com,2015:/anil//1.7557 2015-07-01T01:00:10Z 2015-07-01T16:03:13Z Presidential candidate Piyush "Bobby" Jindal has said he'll take questions over social media today. I've got some questions, but let's start first with some background.... Anil http://anildash.com/
Presidential candidate Piyush "Bobby" Jindal has said he'll take questions over social media today. I've got some questions, but let's start first with some background.

As is probably obvious, I disagree with most of Jindal's policies. I genuinely have no issue with the tiny minority of South Asian Americans who hold conservative views. (Only 3% of Indian Americans are Republican, a lower percentage than African Americans. There are more independent Desis than Republican ones.)

But I do have an issue with undermining the South Asian community. How is it possible the highest-profile Indian politician in U.S. history won't even let his oldest friends wear Indian clothes at his events?

There's a line of argument that says we should take any visibility as progress, and follow Jindal simply because of his ethnicity. (Naturally, it's the conservatives who claim to be color blind who are advancing that idea.) I'd even joked about this, saying, "I hope Jindal gets nominated. It'd legitimize Indian American candidates while showing how everyone hates his stupid-ass platform."

The core issue here is what compromises are acceptable for a politician to make when they come from a community that has such a tenuous grasp on "Americanness" in the first place. I suspect it may be hard for many to understand why every Indian American they know is so vehemently offended by Bobby Jindal. The answer is simple: We are pressured everyday to erase and censor ourselves, to reject our parents and our culture. It's constant. That's why, even 8 years ago, I was already very skeptical of Bobby Jindal and his intentions.

I never though a (nominally) indian guy would get elected governor of a U.S. state and I'd be disappointed.
— Anil Dash (@anildash) October 21, 2007

From the folks at a TSA checkpoint to the coworker who refuses to learn how to pronounce our names, we are always fighting to be ourselves. And what Bobby Jindal represents is complete capitulation in that battle for self. The worst fear of any community reckoning with assimilation is confirmed—giving up all traces of one's own identity will be rewarded.

So the visceral rejection of everything about Jindal is a simple assertion that our identities and values matter, and they shouldn't be compromised. It's only after this, almost incidentally, that the overwhelming majority of us also arrive at the inescapable conclusion that Jindal is a clown with terrible policies. (With one notable exception, his uncomplicated and astoundingly reasonable support for vaccination.)

Bobby Jindal is not white

I was delighted to see that the immediate response from almost every part of the Indian diaspora when we heard of Bobby Jindal announcing his presidential campaign was unabashed mockery. An unserious candidate deserves an unserious response, and if we can use such an occasion to demonstrate how fantastically funny we are, even better.

But I was disappointed that the bulk of the responses organized around the theme of "Bobby Jindal is so white", even though I'm proud of my friend Hari Kondabolu for having had such an impact.

Because honestly, I don't think we should say "Bobby Jindal is so white", even as a joke. He has a specifically Indian American pathology. Most white folks in the United States don't have occasion to ponder Indian American identity at all, because there just aren't that many of us, and we so seldom have any real power. So, Jindal acting the way he does is definitely not him being "white". There's a deeper issue: He wants to erase us.

It's not just that Bobby Jindal left his parents' faith. (Hell, I did that, too.) But rather, Jindal thinks no one should be of his parents' faith. It's not that Bobby Jindal doesn't identify as Indian American, it's that he doesn't want anyone to identify that way.

So, while I'm happy to make jokes about Jindal, the reason he is truly toxic is because he would eliminate the very community that made him, that gave him all the opportunities he's had. I can mock that Bobby Jindal turned his back on his name, Piyush. But what's sad is he'd prefer there be no boys named Piyush in America.

My name is Anil Dash. That's what my parents named me. They're Indian Americans, and I'm proud to be of them. I'm proud of my community.

So my question to Bobby Jindal, about not just his candidacy but his entire career, is why? Why do you think the world would be better off without the unique and beautiful culture created by yours parents and mine, and lived by me and millions of others? Why don't you love us, and yourself, and your country enough to think we should be part of it?
  http://anildash.com/2015/06/on-bobby-jindal.html Nobody Famous tag:dashes.com,2015:/anil//1.7556 2015-05-24T19:25:22Z 2015-06-01T19:48:48Z What it's like to have the social network of a celebrity, without actually being famous I've got more Twitter followers than you. I've got more... Anil http://anildash.com/
What it's like to have the social network of a celebrity, without actually being famous

I've got more Twitter followers than you. I've got more Twitter followers than Ted Cruz, and I'm only a little bit behind Björk. If my followers were a state, we'd be creeping up on Wyoming in terms of population. Having half a million followers on Twitter is a genuinely bizarre experience, especially considering I'm just a random tech nerd on the Internet and not an actual famous person.

For celebrities, maintaining a large social network is just part of the job. For a regular person, things get pretty weird pretty quickly once a couple hundred thousand new friends show up.

Becoming fake-famous

Some background is necessary here. I didn't actually earn my giant Twitter network. Sure, a lot of my followers are people who wanted to keep up with my updates (I write for outlets like The Message on Medium where this piece first appeared, and talk about things like technology and pop culture and politics, which always drive conversation on Twitter). But somewhere around half of my followers are only there because I was included on the "Suggested User List", a now-retired feature that used to recommend people to follow when you joined the service.

Basically, somebody who worked at Twitter back in 2009 added me to that list, and all of a sudden my online network got upgraded to the kind of numbers that are usually only reserved for rock stars. It doesn't bother me that I didn't end up with a ton of followers online because of any merit of my own; these things are always arbitrary. But in addition to getting onto that one weird list, I picked up a lot of my real followers simply by being early to Twitter. That's a tactic that definitely helps you get more followers, and I'd strongly recommend joining Twitter in 2006 if you have the option. #helpfuladvice

The strangeness doesn't end on Twitter. Once you get popular on one social network, it sort of bleeds over into other networks, since lots of apps let you import a list of friends from other services when you sign up. As a result, I have an absurdly large network on almost every popular service:

About half a million followers on Twitter

About 150,000 followers on Facebook

Thousands of followers on Instagram, Vine, and most of the other common social networks

I've got that insipid little blue checkmark on Twitter that indicates I'm verified. I even have a blue checkmark on Facebook! (Did you know Facebook has verified users? True story.)

So there must be some kind of awesome payoff for all this, right? Like I can just flash my Twitter profile at the door to the club and I get escorted back directly to Jay & Bey's booth?

Ehh, not really.

Champagne Wishes, Caviar Dreams

A few times some misguided publicists have sent me advance copies of books, I guess in the hope that I might promote them on my Twitter account. (If I had the attention span to read a book, would I be spending all my time on Twitter? C'mon now.) If I ask for cooking tips or technical support, I tend to get pretty good answers from my network. And of course my friends like to mock me for being a pseudo-celebrity, though the novelty of that has worn off after a few years.

But I've never gotten a better seat at a restaurant because of it. The few times I've been added to the guest list for an event has typically been because I've written for some old-fashioned print magazines; Those invites became a lot more scarce after I stopped, even though my social network is a lot bigger today.

At a technological level, most of the tools and apps for using social networks completely fall apart once your network becomes huge. A lot of Twitter-related apps just crash as soon as I log in to them, and of course I have to turn off email notifications on any service I use in order to avoid being buried in a tsunami of alerts. The "notifications" area of Twitter typically sends me about 1,500 updates in a day, though there have been days when I get more than 5,000 notifications. I know there are people who have followed me who have wondered why I never followed them back, and it's because at a certain point it can become impossible to identify particular individuals within the giant mass of incoming messages.

Web-Scale Weirdness

In all, aside from making people roll their eyes at me, the biggest impact of having this absurdly distended online network is that it makes my online life really weird. The weirdness is probably best demonstrated by a few of the recurring conversations that arise as a result:

"Yo, can you listen to my mixtape?" This is perhaps the most frequent side effect of having a lot of followers: People think there must be a reason people follow me, and assume I can do something for them as a result. In my case (and I don't know if this is because I like hip hop, or is just random), I regularly get messages from people asking me to listen to their mixtapes or watch their YouTube videos. If this seems like an absurd request to you, then perhaps the next time you talk to Drake you should ask him how much my cosign on his mixtape meant to him.

"Hey, can you get me verified?" A variation on wanting attention or amplification for one's work are the young folks (and they're invariably under 25 years old) who very insistently plead for me to help them get a verified checkmark. Of course, I have no say in who gets verified, and I don't even really understand the criteria by which the networks choose whom to bestow their blessing upon. But more importantly the checkmark doesn't do anything! It's the most clear case of star-bellied sneetches I've yet been able to find in adulthood, but this fact does nothing to temper the deep conviction of some that getting a blue checkmark on their Twitter or Facebook account would change their lives. Sometimes I want to email these people and ask how they think a few blue pixels on their Twitter account could have this kind of impact, but I haven't yet figured out a way to do that without revealing what a complete asshole I am.

"Please RT!" And then, of course, there are the incessant requests to promote or retweet or amplify people's work. "I wrote a thing!" or "Your followers will love this!" or "Can you just share this real quick?" The politeness of these requests is typically in inverse relation to their merit. Sure, some of these are cool things I'm thrilled to get to share with a (theoretically) larger audience. But the overwhelming majority is just crap, or things that nobody would believe I was sincerely sharing. Worst of all: Nobody clicks. Well, not nobody, but out of about 550,000 followers on Twitter, it's very common for fewer than 400 of them to click on a link I share. (That's .07%!) And yet dudes (yes, it's always dudes) feel like they're doing me a favor by asking. I cofounded a company that helps people understand their behavior on social networks, and looking at some of my most popular content that I've shared shows about 1700 people clicking on a link, in total.

"Kill yourself!" If you have a lot of followers online, and especially if you have the temerity to do so while being a woman and/or a minority of some sort , you'll often just face waves of harassment and abuse, regardless of how innocuous your statements are. I'd talk more about this, and what the social networks could do to fix things, but then the GamerGate hordes will just show up and start sending threats again, and ughhhhh who has the time? Anyway, this isn't unique to having a big network, but having one may paint a larger target on one's back.

"Help?" In an era where everybody's got a Kickstarter or an IndieGoGo to promote, it's no surprise that people looking for crowdfunding success beg for links from the loudest voices online. Some of these are laughable (shout out to the 20-year-old guy who desperately wanted us to help him buy his first dirt bike), but there are a substantial number of people in real need. Almost every day, I hear a story of someone who needs help with their medical bills, or who went through an ugly divorce, or who lost their job, and they're hoping that just getting in front of the right person online will change their luck. These are the conversations that I struggle with the most; I try to help as many as I can personally, but I generally don't share their messages because so many turn out to be either misleading or sketchy and I don't have the time to verify each one that I would share with my followers.

Be my soapbox

Some typical statistics on my Twitter activity, as reported by Twitter's analytics features

What becomes clear after a few years of having a large social network is that people are desperate to be heard. Some of this is related to the fundamental question of conversation online, "Why wasn't I consulted?" But much of it ties back to people feeling powerless, of flailing toward any person who seems like they could provide opportunity or a way forward.

I sometimes respond to people with facts and figures, showing how the raw number of connections in one's network doesn't matter as much as who those connections are, and how engaged they are. But the truth is, our technological leaders have built these tools in a way that explicitly promotes the idea that one's follower count is the score we keep, the metric that matters. After more than a decade of having that lesson amplified across the Internet, the billion or so people who rely on online social networks have taken the message to heart. It's no wonder so many people want to believe that the only thing that's kept them from all the promised benefits of the World Wide Web is that they haven't had access to the kind of giant network that I was arbitrarily gifted.

In some ways, the people who ascribe almost-magical powers to a big social network are right. My network confers a wide range of privileges upon me. Having a few hundred people read something you want to promote is meaningful, and it's a power that I have in my hands, at least some of the time. Getting that kind of attention by buying an ad on Twitter or Facebook probably costs a couple hundred dollars, so there's a clear incentive to try spamming popular accounts in the off chance that it will eventually succeed.

But more broadly, people have been sold a bill of goods. They want to believe that celebrity of any form, even fake online celebrity, has some kind of value, despite the evidence to the contrary. Signifiers like a blue verification checkmark or a number of followers are given an enormously prominent display on our social profiles. Yet despite their visibility, their capricious nature is never explained, and so people tend to wrongly see these as indicators of the quality a person's social media presence.

The thing that's forgotten is, people don't have huge social networks because they're good at using the Internet. Beyonce got to having millions of Twitter followers before she ever even wrote her first tweet.

The fact is, online celebrity is just a simple reflection of the existing networks of privilege that confer benefits on people in every other realm of life.

In my particular case, being picked as a suggested user on Twitter changed the trajectory of my online life, but how is having a friend who was an early Twitter employee any different from the Old Boys' Club? It ain't.

My First Million

Once we realize that, a few unusual accidents aside, our social networks have the same foibles and biases as the rest of our culture, that leaves a basic question: Is there any value to any of this?

Yes. First, there is the privilege of getting to connect to an extraordinarily large group of people, and get a small window into their thoughts and desires. Hearing an unfiltered stream of people shouting their wishes into the vast expanses of the Internet has permanently made me more aware of the humanity of the strangers who tweet at me every day.

My outsized online footprint has also made me more keenly aware of the effects of the things I do share. If I've been given a preposterously large platform through no intrinsic merit of my own, how can I be worthy of it? Can I be mindful of whose voices I amplify? Can I challenge myself to raise issues that could benefit by greater visibility? Can I be more generous with the subtle gestures of social networks like favoriting or liking things, and convey a bit more kindness to those around me?

I'm still not good at it. I get self-conscious thinking that my words might be watched by some kid I went to high school with, or some random person in my neighborhood, or my father-in-law, or an ex-flame, or an unknown enemy. Even though I know most tweets that I send out just flow by are ignored by the vast majority of people on the network, every once in a while I wonder what would happen if half a million people did see what I wrote?

What would you do if you had half a million Twitter followers?
— Anil Dash (@anildash) October 2, 2014

I once took the time to ask my network what they would do in my position. I got 120 real replies. The first set of replies to the question were jokes (mostly fairly gentle ones at my expense). Another small but significant set of replies were self-promotion, saying that they'd get the word out about the projects they're working on, or just that they'd ask everyone for a dollar. A handful had darker responses about how they'd quit the network or steadfast replies about how they wouldn't change a thing.

But by far, the most animated, most considered responses were the group that eventually became the single largest set of replies. Dozens of people each suggested that the one thing they would do with a celebrity-sized social network was directly address the issues and causes that they care most about.

Maybe we don't have to wait until we're famous to do that.
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I was incredibly honored to asked by the team at Cultivated Wit to be a judge for the latest Comedy Hack Day. (Thus becoming the first-ever returning judge!) I got to join Michael Ian Black, Aparna Nancherla, and Christina Warren as a judge of an incredible lineup of ludicrously funny parade of completely inane apps.

Here, take a few minutes and enjoy Pizza Blaster, which won our special judges' award for Best Delivery.

In a time when so many of us are so often critical of the tech industry for making things that are stupid, or that sound like they should be a joke, it's incredibly refreshing to see people creating technology that actually is a joke.

Congratulations to grand prize winner "Got This Thing", runner up "Days to Live" (I would totally use this app!) and all the other participants. I hope you all become billionaires for making technology that nobody needs.
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Tomorrow I'm speaking at the 99U Conference, which I'm really looking forward to. But one of the reasons I'm already convinced it's going to be a special event is because of one particular accommodation that Sean Blanda and his team made in the days and months leading up to the event.

When I accepted their invitation to speak, I asked where their Code of Conduct for the event was, because I hadn't found one. It turns out, they had never made one when they started the event, but Sean immediately said that he would make sure they had one ready in time for the conference, and he delivered.

You can read it for yourself—it's pretty good!

But what was perhaps most exciting was that it was no big deal to make it happen. That's not to diminish the work that Sean and his team put into pulling the code together, but it didn't take a ton of persuasion, and it wasn't too big an effort on the part of the event organizers for it to happen.

The reason that's true is because so much great groundwork has been set up over the past few years. 99U based their code on CodeOfConduct.com, which was created by the Ada Initiative and maintained by an entire community of contributors.

These core resources are backed up by detailed explanatory guides, like Ashe Dryden's definitive work and Erin Kissane's compelling articulation of the rationale behind such codes.

Most fundamentally, those who've been excluded, threatend or wronged at events, like Adria Richards or Anita Sarkeesian, and who've then taken the time (and the risk) to tell their stories have made this progress possible, albeit at great personal cost to do so.

It's sometimes almost overwhelmingly depressing to confront the reality of how necessary these policies still are at so many events, but today I'm finding a little bit of comfort in knowing that we've made a good bit of meaningful progress in protecting attendees. Thanks to everybody who made it possible.
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Need new rear suspension or leaf springs!!
So i have a xj and ive recently have been beating the hell out of the suspension. The leaf springs now are pretty much flat or maybe even a little bit negative. The rear shackles that are on it say it is a skyjacker 5.5 inch lift (jc55rs), the only problem is i dont know if that is right because the guy before me liked to mess with it alot. I need to know if there is a way you can tell exactly what size lift it is or what size lift you can put on with out messing with the drive train. Please help!! also if any other options please let me know!
Lots and lots of options. As far as telling what you have, post a picture of your rig and include the size of tires.
There is a method to measure ride height from the top of the axles to a standard point on the body. There is a diagram of this floating around somewhere along with the stock measurements.
If you have stock fenders- the rear is supposed to be 17" from the center of your hub to the bottom of the flair. I'll keep digging for the other method...
Found it:
yeah well i have 32s on it and what i just wanna know is if there is a way to measure an unknown lift. or if there is a big difference between different sizes like a 4 to 6 and if the drive train would need to be extended.
SYE/ CV driveshaft or T-case drop at 4", longer control arms/ LCA drops, longer brakelines. at 3" all you need is longer brakelines and longer shocks, you can run the stock arms but it will limit your flex= arms hit the shock mount.
you can measure your lift SOMEWHAT accurately. stock measurment says that the XJ sits 17" from lowest point of frame rail to ground. at 3" lift and 31s i sit at 23", you can try throwing stock size tires on your XJ and measure that way OR calculate the tire size you have compared to stock size - 225/75 r15. thats the best i can think of.
get rid of the shackles, do a bastard pack from chevy s10 leafs (basically a new leaf pack), you can get 5" out of that. just remember anything over 3" gets really pricey.
Measuring from the center of the hub to the bottom of the flare works regardless of tire size. I did some measuring for somebody recently for people with trimmed flares (if yours are trimmed) Ill see if I can find the number to the lower bend in the body line of the quarter panel.
Ah here they are... from the center of the hub to the lower bend in the body line should be 22.5" front, 25" rear, stock. So 5" of lift would be 27.5" front, 30" rear.
I could measure the frame to axle if you really want I suppose.
ok well do u think i will have any problems then just swapping out the leaf springs?
The Dirty Method
Alright, for those of you with cut-up fenders (who knows, I may be there one day, once my XJ becomes a trail rig), here is measuring your ride height the "dirty method":
Checking Front Ride Height
Measure front ride height with the vehicle unloaded (no luggage or passengers) and with the fuel tank full.
Place the vehicle on a level surface and measure the veryical distance between the top of the axle tube (A) and the underside of the frame sill (B). Refer to Figure 1 for driver's side measurement and Figure 2 for passenger side measurement. Be sure each measurement is taken from the top of the tube and not from the axle or shift motor housings.
With Standard or Soft Ride Suspension, vertical distance should be 17 cm (6-3/4 inches) plus or minus 13 mm (1/2 inch). With Heavy Duty Suspension, vertical distance should be 20 cm (7-3/4 inches) plus or minus 13 mm (1/2 inch).
Checking Rear Ride Height
Measure rear ride height with the vehicle unloaded (no luggage or passengers) and with the fuel tank full.
Place the vehicle on a level surface and measure the vertical distance between the top of the axle tube (C) and the underside of the frame sill (D) inboard of the jounce bumper (E).
With Standard or Soft Ride Suspension, vertical distance should be 15 cm (6 inches) plus or minus 13 mm (1/2 inch). With Heavy Duty Suspension, vertical distance should be 18 cm (7 inches) plus or minus 13 mm (1/2 inch).
*Note: Fig. 3 refers to MJ suspension, but is very similar to XJ.
What about hub to bend in body line do you not understand... Here is a diagram. I added in a measure from the line to the top of the front fender, just incase people have severely trimmed fenders.
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1985-1996 Fleetwood and Brougham Forum Discussion, 81 Coupe DeVille Engine swap in Past Cadillac Vehicle Discussion; Hello all, I am new the forum and I spent some time searching for some information, didn't exactly find what ...
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81 Coupe DeVille Engine swap
Hello all,
I am new the forum and I spent some time searching for some information, didn't exactly find what I was looking for.
Here is the story, got this super clean 81 Coupe DeVille for dirt cheap, nothing wrong with the interior or exterior, but the engine was blown. Did the research with the VIN and all that to determine it is the 8-6-4 and personally don't really care for it regardless.
So I found out that the 200r tranny that is in there will bolt up to a 350 Chevy engine. Other than that my main concern is the engine mounts and my components working right.
Has anyone done this on the forum and had good luck with it, I saw someone had the V6 and were putting in a 305 and also saw someone saying that its better to go with the 454 due to the block is based off the same as whats in my car.
I already have a nice 350 that I want to use, do you know what electrical issues I might have converting this over to a carb? Am I going to have problems trying to use the stock AC and cruise control options. What year/model can I use for motor mounts, is there any thing else that I am missing?
Totally appreciate all the looks and responses a head of time.
Re: 81 Coupe DeVille Engine swap
You don't have a 200r and a 200 doesn't bolt to Chevrolet. You have a TH400, which mounts to Cadillac, Buick, Oldsmobile, or Pontiac V8's.
The easiest thing to do would be to swap in a Cadillac 472 or 500; they are direct replacements for 368. The cheapest route would be to find an Oldsmobile 403 or 350 and put that in, but you might need to play around with the mounts.
Re: 81 Coupe DeVille Engine swap
so is it not possible to put the 350 chevy in there? even if I replace the trans to match the motor, I realize that I will probably have to get a custom driveline.
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Re: 81 Coupe DeVille Engine swap
Yes you can asadman. GM basically uses 2 styles of motor mounts. I used to call them Chevy style and Olds style but I think I have seen both on Caddys so i never know which one has which style. When you pull out the Caddy engine, and if you see Chevy style mounts, it should be an easy bolt in. If it's the Olds style you can decide if you would rather change those frame pads or look for an Olds engine. Piece of cake bro.
Re: 81 Coupe DeVille Engine swap
You don't need to replace the transmission either. You can get a BOP-Chevrolet adapter for the bell-housing. The disadvantage of this is keeping the non-economical 3-speed transmission (instead of upgrading to the Chevrolet's 4-speed). Also the adapter will create a weak spot in the drive-line, so you will be limited on power.
I'm still questioning why you're hung up on the Chevrolet motor. If you are looking for a cheap alternate motor, then I recommend the Olds 350; there are lot of them around and there are a lot of performance upgrades for them.
Re: 81 Coupe DeVille Engine swap
(I'm still questioning why you're hung up on the Chevrolet motor. If you are looking for a cheap alternate motor, then I recommend the Olds 350; there are lot of them around and there are a lot of performance upgrades for them.)
Well I have a chevy 350 here at my house and I know it runs and don't have a lot of extra money for a lot of parts and such. But if need be it looks like whatever the best way to go about it will be what I do. I honestly haven't found many olds 350 here I am a craigslist junkie and I searched and have no good luck without dropping a good amount of money on a running engine.
So what your saying though is that the olds 350 will bolt right into place, tranny and all? I was under the assumption the the 200r had a bellhousing pattern that will bolt to a chevy 350, I might be wrong, honestly I am a Ford guy and haven't done a lot of work on GM cars, if so they were chevy based engines not cadillac olds or pontiac. The engine mounts for the chevy 350 I don't think will be a problem, planning on going to the junk yard and seeing what I can find there that will work.
Do you know if I am going to have problems (chevy or olds 350) with the fuel injection that is already in place in my car, will my fuel pressure be ok, will it even pump at all?
Re: 81 Coupe DeVille Engine swap
Your car should have the TH 400 transmission; its a three speed (no overdrive). The 200r you keep referring to was not used with the 368; in '81 it was only offered with the Buick 6 cylinder and is a four speed. Both the 400 and 200 have the BOP (Buick, Olds, Pontiac) bell-housing, which doesn't fit Chevrolet; you can get a BOP-Chevy adapter to make it work.
The '90-'92 Cadillac Brougham (RWD) used the Chevrolet 350 and was the same basic body as your de Ville. If you go with your 350, you should get a TH700 transmission (you can find them in most mid '80's to early '90's Chevrolet rear wheel drives) because it has an overdrive gear and will be more durable than the TH400 with the adapter. You can scavenge engine mounts and a drive shaft from a '90-'92 Brougham and this way you won't need to do too much customizing.
The fuel pump for the 368 should be adequate enough to supply the demands of the 350. I do not think the computer in the '81 will be able to work with the newer motor, so if you are keeping it TBI, you might have to get a computer from a '90-'92 Brougham. Worse comes to worse, just get a carburettor and forget about the computer; nothing on the car, except the A/C compressor clutch, requires the computer.
Re: 81 Coupe DeVille Engine swap
the 368 (v8-6-4) is a cadillac motor and uses olds motor mounts.) you will need to change the mounts. it would be alot simpler to buy new mounts. they don't cost much at all.
you can easily put a chevy 350 in there. you can buy 350 chevy mounts from pretty much any auto store (chevy 350's were used in 90-92 fleetwood broughams) you would need the pulleys for the accesories for a 90-92 350 chevy. I'm not sure if you would have to change the trans brace or not to accomodate a 700r4. but you will need to alter your driveshaft or get one for a 90-92 fleetwood brougham if you change the transmission.
you car DOES NOT have a 200r4 (olds bellhousing 4 speed overdrive). it has a th400 (olds bellhousing 3 speed)
IMO, upgrading to the 700r4 trans would be alot better than keeping the th400. mileage would improve quite a bit, as would acceleration.
the fuel injection system on the V8-6-4 is unique to that motor and cannot be retrofitted to any other motor. if you want fuel injection, get a 350 tbi manifold and fuel injectors or vortec heads and intake. vortec heads and intake make good power and actually increase mileage over the older 76cc chevy heads.
Re: 81 Coupe DeVille Engine swap
Totally appreciate all the feedback, much needed and appreciated!! I plan on running a carb I like them, I was just worried that maybe the fuel pressure would be deferent or it might not work at all due to if being fuel injected and I want to run a carb.
So it sounds like if I go to the parts store and get 350 motor mounts for a 90 fleetwood I should be good to go there, and I still have all the pulleys from the 368, planning on running the ps/alt/ac hell with the emissions.
Also looks like I need to get a 700r4 trans which I agree is easy enough to find. sven914 you think that the drive shaft would fit for it? If not I have a couple leads on custom made for a reasonable price. I also was planning on fabricating a different trans brace if the new one needs it and I want to run true dual exhaust on it.
Again I do appreciate all the feedback.
Re: 81 Coupe DeVille Engine swap
you will need chevy pulleys for the accessories. GM pulleys differed from brand to brand and are not interchangeable in my experience.
the driveshaft is not the same length for the turbo 400 trans and the 700r4 trans. I dont remember if you will need to shorten or elongate the one you have though. finding one off a 90-92 fleetwood brougham is your best (and cheapest) bet.
thanks for showing the pics. that car is CLEAN!!! too bad the engine blew, but it'll make an awesome cruiser when its done.
as for the exhaust, a crossmember for a caprice should work. (I believe some companies make dual corssmembers for a caprice, but they are $$$). I'd compare bolt locations first, but they should be the same.
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Re: 81 Coupe DeVille Engine swap
Don't forget the frame mounts too. That's the funnest part of the whole swap. To do it correctly you need to remove your front suspension to get at the bolts. A lot of people cut off the old mount and weld on the new mounts to save all that labor. That's why I would let the frame mounts determine which engine i put in there. Are we sure the 368 uses Olds mounts? I kind of thought they were Chevy mounts
OK I just took a look at my 77 Fleetwood 425 and they sure look like Chevy mounts to me. I could barely see them through just a little opening. I think you may be in bithness
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Re: 81 Coupe DeVille Engine swap
Sounds like you just need a 90-92 Brougham to use for parts. Motor, accessories, tranny, driveshaft and rearend would all be there for you. Just take off the fuel injection stuff, put a carb on and your all set.
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OK - I didn't think I was a technological dinosaur until today when, following the links sent to me on confirmation of my booking for the above tour, I tried to access the two-page document to apply for my Tibet visa.
Dinosaur speaking: when I follow the links, I am taken to a pdf. document of three pages. The first is general information including instructions that I must "complete the visa form on the following page - the document will need to be filled in (typed, not hand written) and sent back to us either by e-mail to the above address or by post . . . "
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I am sure there are many of you, out there, who can help me solve this little difficulty. I'd appreciate simple, clear instructions on how I can do . . . whatever it is I need to do. Thanks in advance
Sorry I hadn't realised that this should have been a word document, I have now amended the form so that you can download and type on the document.
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Playing in Sarajevo and Alicante this weekend
Hernan will be playing at Dom Mladih @ Sarajevo on Friday, and at Metro @ Alicante on Saturday.
Resident. New Radio Show
Starting on May 7th, and every saturday, Hernan's music will be airing on Delta 90.3 FM Buenos Aires. You can listen and download the show from the website radio and podcast section after has finished broadcasting
The Gallery vs GU in London // New Radio Show starting this saturday
Hernan returns to The Gallery at Ministry of Sound on May 6th, this time to play with Dave Seaman in a GU vs The Gallery event. Tickets on http://bit.ly/MOSMay6th Starting on May 7th, and every saturday, Hernan's music will be airing on Delta 90.3 FM Buenos Aires. You can listen and download the show from […]
Gigs for next week – Moonpark announced
Hernan plays on Living Sousse @ Sousse, Tunisia on April 30th, and Numero Uno @ Rabat, Malta on May 1st. On June 11, Hernan will return to Buenos Aires to play a 5 hour set in a new edition of Moonpark, at Pabellon 5, Costa Salguero.
Up next: Macedonia, Cyprus and Israel
Hernan will be playing in Colosseum at Skopje, Macedonia on April 21st, then in Lemon Park at Nicosia, Cyprus on 24th, and will be playing in Israel for the first time at Penguin, Tel Aviv on the 26th.
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Bedrock, The Vagabond and DAR Records announce the 10th Annual Sunset Cruise. Though this is an invite only event, this time 100 people will have the chance to purchase exclusive tickets. Read the full note for info
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Great movie, I love the opening when he keeps bumming money off the same guy all through the day.
We had a Bogart kick and watched that, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, and another I can't remember the name of.
Great movie another Bogie movie everyone should watch is Petrified Forest. His first great movie role that defined a lot of the characters he plays in later movies. I believe he also got a Tony for playing the same role on Broadway. It has young Bette Davis in it, she was very hot.
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