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Dec 2, 2020

Let’s Skim! The Slack/Salesforce Press Release

I find enterprise software fascinating because it operates the entire economy and yet it frequently neglects every single principle of quality that software people may espouse. Slack is/has been the anti-enterprise enterprise tool — a real product, using web technologies, with emojis. So it’s fun to think through this acquisition…

Salesforce

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Let’s Skim! The Slack/Salesforce Press Release
Let’s Skim! The Slack/Salesforce Press Release
Salesforce

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·Dec 1, 2020

Web Conversation From the Other Side

I wrote a piece on here the other day in which “2000 me” had a conversation with “2020 me” about the state of the web. It was fun to write, because I love making easy jokes at the expense of the tech industry. But as I went about my days…

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Web Conversation From the Other Side
Web Conversation From the Other Side

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Nov 28, 2020

Web Conversations With the Year 2000

2000 me: Wow you still work on the web, that’s amazing. It must be so easy to publish really interesting web pages. 2020 me: Uhhhhh. [Very long pause.] Look, you can pay a low monthly fee and listen to any album anyone ever made. ’00: That must create some amazing…

Web Development

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Web Conversations With the Year 2000
Web Conversations With the Year 2000
Web Development

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Nov 25, 2020

Stories I Don’t Finish

I know the title seems evocative but it’s literal. I have a lot of dumb ideas for stories I’ll never finish. I’d rather just write them down, hit publish, and go looking for some new stories instead of keeping these rattling in my head. For example: Two kids get decoder…

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Stories I Don’t Finish
Stories I Don’t Finish

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Nov 23, 2020

Things Left Undone

Apparently we are due for a national period of healing and a period of cooling off. Every time I hear things like that, I immediately think of this video: A normal reaction upon seeing that is to ask, What in God’s name did I just watch? …

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Things Left Undone
Things Left Undone

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Nov 18, 2020

Tech After Trump

Eventually, the current chaos will subside. What will the tech industry look like over the next four years? What should we expect? These aren’t predictions as much as possibilities. The point here is not to magically assert the future, but rather to think about places where pressure is building up…

Tech

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Tech After Trump
Tech After Trump
Tech

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Jun 19, 2018

Ship It! The Game of Product Management

Postlight is a company that builds digital platforms and products, and like every firm we like to market ourselves and tell the world how great we are. We gave our marketing a mission, though: It should always help people build their careers. Humans can only handle so many PowerPoints, so…

Board Games

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Ship It! The Game of Product Management
Ship It! The Game of Product Management
Board Games

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May 24, 2018

CMS ❤ CRM

It’s nice to see two acronyms make friends — At Postlight we build software for lots of different industries (custom search engines, financial APIs, a birding app for the Audubon society, things like that). This means we hear lots of different people complain about software. …

CRM

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CMS ❤ CRM
CMS ❤ CRM
CRM

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Mar 1, 2018

A Knight Piece of Work

At the end of last year Alejandro de Onís, the Director of Digital Strategy and Design at Knight Foundation, reached out to Postlight and asked if we’d like to create a website that showcased the findings of a forthcoming report. Knight Foundation is a well-established not-for-profit that supports journalism, the…

Social Media

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A Knight Piece of Work
A Knight Piece of Work
Social Media

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Feb 21, 2018

Our Gently Aging Avatars

Every week or so someone I know on social media, but not in my daily life, updates their avatar, and suddenly they’re three or four years older than they were the day before. Some of these people I’ve known for 20 years, and it’s happened several times. Sometimes there’s obvious…

Life

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Our Gently Aging Avatars
Our Gently Aging Avatars
Life

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