Whether or not you agree with me, the peculiar way Google and Facebook are immune to shareholder governance mean we have to take the idiosyncratic whims of their founders seriously. But tech/finance journalists hate that, as it's much less fun than 12-dimensional business chess
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Surely Pharaoh wouldn't be making us build this enormous pyramid just to be remembered. There must be some diabolically clever secret plan!
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In defense of my argument, consider what Zuckerberg's peers are doing. One of them shot a car that he made into space. Another wants to beat him to Mars. Another has a secret bunker in New Zeland. Two more are working to hack death/prevent robot rebellion. These are big children.
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When we bring Shakespeare back to life, the Facebook person I want him writing a play about is not Zuckerberg, but Sheryl Sandberg. Grand Vizier to the boy-king!
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I stand by my analysis from two years ago. The problem is chuckleheads. https://idlewords.com/talks/notes_from_an_emergency.htm …pic.twitter.com/sWvTyVH66X
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I believe today's Libra hearings bolster my thesis that Zuckerberg just said "make it so" and the rest of the company has scrambled to build it. The fact that it's a shambles may reflect ambivalence in people lower down the food chain from the Great Leader
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More evidence that Libra is simply a planetary scale vanity project https://twitter.com/TonyRomm/status/1153450049483026433 …
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Libra is Google+, except for money
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All of this is a huge lesson in what not to do for my upcoming roll-out of Pinboard FunBuxx
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I can't wait to speculate on the Pinboard ICO. Will each token be redeemable for a year of Pinboard service?
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Yes, but I decide which year
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