Nadia Eghbal

@nayafia

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    Jun 7

    Yes! My theory: reading isn't really about what you remember, but how it shapes your thinking

    Does anyone else have that thing where you read books, and like them, and feel like you''re learning a lot about some topic. But then when you're done you literally couldn't recall two facts from the entire thing.
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    Jul 3
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    To go mainstream, we need to clearly explain how the cybercoins can fit through the series of tubes to pay for gas used on the information super highway.

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    Jul 2

    My 1st paper came out of a sci fair project that required 2 pieces of equipment: a student copy of Matlab ($100) & a computer. You don't need lots of funding or a fancy lab to do great work, but mentors who help you communicate that work to the right community are key for impact.

    I wrote about the "gentleman scientist": researchers who fund their work independently, and my experience therein
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  4. Jul 2

    Do financial incentives increase the threat of forks in OSS? (my view: no)

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  5. Jul 1

    "Excel Unusual, the home of the most unique Microsoft Excel animated spreadsheets." 🤯

    This is mind blowing almost like these people’s natural inclinations was to create mini interactive smalltalk / computing worlds. Direct data manipulation, multiple representations, etc.
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    Jul 1

    I miss the useless web. I miss your grandpa’s blog. I miss weird web art projects that trolled me. I miss fan pages for things like hippos. I wish I didn’t feel like the web was collapsing into just a few sites plus a thousand resumes.

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  7. Jul 1

    BTW, independent != isolated. Being exposed to, and collaborating with, a broader swath of society (including academics!) tackling your problem space is why I like independent research.

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  8. Jun 30

    "Sometimes pull requests are more effort than they are worth." Great piece about "extractive contributors" and support burden

    Blog post: "How open is too open?" - on open source projects, and sustainability.
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  9. Jun 29

    Crypto is like peering into the future of open source behavior. has great ideas on how well-funded OSS projects can enable a decentralized workforce:

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  10. Jun 28

    Sometimes I get so excited by a good conversation that I need to go lie down

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    Jun 27

    I don't get why Apple's restrictive app store policies don't get criticized more. One company (with market cap approaching $1 trillion) gets more de-facto filtering power over mobile internet users than many governments, heavily wields it, and so few tech people seem to complain.

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    Jun 27

    Idea: find a list of the ugliest buildings in the world where the architect of the building is still alive. Then do a documentary interviewing them to find out why they did what they did. Have Werner Herzog do it.

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  13. Jun 27

    I wrote about the "gentleman scientist": researchers who fund their work independently, and my experience therein

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  14. Jun 26

    TIL Richard Dawkins coined the term "meme" and I'm not sure how I feel about it

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  15. Jun 25

    Psyched that and I are finally coworkers! If you're excited by building open source communities, we're hiring 👇

    I joined Protocol Labs to re-decentralize the Internet :) And I'm hiring
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  16. Retweeted
    Jun 23

    Just published an in-depth piece on the challenges but increasingly bold economics for open source maintainers. Lots of new orgs trying to help here, including Patreon, Open Collective, License Zero, and Tidelift. Much, much more to watch in this space in the coming years

    Open source sustainability by
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    Jun 23

    This is a great idea

    Pimp My Ride, but with developers refactoring random people's apps
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  18. Jun 21

    Here's the graph btw, four years later (arrow is where we discussed it)

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  19. Jun 21

    . once showed me a company's hockey stick Google Trends graph and said "we never know what part of the curve we're on". I've never forgotten it.

    1/ Shared the following message with the team today...
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  20. Jun 20

    Dear lazyweb: why do we have country-specific TLDs?

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  21. Jun 20

    I've decided to start publishing my random notes: Updated monthly. Expect thoughts on governance, reputation, tech culture...and weird art ideas, sometimes? Basically whatever I scribble down while half-asleep at 4am.

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