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Patrick McKenzie

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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 3
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      Patrick McKenzie Retweeted Amy "Social Distancing" Hoy

      The Kindle is the worst designed product that I can’t live without, and I have often thought that it was made in a vaccuum by people who, and I do not mean this as a judgment I mean it as description, do not read books.https://twitter.com/amyhoy/status/1213178482567475200 …

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      Amy "Social Distancing" Hoy @amyhoy
      kindle also doesn’t understand that people re-read books. or let you browse by author. or even amazon’s own categories. bc why? why exert any effort at all into your product? just slap a shitty list on it, it’s fine
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    2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 3
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      It took them something like five years to implement “You have just completed the 2nd book in Game of Thrones. We have used Sophisticated Machine Learning to predict that there is a possibility, however slight, that your next book might be...”

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 3
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      It’s also impossible to do even the most basic possible library management and/or searching by other than words, like “I want to give my friend a reading list about the financial crisis; show me all the books I’ve read about it.”

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        2. Daniel and 10 others‏ @techwraith Jan 3
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          Don't get me started with their highlights and notes feature. Without an API/export it's basically useless.

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        3. Andy Sparks‏ @SparksZilla Jan 3
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          Would you guys be up for talking with us at @holloway about how we can make sure not to make the same mistakes with our reader?

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        2. Zim‏ @zimbatsu Jan 3
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          I think this thread ties to a frustration I have with audio books, and now feels like a larger amazon thing...which is getting stuck with an MVP experience and not trying to innovate.

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        3. Zim‏ @zimbatsu Jan 3
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          Kindle gets some more features year to year, but really the experience is largely the same. Audio books work, but frankly aren't much more advanced than books on tape. Amazon could do a lot to enhance book consumption/learning.

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        1. Daniel Thomason‏ @danieljthomason Jan 3
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          Replying to @patio11

          The recommendations they show are also bafflingly bad, all the more so given that Amazon is usually decent at this. For the last time, just because I bought the Kindle in Berlin does not mean that I want to read pulp romance novels in German!

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        2. Tara Strahl‏ @tarastrahl Jan 3
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          No one writing software appears to have read even the basics like How to Read a Book😭😭

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        3. john henry‏ @john_henry Jan 5
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          I’ve been thinking about how the HtraB techniques could be augmented with software. Hopefully I’ll launch a site one of these years...

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        1. (((Lukas Kawerau)))‏ @LukasKawerau Jan 3
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          Replying to @patio11

          that'll get easier once you put all your highlights into @RoamResearch :) I'd _love_ to roam through a DB of your annotated reading on your interests there...

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        2. Conor G 👀dwin‏ @Goodyy22 Jan 3
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          And there’s SO many opportunities for cool features highlight sharing, notes sharing, book lending, the store UI!

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        3. Conor G 👀dwin‏ @Goodyy22 Jan 3
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          IMO, ORG structure and extreme emphasis on operational efficiency; while successful and necessary for the scale/scope at which this company operates sacrifices design of almost any of their non deeply technical products (Website, Prime Video, Kindle, AWS console is better now)

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