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Conversational account. For work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian. IKEA builder.

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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Jul 2019
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    Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Gene Kim

    Zapier/IFTTT are the IKEA of the web. No code/low code environments where you can build cheap, janky digital furniture that breaks easily and is hard to move, but easy to assemble with an Allen wrench and a bureaucratic instruction manual.https://twitter.com/RealGeneKim/status/1151002534598758401 …

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    Gene Kim @RealGeneKim
    This is a problem I have a lot, where I can't find a tweet I saw or sent. What I ended up I'm very happy with. I use Zapier to capture every tweet I write/like or mentions me, and send it to a Slack channel. Slack has superb search. I also send ever liked Tweet to Trello board https://twitter.com/johncutlefish/status/1121308723685863427 …
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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Jul 2019
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        Consumer web s/w mapped to furniture Beta products: Half-done artisan furniture; carpenter may die before it’s done Paid SaaS: hotel furniture Ad-supported, closed: crates in slum-tents Ad-supported, open: IKEA (w/ IFTTT+Zapier) Managed-hosted: rental Hand-coded: self-built

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Jul 2019
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        This is depressing. Pick 2 of 3 of web software/furniture for your digital life: 1. Affordable 2. Quality 3. Does what YOU want As with any consumer category, the only way to get all 3 is to become a producer to at least some degree. Ikea-level producer ability is minimum.

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      4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Jul 2019
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        The truth of “everyone must learn to code” depends on analogy you have in mind: “It’s like everyone must learn to... a) read/write” (wrong) b) fly planes” (wrong) c) drive” (partly right, for opsec behaviors) d) cook” (wish it meant this) e) assemble Ikea furniture” (most true)

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      5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Jul 2019
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        If you’ve done a few, you realize Ikea design has a standard, simple DIY vocabulary. Same types of fasteners etc. Learning those is like UI literacy.

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      1. Carlos E. Perez‏ @IntuitMachine 16 Jul 2019
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        Sounds like the newer stuff we get. Easy to manufacture, prohibitively expensive to repair. Built in planned obsolescence.

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      1. let _ = self.take().unwrap();‏ @pnehrer 16 Jul 2019
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        I think it also reflects your (user’s/consumer’s) commitment to the solution — do you want sturdy, hard-to-change brick walls or paper-covered “chalk” sheets screwed onto some wood frame?

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      2. Tiago Forte‏ @fortelabs 16 Jul 2019
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        I have so many zapier integrations that every course purchase triggers more than 50 conditional statements, of which usually only a handful are true. My zapier account will probably become sentient soon

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      3. Tiago Forte‏ @fortelabs 16 Jul 2019
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        What is the equivalent of furniture for that?

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      1. Jay Sanchez‏ @SanchizeUnfltrd 16 Jul 2019
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        I don’t know if I wanna blow up a slack channel or inbox with my tweets when twitter saves it all anyways? And I’m fairly good with @Pocket ing tweets or articles Linked I like...and paid for @threadreaderapp which is nifty AF (and use w/former)

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      1. Jscott‏ @DailySuicide 16 Jul 2019
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        I visited my accounts. I have almost a terabyte of data and media going years back. Zaps dumpster overflowing based on outdated ideas. 😰

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