LinkedIn's universe; Your software stinks; New opportunities
Milk, No Sugar #254
💡Think
I’m sure you’ve all heard about the Salesforce acquisition of Slack announcement this week.
At first it might yield a “wow, good on them for becoming mega rich!” response, which is all well and good. I’m left a little deflated though. We have yet another instance of an independent disruptor being eaten up by a conglomerate.
Slack is used so much by people like us, and we’ve just got to hope that their core values aren’t altered in this transition. It’d be really sad to see the market leading product sacrifice its tone of voice, product quality, and user-centred approach. Remember what happened to Skype when Microsoft swallowed them up?
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❶ LinkedIn’s alternate universe
LinkedIn is a weird place, isn’t it. It’s not quite pure networking, and not quite social network, it’s just…somewhere. We have to juggle lame inspirational posts, cold and irrelevant direct messages, and then copy-cat features like stories that no one uses. Is it really a place to network, or a cesspool of everything that’s bad about social networks?
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❷ Why your workplace software stinks
Think about the tools you have to use at work. Do you like them? Have you spotted 100 different ways they could be improved? Software mostly becomes bloated in its attempt to serve the masses rather than a niche, and this ultimately makes the tools pretty crappy to use. There’s also another reason why – you’re not the person responsible for purchasing it.
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❸ Choosing new opportunities – to explore, or exploit?
Makin decisions is hard. Whether its to do with your career, your spending, or even what restaurant to eat at, we’re always faced with the challenge of choosing something familiar or taking a risk on something new. This article explores, through poetry and discourse, ways in which we can make these decisions easier.
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Bonus round
A video of Steve Jobs explaining that Apple “don’t ship junk” compared to their competitors
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The price of distraction
This is a snippet of a longer episode, but I found some great value in this. They discuss how we are “foraging for information” much like how an animal would forage for food, and this constant strive for stuff increases our inability to keep up and pushes anxiety into new realms. We’ve got to think – if there's always something new to discover, when do we stop?
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Luis Ouriach
@disco_lu