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@weylandswart Oh yeah. PayPal. 😂
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@weylandswart This is true. It's just my tongue-in-cheek way of bringing to attention that Musk did not found Tesla; just made a deal to be able to use the founder title.
Most people I talk to are surprised to learn that Elon Musk is Tesla's *fourth* CEO. x.com/axbom/status/1…
I do appreciate the sentiment that every taxpayer in the US has as much right to call themselves founders of Tesla as Elon Musk…
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Sometimes I see statements like this in the news. "While Tesla’s star began to fade long ago, Elon Musk, who named his car and his company after him, has contributed to a Nikola Tesla revival." No. No he did not. But the ruse certainly is working.
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And then there are tweets like this from the man himself. The company was already named Tesla before Musk was anywhere in the picture... x.com/elonmusk/statu…
Martin Eberhard came up with the name in 2003. He pitched it to his wife-to-be Carolyn at Disneyland. His co-founder Marc Tarpenning registered teslamotors.com on April 23, 2003. Musk didn't come on board as an investor until 2004.
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The timeline of PayPal surprises a lot
of people too.
Confinity and x.com merged in 2000. Musk took over as CEO in April and was fired in October of the same year. The company wasn't renamed PayPal until June 2001. Musk kept his stock though after being fired.
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@hypervisible @dlberes «“The people inside Twitter want to understand how their algorithm works, too,” he said.»
I wish this insight was more broadly understood.
"They found that all of the apps they tested occasionally gather raw audio data while mute is activated, with one popular app gathering information and delivering data to its server at the same rate regardless of whether the microphone is muted or not." x.com/hypervisible/s…
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@Loukas_RS My pen wasn't tiny enough to draw the eyes. 😝
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@Loukas_RS Hence the little person scratching their head on the right side of LinkedIn 😅
Anybody else plotting their escape plan? 😅
How to Escape From Twitter.
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@itsariot Oh, interesting. This makes me want to do some further digging. Thank you for making me aware.
Elon Musk just placed a bid on Twitter. 😬 x.com/anildash/statu…
Spotify really have dropped the ball on communicating how podcasts work. I’ve seen people wonder why there are ads on podcasts when they pay for premium. The thing is: 99.999% of podcasts get zero reimbursement from Spotify. It’s just a distribution platform. Unless you’re Joe.
Europe, the arbiter of GDPR, is planning to build the most all-encompassing biometric surveillance system in the world, rivalling China’s.
Yes, it’s that bad. 🤯
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@jarango @steveportigal @danachis I realised 😊. Threads are not always so clear on Twitter. In my head it was a continuation of the criticism I brought forward in the post.
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@jarango @steveportigal @danachis It is also my experience that there’s long been a deep and misguided fascination with IQ, which is what I was hoping to illustrate. Here is another example:
”If you target a broad consumer audience, you will also have a higher IQ than your average user”
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@onsman Fun fact, the Swedish name of my book is Digital omtanke where the word "omtanke" is compassion. But it can also be interpreted as the noun of the verb "tänka om" (rethink). Making the title also "Digital rethink". 😁
@onsman The English translator attempted an English version of this, using considerate and reconsider. Never made it to the cover, but I appreciated the effort.
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@DonnaLanclos Haha, excellent point. I tend to more often use the word ’listening’ so I was kind of frustrated at first that I had sketched it out like this. My counterpoint would be that researchers too often assume they understand without putting more effort into truly understanding.
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@StacyHolmstedt @nickf Damn, I didn't think of that! 😂 Well of course not, I don't have the capacity to think like that. 😮
This morning at breakfast I doodled a sketch I called The Trouble Diamond. Thanks to Mar Murube who shared it, it drew a lot of attention, way more than I would’ve predicted. So today I’ve written a whole, long blog post explaining what I meant by it. 😅
https://axbom.com/trouble-diamond/
#DesignThinking #DesignEthics #DoubleDiamond