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Great Freakanomics podcast episode to inspect if Google Search is getting worse.
There is a part in there about how Google accidentally ran a 1% hold out group that don’t see ads for 8 years. They found “3 percent more searches from people who had ads than didn’t”.
Great insight.
If you liked that episode, here’s another recent favourite of mine: Are personal finance gurus giving you bad advice?
Vithun with some words of wisdom: vithun.com/posts/playing-the-long-game
...the longer the game one is in, the more they have got to be able to let something go. And not just let it go, but take it off their mind and start from blank for the next thing coming their way. Reacting to everything is something one does when having a shorter-term mindset.
Leave some balls. Thanks @vithungajendra.
A gripping story about a few kids getting together and fighting power in the open Internet. Account given by one of the founders. Love it. Have a listen.
https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/92/
The Pirate Bay is a website, a search engine, which has an index of torrent files. A lot of copyrighted material is listed on the site, but the site doesn’t store any of the copyrighted material. It just points the user to where you can download it from. So for a while The Pirate Bay has been the largest places you can find pirated movies, music, games, and apps. But this site first came up 2003. And is still up and operation now, 18 years later! You would think someone would shut this place down by now. How does the biggest source for copyrighted material stay up and online for that long? Listen to this episode to find out.
If you liked this episode, Money Maker #102 and Synthetic Remittance #124 are great too!
Enjoyed reading this article from David Pierce at TheVerge on Stage Manager. It is not going well for Apple as far as iPadOS is concerned.
Here in the real world, trying to figure out how Stage Manager works turns into a wild puzzle requiring a wall of Polaroids and a ball of yarn.
The issue seems to lie in "product vision" part. I think David nails it.
The company has a complicated history with multitasking in general. Jobs was famously and loudly against the entire concept — he believed in helping people focus on one thing at a time, not in helping them overwhelm themselves with windows. In Jobs’ mind, the best thing to do for users was to make it easy to switch between tasks rather than do several tasks at once.
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This tension is only becoming more acute, too. Apple is now all-in on keyboard attachments for iPads — it even moved the camera on the new 10th-gen iPad to the center in landscape mode, which is as clear a sign as you’ll ever see that most people use their iPads horizontally on a desk. Apple’s also trying to break down barriers between Mac and iPad so that you can do all your work on all your devices.
It is not easy to switch out the direction of a product that is already performing well in the market. Expectations are high. It is even harder to do it with yearly releases cycles for software and 2-3 year release cycles for devices. We're in that messy transition where it isn't quite clear whether Apple's confused about what role iPad plays in their line up, or is it just taking so many years to change course for their new vision for the device...