iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Randall Koutnik @rkoutnik.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I’m excited to be speaking at LDX3 London this year! Join me and a whole bunch of excellent leaders (and get 15% off with my discount code). I'll be talking about the many challenges of copy & paste.

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Randall Koutnik @rkoutnik.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

After a bit of back and forth, I've discovered the word my daughter was asking me to spell was "birch"

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

of all the many terrible things that seem to be afflicting the public, the prevalence of defeatist mindsets with zero capacity for creative problem solving (or indeed the unwillingness to even *imagine* possible solutions to problems) might be the thing which freaks me out most.

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 04/02/2025

lawsuits take time, because they require the *precise* language of what they're objecting to, plaintiffs to establish standing, complaints & briefs to be written, etc. everyone who was screaming at ACLU, LL, etc. to "do something" should sit right the F back down.

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Randall Koutnik @rkoutnik.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

A friend tried to convince me that the US was banning TikTok because "China invented a new kind of bank entirely on the Internet so the US can't control it" and to be honest I can't wait for the ban to happen so we can start having normal conversations again.

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Randall Koutnik @rkoutnik.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Mainstream/AAA video games peaked a long time ago.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/01/2025

this confirms something i have long suspected, which is that certain people are told that their professional and academic failures are because of “affirmative action” or “DEI” as a way to avoid difficult conversations about their mediocrity www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

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You Blamed DEI for Hurting Your Career. Now What?

For people who pin their failures on diversity, corporate America’s DEI retreat removes a barrier—or maybe an excuse.

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Randall Koutnik @rkoutnik.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Noooooo that's how you fall to Chaos and turn into a Daemon Prince!

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Erica Joy Astrella @ericajoy.astrel.la · 15/01/2025

i’m grateful for this thread, i’ve learned a lot and had some things that i wrongly believed corrected.

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Randall Koutnik @rkoutnik.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I take a deep breath and remember that a reality crafted by an algorithm to keep me addicted is not representative of the actual world I live in. There are far more helpers than villains, even if the latter gets all the attention.

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Randall Koutnik @rkoutnik.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

You ever think `007` is *really* dumb permissions to have on a spy?

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Randall Koutnik @rkoutnik.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Oh don't get me started on undo! (I'm related news, I just submitted a talk on our copy/paste stack)

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Randall Koutnik @rkoutnik.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Folks in tech who worked elsewhere before starting your tech career, what did you do (and what lessons did you bring with you?)

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Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

nah google, I don't think that's a correct correction

google tries to tell me that One Eye should narrow her "eyes" her name is ONE EYE for a REASON

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I think that the tweet genre of “this person (who might be a bot) had a bizarre opinion that made me think less of humanity and so the right thing by to do is screenshot it and show it to the largest number of people” is silly.

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Randall Koutnik @rkoutnik.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Monday the thirteenth strikes again!

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Randall Koutnik @rkoutnik.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Some of them are pretty big, and there's occasionally a blue one. Important things to consider.

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Randall Koutnik @rkoutnik.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

So I've been learning a whole bunch as I've been onboarding at Figma. Turns out there's like, a lot of different rectangles out there!

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

wait do we know for sure which one zuck was referring to

wikipedia article "DEI (disambiguation)" says "Dei or DEI may also refer to... Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated, a fictional company in the Phineas and Ferb animated TV series"

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Randall Koutnik @rkoutnik.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

ChatGPT is excellent for writing talk proposals, I ask it to write one and it produces such a terrible result that I have no choice but to write a much better one out of spite.

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Randall Koutnik @rkoutnik.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

First world problems but it is really dumb that the only version of Minecraft that works on a MacBook is incompatible with the iPad version

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Randall Koutnik @rkoutnik.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

The real question is when we hit peak peak oil joke

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

agdq’s crazy taxi run has a mosh pit

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Randall Koutnik @rkoutnik.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Knew a director once who had a disabled spouse and needed the health plan to support her. Different kind of good, but it meant he had to be very politically astute at work.

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Randall Koutnik @rkoutnik.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

HOW CAN IT BE LIFE-SIZED POKEMON AREN'T REAL #gdq

a screenshot showing several images of an Ivysaur plush that is advertised as "life-sized" as a raffle prize for donating to Games Done Quick.

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Randall Koutnik @rkoutnik.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

After I left a toxic job, my wife commented "it's so nice hearing you get mad at computers instead of people"

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Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Since there’s a lack of “do the right thing” leadership out there these days, a suggestion: If you’re a leader in any capacity, you have to support people even if they don’t like you.

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winston @winston.cc · 10/01/2025

This is a really thought provoking essay from @himself.bsky.social and I would love to see more discussion of it. It resonates for me, because I just don't see evidence that people are looking for the truth online, they are wanting the world to make sense. www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getti...

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Randall Koutnik @rkoutnik.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I don't know what worries me more - that the Dems are that bad at this, or that they're right and the electorate has gotten concerningly more conservative after COVID

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Randall Koutnik @rkoutnik.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Between the dry air and fuzzy cat, I'm starting to wonder if I need to wear my static wristband when distributing skritches

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 05/01/2025

AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re- BEASTIES: MORSE AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of Beasties: COURSE MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy BEASTIES: MOOCHER MCA: We’re Christmas Past MIKE D: Christmas Present BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

we have officially reached the stage of Discourse where making food for yourself is elitism but having someone else make it for you and bring it to your doorstep on command is working class solidarity

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Randall Koutnik @rkoutnik.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

My parents got our daughter a "Bluey Washcloth". They were only one letter off

A washcloth, but featuring Blue from Blue's Clues.

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Randall Koutnik @rkoutnik.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I think my Amazon recommendations are trying to tell me something

An Amazon screenshot. It reads "more from authors you know". The two books recommended are "the C++ programming language" and a children's book titled "When Sophie gets angry - really really angry"

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Randall Koutnik @rkoutnik.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Ok but I was a percussionist then and now I am a person who would like to remain married

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 04/01/2025

As a PR pro, we used to tell people to get ahead of various online controversies by making statements that refute them. It turns out this is the absolute worst way to respond to criticism or correct errors of any kind. Social media has made this worse. When you respond, it kick-starts issues again.

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Randall Koutnik @rkoutnik.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

+1, and this is why "what if we added a bit more complexity to solve this" should be treated with suspicion

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/01/2025

commenting on something happening in some corners of tiktok right now but this is a general observation: it is absolutely brain-breaking how so many people have lost the ability to disagree with someone without denouncing them as ontologically evil or pathological or whatever else

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 01/01/2025

When people alienate everyone in their personal lives by mistreating them, they find a welcoming community on the far right. Thus the far right becomes the last refuge of cruel, insecure people. Once they're welcomed in, people start imbibing the really hard ideologies, like outright naziism. 4/

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Rev. A. l'Uecipher @revaluecipher.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

This is because punishing *people* does nothing to punish the *company*, which operates on its own incentives. Only punishments that make this behavior unprofitable can have an effect. Something like confiscation of all profits for a number of quarters, backed by government accountants.

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Increasingly it feels like the only way to think about algorithmic media is that it’s a game normal people don’t even know they’re playing

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

my biggest 2024 breakthrough: discovering that scarecrows aren't real. crops are just SO much easier to steal now. i used to pull up one or two turnips and run off, but i'm not scared anymore. the only challenge ahead of me in 2025 is to keep from eating so many turnips i give myself a stomach ache

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Randall Koutnik @rkoutnik.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Nope, wrote some non-fiction. Been writing fiction in the form of RPG adventures, if that counts

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Bill Prady @billprady.com · 01/01/2025

Because it's come up recently, a reminder that the Y2K bug wasn't overhyped. It was a huge problem and an huge number of people worked fast and hard and fixed it. Like the ozone hole. It's not a lesson in overhype. It's a lesson in humankind's ability to cooperatively solve problems.

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