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Umang J

@umang.bsky.social
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Used to build the ranked timeline and discovery products at Twitter, amongst other things. Writing at forcemultipliers.substack.com

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Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
End mid-century modern
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Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Best thing I’ve read on the topic: www.noahpinion.blog/p/no-you-are...
noahpinion.blog
No, you are not on Indigenous land
Pieces of territory belong to institutions, not to racial groups.
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Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Is it finally time for this app to become the schelling point of the twitter exiles?
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Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 06/07/2023
www.threads.net/@umang
threads.net
Threads
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Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 25/06/2023
Hello Blueskis (is that the right word?)!! What’s everyone watching (tv or movie) this weekend?
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Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 18/05/2023
most important word in the english language these past few years: tokens
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Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 08/05/2023
a conference of trees
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Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 08/05/2023
So should I switch my username to my domain? Or keep my first name at bsky.social … because first name?
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Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 04/05/2023
SF is so back
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Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 01/05/2023
A sure way to tell whether an online community is here to stay is if its members start organizing IRL meetups.
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Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 30/04/2023
I do long runs because for that time the world ceases to exist. Just the straight road and a meandering train of thoughts.
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Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 30/04/2023
Basically the difference between a company that runs on Slack and another that runs on email is the difference between an oral culture and a written culture
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Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 25/04/2023
I’ll posit that intuition vs data was the difference between early Twitter and early Facebook. Easy to go wrong with either extreme - you need intuition to ship and data to check your intuition. Especially because social or marketplace-like products can behave very non-intuitively.
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Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 25/04/2023
Hill I will die on: Magnesium > Vitamin D
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Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 22/04/2023
Every time an iOS update has new emojis, I wonder what critical security hole they’ve patched that they need to find a way to get everyone to update asap 👀
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Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 17/04/2023
For the Krzysztof Kieslowski fans engelsbergideas.com/notebook/three-… This makes me want to watch them all again.
engelsbergideas.com
Three Colours: Blue — growing old gracefully
Thirty years on from its release, Three Colours: Blue remains as vivid a depiction of grief as ever.
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Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 11/04/2023
Latest entrant to the library
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Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 11/04/2023
One of my favorite spills of ink on a page:
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Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 07/04/2023
I could be doomscrolling on my laptop and people will still think I’m working hard. I could be intensely doing work email on my phone and people will think I’m goofing off and make me to do the dishes.
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Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 11/03/2023
This piece by Nadia is hands-down the *best* thing written about SVB: nayafia.substack.com/p/a-bank-of-on…
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Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 10/03/2023
Someone asked me why I am on all the new social apps. I sent them this tweet :) twitter.com/umang/status/1538254341…
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Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 09/03/2023
Reputations are being made or unmade today
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Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 09/03/2023
“chaos is a ladder”
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Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 09/03/2023
@support-team.bsky.social I keep getting logged out of my account multiple times a day. Anything you can do to make it stick?
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 09/03/2023
@why.bsky.world @pfrazee.com @bmann.ca @nr.bsky.social @katherine.bsky.social @emily.bsky.social @courtneylee.bsky.social @chris.bsky.social @mtclai.bsky.social @catman.bsky.social @wills.co.tt @ian5v.bsky.social
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Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 09/03/2023
Let’s do #FollowFriday — who should I follow on here? (yes, I know it isn’t Friday today but what can I say, I’m impatient)
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Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 08/03/2023
more alpha gets dropped in the restaurants of downtown SF and the cafes of downtown PA than the rest of the world combined
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Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 08/03/2023
Hung out in downtown Palo Alto today after ages. I used to work here 12 years ago and the vibe is so different now. Much more … chic?
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Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 06/03/2023
What fraction of journalism today is (a) filler content around tweets or (b) their personal opinion / criticism from the sidelines because they have an audience?
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Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 05/03/2023
Since folks on here might be more in favor of algorithmic choice, here’s a counter I tweeted a while ago. Would love to hear your thoughts on it. twitter.com/umang/status/1586090495…
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Tweet by @umang
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Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 03/03/2023
Starting a thread of feature requests and such for Bluesky (cc @jay.bsky.social)
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Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 03/03/2023
e pur si muove
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