Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Best thing I’ve read on the topic: www.noahpinion.blog/p/no-you-are...noahpinion.blogNo, you are not on Indigenous landPieces of territory belong to institutions, not to racial groups. 010
Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 10/11/2024Is it finally time for this app to become the schelling point of the twitter exiles? 110
Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 25/06/2023Hello Blueskis (is that the right word?)!! What’s everyone watching (tv or movie) this weekend? 100
Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 18/05/2023most important word in the english language these past few years: tokens 000
Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 08/05/2023So should I switch my username to my domain? Or keep my first name at bsky.social … because first name? 100
Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 01/05/2023A sure way to tell whether an online community is here to stay is if its members start organizing IRL meetups. 150
Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 30/04/2023I do long runs because for that time the world ceases to exist. Just the straight road and a meandering train of thoughts. 010
Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 30/04/2023Basically 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 000
Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 25/04/2023I’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. 010
Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 22/04/2023Every 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 👀 012
Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 17/04/2023For the Krzysztof Kieslowski fans engelsbergideas.com/notebook/three-… This makes me want to watch them all again.engelsbergideas.comThree Colours: Blue — growing old gracefullyThirty years on from its release, Three Colours: Blue remains as vivid a depiction of grief as ever. 010
Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 07/04/2023I 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. 050
Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 11/03/2023This piece by Nadia is hands-down the *best* thing written about SVB: nayafia.substack.com/p/a-bank-of-on… 001
Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 10/03/2023Someone asked me why I am on all the new social apps. I sent them this tweet :) twitter.com/umang/status/1538254341… 040
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? 000
Reposted by Umang JJay 🦋 @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 2173
Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 09/03/2023Let’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) 461
Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 08/03/2023more alpha gets dropped in the restaurants of downtown SF and the cafes of downtown PA than the rest of the world combined 241
Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 08/03/2023Hung 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? 020
Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 06/03/2023What fraction of journalism today is (a) filler content around tweets or (b) their personal opinion / criticism from the sidelines because they have an audience? 110
Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 05/03/2023Since 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…twitter.comTweet by @umang 100
Umang J @umang.bsky.social · 03/03/2023Starting a thread of feature requests and such for Bluesky (cc @jay.bsky.social) 220