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Programmer; builds Mac and iOS apps, wrote WatermelonDB, and writes about tools, focus and software craft.

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  Courage to Be Disliked

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  This is a very strange book, and I can’t say I liked it very much, but there is some useful philosophy inside (and perhaps a lot if you or someone you know is struggling with low self-esteem).

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Writer and academic, author of The Cult of Smart and How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement; writes a daily newsletter on politics, education and culture.

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  Inherent Vice

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  Which brings me to the film adaptation of Inherent Vice, that widely-disliked, subtly-championed shaggy stoner LA noir that confused critics and rankled fans and also happens to be the best movie Paul Thomas Anderson has ever made.

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Founder of WP Engine and Smart Bear; writes A Smart Bear, long essays on strategy, pricing and how startups actually fail.

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  Asking a leaving customer what made them cancel, rather than why they cancelled, gets materially better answers.

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  What you want to do is say what made you cancel? In other words, what about the product or situation or whatever caused the cancellation? Just phrasing it that way, you get much better results.

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Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.

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  Elgato Wave 3

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  Most impressive to me, it seems to cancel bounce and echo far better than my pro studio gear.

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Software engineer writing about maintenance, open source and the industrial reality of software — the author of "I am not a supplier".

From one piece How FOSS Won and Why It Matters 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Charging large companies for a licence sends them back through procurement, so they drift to a worse free alternative rather than pay.

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  Making licenses suddenly commercial for big entities? You are forcing people to go back through the Procurement process. They will shift over time back to a FOSS solution, even if it is less good.

  How FOSS Won and Why It Matterssoftwaremaxims.com

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  Open source won because it let companies bypass procurement, legal review and contracts, not because it was free of charge.

  open source

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  FOSS solve that problem far more than it solves “we don’t want to pay”. Most corporations would be surprised by how cheap it would cost them to pay for the FOSS software they use.

  How FOSS Won and Why It Matterssoftwaremaxims.com

Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.

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  No free or open source licence may restrict what the software is used for, however objectionable the use.

  open source

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  No such restrictions are found in free or open source software licenses, be they permissive or copyleft – all FOSS licenses permit the use of the software for any purpose without restriction.

  Copyleft licenses are not “restrictive”drewdevault.com

First Amendment lawyer and former federal prosecutor; writes The Popehat Report and explains what the law actually says when people shout about free speech.

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  The cancel-culture argument now mostly shields the powerful from criticism rather than protecting the powerless from being silenced.

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  In my view, too many critics of “cancel culture” are recklessly promoting not the speech of the powerless, but the censorious resentment of the powerful.

  My Free Speech Means You Have To Shut Uppopehat.substack.com

Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.

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  Nothing & Everything

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  I love this book so much. It's the joy of nihilism. Nothing is true. Everything is permitted. I agree completely. I would give it a 10-out-of-10 rating but I disliked the whole second half of the book. So just read the first half. See my notes here. If you like my book “Useful Not True”, you should read this.

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