@seanrose

Refusing heaven.

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Joined December 2008
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I joined Meter because of their ambitious vision for rebuilding the fundamentals of how modern businesses work from the ground up. There is *so much* that can’t be done well unless you own the entire stack. Beyond thrilled for what’s ahead. xitter.cf/meter/status/152870993…
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@meter23 May 2022
The last thing businesses need to think about is their internet, networking, and WiFi. Today, we're excited to share how we've spent the past few years making this easier than it’s ever been. meter.com/blog/introducing-m…
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(Special shoutout to @lachygroom for recruiting me for ~3 years. Hardest working investor in the business.)
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I have this next to my weekly list of meetings and tasks. Have never had an easier time cancelling things.
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Rikers: The Obituaries

Fifteen people at the jail died in 2021. These are their lives — and how they came to an end.

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More: newyorker.com/magazine/2014/…

Before the Law

Kalief Browder was accused of taking a backpack. The courts took the next three years of his life.

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Now you can get the e-book AI2041 at only $2.99 for the rest of the day as a great gift for the year of Tiger! Don't miss it! penguinrandomhouse.com/books…

AI 2041 by Kai-Fu Lee, Chen Qiufan: 9780593238318 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

How will AI change our world within twenty years? A pioneering technologist and acclaimed writer team up for a “dazzling” (The New York Times) look at the future that “brims...

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You will die someday.
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@seanrose25 Mar 2021
Life hack: be happy for other people.
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Two years ago I was half blind. Not only can I see through both eyes fine now, but my vision is even better than before all that. Modern medicine is fucking incredible.
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There are innumerable shitty things about San Francisco, but UCSF is not one of them. Forever grateful that we have one of the nation's best hospitals here.
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"To argue proofs of religion is to miss the point of religion. What matters is if one’s sense of gratitude and wonder are fitting responses to our world." simonsarris.substack.com/p/i…
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The current infatuations with multiverses in entertainment and web3 in tech seem to be at least partially driven by a cultural desire to give up on everything in our current reality and start over.
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One pandemic product myth I hope we can quickly abandon is the idea that recording a video to communicate something is generally easier and less time intensive for all involved than something text based.
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Never underestimate the power of DM-ing someone randomly and giving them a genuinely nice, thoughtful compliment.
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So, so few well reported stories about the difficulties and cost of life that comes with navigating psychiatric drugs. This is excellent. newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…

The Challenge of Going Off Psychiatric Drugs

Millions of Americans have taken antidepressants for many years. What happens when it’s time to stop?

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I don’t know who is teaching designers that illegibly light grey text is “good”, but y’all need to stop.
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This is GREAT: getstark.co Everyone should be using it to guide their designs and make their products accessible to everyone.

Stark: The suite of integrated accessibility tools for your product design and development team

The suite of integrated accessibility tools for your product design and development team • Making the world’s products accessible.

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Seeing a pretty steep resurgence in growth hacking, probably another sign that valuations are farther ahead of progress than they've ever been.
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Not about growth hacking per se, but argues the same point extremely well: gaming short term metrics with “low quality” growth is a recipe for long term disaster. abovethecrowd.com/2012/09/04…

The Dangerous Seduction of the Lifetime Value (LTV) Formula

Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as the LTV model or formula. Lifetime value is the net present value of the profit stream of a...

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Worth every single “books of the year” placement it’s received. amazon.com/Empire-Pain-Histo…

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama—baroque personal lives; bitter disputes over estates; fistfights in boardrooms; glittering art collections; Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers;...

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You really never forget the people who bet on you early.
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