Writer and technologist Eugene Wei joins Dan, Erik and Antonio to talk about Twitter, Threads, and his views on remote work. We reference Eugene's writing a lot on the podcast and mentioned his recent piece, How to Blow Up a Timeline in last week's MoZ episode with Mike Solana (see links below). Listeners, if you're looking for an ERP platform, check out our sponsor, NetSuite: netsuite.com/zen
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LINKS REFERENCED:
Eugene Wei, How to Blow Up a Timeline https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2023/7/6/how-to-blow-up-a-timeline
American Prometheus https://www.amazon.com/American-Prometheus-Triumph-Tragedy-Oppenheimer/dp/0375726268
TIMESTAMPS:
(00:00) Episode preview
(01:03) Algorithm switch at Twitter
(07:10) What Eugene would do as Twitter’s CEO
(11:30) Signal to noise ratio in social media
(22:00) Threads
(37:35) Sponsor: NetSuite
(38:50) LinkedIn
(47:00) Improving Twitter: Ranked follower feed, restoring aristocracy, reversing war on Substack
(1:10:00) Incumbents vs upstarts in social media
(01:14:40) Graph portability
(01:20:00) Centralization vs Decentralization of the space
(01:25:00) UI analysis of Twitter vs. Discord vs. Slack vs Threads
(01:30:00) Impact of Slack and minimizing meetings on the workplace
(01:35:00) The downstream costs of remote work
(01:49:30) Why tech is the worst industry to model out the effects of remote work
(01:51:00) Office layout and productivity
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