A reoccurring theme in the app development world is the idea that giving users 20 share options at every intersection is somehow going to increase your ‘virality coefficient’ and give you ‘hockey stick growth’.

In case you haven’t heard, NYC just made it illegal to rent out your home through Airbnb. I don’t yet know all the details of how they came to such a foolish decision since I live way out here in SF. But I do know how the decision directly impacts my life. I’m almost certainly not going to choose NYC as my next vacation destination.

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Data visualization is harder than it looks. It’s half science, half art and half story telling. Get 2 of those right and you’ve got a viable visualization. Get all 3 and you unlock a secret badge.

I’m more and more of the opinion that a lot more companies should be building platforms rather than products. It’s great for companies to also have products but I believe those products should be built by small teams on top of their platforms.

This year the media analyzed NFL draft prospects from almost every angle imaginable and came to a less than favorable conclusion. They told us this group of athletes doesn’t stack up with the talent level available in recent years.

Rather than take their word for it, I’m going to aggregate social data, analyze it and hopefully make some bold predictions.

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I’m in the process of attempting to switch my dev machine from a Macbook Pro to a Chromebook Pixel…or at least have a backup light weight dev environment ready to go.

The more I think about it, the more I dislike the notion of role players within a group. What that essentially means is you’ve got people sacrificing by doing the shitty work so everyone else can do the “important” stuff. This all starts when “leaders” define roles for the members of the team.