Month: July 2011

This is my central issue with Google ’s current design: now I choose what portion of my (public) posts you should be able to read. Shouldn’t you have a say in this? Say you’re an iOS developer from abroad (so I put you into my Programming Circle) but you also happen to speak German and be interested in my other posts, who am I to say you shouldn’t see them? That is, if you follow me at all. Because until I place you in a Circle of mine, my stream looks empty to you, much like the timeline of a Twitter user who has protected their tweets. Why would you even want to follow me, not knowing what to expect?

It’s heating up again, but it’s still not anything near like it was in ’99. And even though people love to badmouth ’99 and 2000, you also have to remember that’s when Google got built.

There was a point in the late ’90s where all the graduating M.B.A.’s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it. They brought the whole sideshow of the hype and parties and all that crap. M.B.A. graduating classes are actually a reliable contrary indicator: if they all want to go into investment banking, there’s going to be a financial crisis. If they want to go into tech, that means a bubble is forming.