EPISODE 703: DIE, ANNIVERSARY CAKE, DIE

Something great happened but now it's over.

POP CULTURE SPIRIT WOW

This week in PCSW, some things that I’m pretty sure are true and definitely very wow:

Facebook has not produced a single new feature of its own since the News Feed in 2006. Mark Zuckerberg had a Very Bad No Good Awful kind of Day last week, when he lost 30 billion—that’s more than U.S.’s entire GDP (WAY more)—months after announcing he was taking over a universe that doesn’t exist and no one wants from him so as to try and get people to forget the many horrible things that he and the people around him have been doing to confuse, divide and mine its users for a very very long time.

Two takeaways which I hope are true, but what do I know I just sit in my room and write stuff (thanks, omicron!): 1) If you don’t respect your users eventually it’s going to backfire. (This would be a corollary to Marx’ famous manifesto, “Do no shit where you eat.”) 

2) If you want to keep innovating you need to actually keep innovating, aka making new stuff.

Ryan Broderick says this is a…