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Stratechery is one of those blogs I've stumbled over from time to time and I have the nagging feeling it should be at least mildly interesting, but I can't attu

by wink 9y ago

Stratechery is one of those blogs I've stumbled over from time to time and I have the nagging feeling it should be at least mildly interesting, but I can't attune myself. I think it's mostly the personal style of people and I'm much more inclined to read the same people for years even if they totally switch topics, over reading things about a certain topic.

chadwittman 9y ago
Interesting. I feel the exact opposite and it's one my frustrations with Twitter. If I follow Person X due to Topic A, I really do not care their opinion on Topic B.
- wink 9y ago
  I know the feeling and I've definitely unfollowed people for this, but only if it never 'clicked'. There's people whose blogs (and Twitter) I've been following for nearly as long as I've been online (20 years in a few months) and we interact every few months or years and it's totally fine if they switch topics from time to time (important note: nowhere near calling these friends or acquaintances, really just random people whose blogs I liked and we've commented on each others stuff over the years).
robert_foss 9y ago
Yeah, never really been a fan.
ballenf 9y ago
Maybe not the reason, but I see his level of abstraction as at an order of magnitude higher than just about any other mainstream tech writer. Making his long posts both unique and somewhat less practical. I just haven't found anyone else digging in as deep with regard to the fundamental economic differences between Google/Facebook/Amazon and past giants of industry. His recent points on the privacy scandal at FB were very insightful in that he explains how Zuckerburg's problems originated in being in denial that FB is an ad company first and platform second. (If they'd realized that sooner, they never would have given away data like they did, goes his theory. They would have still hoovered up data, but would have avoided recent scandals.) But can definitely see how it may not speak to everyone the same.
- wink 9y ago
  Yeah, see, so I've given up on the details of such grand-scheme meddling of geopolitical results of companies - for these kind of in-detail things you mentioned I'll gladly accept the Guardian/NYT/WaPo level or I'm going to Schneier or Krebs :) I've no aspirations to start a company ever again, I'm nowhere near Silicon Valley and I'm happily hacking away at small and interesting problems. ;)

by wink 9y ago

chadwittman 9y ago

Interesting. I feel the exact opposite and it's one my frustrations with Twitter. If I follow Person X due to Topic A, I really do not care their opinion on Topic B.

wink 9y ago
I know the feeling and I've definitely unfollowed people for this, but only if it never 'clicked'. There's people whose blogs (and Twitter) I've been following for nearly as long as I've been online (20 years in a few months) and we interact every few months or years and it's totally fine if they switch topics from time to time (important note: nowhere near calling these friends or acquaintances, really just random people whose blogs I liked and we've commented on each others stuff over the years).

robert_foss 9y ago

Yeah, never really been a fan.

ballenf 9y ago

Maybe not the reason, but I see his level of abstraction as at an order of magnitude higher than just about any other mainstream tech writer. Making his long posts both unique and somewhat less practical. I just haven't found anyone else digging in as deep with regard to the fundamental economic differences between Google/Facebook/Amazon and past giants of industry. His recent points on the privacy scandal at FB were very insightful in that he explains how Zuckerburg's problems originated in being in denial that FB is an ad company first and platform second. (If they'd realized that sooner, they never would have given away data like they did, goes his theory. They would have still hoovered up data, but would have avoided recent scandals.) But can definitely see how it may not speak to everyone the same.

wink 9y ago
Yeah, see, so I've given up on the details of such grand-scheme meddling of geopolitical results of companies - for these kind of in-detail things you mentioned I'll gladly accept the Guardian/NYT/WaPo level or I'm going to Schneier or Krebs :) I've no aspirations to start a company ever again, I'm nowhere near Silicon Valley and I'm happily hacking away at small and interesting problems. ;)