Episode 306: The Lotus Dream

This week we discuss Salesforce becoming Slack-first and a16z launching a media site. Plus, some thoughts on how to use Twitter.

Rundown

• SFDC
  • Salesforce CEO: We're going to rebuild all of our technology to become Slack-first
  • Salesforce Targets ServiceNow: Slack Delivers “Human Workflow”
• Andreessen Horowitz goes into publishing with Future

Relevant to your interests

• AWS Announces General Availability of AWS Proton
• Amazon rethinks full-time return to office as competitors tout remote flexibility
• Write for DOnations
• Side-by-side comparisons between GCP, AWS, and Azure
• Mojo Vision’s Smart Contact Lens Could Be Transformative For Sight Impaired
• Scientists develop ‘cheap and easy’ method to extract lithium from seawater
• Google Workspace for everyone
• Google’s unified Gmail interface (and Google Chat) launches for everyone
• Google Adopts Hybrid Workweek, With 20% of Its Employees to Work Remotely
• RISC-V and Intel?
• Chipmaker SiFive Is Said to Draw Intel Takeover Interest
• Ubuntu Pro arrives in premium form on Google's Cloud
• Future - Understand the Future, How Tech Shapes It, and How We Build It
• Windows 11 leak reveals new UI, Start menu, and more
• Oracle revenue growth accelerates as pandemic recedes
• Slack goes Clubhouse
• Crypto Mining is Killing All Free CI/CD Platforms
• Community ≠ Marketing: Why We Need Go-to-Community, Not Just Go-to-Market
• Has Serverless Jumped the Shark?
• A new HTTP spec proposes elimination of obnoxious “cookie banners”
• Spotify launches its live audio app and Clubhouse rival, Spotify Greenroom
• Neo4j raises $325M as graph-based data analysis takes hold in enterprise
• The public cloud could evolve like streaming services

Nonsense

• 10 fully remote engineering jobs?
• iOS 4 has been lovingly recreated as an iPhone app
• ERCOT has issued a Conservation Alert
• Doom now runs on an Ikea smart light bulb
• Peak binge: Consumers are now gravitating towards shows that are released weekly

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Recommendations

• Brandon: Children of Time
• Matt: N. K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season and The Obelisk Gate
• Coté: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, in Netflix. Also: Wooster and Jeeves books narrated by Jonathan Cecil - included in Audible membership!

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