Paul Hansel

Tag: impulse

  • Predictable

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    Are you exploring enough? Be honest. You’ve been exploiting again, haven’t you. You’ve been working the same reliable vein of coal that’s kept the boiler fed for years. Have you really resigned yourself to never step outside the mine again? You know it isn’t going to last forever. At some point the roof will cave…

  • Pack it up, Mark: a 15-year Thanksgiving retrospective

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    Way back in January 2009, I joined Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook. Poke! It’s now November 2024. I’m not yet 30, so 15 years is a majority of my life. In that time, Facebook’s valuation grew from $10 billion to $1,400 billion, Mark changed up his fit, Myanmar’s military exploited Facebook to execute an ethnic cleansing, and…

  • Why create a blog?

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    Internet Protocol space is a curious place. There are millions of websites hosted on the internet. Perplexingly, only a vanishingly small percentage of the cumulative time that humans spend on their electronic devices is spent on the open web (off-platform). Why? Individual, independent content has lost its shine. If you can’t serve your content to…