Paul Hansel

Tag: impulse

  • 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…