The Lotus Dream
Episode 306 · June 18th, 2021 · 1 hr 14 secs
About this Episode
This week we discuss Salesforce becoming Slack-first and a16z launching a media site. Plus, some thoughts on how to use Twitter.
Rundown
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!