Justin Premick

Lots of reasons for optimism if you get past the clickbait-y, divisive headlines and topics that dominate the news cycle medium.com/future-crunch/…

The Rockies: “If we were allowed to hit the ball off a tee, we’d have at least 4 wins”

@IDoTheThinking Nightmare is the word for it. But… cameras? Do you honestly believe they’d make a difference out here? Who do you send the ticket to when the license plate is missing or stolen? IMO cameras would do about as much good as the passing lane — er, bike lane — on Bancroft

chicago-style pizza implies the existence of AP style pizza

Why does @espn call a fumble recovery and touchdown a Scoop n Score? Strip Six is right there… #CollegeFootball

@demianbulwa @emma_stiefel @susieneilson This is a fantastic resource. Not sure ownership info is up-to-date, though - clicked around my neighborhood and it seems like houses that have sold in past 1-2 yrs still list previous owners

There's never been a database of who owns every property in the Bay Area, making it difficult to understand the powerful forces shaping the housing market. So we built one. Just enter an address. Amazing work by @emma_stiefel @susieneilson & many others sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/…

Simple but effective way to make getting an error message suck less. Hard to stay mad at that face #ux

@Noahpinion @kimmaicutler This is especially true with RSUs, which typically don't vest immediately. The engineer who switches jobs is deferring that RSU income for, say, a year, before shares start to vest -- so while long-term it may be better to leave, in the short-term comp/cash flow can drop

@Noahpinion @kimmaicutler There's also the "it costs more to acquire than to retain" factor. In most cases, there's a comp figure in between what the company currently pays an engineer and what it'd cost to replace her/him w/an equivalent engineer, where both parties are better off than if engineer quits

@jasoncrawford See screenshot below from their "how it works" page. This is what you mean, right -- give up equity, get funding & assistance?

@justinpremick This doesn't look like what I'm talking about? This looks like “consulting services to help you start a business.”

Why is there no equivalent of the VC industry, but for patentable inventions instead of startups? If I'm an inventor, and I have an idea for a valuable patented invention, why can't I pitch investors for funding, in exchange for an interest in the IP? Or *does* this exist?

@ChroniclesOfAzu FWIW, it's my understanding that you can report vacant properties to the city by emailing vacantpropertytaxinquiry@oaklandca.gov

So, a story about my hood. The unit with the balcony has been empty since the tenant died last Nov. The triplex across the street has been empty for two years after the owner kicked all the tenants out. It got me thinking. I wonder how many buildings like these are in Oakland?

Doesn’t matter how high gas prices get, this guy still closing deals

May you find love like π: constant, unending, transcendental #piday2022

@waitbutwhy Mr. Rogers. Probably even more so if you throw out posthumous opinions. Hard to imagine anyone else held in such universally high regard while they were still alive

A business’s Net Promoter Score is calculated by subtracting the percentage of people who dislike them from the percentage of people who love them. A high NPS means it is both widely loved and rarely hated. Which famous person, dead or alive, do you think has the highest NPS?

Live aggregated #analytics data for a bunch of government websites. Pretty cool analytics.usa.gov

@im_thehbic Happy birthday! 🎉🎂🎈

@martinlieberman Oh no 😥 I’m sorry, Martin. Haven’t been through that myself yet, but I know it’s coming, and I dread it. Wishing you strength

Watching a parent’s health deteriorate really really sucks.

@tdmckinlay E-commerce review plugins start factoring wx forecasts into review request timing in 3, 2, 1…

New discovery in the Journal of Consumer Research 👇 Reviews written on rainy days are: a) Lower rated, because people are grumpier b) Longer and more detailed, because people have more time A fun fact (or excuse?) to have in your pocket ;)

@im_thehbic Awwww poor little dude

@thinking_slow These feedback loops are possible with a sufficiently audience-centric content strategy Ex: comments on NYT Cooking v typical recipe site. NYTC users endorse recipes that worked for them--and make it clear when recipes suck or were improved by modifications

this is super interesting re: the broken feedback loop of content marketing blogging is a monologue. content wins on *perceived* usefulness, not actual usefulness if advice/recipes/process/etc. don't pan out, there are few immediate mechanisms for feeding back that failure