Umang J
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Umang J
@umang.bsky.social
Used to build the ranked timeline and discovery products at Twitter, amongst other things. Writing at https://forcemultipliers.substack.com
End mid-century modern
December 10, 2024 at 10:15 AM
Best thing I’ve read on the topic: www.noahpinion.blog/p/no-you-are...
No, you are not on Indigenous land
Pieces of territory belong to institutions, not to racial groups.
www.noahpinion.blog
December 2, 2024 at 4:09 AM
Is it finally time for this app to become the schelling point of the twitter exiles?
November 10, 2024 at 9:27 PM
Threads
www.threads.net
July 6, 2023 at 6:05 AM
Hello Blueskis (is that the right word?)!!

What’s everyone watching (tv or movie) this weekend?
June 25, 2023 at 3:22 AM
most important word in the english language these past few years:

tokens
May 18, 2023 at 3:28 AM
a conference of trees
May 8, 2023 at 5:01 AM
So should I switch my username to my domain? Or keep my first name at bsky.social … because first name?
May 8, 2023 at 4:13 AM
SF is so back
May 4, 2023 at 5:26 AM
A sure way to tell whether an online community is here to stay is if its members start organizing IRL meetups.
May 1, 2023 at 5:46 AM
I do long runs because for that time the world ceases to exist.

Just the straight road and a meandering train of thoughts.
April 30, 2023 at 8:37 PM
Basically the difference between a company that runs on Slack and another that runs on email is the difference between an oral culture and a written culture
April 30, 2023 at 1:05 AM
I’ll posit that intuition vs data was the difference between early Twitter and early Facebook.

Easy to go wrong with either extreme - you need intuition to ship and data to check your intuition. Especially because social or marketplace-like products can behave very non-intuitively.
Spoke with @zoink.bsky.social this morning about growth. His advice: by the time you do analysis on what behaviors lead to retention, it’s too late. You probably have a hypothesis (ie. following people, having a stream of content) that is true - just go execute on that. (Can do analysis in tandem)
April 25, 2023 at 10:22 PM
Hill I will die on: Magnesium > Vitamin D
April 25, 2023 at 5:42 AM
Every time an iOS update has new emojis, I wonder what critical security hole they’ve patched that they need to find a way to get everyone to update asap 👀
April 22, 2023 at 1:40 AM
For the Krzysztof Kieslowski fans https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/three-colours-blue-growing-old-gracefully/

This makes me want to watch them all again.
Three Colours: Blue — growing old gracefully
Thirty years on from its release, Three Colours: Blue remains as vivid a depiction of grief as ever.
engelsbergideas.com
April 17, 2023 at 12:21 AM
Latest entrant to the library
April 11, 2023 at 5:41 AM
One of my favorite spills of ink on a page:
April 11, 2023 at 5:40 AM
I could be doomscrolling on my laptop and people will still think I’m working hard.

I could be intensely doing work email on my phone and people will think I’m goofing off and make me to do the dishes.
April 6, 2023 at 11:47 PM
This piece by Nadia is hands-down the *best* thing written about SVB: https://nayafia.substack.com/p/a-bank-of-ones-own
March 11, 2023 at 10:26 PM
Someone asked me why I am on all the new social apps. I sent them this tweet :)
https://twitter.com/umang/status/1538254341127032832
March 10, 2023 at 5:24 AM
Reputations are being made or unmade today
March 9, 2023 at 11:28 PM
“chaos is a ladder”
March 9, 2023 at 7:23 PM
@support-team.bsky.social I keep getting logged out of my account multiple times a day. Anything you can do to make it stick?
March 9, 2023 at 5:15 PM
Reposted by Umang J
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March 9, 2023 at 4:23 AM