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At Basecamp, we treat our company as a product. It's not a rigid thing that exists, it's a flexible, malleable idea that evolves. We aren't stuck with what we have, we can create what we want. Just as we improve products through iteration, we iterate on our company too. Recently, we've made some...
on Nov 7
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Fra harme til ambitioner og planer for dansk digital selvstændighed
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Der går sjældent en dag uden en ny overskrift om amerikanske udtalelser, tilnærmelser eller aktioner, der spreder harme i vores lille danske andedam. Det er helt fair at tage en pause og sunde sig første gang det sker. Måske også anden gang. Men ved tredje, fjerde eller femte gang kan man ikke...
on Wed, 10AM
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Picasso got it right: Great artists steal. Even if he didn’t actually say it, and we all just repeat the quote because Steve Jobs used it. Because it strikes at the heart of creativity: None of it happens in a vacuum. Everything is inspired by something. The best ideas, angles, techniques, and...
on Mon, 12PM
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I've been running Linux, Neovim, and Framework for a year now, but it easily feels like a decade or more. That's the funny thing about habits: They can be so hard to break, but once you do, they're also easily forgotten. That's how it feels having left the Apple realm after two decades inside...
on Sun, 9AM
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It's five grand a day to miss our S3 exit
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We're spending just shy of $1.5 million/year on AWS S3 at the moment to host files for Basecamp, HEY, and everything else. The only way we were able to get the pricing that low was by signing a four-year contract. That contract expires this summer, June 30, so that's our departure date for the...
on Fri, 6PM
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Hvorfor er vi stadig bange for open source i Danmark?
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Da Linux tog fart i midten af 90'erne, blev de meget bekymrede hos Microsoft. Det kom oven i, at internettet allerede var en hastigt voksende trussel mod Windows’ status som den dominerende platform. Alle sejl blev sat til for at bekæmpe de open source-idealer, som både internettet og Linux...
on Mar 26
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AI Bot traffic - a real problem, right now.
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We have been experiencing some disruption at BMJ due to actions needed to protect against AI bot traffic. After reading this post by eric Hellman https://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2025/03/ai-bots-are-destroying-open-access.html I wanted to share some of our experiences. The issue is a real one....
on Mar 25
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Burnout / An Internet Fast. In the summer of 2024 I did this I have been moderately online for a long time, yes I took breaks from social media, and from the daily harangue of news. But not for a long. And not completely off the net. No email. No web browsing. No social media. No online...
on Mar 20
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Alt Text - What is to be done? What should be done? A number of accessibility requirements are coming in to law over the next year that are going to pose some unique challenges for scholarly publishers. The European Union: European Accessibility Act (EAA) and Americans with Disabilities Act...
on Mar 20
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An important read about the political implications of LLMs
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Should AGI-preppers embrace DOGE? - by Henry Farrell “They are not an exit door through which we can escape the human condition,” If you are a reader of this blog and you are at all fascinated with AI I implore you to read this piece. This is a critical and important piece to read. The...
on Mar 20
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One of the great lessons of nature: Randomness is the most beautiful thing. Every forest, every field, every place untouched by humans is full of randomness. Nothing lines up, a million different shapes, sprouting seeds burst where the winds — or birds — randomly drop them. Stones strewn by...
on Mar 13
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Apple does AI as Microsoft did mobile
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When the iPhone first appeared in 2007, Microsoft was sitting pretty with their mobile strategy. They'd been early to the market with Windows CE, they were fast-following the iPod with their Zune. They also had the dominant operating system, the dominant office package, and control of the...
on Mar 12
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Closing the borders alone won't fix the problems
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Denmark has been reaping lots of delayed accolades from its relatively strict immigration policy lately. The Swedes and the Germans in particular are now eager to take inspiration from The Danish Model, given their predicaments. The very same countries that until recently condemned the lack of...
on Mar 11
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AI: Overhyped & Under appreciated
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For a while now, I've thought that AI is both overhyped and under appreciated. It's a dangerous cocktail, because it is both easy to dismiss AI and to over invest in it. Yes, we are in a bubble. AND Yes, DeepMind basically solved Protein folding with AI. LLMs plug into this landscape almost too...
on Mar 11
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Is there a web without Google browsers?
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Browsers are becoming invisible to the average internet person and when they gain visibility, it's usually for the wrong reasons. It's the app where content is particularly full of ads and pop-ups. Even ignoring all that spam, many websites still have issues when opened on a phone screen. The...
on Mar 8
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365 days as Head of Engineering
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Last year, I accepted a "Head of Engineering" position at Adevinta. It meant that I was moving from managing a single (big, with a complex domain) team in the cloud and infrastructure domain to joining the pure product and engineering side. I was about to manage managers for the first time. I...
on Mar 7
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Air purifiers are a simple answer to allergies
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I developed seasonal allergies relatively late in life. From my late twenties onward, I spent many miserable days in the throes of sneezing, headache, and runny eyes. I tried everything the doctors recommended for relief. About a million different types of medicine, several bouts of allergy...
on Mar 6
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Ever since I successfully stopped doomscrolling on social media a few weeks ago, news items have reached me instead like bricks hurled through the window. Terrible things had already happened, during recent years, to places I’m biographically, culturally, and emotionally attached to, and now the...
on Mar 2
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Here are things on the web that I found particularly interesting or insightful in February. Computing inside an AI | Will Whitney by Will Whitney “The metaphors we use constrain the experiences that we build, and model-as-person is keeping us from exploring the full potential of large models.” I...
on Mar 1
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Claude 3.7 is impressive, how do we start to think about what it ca...
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I’m interested in whether LLMs can assist in peer review, and in particular some of the technical aspects of peer review around things like statistical review. So every now and again I throw the following paper at an LLM - Mortality rates among patients successfully treated for hepatitis C in...
on Feb 25
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Europeans don't have or understand free speech
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The new American vice president JD Vance just gave a remarkable talk at the Munich Security Conference on free speech and mass immigration. It did not go over well with many European politicians, some of which immediately proved Vance's point, and labeled the speech "not acceptable". All because...
on Feb 15
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Precision. Certainty. Specificity. Everyone wants to know exactly what and exactly when, and they want a statistic attached to corroborate it. But numbers are rarely answers — just as projects are rarely math problems. Where are we in this process exactly? How far along in this project are we...
on Feb 11
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In 1940, President Roosevelt tapped William S. Knudsen to run the government's production of military equipment. Knudsen had spent a pivotal decade at Ford during the mass-production revolution, and was president of General Motors, when he was drafted as a civilian into service as a three-star...
on Feb 9
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I like to start each cycle with a handful of things to shape. Usually it’s a mix of straightforward improvements to existing features, and more speculative ideas—a big new thing or rethinking a core workflow. The next six weeks are fluid. Ideas that seemed straightforward turn out to have hidden...
on Feb 8
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We bought sixty-one servers for the launch of Basecamp 3 back in 2015. Dell R430s and R630s, packing thousands of cores and terabytes of RAM. Enough to fill all the app, job, cache, and database duties we needed. The entire outlay for this fleet was about half a million dollars, and it's only...
on Feb 7
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We increased conversion ~30% and we don't know exactly how
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Not too long ago, we dedicated a 6-week cycle to improving Basecamp's onboarding flows. The aim was to increase conversion from trial to paid by smoothing out the initial experience of getting going, doing a better job of quick-teaching the basics, and making a few things a little bit easier...
on Feb 3
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I am picking up a bit of steam around writing for my blog, so it’s a good moment to reflect on why I blog—or at least why I seem to be blogging at the moment. My reasons are not wildly different from anyone else’s who blogs, I imagine. 1. Help Me Think I find it useful to write about things in...
on Feb 1
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A list of things I found interesting on the web in January. Where will AI be at the end of 2027? A bet by Gary Marcus “If there exist AI systems that can perform 8 of the 10 tasks below by the end of 2027, as determined by our panel of judges, Gary will donate $2,000 to a charity of Miles’...
on Feb 1
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The Phenomenon of No-Performers
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Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working on a project that involves collaborating with a team I didn’t personally hire. What I experienced was nothing short of cultural shock. It took me a while to even grasp how this was possible. I call it the no-performer phenomenon. So, what is a...
on Jan 29
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Wait, Can You Tell Me What Year It Is?
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The reason why I’ve neglected my newsletter for so long is that I have three projects on my plate that consume all the writing capacity I have; the same fate’s befallen my blogs and my social media presences in general. The first project is an academic paper—I published the last one in 2018,...
on Jan 26
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Americans often laugh when they see how often Danes will patiently, obediently wait on the little red man to turn green before crossing an empty intersection, in the rain, even at night. Nobody is coming! Why don't you just cross?! It seems silly, but the underlying philosophy is anything but....
on Jan 22
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Trump is back at the helm of the United States, and the majority of Americans are optimistic about the prospect. Especially the young. In a poll by CBS News, it's the 18-29 demographic that's most excited, with a whopping two-thirds answering in the affirmative to being optimistic about the next...
on Jan 21
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How I Won $16k in a Poker Tournament
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My uncle taught us many poker games with play money chips as kids, but I started playing No Limit Texas Hold'em for real in 2014 as a freshman in Baker dorm. A group of mostly Sloan business students would come once or twice a week to play in the empty cafeteria after dinner was cleared....
on Jan 21
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We’re constantly making HEY better. Here are some of the notable features and improvements that we’ve made to HEY since it first launched.
on Jan 20
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Failed integration and the fall of multiculturalism
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For decades, the debate in Denmark around problems with mass immigration was stuck in a self-loathing blame game of "failed integration". That somehow, if the Danes had just tried harder, been less prejudice, offered more opportunities, the many foreigners with radically different cultures would...
on Jan 20
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Some reads about what is going on with social media right now.
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I had dinner last night with some good friends and over the course of many topics of discussion the current state of social media came up. I found the following articles insightful. If I have one take at all about all of this, I think I would say that when we talk about these systems it is...
on Jan 12
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We all have ideas. Ideas are immortal. They last forever. What doesn’t last forever is inspiration. Inspiration is like fresh fruit or milk: It has an expiration date. If you want to do something, you’ve got to do it now. You can’t put it on a shelf and wait two months to get around to it. You...
on Jan 11
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Addressing Research Integrity with Ringgold
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Addressing Research Integrity with Ringgold by CCC I’d somehow missed this— but CCC is creating a service to help identify researchers and their affiliations. This is a problem that is evergreen, in that I’ve seen various implementations going back a number of years, from biomedexperts (if I...
on Jan 11
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Some programmers can code under any conditions. Open office? They'll bring headphones. Whatever editor is on their system? They'll make it work. Using a different framework or language every few years? No problem. I envy that level of versatility, but I've come to accept it just isn't me. I bond...
on Jan 10
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The social media censorship era is over (for now)
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Mark Zuckerberg just announced a stunning pivot for Meta's approach to social media censorship. Here's what he's going to do: 1. Replace third-party fact checkers with community notes ala X. 2. Allow free discussion on immigration, gender, and other topics that were heavily censored in the past,...
on Jan 7
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Delusional dreams of excess freedom
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Jim Carey once said that he hoped everyone could "...get rich and famous and do everything they dreamed of so they can see that it is not the answer". And while I sorta agree, I think the opposite position also has its appeal: That believing in a material fix to the problem of existence dangles...
on Jan 6
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What things might be true about scholarly publishing?
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tags: #research #scholarly-publishing Dear reader, I have been blogging for a long time. More often than not, I am writing for myself, mostly my future self, but I am aware that just over 140 folk have subscribed to get updates for my blog, and I am grateful for your attention. I tend to decide...
on Jan 1
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Interesting links found in December.
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Dec 2024 Interesting Links My approach to running a link blog by Simon Willison “Sharing interesting links with commentary is a low effort, high value way to contribute to internet life at large.” I get a lot of value out of flowing interesting links that people post, and this post by Simon...
on Jan 1
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I finally sat down to read through the Ithaka report on GenAI and scholarly publishing. Even though the state of the art has moved on a lot since the interviews were conducted, I still highly recommend reading this report, it's very well written:...
on Dec 23
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Where infrastructure grows naturally, there, there may be opportunity.
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Many folks have tried to build the article of the future (myself included), with the starting point of the research article. We know for sure that technology now supports integration of data, code, and narrative, and we know for certain that researchers work with a variety of complex tools, only...
on Dec 23
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Impact indicators, and clarivate.
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I just had a quick read through https://clarivate.com/academia-government/blog/introducing-a-comprehensive-framework-for-evaluating-the-societal-impact-of-research/. I have two immediate thoughts. 1) It gives me the heebie jeebies that clarivate are doing this, while at the same time it is very...
on Dec 23
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Why I Disagree (and Agree) with This Take on Science and Open Access
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I started off not liking this post at all, but then warmed to it towards the end: https://retractionwatch.com/2024/10/21/reflecting-on-research-misconduct-whats-next-for-the-watcher-community/ I think the main gist is that science may operate in a way that is different from the way some people...
on Dec 19
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I like the authors of this piece a lot, but the piece itself doesn’t say very much at all. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2024/11/13/preprints-at-a-crossroads-are-we-compromising-openness-for-credibility/. It does make me think that preprint servers should be the crucible for...
on Dec 19
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Making it happen vs. Letting it happen
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Make it happen! You hear it a lot. And it's generally good advice, of course. At least the 'happen' part. You definitely want things to happen. But often times, it's the 'make' part that gets confused for progress. You can push a ball uphill, but should you? Not only does it take a ton of...
on Dec 19