Jackson Dahl

elegant, simple, good constraints. can imagine lots of ways it gets even better, e.g. live cards and so forth. excited to see where it goes and big fan.

Affinity is an incredibly powerful tool that acts as a "brain" or command center for your team's network. Blows most relationship management and CRM tools I've used out of the water. The team is responsive and iterates quickly, and the product is fantastic. If relationships are fundamental to your team's business, I'd highly recommend it.

Huge fan of sms. It's really hard to pull off well, because it's a relatively intimate channel for most people. One bad text and you'll likely lose people. The upside is that you have a near 100% open rate and can end up being a personality in my inbox that I trust and look forward to. Excited for this!

This thing is slick! (don't hate me). Super easy and just passed a bunch of my tests. @StefanStok and @SoroushG_ are wizards.

All of you international folks, please sign up here: http://bit.ly/LCAintl! We'd love to have you involved and this will help us keep you in the loop :)

Congrats on the launch, @jason. Really smart. I imagine this is a piece of the strategy, but how do you get younger people to really *care* about news? My generation seems pretty uninterested in news - in the traditional sense - nowadays. There's so much noise and so much content out there. I'll be the first to admit that I'm much more interested in tech news and updates on my friends...

Love this episode. One of my favorite quotes from Matt that has stuck with me since I listened: "Everyone is interesting. If you're ever bored in a conversation, the problem's with you, not the other person."

Biographies typically seem to center around who a person was or what they accomplished. What was it like writing about a man who has already done so much, yet may very well have the greatest accomplishments of his life ahead of him? I don't see Elon slowing down anytime soon!

This is massive for content discovery outside of the Facebook social graph (read: your friends). I found five new accounts I wanted to follow within seconds of tapping the "new people" banner in search. Was starting to feel like Instagram had stopped innovating a while ago, but props to the Instagram team -- this makes the product significantly better! Still no new icon though :(

Leftovers(?) are sound emoji. This is good.

Seems like the biggest challenge w/ Free + similar apps that have tried to solve this problem is getting people who aren't actively trying to coordinate an activity to consistently update their status. I think the simplicity you guys have is crucial, and push notifications/watch integration for updating status will be helpful, but how else do you compel people to keep their availability updated?

If you're using the internet, you've probably heard of CAH. But it's a whole lot of fun, and @maxtempkin + co. are always doing fun things like https://www.holidaybullshit.com/, sending people literal bullshit, or raising the price of the game for their black Friday "sale." You can keep up with everything on their blog: http://cah.tumblr.com/

At first, my thoughts were that this is wayyy to similar to Bugshot, but then realized @mb was behind it and that he probably worked something out with Marco. Loved Bugshot when it was around, and I'm so excited to have it back with eve more care applied. Thanks!

Love what you guys have been doing at Cord! I think people still need to re-adjust to the idea of short bit audio (ironically -- we're using phones, after all), especially on speaker for Cord to really take off, but projects like this are a great way continue to get people used to experience content that way. I'm especially interested in what Apple Watch & other wearables will mean for voice....