# Jonathan Tarud

> Tech. Business. Design. — the personal blog of Jonathan Tarud, founder of Koombea. Short posts and commentary on technology, business, software development, and design, published since 2011.

Base URL: https://www.jonathant.com/
Author: Jonathan Tarud
Posts: 63

Every page on this site is available as Markdown: append `index.md` to any URL (for example, https://www.jonathant.com/about/index.md). https://www.jonathant.com/llms-full.txt contains the full text of the whole site in a single file.

Two kinds of post appear below. A *linked post* is commentary on an external article; its own page holds Jonathan Tarud's remarks and a pointer to the source. A regular post is original writing.

## Posts
- [Stripe Needs Client-Specific ACH IDs](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/stripe-needs-client-specific-ach-ids/index.md): 2026-07-01. We ran into a strange issue recently that feels like something Stripe should help solve. A payment was rejected, and after a lot of back and forth, we finally figured out why. One vendor had tried to …
- [RSS turns 20](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/rss-turns-20/index.md): 2022-09-20. Linked post commenting on http://scripting.com/2022/09/18.html. Dave Winer: I announced here on Scripting News that the final RSS 2.0 spec was out. But! – no one had a problem with it. I guess we were ready to go to the next stage, with a clear way forward. And …
- [Choose Boring Technology](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/choose-boring-technology/index.md): 2020-04-07. Linked post commenting on https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology. Dan McKinley: The problem with “best tool for the job” thinking is that it takes a myopic view of the words “best” and “job.” Your job is keeping the company in business, god damn it. And the “best” …
- [Leadership is a Privilege](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/leadership-is-a-privilege/index.md): 2020-01-08. You shouldn’t be leading if: You see it as a right. You think people should be grateful. You think of it as a burden. You think you are owed. You expect to be recognized. Leading is not for everyone, …
- [Deleting Cookies and Data](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/deleting-cookies-and-data/index.md): 2020-01-02. Safari for iOS 13 introduced a cool feature that closes tabs automatically for users after a day, week, or month. When helping non-technical users with their phones, I tend to enable this feature …
- [eBooks are being held back](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/ebooks-are-being-held-back/index.md): 2019-12-29. Howard Oakley: […] few eBooks offer any advantage in use over their physical equivalents. eBook readers are still incredibly primitive, and won’t even let you refer to two or more sections of the book …
- [Wi-Fi 6’s Claims Are Real](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/wi-fi-6s-claims-are-real/index.md): 2019-12-22. In tech, it’s hard to discern marketing buzz from factual data. After struggling for months to get a reliable Wi-Fi performance at home through the use of different equipment, software optimization, …
- [Fast](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/fast/index.md): 2019-12-21. Linked post commenting on https://patrickcollison.com/fast. Patrick Collison: Some examples of people quickly accomplishing ambitious things together. Inspiring examples from many different industries and types of entities. Motivated people can do almost …
- [Only 15% of the Basecamp operations budget is spent on Ruby](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/only-15-of-the-basecamp-operations-budget-is-spent-on-ruby/index.md): 2019-12-19. Linked post commenting on https://m.signalvnoise.com/only-15-of-the-basecamp-operations-budget-is-spent-on-ruby/. David Heinemeier Hansson: Everything I’ve talked about so far is infrastructure we’d run and pay for regardless of our programming language or web framework. Whether we run on Python, PHP, Rust, Go, …
- [Your Deadline Will Be Affected](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/your-deadline-will-be-affected/index.md): 2019-10-31. Cleanup takes time. No matter if it is refactoring, fixing bugs, updating supporting libraries, adding the proper documentation, or test coverage to your code. There is no way around this. It will …
- [When did work-life balance become such a bad thing?](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/when-did-work-life-balance-become-such-a-bad-thing/index.md): 2019-06-29. Linked post commenting on https://m.signalvnoise.com/when-did-work-life-balance-become-such-a-bad-thing/. DHH: The term work-life balance has taken a beating lately. It seems to be a favorite punching bag for grandstanding about what you really need is integration or that balance is a mirage anyway. Wat? …
- [Roadblocks vs. Speed bumps](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/roadblocks-vs-speed-bumps/index.md): 2019-06-19. Linked post commenting on https://robwalling.com/2019/06/17/speed-bumps-vs-roadblocks/. Rob Walling: As a founder you can choose to look at an obstacle as something that keeps you from moving forward (a roadblock), or as something that slows you down for a minute as you continue along …
- [I found two identical packs of Skittles, among 468 packs with a total of 27,740 Skittles](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/i-found-two-identical-packs-of-skittles-among-468-packs-with-a-total-of-27740-skittles/index.md): 2019-04-18. Linked post commenting on https://possiblywrong.wordpress.com/2019/04/06/follow-up-i-found-two-identical-packs-of-skittles-among-468-packs-with-a-total-of-27740-skittles/. The most common and controversial question asked about Skittles seems to be whether all five flavors are indeed uniformly distributed, or whether some flavors are more common than others. The …
- [Cambridge spin-out starts producing graphene at commercial scale](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/cambridge-spin-out-starts-producing-graphene-at-commercial-scale/index.md): 2019-03-21. Linked post commenting on https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cambridge-spin-out-starts-producing-graphene-at-commercial-scale. Paragraf is producing graphene ‘wafers’ and graphene-based electronic devices, which could be used in transistors, where graphene-based chips could deliver speeds more than ten times faster than …
- [Why Strategic Planning is Not](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/why-strategic-planning-is-not/index.md): 2019-03-09. Linked post commenting on http://www.barnetttalks.com/2019/02/why-strategic-planning-is-not.html. Bill Barnett: […]the real lesson of the Soviet experiment has been lost on us, and the corporations of the world should take note: Planning doesn’t work. Corporations must and do plan, of course. …
- [ARM processors like the A12X Bionic are nearing performance parity with high-end desktop processors, but the old truth of x86 superiority still lives strong](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/arm-processors-like-the-a12x-bionic-are-nearing-performance-parity-with-high-end-desktop-processors-but-the-old-truth-of-x86-superiority-still-lives-strong/index.md): 2019-03-07. Linked post commenting on https://web.archive.org/web/20190307044645/https://reveried.com/article/arm-processors-nearing-performance-parity-with-x86. Xavier Tobin: …after working through common arguments and misconceptions, such as that the RISC (ARM) instruction set architecture is inherently inferior to CISC (x86), that the benchmarks spruiking …
- [Time to change all those .dev local environments](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/time-to-change-all-those-dev-local-environments/index.md): 2019-03-02. Web developers typically use the .dev extension as a TDL for local development environments. Thus when developing a web app, instead of needing to use “localhost” with a specific port, they’d set up …
- [NetNewsWire Almost Ready to Ship](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/netnewswire-almost-ready-to-ship/index.md): 2019-02-20. Linked post commenting on http://inessential.com/2019/02/19/netnewswire_status_february_19_2019. Brent Simmons: There are three big things that remain before the first feature-complete build (which will be 5.0a1): searching, the app icon, and syncing with FeedBin. NetNewsWire got me hooked on RSS …
- [How to activate Apple ID 2fa when you have two accounts](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/how-to-activate-apple-id-2fa-when-you-have-two-accounts/index.md): 2019-02-14. Apple just sent this email to developers: Two-factor authentication is an additional layer of security designed to ensure that you’re the only person who can access your account, even if someone knows …
- [Bad Words for Describing Software Products](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/bad-words-for-describing-software-products/index.md): 2019-02-10. Linked post commenting on https://www.gkogan.co/blog/bad-words/. Greg KoganM You’ve probably seen them used to describe software products. Maybe you use them to describe your own product. They seem like great descriptors, because you know they’re truthful, and …
- [Out-of-Office Messages are a Security Risk](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/out-of-office-messages-are-a-security-risk/index.md): 2019-02-04. Linked post commenting on https://web.archive.org/web/20190203234629/https://lonesysadmin.net/2019/02/03/out-of-office-messages-are-a-security-risk/. Sometimes I’m really out of the office, though, crawling around in the backcountry wilderness or on an island somewhere. I’ll do it if I have to, but even then I don’t like setting an automatic …
- [Hilbert’s List](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/hilberts-list/index.md): 2019-01-01. Linked post commenting on https://seths.blog/2018/12/hilberts-list/. Seth Godin: As we enter a new year, one in which technology promises to move faster than ever, it’s worth considering what our 23 problems might be. Good starting point for what we need to work on as …
- [Some advice from Jeff Bezos](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/some-advice-from-jeff-bezos/index.md): 2018-08-31. Linked post commenting on https://m.signalvnoise.com/some-advice-from-jeff-bezos-4ee95086c76b. Jason Fried from Basecamp on advice they got from Jeff Bezos: People who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds. He doesn’t think consistency of thought is a …
- [The Oldest Airlines in the World That Are Still Flying Today](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/the-oldest-airlines-in-the-world-that-are-still-flying-today/index.md): 2018-08-16. Linked post commenting on https://www.travelandleisure.com/airlines-airports/oldest-airlines-around-today#avianca-plane. It might surprise some to learn that the world’s second-oldest airline is actually Colombia’s Avianca. It was founded as SCADTA, or Sociedad Colombo Alemana de Transporte Aéreo and its first flight …
- [T-Mobile Tackles Customer-Service Woes by Adding a Human Touch](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/t-mobile-tackles-customer-service-woes-by-adding-a-human-touch/index.md): 2018-08-15. Linked post commenting on https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-15/t-mobile-tackles-customer-service-woes-by-adding-a-human-touch. Bloomberg: The third-largest U.S. wireless carrier unveiled what it claims is a patented customer-service program on Wednesday called Team of Experts. Subscribers who call or message for assistance …
- [Facebook to Banks: Give Us Your Data, We’ll Give You Our Users](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/facebook-to-banks-give-us-your-data-well-give-you-our-users/index.md): 2018-08-06. Linked post commenting on https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-to-banks-give-us-your-data-well-give-you-our-users-1533564049?mod=breakingnews. WSJ reporting: The social media giant has asked large U.S. banks to share detailed financial information about their customers, including card transactions and checking account balances, as part of an …
- [Why you shouldn't worry about radiation from your Wi-Fi router or iPhone](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/why-you-shouldnt-worry-about-radiation-from-your-wi-fi-router-or-iphone/index.md): 2018-05-21. Linked post commenting on https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/05/21/why-you-shouldnt-worry-about-radiation-from-your-wi-fi-router-or-iphone. Good article from Mike Wuerthele, writing for AppleInsider. For those that worry too much: If you’re still worried about it, don’t sit on your router, and use your speaker function on your iPhone. You …
- [Google Removes 'Don't Be Evil' Clause From Its Code of Conduct](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/google-removes-dont-be-evil-clause-from-its-code-of-conduct/index.md): 2018-05-18. Linked post commenting on https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-dont-be-evil-from-1826153393. Kate Conger reporting for Gizmodo: Google’s unofficial motto has long been the simple phrase “don’t be evil.” But that’s over, according to the code of conduct that Google distributes to its …
- [Do I Need a VPN if I Have Nothing to Hide?](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/do-i-need-a-vpn-if-i-have-nothing-to-hide/index.md): 2018-04-17. Linked post commenting on https://hackernoon.com/do-i-need-a-vpn-if-i-have-nothing-to-hide-a6640ac69325. Isaiah Sarju’s post on HackerNoon: VPNs are for everyone. This is why. Yes. End of story. Stop reading and get one. Do it. Now. Summarizes in relatively simple terms why you do need a VPN, especially …
- [Graphene’s sleeping superconductivity awakens](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/graphenes-sleeping-superconductivity-awakens/index.md): 2017-01-20. Linked post commenting on https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/graphenes-sleeping-superconductivity-awakens. The researchers suggest, for example, that graphene could now be used to create new types of superconducting quantum devices for high-speed computing. Intriguingly, it might also be used to prove the …
- [Huawei hedges bet on Google’s Android, plans in-house OS](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/huawei-hedges-bet-on-googles-android-plans-in-house-os/index.md): 2016-06-26. Linked post commenting on http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/06/huawei-hedges-bet-on-googles-android-plans-in-house-os/. Developing an in-house OS is fine as a bargaining chip during Android contract negotiations, but a new OS with no apps won’t resonate with customers when Android is available from every other OEM. …
- [More details emerge of the simple yet clever tech behind Live Photos](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/more-details-emerge-of-the-simple-yet-clever-tech-behind-live-photos/index.md): 2015-09-15. Linked post commenting on http://9to5mac.com/2015/09/11/how-live-photos-works/. I did not know this about the iPhone camera: As you may already know, existing iPhones start taking photos the moment you open the app. This is how Apple provides the camera with the ability to take …
- [iOS jailbreak malware stole 225,000 Apple IDs across 18 countries](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/ios-jailbreak-malware-stole-225000-apple-ids-across-18-countries/index.md): 2015-09-01. Linked post commenting on http://9to5mac.com/2015/09/01/ios-jailbreak-keyraider-malware/. Here’s why you should never jailbreak your device and install random stuff: Researchers from Palo Alto Networks have discovered that a piece of iOS malware successfully stole more than 225,000 Apple …
- [Don’t follow your heroes](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/dont-follow-your-heroes/index.md): 2015-07-28. Linked post commenting on http://justinjackson.ca/heroes/. If you wanted to start a successful software company today, you wouldn’t want to follow Bill Gates’ playbook. Creating a new desktop operating system, and an expensive office suite of applications to …
- [Visa Invests in Stripe at $5 Billion Valuation and Strikes Commercial Deal, Too](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/visa-invests-in-stripe-at-5-billion-valuation-and-strikes-commercial-deal-too/index.md): 2015-07-28. Linked post commenting on https://web.archive.org/web/20150728125728/http://recode.net/2015/07/27/visa-partners-with-stripe-and-invests-at-5-billion-valuation/. The companies will also work together to make new digital payments experiences possible, though neither side had many details to discuss. Lastly, Visa plans to help Stripe expand quicker in emerging …
- [Google Wants a Piece of Air-Traffic Control for Drones](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/google-wants-a-piece-of-air-traffic-control-for-drones/index.md): 2015-07-25. Linked post commenting on http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-24/google-has-way-to-unclog-drone-filled-skies-like-it-did-the-web. Alan Levin for Bloomberg Business: At least 14 companies, including Google, Amazon, Verizon and Harris, have signed agreements with NASA to help devise the first air-traffic system to coordinate …
- [Speed as a Habit](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/speed-as-a-habit/index.md): 2015-07-22. Linked post commenting on http://firstround.com/review/speed-as-a-habit/. Dave Girouard writing for First Round Review: I’ve long believed that speed is the ultimate weapon in business. All else being equal, the fastest company in any market will win. Speed is a defining …
- [Apple reportedly joins talks with cell providers to launch new ‘e-SIM’ cards](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/apple-reportedly-joins-talks-with-cell-providers-to-launch-new-e-sim-cards/index.md): 2015-07-21. Linked post commenting on http://9to5mac.com/2015/07/16/apple-joins-e-sim-talks/. This would be a welcomed feature. I carry a small pouch filled with SIM cards. The idea behind the talks is a universal standard for embedded SIM cards (“e-SIM”) that are built into the phone and not …
- [Apple Reports Record Third Quarter Results](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/apple-reports-record-third-quarter-results/index.md): 2015-07-21. Linked post commenting on https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/07/21Apple-Reports-Record-Third-Quarter-Results.html. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $49.6 billion and quarterly net profit of $10.7 billion, or $1.85 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $37.4 billion and net profit of $7.7 …
- [The Angel VC: The evolution of the SaaS landing page](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/the-angel-vc-the-evolution-of-the-saas-landing-page/index.md): 2015-07-18. Linked post commenting on http://christophjanz.blogspot.de/2015/07/the-evolution-of-saas-landing-page.html. Christoph Janz on the evolution of SaaS landing pages: When you look at the landing pages (or homepages or marketing sites, however you want to call them) of today’s SaaS companies, they usually look …
- [Google’s product strategy: Make two of everything](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/googles-product-strategy-make-two-of-everything/index.md): 2015-07-15. Linked post commenting on http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/10/googles-product-strategy-make-two-of-everything/1/. Found this on Hacker News after I posted the previous link about Google’s cost-cutting. Ron Amdeo from Ars Tecnica wrote this back in October 2014: Google likes to have multiple, competing products …
- [Google Takes Stricter Approach to Costs](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/google-takes-stricter-approach-to-costs/index.md): 2015-07-15. Linked post commenting on http://www.wsj.com/article_email/google-takes-stricter-approach-to-costs-1436827885-lMyQjAxMTE1NzEzMzQxNjMwWj. Alastair Barr on why Google is planning stricter cost cutting over the next few quarters: Google revenue grew 19% in 2014, down from 21% in 2013, 22% in 2012 and 29% in 2011. But operating expenses …
- [Wearables](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/wearables/index.md): 2015-07-09. I’ve been using the Apple Watch for the past few weeks. Before that, I hadn’t worn anything on my wrists in over 15 years. Although I don’t quite understand the implications of wearables, I know …
- [Don't scratch too hard](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/dont-scratch-too-hard/index.md): 2014-02-12. As kids, we’re told not to scratch if it itches, since it will make it worse. As entrepreneurs searching for problems to solve, we’re told the exact opposite. We could build better products by solving …
- [Consumer Grade](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/consumer-grade/index.md): 2014-02-06. Historically, enterprise software buying has occurred in silos ruled by IT overlords. IT commanded what computers, smartphones, and software you had to use. In most places, this is still the case, but …
- [Firefox FAIL](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/firefox-fail/index.md): 2013-07-24. I open Firefox, and find something relatively interesting to watch: When I try to watch the video it, I get this: FAIL!!!!
- [PayPal's New Card Reader Seems Very Familiar](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/paypals-new-card-reader-seems-very-familiar/index.md): 2012-03-16. Linked post commenting on https://www.theverge.com/2012/3/15/2874647/paypal-here-credit-card-reader-pictures. The new PayPal payment dongle is to Square….. As the Saber Pyramid tablet is to the iPad. The sad part, is that only one was meant to be a joke. [Image credit: The Verge and The Huffington Post]
- [Maybe There Really Will Only Be Five Computers...](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/maybe-there-really-will-only-be-five-computers/index.md): 2011-09-01. Linked post commenting on https://battellemedia.com/archives/2011/09/maybe_there_really_will_only_be_five_computers. Thomas J. Watson in 1943: I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. John Battelle 2011: Right now, I’d wager that the handful of brands leading the charge to win in this market might …
- [Amazon may sell 3-5 million tablets in Q4: Forrester](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/amazon-may-sell-3-5-million-tablets-in-q4-forrester/index.md): 2011-08-30. Linked post commenting on https://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/29/us-amazon-tabletsales-idUSTRE77S3Y720110829. Amazon is not going to create a Kindle/iPad hybrid. Jeff Bezos knows that LCD technology can’t match e-ink for real reading. That is why I wouldn’t expect the current Kindle form factor to go out the …
- [Evernote's $50 Million in Funding Goal: Build a Hundred Year Company](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/evernotes-50-million-in-funding-goal-build-a-hundred-year-company/index.md): 2011-07-13. Linked post commenting on https://web.archive.org/web/20110714102304/http://blog.evernote.com/2011/07/13/evernote-gets-50-million-in-funding-with-faq/. This is great strategic thinking: So when we make any big decision, whether in fund-raising, or product design, or partnership strategy, we ask, “would this make it more or less likely that we’ll be …
- [Why Android will gain HUGE tablet marketshare later this year](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/why-android-will-gain-huge-tablet-marketshare-later-this-year/index.md): 2011-06-17. Linked post commenting on https://web.archive.org/web/20110618235623/http://scobleizer.com/2011/06/15/why-android-will-gain-huge-tablet-marketshare-later-this-year/. Robert Scobles’s vision of Android tablet future is of single app devices for business and institutions. Apart from the low margins the device manufacturer earns(if they’re lucky), who else gets to …
- [Note to entrepreneurs: Your idea is not special](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/note-to-entrepreneurs-your-idea-is-not-special/index.md): 2011-06-14. Linked post commenting on https://web.archive.org/web/20110616065131/http://blogs.reuters.com/small-business/2011/06/14/note-to-entrepreneurs-your-idea-is-not-special/. Brad Feld: Often these entrepreneurs think their idea is brand new – that no one has ever thought of it before. Other times they ask me to sign a non-disclosure agreement to protect their idea. …
- [Google Announces ‘Instant Pages’](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/google-announces-instant-pages/index.md): 2011-06-14. Linked post commenting on https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/14/google-announces-instant-pages-instant-image-search-and-instant-availability-in-32-languages/. Here’s Google full use of it’s infrastracture to blast past competitors.
- [Duke Nukem Forever: barely playable, not funny, rampantly offensive](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/duke-nukem-forever-barely-playable-not-funny-rampantly-offensive/index.md): 2011-06-14. Linked post commenting on https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/06/duke-nukem-forever-review-barely-playable-unfunny-and-rampantly-offensive/. Ben Kuchera from ArsTecnica: In the first few moments of Duke Nukem Forever, your character pees in a urinal and then earns an achievement for reaching into a toilet and extracting a piece of human …
- [IBM's centenary: The test of time](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/ibms-centenary-the-test-of-time/index.md): 2011-06-12. Linked post commenting on https://www.economist.com/node/18805483/print. The Economist: But [Apple] has a powerful organising idea: take the latest technology, package it in a simple, elegant form and sell it at a premium price. I think Apple applies this principle very …
- [iCloud’s real purpose: kill Windows](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/iclouds-real-purpose-kill-windows/index.md): 2011-06-07. Linked post commenting on https://www.cringely.com/2011/06/07/iclouds-real-purpose-is-to-kill-windows/. Robert X. Cringely on iCloud: The incumbent platform today is Windows because it is in Windows machines that nearly all of our data and our ability to use that data have been trapped. But the Apple …
- [For This Reason Soon Google Apps Will Only](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/for-this-reason-soon-google-apps-will-only/index.md): 2011-06-02. For this reason, soon Google Apps will only support modern browsers. Beginning August 1st, we’ll support the current and prior major release of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari on a …
- [Netflix Is Killing BitTorrent in The US](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/netflix-is-killing-bittorrent-in-the-us/index.md): 2011-04-28. Linked post commenting on https://torrentfreak.com/netflix-is-killing-bittorrent-in-the-us-110427/. As we’ve said a few times in the past, the only way to decrease piracy is to compete with it and offer products that are superior to its pirated counterpart. It appears that for (older) movies Netflix …
- [Brent Simmons on why we still need blogs:](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/brent-simmons-on-why-we-still-need-blogs/index.md): 2011-04-12. Brent Simmons on why we still need blogs: Twitter and Facebook are great for organizing a revolution. Blogs are for explaining why we need one.
- [Zappos Is So Good At Customer Service, 404 Means A Whole Different Thing](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/zappos-is-so-good-at-customer-service-404-means-a/index.md): 2010-09-16. Zappos is so good at customer service, 404 means a whole different thing.
- [Wag of My Finger to Paul Allen](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/wag-of-my-finger-to-paul-allen/index.md): 2010-08-27. Linked post commenting on https://techcrunch.com/2010/08/27/paul-allen-google-faceboo/. After reading Freakonomics 2, my respect for Paul Allen and his team skyrocketed as they try to solve big problems like hurricanes, global warming and malaria(with mosquito killing laser beam-not a …
- [HP vs Dell: Storage Showdown](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/hp-vs-dell-storage-showdown/index.md): 2010-08-26. Linked post commenting on https://web.archive.org/web/20100828103747/http://www.techcrunchit.com/2010/08/26/hp-ups-the-ante-for-3par-offers-1-8-billion-for-data-storage-company/. Does HP genuinely want 3PAR or do they just want Dell to spend as much money on it as they can trying to buy it? When I saw Dell had upped the bid this morning, I thought it had been a brilliant move …
- [I have  a new blog...We'll See](https://www.jonathant.com/blog/i-have-a-new-blog-well-see/index.md): 2010-07-28. Interesting conversation from Charlie Wilson’s War: Gust Avrakotos: There’s a little boy and on his 14th birthday he gets a horse… and everybody in the village says, “how wonderful. The boy got a …

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