Lisa Brewster

Handcrafted, artisanal app store manager at @oculus, formerly Mozilla, Palm. Now at @[email protected]

[Lisa Brewster @Adora]

If you want things to change at tech companies, when you write about their abuses don't write to whip up the public. Write to the employees, give us ammunition to hold our leaders accountable.

[Lisa Brewster @Adora]

Hello, friends! I am on mastodon full time now… the community’s spirit of rebirth has been good for my tired, jaded heart. There are more thoughtful builder type people than lowest emotional denominator attention hijacker types. Innovative client apps. Server outages. :)

[Lisa Brewster @Adora]

@MegBartelt @tommut Same, this would feel super awkward for me! If I need time to center myself, I block out the time on my own calendar.

Meta made the default in our calendaring system to start at 10:05, 10:35 etc so that there’s a 5 min break between meetings and THAT helps a lot.

[Bob Wachter @Bob_Wachter]

Ruh roh (at least in SF): asymptomatic test positivity rate @ucsfhospitals now 5% (was ~2% last month). While not a perfect sample, implies that ~1 in 20 people in SF who feels well would test pos. for Covid. In a crowd of 10: 40% odds ≥ one is pos. Airplane w/ 150: 99.9% odds.

[Lisa Brewster @Adora]

Shot: https://t.co/4o8CptTm9A

Chaser: https://t.co/uWzq3QPq4t

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

But the most convincing word for the judge, the most uniquely human thing to say... is "poop."

If a human said "poop" & the AI "empathy," human judges would find the human 78% of the time. But AI does not buy this.

The moral of the story is that yelling 💩 makes us human? 4/

[Lisa Brewster @Adora]

@selviano Omg yesssssss <3

[Lisa Brewster @Adora]

It’s not that I can’t quit twitter, but I can’t quit Tweetbot.

[Lisa Brewster @Adora]

Man, if I could train an AI on work chat and then use it to write my impacc posts tho…

[Lisa Brewster @Adora]

Oh no

[Lisa Brewster @Adora]

@selviano Source? All I’ve seen is this: https://t.co/3OuGddOUHJ

[Lisa Brewster @Adora]

Therapist: and what do we do when we’re sad?

Me: buy seeds

Therapist: no

[yan @bcrypt]

ChatGPT explaining what happens when a user enters a URL in the browser using Seinfeld analogies

[Lisa Brewster @Adora]

My hard to quantify, “last leg of the relay race” team started a similar project this half (led by @ChenelleB) to track how we contribute to the success of games we launch. Seeing the same approach here gives me hope that we’ll learn more about what moves the needle.

[The Markup @themarkup]

Our work is at its best when it equips people with the information they need to make change.

But how do we know if we’re doing that? We’re sharing a database we adapted from @resolvephilly. We hope this guide can be helpful for other newsrooms. https://t.co/LgoKwc9vFC

[Lisa Brewster @Adora]

Modern first generation releases are not the products we need, but the products we deserve.

[Lisa Brewster @Adora]

Am I no longer an early adopter archetype? No, it’s the products that are wrong!

[Lisa Brewster @Adora]

@evanextreme Ehh, it meets modern expectations for a first gen product: demonstrates something new but doesn’t take full advantage, works mostly fine, expensive for the actual value provided

[Lisa Brewster @Adora]

@evanextreme Ehh, it meets modern expectations for a first gen product: demonstrates something new but doesn’t take full advantage, works mostly fine, expensive for the actual value provided

[Lisa Brewster @Adora]

Playing with the new kindle scribe, the pen on paper feel is very very good. Unfortunately, every other part of the pen experience is underwhelming.

[Lisa Brewster @Adora]

Writing my OKRs https://t.co/4FzbfF3NJp

[Lisa Brewster @Adora]

Been there TWICE

[Matthew McNulty @mattsmcnulty]

Been there, tried that.

[Bob Wachter @Bob_Wachter]

Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 982
Today – my Covid (as well as flu & RSV) plans for the Thanksgiving gathering. I’ll walk you through my current assessment of risks and risk mitigation strategies, and why I’m still being moderately careful. (1/25)

[Lisa Brewster @Adora]

Meanwhile…

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Tumblr to add support for ActivityPub, the social protocol powering Mastodon and other apps https://t.co/5jjyxOEnIj by @sarahintampa