Erek Dyskant

Advocate for the use of data for social impact. Suspicious of overly neat things. Feminist. Alum of @BarackObama 2012 Analytics. Co-founder @Blue_Labs.

[Erek Dyskant @edyskant]

$tsla famously doesn't advertise their products but I sure am getting a lot of shareholder-facing ads to support the Elon comp package. Makes me think investors are the product, not cars.

[Dave Guarino @allafarce]

I wish Democrats who feel they are in the right on a given policy position had some sort of mechanism to confront that fact here — that "people are experts in their own experience"

[Otis Reid @otis_reid]

Realtor: so do you just love it?

Mozart: it’s beautiful, I’ll take it.

Realtor: Mozart’s death house, such a great spot.

Mozart: the what house?

Realtor: normal house, very standard house.

[Erek Dyskant @edyskant]

@drewlevin This is a solved ui problem. They should change it to a calendar picker for the date of manufacture. If your car is 10 years old simply click on the previous month 120 times.

[Erek Dyskant @edyskant]

Welp. That phone was on airplane mode so not the cause of the decompression. Gonna have to keep looking for phones till they find the one that wasn't.

[Seanathan Bates @SeanSafyre]

Found an iPhone on the side of the road... Still in airplane mode with half a battery and open to a baggage claim for #AlaskaAirlines ASA1282 Survived a 16,000 foot drop perfectly in tact!

When I called it in, Zoe at @NTSB said it was the SECOND phone to be found. No door yet😅

[Erek Dyskant @edyskant]

@otis_reid My understanding is it's not a technical limitation but instead an artificial limit pilots have negotiated for privacy reasons. They feel a lot of self consciousness that any random conversation with their coworkers might become their last words to their family.

[Erek Dyskant @edyskant]

. @thehill keeping it classy by running a Veteran's Day oped advocating to deny more disability claims.

[Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein]

Love this so much! You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file from your health insurance company. https://t.co/xtw9xehtP8

[Meg Schwenzfeier @_Schwenzfeier]

Come work with us, folks 🕶️🇺🇸

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. On Sept 26, Target announced it was closing nine stores "because theft and organized retail crime are…contributing to unsustainable business performance."

The release generated a flood of credulous media coverage

But now, @Target's the story is falling apart

🧵

[Erek Dyskant @edyskant]

Product management for developer tools thrives with a unique process and org design. I'd argue the lessons from those orgs are worth studying but aren't directly replicable for other product types.

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

How @Linear builds product:

1. No product managers, just a head of product. PM duties are distributed across engineering and design.

2. No durable cross-functional teams. Teams assemble around a project and disperse once the project is done.

3. No metrics-based goals. Just a North Star company-level metric goal.

4. No A/B tests. Decisions are based on taste and opinions.

5. Job candidates go through a paid work trial. They join the team for 1-5 days and work on a real project with the team.

6. The team is completely remote. And always has been.

Also, they have more cash in the bank than they’ve ever raised in VC funding, they’ve been profitable for 2+ years (before it was cool), and have spent a grand total of $35K on paid marketing in the history of the company. Only two people have ever left the company, and their CEO, Karri Saarinen, is a designer (who rarely gives interviews).

To get an in-depth glimpse into how Linear builds product, see link below for my interview with @karrisaarinen

[Erek Dyskant @edyskant]

I must have accidentally consented to push notifications from AccuWeather. This is definitely not weather related news.

[Erek Dyskant @edyskant]

@AlexCTaliadoros Office of the Tenant Advocate. If you have a question about your rights as a tenant, they will answer it for free. They can also help with representation or making legal fillings if you need it.

[Erek Dyskant @edyskant]

Stahp it, eBay. Alex Crane and Alex Jones are not the same.

[Erek Dyskant @edyskant]

@MostlyMonkey @cauchyfriend I don't think 2 is a meaningful option unless you're doing a VA loan (which is transferrable) or you are doing a loan so big or an important enough customer that the banker is willing to work out nonstandard terms.

[David Lo Pun-ch Nazis @helpmeskeletor]

Lol an archaeology website had a AI write an article on the scimitar and they accidentally scraped a Dungeons and Dragons description.

[Erek Dyskant @edyskant]

@QuinnyPig hahaha. I work on USG systems and we are mostly EST. I don't disagree but I think they got changed over from GMT during the Boston tea party.

[Meg Schwenzfeier @_Schwenzfeier]

🚨 Analytics Job Alert 🚨

Folks - we are hiring for 3 roles on the BFP Analytics team! Come work with a great group of people to re-elect @JoeBiden! 📊🕶️🇺🇸📈

Job descriptions and links to apply here: https://t.co/49r9PvPtgH

[HHS @HHSGov]

Hey, there. Be nice. They call this concrete chic and we’ve been serving looks to the American public since 1976. 😎