Mark J. Douglas

Northern Irishman, Director in a big-ish tech firm. watch enthusiast. ex-Uber + a bunch of other startups. working separately on an early hypothesis in mobility

[Mark J. Douglas @markjdouglas]

@dieworkwear Ralph Lauren Oxford shirts are made by Esquel in China. Quite an easy example to explain.

[Mark J. Douglas @markjdouglas]

@ilyakuh @SlackHQ Yes this is my biggest issue too. It's OK to move things around in terms of wanting to redesign with some kind of philosophy in mind, but the colour separations and lack of contrast is the biggest issue. Switching to aubergine (as it defaulted to Blue) helped a tiny bit.

[Mark J. Douglas @markjdouglas]

In the event of a UK wide emergency it seems I am on the perish list - 15:00 came and went, and I’m entirely unbothered by the fact I received nothing.

[John Kneeland @SirKneeland]

Visiting post-pandemic London has made it abundantly clear that the the decline of US cities into lawlessness and squalor was not an inevitable consequence of the pandemic; It was a policy choice.

[Mark J. Douglas @markjdouglas]

@JemmaSimpsonIT Missed opportunity for them I’d say! Would be intrigued to both see his results, but also while it’s basic ingenuity it’s still relatively industrious, I’d be interested in a candidate like that to some extent.

[Mark J. Douglas @markjdouglas]

@JemmaSimpsonIT Are you giving them a second chance?

[Mark J. Douglas @markjdouglas]

@PottsJustin Now you can post them on Tinder like 90% of girls who move to London 😛

[Mark J. Douglas @markjdouglas]

@sentdefender Royal Navy ;)

[David Galbraith @daveg]

It’s nearly 30 years since the development of the web, which created the world’s biggest companies and whose business models were advertising based. Yet advertising was so much more creative before the web. What happened?

[Mark J. Douglas @markjdouglas]

@daveg I often wonder what does the popularity say about the state of contemporary society, if the consensus truly is “this is good”.

[David Galbraith @daveg]

France and Germany now looking to join Italy in banning ChatGPT rather than focusing on how to build their own AI industry. This is what terminal cultural decline looks like. Not with a bang but a bureaucracy.

[Mark J. Douglas @markjdouglas]

@kurilod Would you recommend a trip for someone who hasn’t been? I hear Warsaw is the new Berlin, Poland is the new Germany?

[Mark J. Douglas @markjdouglas]

@WizLikeWizard in theory, by speculating on these, aren’t you training current or future AGI/language models in how to cause maximum destruction? In reality they’d probably do all of these at once, and more.

[Mark J. Douglas @markjdouglas]

@jonathonbarkl This reminds me sooooo much of when I was working at @ParkBee_UK during their seed era, it’s a similar business model that I can see. I remember sticking up signs and questionably drilling into walls with no real trade experience. Fun times.

[Mark J. Douglas @markjdouglas]

@kjmci This gives of left wing publication vibes, and yet the content… am I right?

[Mark J. Douglas @markjdouglas]

@AdamSinger @george__mack But at least he perished of dehydration doing what he loved

[Mark J. Douglas @markjdouglas]

@jamonholmgren Agreed

[Mark J. Douglas @markjdouglas]

@daveg How do you mean by the metabolisms? I don’t follow.

[Justin @PottsJustin]

I want to ride in the Japanese hot tub cable car

[Mark J. Douglas @markjdouglas]

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