jason scherschligt

Bookish, tallish, daddish, webbish.

[jason scherschligt @searchlight5]

Hey, this happened! I collaborated with @johncutlefish and the fine folks at @Amplitude_HQ on The North Star Playbook. Read it, share it, tell us what you think. https://t.co/VBRuq67CAz

[jason scherschligt @searchlight5]

I have a long-held belief that playoff tickets for any sports team (Knicks, or anyone) should be prioritized for true fans, and that this could be enforced by asking any interested ticket buyer to answer a few random trivia questions about the team.

[jason scherschligt @searchlight5]

@fred_slater @ShabbosK @bdomenech Largely correct? His primary point is that the current CA primary election is "rigged" (his word), and he doesn't share a shred of evidence about this. I think that is "largely incorrect"!

[jason scherschligt @searchlight5]

@north0fnorth For about 10 years I worked downtown and took a commuter bus from my suburban home. My bus ride was a delight. Efficient, low stress, no worries abt traffic or weather, and I read many books. When a job change meant I had to drive to work, I missed my bus commute! Still do.

[jason scherschligt @searchlight5]

@svdate When he claims he won states that have never been in dispute, he's forcing Trumpists to agree with him. Though this "all 50" claim weakens his already ridiculous argument about a stolen election, it also binds everyone in that room to him, in a dynamic of loyalty through lies.

[jason scherschligt @searchlight5]

@atrupar I am begging reporters, for the zillionth time, to recognize that when Trump says evidence of 2020 election fraud is coming soon, he is also admitting that he doesn't yet have such evidence. Will anyone in this room ever just ask him how he came to know it was rigged?

[jason scherschligt @searchlight5]

@lauramatsue And, worse, the machines who are allowed to possess that magic are the property of commercial enterprises that profit from the magic. So the writing skill you've developed over a lifetime is not only suspect in you, its value in the world is now for someone else's gain.

[Laura Matsue @lauramatsue]

No one is more annoyed by the AI revolution than people who can actually write a sentence. Basically, having any ability to write now is suspect - you will get accused of being AI at some point. It feels like you are being accused of being a witch, of holding a type of rare magic that only the machines are now allowed to have.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

A message to all sane Republicans:

He pardoned 1,600 violent criminals.
You said nothing.

He bulldozed the East Wing.
You said nothing.

He interfered with the release of the Epstein files. You said nothing.

He took over the Kennedy Center and renamed it after himself. You said nothing.

He accepted a $400 million airplane as a personal gift. You said nothing.

He threatened Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Greenland, Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil. You said nothing.

He tariffed just about everyone but Russia, causing inflation and instability worldwide. You said nothing.

He attacked a nation during mediated negotiations. You said nothing.

His ill-conceived war killed 175 children on day one. You said nothing.

He alienated and insulted our allies. You said nothing.

His ICE Army terrorized and murdered U.S. citizens. You said nothing.

He committed murder on the high seas. You said nothing.

He co-opted the Justice Department and directed it to prosecute his political enemies. You said nothing.

It’s time to start talking.

[Stan Veuger @stanveuger]

"Fifty-seven United States senators were able to do the right and obvious thing and voted to convict and bar that evil man from ever holding public office again, including seven Republican senators. John Cornyn, however, could not do what his oath of office required. I’m sure the senator was very lawyerly and eloquent in his explanation of why the man sitting in the seat of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln shouldn’t have been held responsible for the feces his mob spread all over the walls of our seat of government—but you know, and I know, and John Cornyn knows, that this little man didn’t want a primary challenge six freaking years later."
https://t.co/Y01QON0RyR

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

The internet used to be full of websites; there were millions of them and you could browse for hours and come away smarter rather than dumber. Now there are four sites and they've made half the population illiterate. We've destroyed a wonderful thing, and it has destroyed us.

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

I can't properly describe to anyone under the age of 30 just how cool the Internet was before Amazon, Google, Meta, and Apple turned it all into a walled garden of garbage and commerce.

[jason scherschligt @searchlight5]

@malmesburyman Lonesome Dove. (McMurtry)
The Art of Fielding. (Harbach)
Peace Like a River. (Enger)
Anything by Richard Powers.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

[jason scherschligt @searchlight5]

@boagworld I like this. In my experience, these outcome metrics are often the responsibility of good Product Management, but it's great for UX to plant this flag, too. (I also tend to think product management and UX are, on some level, nearly identical concerns.)

[Ant Murphy @ant_murphy]

Something I've noticed the best product leaders and teams I've worked with do; they're (almost annoyingly) specific.

They know the devils in the details and ambiguity leads to mis-interpretation.

Here's a few examples:

"Our goal is to increase active users”

What do we mean by active users?
- Is it those who login?
- What about those who bounce right away? do we count those also?
- Across what time horizon? Daily active users? weekly? monthly?
- How do we calculate it? Is it a rolling average? For how long?
- What about engagement? different levels of engagement?
- Why? To what end?
....

Here's another example.

"You're empowered"

Empowered to do what?
- Solve customers problems or just empowered to work out the 'how'?
- Ship a new product? or sunset the current one?
- Can I sign the company up for a new enterprise tool?
- Can I start a new business in our current business and be the CEO of it?
.....

Again I could go on and yes some are a bit ridiculous but hopefully you get the point.

Clarity is hard.

There's no shortcuts.

And it takes a lot of effort.

As I shared in the training I ran the other day; if things are misaligned, unclear, etc I would be spending 50% of my time communicating and trying to create clarity.

Because you can't scale or create leverage if your team aren't aligned or unclear.

[jason scherschligt @searchlight5]

@highbrow_nobrow To be clear: this is not what Trump said. What he said was certainly awful, and this fund is corrupt, but your caption suggests that "because in my world..." is a verbatim transcript. It isn't.

[adam @resurrecti0ns]

look I'm just saying that for all the flak the humanities get, it's only the stem people outraged by the idea that they should be responsible for the contents of a paper with their name on it

[jason scherschligt @searchlight5]

@danielsgoldman The even more real story: we live in a nation where 70 million+ citizens actually chose this corruption. That's the problem America needs to confront. I don't know how we'll do it. But we must.

[Pedro L. Gonzalez @emeriticus]

I think this episode perfectly encapsulates the new right: Trump says he doesn't care about Americans. JD Vance is asked what he thinks about that, and the quote is read to him word for word, but all he can do, because he has no spine, no moral compass, no self-respect for himself as an American, is deny that Trump said it at all. Then Trump doubles down, knowing full well that his base will swallow his contempt for them, and that no one around Trump, least of all dogs on leashes like Vance, would dare ask him to mask his hatred for the average person, while conservative media from The Blaze to The Daily Wire will praise Trump for being so refreshingly candid about how much he hates this country and its people, which they will also call patriotism.

[jason scherschligt @searchlight5]

@EricTrump @SenWarren C'mon. We all remember in 2016, after Trump was elected, pundits and commenters said "well now he'll put his assets in a blind trust," and then he just...didn't.

There was that press conference with the stacks of empty folders. People don't forget that, Eric.