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After Twitter

inessential.com

With the fall of the Twitter consensus I am energized. I remember what it was like in the 2000s; I remember the liveliness and sparkle of those days on the web.

I don’t suggest dialing the clock back to old tech, but I hope we use the good parts from those days to help us build new and amazing things. There is so much to do, and so many grand problems to solve.

The web is wide open again, for the first time in what feels like forever.

Ken Jennings was the host ‘Jeopardy!’ needed all along

washingtonpost.com

As an American institution, “Jeopardy!” is like no other. Sure, you have “Wheel of Fortune” and “The Price Is Right,” but “Jeopardy!” is the rare program that celebrates intelligence and knowledge: highbrow, lowbrow and everything in between. Even more critically in the age of misinformation, it is a place where, as Jennings has said, “questions have answers, and correct answers, and facts matter,” where a team of people pore over books to ensure every detail is correct.