<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>San Francisco on alper.nl</title><link>https://alper.nl/categories/san-francisco/</link><description>Recent content in San Francisco on alper.nl</description><generator>Hugo -- 0.165.0</generator><language>en-US</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 23:58:12 +0200</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://alper.nl/categories/san-francisco/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title/><link>https://alper.nl/posts/18886/</link><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 23:58:12 +0200</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/18886/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The whole point of driverless cars is that they can be programmed to follow the law even if the people in them don&amp;rsquo;t want to. There&amp;rsquo;s no point in deploying this technology if the code in it will break the law.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The whole point of driverless cars is that they can be programmed to follow the law even if the people in them don&rsquo;t want to. There&rsquo;s no point in deploying this technology if the code in it will break the law.</p>
<p><a href="https://road.cc/news/driverless-taxis-veering-into-cycle-lanes-normal-practice-says-waymo"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://road.cc/news/driverless-taxis-veering-into-cycle-lanes-normal-practice-says-waymo</a></p>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title/><link>https://alper.nl/posts/18759/</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 11:11:45 +0100</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/18759/</guid><description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.</p>
</blockquote><p>It&rsquo;s hard to overstate how cooked Peter Thiel&rsquo;s brain is. Why is this person in charge of anything?</p>
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/peter-thiel-lectures-antichrist"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/peter-thiel-lectures-antichrist</a></p>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title/><link>https://alper.nl/posts/18749/</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:04:45 +0100</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/18749/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A very useful and necessary list by the FT of who&amp;rsquo;s behind all the awfulness emanating from the X&lt;sup id="fnref:1"&gt;&lt;a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref"&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; website.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A very useful and necessary list by the FT of who&rsquo;s behind all the awfulness emanating from the X<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup> website.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/ad94db4c-95a0-4c65-bd8d-3b43e1251091"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter</a></p>
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]]></content:encoded></item><item><title/><link>https://alper.nl/posts/18570/</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 23:47:46 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/18570/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Refreshing to see Brian Cantrill talk about &amp;rsquo;trust&amp;rsquo; and &amp;lsquo;accountability&amp;rsquo; in the tech industry. These days it almost seems as if both of those have become dirty words.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Refreshing to see Brian Cantrill talk about &rsquo;trust&rsquo; and &lsquo;accountability&rsquo; in the tech industry. These days it almost seems as if both of those have become dirty words.</p>
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]]></content:encoded></item><item><title/><link>https://alper.nl/posts/18463/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:45:22 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/18463/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Both placing these ads and serving them should be illegal in any reasonable market/democracy.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Both placing these ads and serving them should be illegal in any reasonable market/democracy.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06</a></p>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title/><link>https://alper.nl/posts/18414/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 09:56:53 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/18414/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;When comedians say that Silicon Valley CEOs (and Mark Zuckerberg especially) are bitch coded, this is what they mean.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When comedians say that Silicon Valley CEOs (and Mark Zuckerberg especially) are bitch coded, this is what they mean.</p>

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]]></content:encoded></item><item><title/><link>https://alper.nl/posts/18406/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 09:43:33 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/18406/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I still haven&amp;rsquo;t upgraded to the new iOS and seeing these reports, I&amp;rsquo;m not sure whether I should.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I still haven&rsquo;t upgraded to the new iOS and seeing these reports, I&rsquo;m not sure whether I should.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.nngroup.com/articles/liquid-glass"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.nngroup.com/articles/liquid-glass</a></p>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title/><link>https://alper.nl/posts/18349/</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2025 23:07:32 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/18349/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;At some point you have to ask yourself how many predators work at Meta. They seem hell bent on targeting children. You don&amp;rsquo;t have to be a predator to work at Meta but it helps.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At some point you have to ask yourself how many predators work at Meta. They seem hell bent on targeting children. You don&rsquo;t have to be a predator to work at Meta but it helps.</p>
<p>Remind me again what happens to a pizzeria that is suspected of doing something like this.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/20/parents-outraged-meta-uses-photos-schoolgirls-ads-man"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/20/parents-outraged-meta-uses-photos-schoolgirls-ads-man</a></p>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title/><link>https://alper.nl/posts/18305/</link><pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2025 10:26:03 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/18305/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;How much time for an innovative/edgy/creative agency to copy this (poorly) in Berlin?&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How much time for an innovative/edgy/creative agency to copy this (poorly) in Berlin?</p>
<p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/pursuit-scavenger-hunt-san-francisco"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.wired.com/story/pursuit-scavenger-hunt-san-francisco</a></p>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title/><link>https://alper.nl/posts/18296/</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 21:32:24 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/18296/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;This may sound harsh, but it’s a lot fairer than they deserve: “But since the product is no longer jumping exponentially in capabilities, they will need to fall back on proper product development if they want to be competitive. They need to accept that they are software—plain old software—and that means people need to be able to use it.”&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This may sound harsh, but it’s a lot fairer than they deserve: “But since the product is no longer jumping exponentially in capabilities, they will need to fall back on proper product development if they want to be competitive. They need to accept that they are software—plain old software—and that means people need to be able to use it.”</p>
<p><a href="https://aboard.com/desperately-seeking-software/"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://aboard.com/desperately-seeking-software/</a></p>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title/><link>https://alper.nl/posts/18172/</link><pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2025 08:51:19 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/18172/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Wasn&amp;rsquo;t it the CEO of META going around telling everybody that free speech was the most important thing at the moment?&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wasn&rsquo;t it the CEO of META going around telling everybody that free speech was the most important thing at the moment?</p>
<p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/meta-wins-halt-promotion-careless-people-tell-all-book-by-former-employee-2025-03-13"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.reuters.com/legal/meta-wins-halt-promotion-careless-people-tell-all-book-by-former-employee-2025-03-13</a></p>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title/><link>https://alper.nl/posts/18107/</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:39:02 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/18107/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Not a major surprise that minorities would be treated poorly at a nazi charity like the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not a major surprise that minorities would be treated poorly at a nazi charity like the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/chan-zuckerberg-initiative-racial-discrimination-claim-ray-holgado-facebook-2020-11?international=true&amp;r=US&amp;IR=T"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.businessinsider.com/chan-zuckerberg-initiative-racial-discrimination-claim-ray-holgado-facebook-2020-11?international=true&amp;r=US&amp;IR=T</a></p>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title/><link>https://alper.nl/posts/17976/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2025 08:25:31 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/17976/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Sam Altman and OpenAI are consistently unreliable. One more example that by this point should not surprise anybody.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sam Altman and OpenAI are consistently unreliable. One more example that by this point should not surprise anybody.</p>
<p><a href="https://the-decoder.com/openai-quietly-funded-independent-math-benchmark-before-setting-record-with-o3"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://the-decoder.com/openai-quietly-funded-independent-math-benchmark-before-setting-record-with-o3</a></p>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title/><link>https://alper.nl/posts/17974/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2025 08:18:22 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/17974/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;rsquo;s hope for a quick ending to Twitter.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let&rsquo;s hope for a quick ending to Twitter.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/24/24351317/elon-musk-x-twitter-bank-debt-stagnant-growth"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/24/24351317/elon-musk-x-twitter-bank-debt-stagnant-growth</a></p>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title/><link>https://alper.nl/posts/17588/</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2024 20:30:15 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/17588/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A quick look to what&amp;rsquo;s awaiting Germany-which has bet heavily on hydrogen cars-several decades in the future. California has a hydrogen highway which looks like it is on its way out.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A quick look to what&rsquo;s awaiting Germany-which has bet heavily on hydrogen cars-several decades in the future. California has a hydrogen highway which looks like it is on its way out.</p>
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]]></content:encoded></item><item><title/><link>https://alper.nl/posts/17562/</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2024 08:57:40 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/17562/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The people in the Silicon Valley Trump cult, here represented by Balaji Srinivasan and all the people around a16z, are depraved and dangerous.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The people in the Silicon Valley Trump cult, here represented by Balaji Srinivasan and all the people around a16z, are depraved and dangerous.</p>
<p><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat</a></p>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title/><link>https://alper.nl/posts/17558/</link><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2024 08:37:50 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/17558/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As always, the people most intent on having children should be the ones having the least:&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As always, the people most intent on having children should be the ones having the least:</p>
<blockquote><p>For someone dedicated to helping people have as many babies as possible, Malcolm doesn’t seem to like children very much.</p>
</blockquote><p>These people are obviously either fascist or fascist-adjacent.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/25/american-pronatalists-malcolm-and-simone-collins?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/25/american-pronatalists-malcolm-and-simone-collins</a></p>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title/><link>https://alper.nl/posts/17136/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2023 14:53:34 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/17136/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;Meta is building the future of human connection.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&ldquo;Meta is building the future of human connection.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Does acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp qualify as building? Pretty much all feature development in Instagram has been photo copier work which feels like building the past instead of the future.</p>
<p><a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2023/03/mark-zuckerberg-meta-year-of-efficiency/"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://about.fb.com/news/2023/03/mark-zuckerberg-meta-year-of-efficiency/</a></p>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title/><link>https://alper.nl/posts/17133/</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2023 09:04:36 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/17133/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;After the hysteria a bunch of VCs whipped up over the weekend around the SVB collapse, questioning whether they actually do what they claim is more than justified.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After the hysteria a bunch of VCs whipped up over the weekend around the SVB collapse, questioning whether they actually do what they claim is more than justified.</p>
<p><a href="https://slate.com/technology/2023/03/silicon-valley-bank-rescue-venture-capital-calacanis-sacks-ackman-tantrum.html"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://slate.com/technology/2023/03/silicon-valley-bank-rescue-venture-capital-calacanis-sacks-ackman-tantrum.html</a></p>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title/><link>https://alper.nl/posts/16948/</link><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2023 19:49:39 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/16948/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Why am I not surprised that somebody like Marc Andreessen would be a NIMBY while at the same time being a hypocrite?&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why am I not surprised that somebody like Marc Andreessen would be a NIMBY while at the same time being a hypocrite?</p>
<p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/marc-andreessens-opposition-housing-project-nimby/671061/"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/marc-andreessens-opposition-housing-project-nimby/671061/</a></p>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title/><link>https://alper.nl/posts/16626/</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2021 18:58:15 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/16626/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I was amazed at how closely this article about product development at Facebook tracks with how I approach it: &amp;ldquo;PMs are 100% accountable for the results of your team.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was amazed at how closely this article about product development at Facebook tracks with how I approach it: &ldquo;PMs are 100% accountable for the results of your team.&rdquo;</p>
<p>I&rsquo;m doubling as EM/PM for a bit and engineers in my team fully own some of our projects. This is a combination of high demand and high trust that I think is working out well.</p>
<p><a href="https://productlife.to/p/-execution-at-facebook"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://productlife.to/p/-execution-at-facebook</a></p>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title/><link>https://alper.nl/posts/16410/</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2021 00:37:08 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/16410/</guid><description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;but I like working with PMs who went into it through channels other than the official ones, and are motivated out of their passion for building things and solving problems. Not because they feel it’s something they’re supposed to do, or because they think it’s prestigious, or because it is the default path from whatever elite school they went to.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>but I like working with PMs who went into it through channels other than the official ones, and are motivated out of their passion for building things and solving problems. Not because they feel it’s something they’re supposed to do, or because they think it’s prestigious, or because it is the default path from whatever elite school they went to.</p>
</blockquote><p>That is an excellent and very opinionated list of criteria of how to gauge a product organization. I&rsquo;m not sure whether I&rsquo;ve seen any that hit all or even many of these. If you know of one, let me know.</p>
<p><a href="http://dangrover.com/blog/2020/01/20/a-sanity-test-for-large-groups-of-pms.html"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://dangrover.com/blog/2020/01/20/a-sanity-test-for-large-groups-of-pms.html</a></p>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title/><link>https://alper.nl/posts/16399/</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2021 21:28:42 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/16399/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;It&amp;rsquo;s nice that these startups guys take a public schooling so well. It would be nice if we could see more of that on Clubhouse instead of the endless rows of bad panels.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&rsquo;s nice that these startups guys take a public schooling so well. It would be nice if we could see more of that on Clubhouse instead of the endless rows of bad panels.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.newcomer.co/p/founders-fund-duo-outmatched-by-sf"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.newcomer.co/p/founders-fund-duo-outmatched-by-sf</a></p>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title/><link>https://alper.nl/posts/16388/</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2021 21:21:20 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/16388/</guid><description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;This is all to say that Paul Graham is an effective marketer and practitioner, but a profoundly unserious public intellectual. His attempts to grapple with the major issues of the present, especially as they intersect with his personal legacy, are so mired in intuition and incuriosity that they’re at best a distraction, and worst a real obstacle to understanding our paths forward.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>&ldquo;This is all to say that Paul Graham is an effective marketer and practitioner, but a profoundly unserious public intellectual. His attempts to grapple with the major issues of the present, especially as they intersect with his personal legacy, are so mired in intuition and incuriosity that they’re at best a distraction, and worst a real obstacle to understanding our paths forward.&rdquo;</p>
</blockquote><p><a href="https://ideolalia.com/essays/thought-leaders-and-chicken-sexers.html"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://ideolalia.com/essays/thought-leaders-and-chicken-sexers.html</a></p>
<p>An utter and total indictment of Paul Graham who of course is impervious to such things.</p>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title/><link>https://alper.nl/posts/16230/</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2020 13:27:38 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/16230/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Reading this account by the former COO Francoise Brougher, I&amp;rsquo;m disappointed to learn how badly Pinterest failed at Diversity and Inclusion.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reading this account by the former COO Francoise Brougher, I&rsquo;m disappointed to learn how badly Pinterest failed at Diversity and Inclusion.</p>
<p><a href="https://medium.com/@francoise"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://medium.com/@francoise</a>_93266/the-pinterest-paradox-cupcakes-and-toxicity-57ed6bd76960</p>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title/><link>https://alper.nl/posts/16194/</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2020 07:33:51 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/16194/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The Zendesk story of how they built a globally distributed company is quite amazing, but there are many more like this by now.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Zendesk story of how they built a globally distributed company is quite amazing, but there are many more like this by now.</p>
<p><a href="https://medium.com/zendesk-engineering/10-tips-for-growing-a-globally-distributed-engineering-team-21d5435b732a"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://medium.com/zendesk-engineering/10-tips-for-growing-a-globally-distributed-engineering-team-21d5435b732a</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/slate-star-codex-and-silicon-valleys-war-against-the-media"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/slate-star-codex-and-silicon-valleys-war-against-the-media</a></p>
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</blockquote><p>Raylene Yung drops a massive list of career trips for engineers and engineering managers.</p>
<p><a href="https://firstround.com/review/the-engineers-guide-to-career-growth-advice-from-my-time-at-stripe-and-facebook/"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://firstround.com/review/the-engineers-guide-to-career-growth-advice-from-my-time-at-stripe-and-facebook/</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://firstround.com/review/how-to-craft-your-product-team-at-every-stage-from-pre-product-market-fit-to-hypergrowth/"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://firstround.com/review/how-to-craft-your-product-team-at-every-stage-from-pre-product-market-fit-to-hypergrowth/</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jul/01/san-francisco-big-tech-workers-industry"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jul/01/san-francisco-big-tech-workers-industry</a></p>
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</blockquote><p>An interesting look at co-living but please let&rsquo;s not change the entire city into this nonsense.</p>
<p><a href="https://assemblepapers.com.au/2019/05/20/redesigning-renting-housing-as-a-service/"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://assemblepapers.com.au/2019/05/20/redesigning-renting-housing-as-a-service/</a></p>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>In code we trust — Vertrouwen in de overheid, bureaucratie en technologie</title><link>https://alper.nl/posts/in-code-we-trust-vertrouwen-in-de-overheid-bureaucratie-en-technologie/</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:35:31 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/in-code-we-trust-vertrouwen-in-de-overheid-bureaucratie-en-technologie/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Boeiende vinger aan de pols in open overheid Amerika met &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/noneck" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"&gt;Noel Hidalgo&lt;/a&gt; (New York), Dmitry Kachaev (Washington D.C.) en &lt;a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alissa-black/6/a9b/2b9" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"&gt;Alissa Black&lt;/a&gt; (San Francisco).&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Boeiende vinger aan de pols in open overheid Amerika met <a href="http://twitter.com/noneck"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Noel Hidalgo</a> (New York), Dmitry Kachaev (Washington D.C.) en <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alissa-black/6/a9b/2b9"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Alissa Black</a> (San Francisco).</p>
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<p>Allissa Black (erg tof!) geeft een overzicht van de verschillende initiatieven die de stad San Francisco (met Twitter-burgermeester <a href="http://twitter.com/gavinNewsom"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Gavin Newsom</a>) heeft genomen om open overheid te bevorderen. Misschien een goed idee om als nieuwe burgermeester van Amsterdam ook iemand te kiezen die tenminste snapt wat internet is.</p>
<p>San Francisco loopt uiteraard buitengewoon voorop in dit soort dingen —noblesse oblige. Ze hebben een data-inventaris en -richtlijn aangenomen en er wordt elk kwartaal een verslag uitgebracht van de stand van zaken. Ze maken sites zoals: <a href="http://datasf.org/"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">DataSF</a>, <a href="http://recoverysf.org/"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">RecoverySF</a> en een Citypedia om kennis te delen binnen de stad.</p>
<p>Haar stappen die je moet nemen:</p>
<ol>
<li>Stel een team aan om het initiatief te doen groeien</li>
<li>Breng richtlijnen uit</li>
<li>Zorg dat het een verwachting van de overheid is.</li>
<li>Voer beleid door.</li>
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<p>Ook nog op de vraag welke software men gebruikt om participatie van burgers te bevorderen het antwoord: <a href="http://uservoice.com/"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Uservoice</a> en <a href="http://uservoice.com/"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">IdeaScale</a>.</p>
<p>En de tip om te participeren in de O&rsquo;Reilly <a href="http://en.oreilly.com/gov2-international"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">online conferentie voor Gov 2.0 International</a>.</p>
<p>In Amerika zijn heel veel initiatieven op allerlei niveau&rsquo;s: stad, staat, federaal die hiermee bezig zijn en er lijkt heel veel ‘web literacy’ (mediawijsheid) te zijn en ook budget voor al dit soort dingen. Toch moet ik gevoelsmatig zeggen dat we in Nederland nauwelijks achterlopen.</p>
<p>Op overheidsniveau hebben we <a href="http://www.ambtenaar20.nl/"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Ambtenaar 2.0</a>, <a href="http://www.hackdeoverheid.nl/"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Hack de Overheid</a>, en nog een serie initiatieven (ik wacht nog op data.gov.nl). In Amsterdam zouden we bijvoorbeeld het <a href="http://eaves.ca/2009/05/14/vancouver-enters-the-age-of-the-open-city/"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Open City manifest</a> kunnen aannemen maar iets als <a href="http://www.amsterdamopent.nl/"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Amsterdam Opent</a> is al heel tof.</p>
<p>Waar het in Nederland beter kan:
1. Duurzame web-platformen die gebouwd zijn door bedrijven die het snappen op open technologie met een blik vooruit op (ipv één keer oplevern en iets onbruikbaars over de schutting gooien).
2. Vaste, aanspreekbare teams die de materie beheersen aanstellen voor deze onderwerpen.</p>
<p><em>(Deze blog is snel geschreven door <a href="http://alper.nl"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Alper</a></em> <em>na een sessie op <a href="http://www.sxsw.com/interactive"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">SxSWi</a> in Austin, Texas. En tevens gecrosspost naar het <a href="http://sxswnl.posterous.com/"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">groepsblog voor alle Nederlandse</a> aanwezigen.)</em></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.gvb.nl/reizigers/Pages/vertrektijden.aspx"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">In Amsterdam leven we</a> in vergelijking nog in de Middeleeuwen. Daar zit ik buiten de Coffee Company in de vrieskou mijn espresso te drinken om de lijn 4 aan te kunnen zien komen.</p>
<p>In gerelateerd nieuws: gegeven goede data, kun je ook hele vette displays maken. Zoals <a href="http://alexbogusky.posterous.com/deep-in-the-bowels-of-cpb-0"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">dit live project-overzicht bij een bureau</a> op een muur geprojecteerd.</p>
<p>Dit zijn dingen waar ik elke dag mee te maken heb en ik wil ze met plezier helpen beter te maken. Ideeën en suggesties zijn welkom in de commentaren.</p>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Restaurants gevraagd</title><link>https://alper.nl/posts/restauranten-gevraagd/</link><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:03:35 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/restauranten-gevraagd/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Ik hou van veel en lekker eten en ik merk dat ik daarmee in het buitenland beter terecht kan dan in Amsterdam. Hier een paar restaurant-tips die voor mij in Amsterdam ontbreken en waarvan ik denk dat ze weleens een succes kunnen worden.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ik hou van veel en lekker eten en ik merk dat ik daarmee in het buitenland beter terecht kan dan in Amsterdam. Hier een paar restaurant-tips die voor mij in Amsterdam ontbreken en waarvan ik denk dat ze weleens een succes kunnen worden.</p>
<p>Mochten ze al bestaan dan hoor ik het graag. Mocht iemand ze willen beginnen dan zou ik het erg op prijs stellen.</p>

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<p>De Burgermeester is mijn voorbeeld van zo&rsquo;n niche in de Amsterdamse horeca die niet bediend werd. Hier is recent de Burgermesteer geopend en deze loopt nu prima.</p>
<p>Voordat de Burgermeester er was, moest je heel goed zoeken in Amsterdam om een grote culinaire burger te kunnen vinden <sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup>. De burger had hier blijkbaar teveel een fast food associatie en was verplicht smerig.</p>
<p>Succesvoorbeelden uit het buitenland genoeg en dan in het bijzonder de <a href="http://www.qype.co.uk/place/14918-Burgermeister-Berlin"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Burgermeister</a>, <a href="http://www.qype.com/place/69020-marienBurger-Berlin"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Marienburger</a> en <a href="http://www.kreuzburger.de/"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Kreuzburger</a>-achtige tenten in Berlijn.</p>

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<p>Je ziet ze heel veel in Californië en Texas, de <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taqueria"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">taquerí­as</a> waar je voor weinig geld een goed gevulde burrito met vlees, bonen en rijst met daarbij hete sausen, guacamole en nachos kunt krijgen. Er gaat geen dag voorbij dat ik niet aan een burrito denk. Toen ik in San Francisco was at ik het ongeveer om de dag. Als ik er ooit heen zou verhuizen, zouden de taquerí­as een belangrijke reden daarvoo zijn. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bovinity/3408097269/" title="Dolores Gourmet Burritos by bovinity, on Flickr" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><figure><img
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<p>In Europa bestaat er al een imitatie in de vorm van <a href="http://www.dolores-online.de/"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Dolores</a> vlakbij Alexanderplatz in Berlijn. Kenners vinden het misschien niet vergelijkbaar, maar het is heel fijn om in de Duitse winterkou dit stukje Californië tegen te komen.</p>
<p>In Amsterdam is er bij mij in de buurt <a href="http://foursquare.com/venue/56623"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">de Taco Shop</a> die ik nog moet uitproberen, maar meer keuze zou niet gek zijn.</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong> The Taco Shop uitgeprobeerd en deze was best ok en ook goede prijs/kwantiteitsverhouding. Geen burritos verpakt in aluminiumfolie zoals ik gewend ben, maar goed te eten. Volgende keer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimichanga"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">de Chimichanga</a> bestellen.</p>
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<h3 class="relative group">24h Diner
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<p>Meestal moet ik er niet aan denken om na het uitgaan complete burgermaaltijden of <em>stacks</em> van pannekoeken met <em>maple syrup</em> weg te moeten werken, maar als het dan ergens kan, dan in het comfort van een mooie klassieke <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diner"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">diner</a>.</p>
<p>Soms heb je gewoon laat nog honger en trek in lekker eten. Daar is in Amsterdam nog steeds moeilijk aan te komen. Waar ga je heen na 0:00 voor niet-shoarma of patat? Ik denk dat één diner-achtig restaurant wat 24 uur per dag open is ergens in het centrum, op heel veel bezoekers kan rekenen.</p>

<h3 class="relative group">In &rsquo;n Out Burger
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<p>Het ‘gezonde’ fast food van de <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_N_Out_Burger"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">In &rsquo;n Out Burger</a> heeft als West-Amerikaans fenomeen een allure die moeilijk uit te leggen is. Feit is wel dat de burgers en de frieten er heel lekker zijn en dat het een sympathiek concept is tussen de grote ketens in de Verenigde Staten.</p>

<h3 class="relative group">Greasy Spoon
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<p>Pas in <a href="http://russelldavies.typepad.com/eggbaconchipsandbeans/2004/02/the_shepherdess.html"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Shepherdess Cafe</a> in Hackney het klassieke Engelse eten geprobeerd en dat was een succes! Alleen zó jammer dat we dat hier niet hebben; niet een goede plek om Engels eten te eten, niet een serie greasy spoons en eigenlijk helemaal geen plaatsen waar je voor Â£7 (= €7) kunt zitten en lekker veel kunt eten.</p>
<p>Ik denk dat deze concepten mits goed uitgevoerd grote successen kunnen worden en in de meeste gevallen niche-vullers zullen zijn (zoals de Burgermeester nu is). Dus een slimme restaurateur kan hier zijn slag slaan en mijn buik vullen. Of moet ik toch naar San Francisco verhuizen?</p>
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<p>In Kopenhagen kun je ze bijvoorbeeld overal krijgen.&#160;<a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-backref" role="doc-backlink">&#x21a9;&#xfe0e;</a></p>
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]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Shared bicycle transit systems</title><link>https://alper.nl/posts/shared-bicycle-transit-systems/</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:16:32 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/shared-bicycle-transit-systems/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve recently used my first &lt;a href="http://www.ov-fiets.nl/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"&gt;OV-fiets&lt;/a&gt; and it was a fantastic experience &lt;sup id="fnref:1"&gt;&lt;a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref"&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;. It&amp;rsquo;s a great way to bridge the last couple of miles on your transit experience and I think an important addition to the public transportation system.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&rsquo;ve recently used my first <a href="http://www.ov-fiets.nl/"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">OV-fiets</a> and it was a fantastic experience <sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup>. It&rsquo;s a great way to bridge the last couple of miles on your transit experience and I think an important addition to the public transportation system.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/silvertje/3033788593/" title="half uur eerder dan de planning by Anne Helmond, on Flickr" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><figure><img
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<p>Paris has its <a href="http://www.velib.paris.fr/"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">vélib system</a> <sup id="fnref:2"><a href="#fn:2" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">2</a></sup> and other major metropolitan cities may have <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_bicycle_program"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">similar bicycle sharing systems</a>, but ov-fiets (literally ‘public transportation bike’) is Netherlands wide and has a great service design backing it up.</p>
<p>The idea is you get a subscription (based on your id and bank account to prevent abuse) for €9,50/year which is hooked up to your rail card so you can use that same card to get your bike. With one card you can get up to two very decent bikes <sup id="fnref:3"><a href="#fn:3" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">3</a></sup> at any issuing point (most larger railway stations in the Netherlands and more). Payment is deducted automatically from your bank account, so that eliminates another step from the checkout process which is very quick indeed. At stations which don&rsquo;t have a large bike facility and for return at night there are also unmanned facilities where you can get a bike from a locker using your secret code.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/faceme/3229485908/" title="Automatische fietskluis by FaceMePLS, on Flickr" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><figure><img
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<p>Most importantly for us Dutch, the system is very cheap. Renting one bike for 20 hours costs you €2,85. If you have multiple errands to run in a city, this is cheaper than using public transportation (and you have more freedom and you don&rsquo;t have to wait for buses). Most people I tell about the system can&rsquo;t believe how cheap it is. I do hope it is cost effective. I will gladly pay more per ride if it means the system will be around in the future.</p>
<p>OV-fiets is a great solution for me. I visit various cities irregularly. My method of entry, is almost always by train and that part of the journey is usually relatively quick, clear and comfortable. After that part comes the hell of navigating and waiting for local public transportation. There isn&rsquo;t a city in the Netherlands that can&rsquo;t be biked around, so a bike —if you have access to one— is almost always preferrable.</p>
<p>This is a great example of <a href="http://speedbird.wordpress.com/"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">our urban future</a> where objects that used to be our property <sup id="fnref:4"><a href="#fn:4" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">4</a></sup> are abstracted into a network of services.</p>

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<p>An afterthought: When I was in San Francisco last year, I had some appointments in the Valley which I tried to do using <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltrain"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Caltrain</a> and then either taking the bus or walking. This turned out to be impossibly time consuming.</p>
<p>I tried to rent a bike to take with me on the Caltrain but most bike rental places were not open as early as I needed them to be. A system where you could rent a bike at the Caltrain stations similar to OV-fiets would have been perfect. (Hint.)</p>
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<p>The fact that I used it to bike out to <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alper/3919129087/"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">a theater festival</a> in a nature reserve may have contributed to that.&#160;<a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-backref" role="doc-backlink">&#x21a9;&#xfe0e;</a></p>
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<p>Vélib has an odd pricing system, reflecting its focus on short trips and it has to deal logistically with the motions of Paris&rsquo;s commuters through the day and the city.&#160;<a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-backref" role="doc-backlink">&#x21a9;&#xfe0e;</a></p>
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<p>And recently you can get scooters as well.&#160;<a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-backref" role="doc-backlink">&#x21a9;&#xfe0e;</a></p>
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<p>I used to own a <a href="http://www.strida.nl/"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Strida</a> foldable bike.&#160;<a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-backref" role="doc-backlink">&#x21a9;&#xfe0e;</a></p>
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]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>My year in cities, 2008</title><link>https://alper.nl/posts/my-year-in-cities-2008/</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 13:21:06 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/my-year-in-cities-2008/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href="http://www.kottke.org/08/12/my-year-in-cities-2008" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"&gt;per Kottke&lt;/a&gt; fished out of my iCal and &lt;a href="http://www.dopplr.com/traveller/alper/public" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"&gt;my Dopplr&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://novemberborn.net/life/year-in-cities-2008" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"&gt;hat tip Mark&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As <a href="http://www.kottke.org/08/12/my-year-in-cities-2008"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">per Kottke</a> fished out of my iCal and <a href="http://www.dopplr.com/traveller/alper/public"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">my Dopplr</a>, <a href="http://novemberborn.net/life/year-in-cities-2008"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">hat tip Mark</a>:</p>
<ul>
<li>Berlin*</li>
<li>Amsterdam*</li>
<li>London</li>
<li>Copenhagen</li>
<li>Nantes</li>
<li>Meppel</li>
<li>San Francisco*</li>
<li>Oakland</li>
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<p>It could be debated whether <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meppel"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Meppel</a> is a city or not, but I&rsquo;ll let it.</p>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Our digital senses</title><link>https://alper.nl/posts/our-digital-senses/</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:16:51 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/our-digital-senses/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;In some of Adam Greenfield&amp;rsquo;s backpages &lt;a href="http://speedbird.wordpress.com/2008/10/31/my-back-pages-whatever-happened-to-serendipity/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"&gt;“Whatever happened to serendipity?”&lt;/a&gt; he recounts how he used to scrounge for punk rock records and how the difficulty and uncertainty of the experience was part of what made it worthwhile:&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In some of Adam Greenfield&rsquo;s backpages <a href="http://speedbird.wordpress.com/2008/10/31/my-back-pages-whatever-happened-to-serendipity/"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">“Whatever happened to serendipity?”</a> he recounts how he used to scrounge for punk rock records and how the difficulty and uncertainty of the experience was part of what made it worthwhile:</p>
<blockquote><p>But at the risk of sounding like an old man, this ritual - make no mistake, that’s what it was - invested the purchase with meaning and value for me, and I despair at a world that doesn’t at least offer the possibility of similar adventures to its inhabitants.</p>
</blockquote><p>This resounds simply with the fact that things that are worth doing are oftentimes difficult to do or to learn and things that are worth having are the ones you invested effort in getting.</p>
<p>Just to narrow this down to music, 99% of the music I listen to has no meaning whatsoever to me. This has no bearing on the quality of contemporary music, which I think is actually quite high. Only a couple of albums and artists have managed to strike a chord with me that makes their music merit a repeat listen.</p>
<p>This may be different for others but the real investment of Fl. 45,&ndash; or so back then was quite significant, distribution channels were few and the diversity they offered near zero <sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup>, you got your recommendations either from mass media or from word of mouth <sup id="fnref:2"><a href="#fn:2" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">2</a></sup>. The experience was radically different.</p>
<p>Yes, something has been lost in the transition but the abundance we have gained in return makes it more than worthwhile for me.</p>
<p>But the piece is about the loss of serendipity and shortly after he writes:</p>
<blockquote><p>Yes, I suppose you could always switch the thing off, leave it behind, deliberately “forget”it. But when you’ve lived your entire life through the intercession of a mobile and benevolent Delphi, is that realistically an option? I suppose we’ll find out.</p>
</blockquote><p>Having spent two and a half weeks in the United States most of which in and around San Francisco. I can testify that it is indeed not an option.</p>
<p>San Francisco is so well mapped within most online services that the experience you have there using the internet is unparalleled. Most services originate there which results in San Francisco being completely mapped in <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=san&#43;francisco&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=72.976766,107.929688&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=h&amp;z=11&amp;g=san&#43;francisco&amp;iwloc=addr"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Google Maps</a>, well covered in <a href="http://yelp.com/sf"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Yelp</a> and there are ample Twinkling <a href="http://twitter.com"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Twitter</a> users in the proximity.</p>
<p>Unfortunately for a visiting European like myself it is prohibitively expensive to use roaming data <sup id="fnref:3"><a href="#fn:3" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">3</a></sup> <sup id="fnref:4"><a href="#fn:4" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">4</a></sup>, meaning that most of the time my iPhone was a multimedia brick. Being disconnected like this, made me acutely aware of how reliant I have become on the real and virtual compass my iPhone provides. Walking around without a continuous stream of data coming in on the iPhone felt as if a sense was missing.</p>
<p>What is a sense other than a mapping of external information to a part of your brain <sup id="fnref:5"><a href="#fn:5" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">5</a></sup>? The services on my iPhone provide me with a sense of presence and sense of direction within my spheres of contacts. My brain is conditioned to receive regular updates to this sense and withholding those updates used to be called something like “withdrawal from information addiction”but since this is a sense we&rsquo;re talking about, I think “sensory deprivation”may be better suited. Without this sixth sense so much of your peripheral ‘vision’ is cut off that you feel like you are wandering around half blind.</p>
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<p>Still is. I couldn&rsquo;t get a physical copy of a Camille album anywhere in Delft.&#160;<a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-backref" role="doc-backlink">&#x21a9;&#xfe0e;</a></p>
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<p>Anybody still read Oor?&#160;<a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-backref" role="doc-backlink">&#x21a9;&#xfe0e;</a></p>
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<p>€5 per Mb consumed.&#160;<a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-backref" role="doc-backlink">&#x21a9;&#xfe0e;</a></p>
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<p>Or roaming anything actually. While I was waiting for the BART, I had a brief phonecall with a friend who wasn&rsquo;t aware of me being stateside. This could have been a lot of fun, if it wasn&rsquo;t so damn expensive.&#160;<a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-backref" role="doc-backlink">&#x21a9;&#xfe0e;</a></p>
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<p>This <a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.04/esp_pr.html"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">article in Wired</a> about how to add senses to your perception.&#160;<a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-backref" role="doc-backlink">&#x21a9;&#xfe0e;</a></p>
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]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Twin Peaks</title><link>https://alper.nl/posts/twin-peaks/</link><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:10:22 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/twin-peaks/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Last day in San Francisco we went up to Twin Peaks for this absolutely stunning view over the city:
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&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last day in San Francisco we went up to Twin Peaks for this absolutely stunning view over the city:
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<p>Great way to end a first visit.</p>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Adjustments</title><link>https://alper.nl/posts/adjustments/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:26:58 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/adjustments/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Freshly one day back in from San Francisco some adjustments need to be made. The time difference has been reduced from 9 hours to 8 thanks to our splendidly &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_Savings_Time#Origin" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"&gt;European invention&lt;/a&gt;: DST. Along with the time difference there is also a slight difference in daylight and a large difference in temperature (15ź centigrade) and precipitation (nearly non-stop rain the past day).&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Freshly one day back in from San Francisco some adjustments need to be made. The time difference has been reduced from 9 hours to 8 thanks to our splendidly <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_Savings_Time#Origin"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">European invention</a>: DST. Along with the time difference there is also a slight difference in daylight and a large difference in temperature (15ź centigrade) and precipitation (nearly non-stop rain the past day).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alper/2980038537/" title="Last view by illustir, on Flickr" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><figure><img
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<p>Adjusting to the superficials will be easy enough, but as after every big trip and after having seem some truly splendid natural and metropolitan vistas, adjusting the mind to a realignment of the world brought about by new experience will be somewhat more difficult.</p>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>San Francisco</title><link>https://alper.nl/posts/san-francisco/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:37:20 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/san-francisco/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve always wanted to go there and tomorrow I&amp;rsquo;m finally going. Some vague plans, tads of serendipity and friends pushing me over the edge were enough to have me book the ticket, I think, only three weeks ago. Tomorrow Lufthansa will take me over an ocean for the first time of my life &lt;sup id="fnref:1"&gt;&lt;a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref"&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&rsquo;ve always wanted to go there and tomorrow I&rsquo;m finally going. Some vague plans, tads of serendipity and friends pushing me over the edge were enough to have me book the ticket, I think, only three weeks ago. Tomorrow Lufthansa will take me over an ocean for the first time of my life <sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup>.</p>
<p>Halfway during the trip there&rsquo;s a <a href="http://www.capoeiraarts.com/batizado/index.html"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">four day capoeira event</a> celebrating <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mestre_Acordeon"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Mestre Acordeon</a>&rsquo;s fiftieth year of teaching capoeira with <a href="http://www.capoeiraarts.com/brazilfest/index.html"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">a Brazilian festival in Berkeley</a> on Saturday. I&rsquo;ll also try to get some surfing in and see if I can visit the local tech hubs and meet some people, so it&rsquo;s not purely a holiday.</p>
<p>If this wasn&rsquo;t enough to stress me out, today my laptop decided to not boot anymore. So I spent most of the day <a href="http://twitter.com/alper/statuses/951211098"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">panicing</a> and restoring a backup, after which everything seems to work again but no clue for how long. Maybe I should try to sneak a new Macbook past customs on my way back.</p>
<p>Take care, I&rsquo;ll be back the 27th.</p>
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<p>Pretty lame for somebody who likes to travel.&#160;<a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-backref" role="doc-backlink">&#x21a9;&#xfe0e;</a></p>
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]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Samenwerken voor onafhankelijken</title><link>https://alper.nl/posts/old-personal-741/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Nov 2006 22:56:00 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/old-personal-741/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Ik &lt;a href="https://alper.nl/posts/old-personal-645/" &gt;schreef al eens&lt;/a&gt; over het gebrek aan een high tech kantine in Delft (buiten de TU om dan).&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ik <a href="/posts/old-personal-645/" >schreef al eens</a> over het gebrek aan een high tech kantine in Delft (buiten de TU om dan).</p>
<p>In San Francisco is de <a href="http://laughingsquid.com/2006/11/11/citizen-space/"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Coworking Space geopend</a> voor hun bedrijf <a href="http://www.citizenagency.com/blog/"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Citizen Agency</a>, deels kantoor deels publieke ruimte voor iedereen die mee wil denken/helpen.</p>
<p>Er is een <a href="http://coworking.pbwiki.com/"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">bredere beweging</a> om dit soort Coworking ruimtes op meer plaatsen in de wereld op te richten. Er zijn wat <a href="http://coworking.pbwiki.com/CoworkingMunich"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">weifelende</a> <a href="http://coworking.pbwiki.com/CoworkingParis"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">initiatieven</a> aan deze kant van de vijver maar misschien leuk om zoiets in Delft op te zetten?</p>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Eat Brains</title><link>https://alper.nl/posts/old-personal-351/</link><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2005 17:01:00 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/old-personal-351/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Ik raak er steeds meer van overtuigd dat San Francisco een ontzettend leuke plek is om te wonen en werken.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ik raak er steeds meer van overtuigd dat San Francisco een ontzettend leuke plek is om te wonen en werken.</p>
<p>Gisteren <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/ioerror/201386.html"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">bericht</a> van de Zombie Flash Mob Event: <a href="http://www.eatbrains.com/"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">“Eat Brains”</a>. Een groep mensen begint in de stad als zombies en verplaatst zich zombie-style door de stad, terwijl ze de besmetting verspreiden over voorbijgangers.</p>
<p>De foto&rsquo;s zijn leuk en staan op <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/eatbrains/"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Flickr</a> en <a href="http://crypto.nsa.org/zombies/"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">elders</a>.</p>
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>I'msterdam</title><link>https://alper.nl/posts/old-personal-267/</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2005 14:12:00 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">https://alper.nl/posts/old-personal-267/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Erg leuk &lt;a href="http://www.frackers.com/2005/05/22/000463.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"&gt;verslag van Frackers&lt;/a&gt; over de handelsdelegatie van Amsterdam naar Californië. Erg belangrijk om een goede relatie te hebben tussen dat blijste, vrijste, high-techste deel van Amerika en ons Amsterdam.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Erg leuk <a href="http://www.frackers.com/2005/05/22/000463.html"  target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">verslag van Frackers</a> over de handelsdelegatie van Amsterdam naar Californië. Erg belangrijk om een goede relatie te hebben tussen dat blijste, vrijste, high-techste deel van Amerika en ons Amsterdam.</p>
<p>Leuk om te lezen hoe Cohen helemaal los gaat in San Francisco (<em>‘Deze steden klikken op alle fronten’</em>). Met als allerleukste quote van Cohen:</p>
<blockquote><p>‘Er gebeurt iets vreselijks met me,’ fluistert burgemeester Cohen me in het oor; ‘ik vrees dat ik ook een weblog moet beginnen.’</p>
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