Thomas Knoll

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Which future is scarier to you?

The one whereeverything is amazing and nobody’s happy.Or maybe where everybody’s happy but nothing’s amazing . /Inspired by Alexis C. Madrigal

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Today is Community Manager Appreciate Day #CMAD

One of my favorite days of the year. These are my people, and I love that Jeremiah Owyang created a day to appreciate their hard, and often under appreciated, work. This year there is a great website where you can learn and connect: http://communitymanagerappreciationday.com/ I also ran across

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I love you, so “I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities” on you.

This quotation is directly related to my journey of pursuing: Tenacity. Integrity. Compassion. To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities

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When I say #hustle this is what I mean:

I use the word hustle a lot. Some people get it. Other people look at me like I just said, “I am such a pimp, I will shoot you in the face and sell you drugs." Well, Seth Godin just wrote about the other two kinds of hustle. The

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TinyLetters are my new blogroll

I gave up feed readers about the time that Google Reader shutdown. And, if I’m being honest, I wasn’t really trying to keep up with “everything” for quite a while before that. I’m not going to be the person who says, “twitter is my feed reader” because

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"a film isn’t finished until an audience has received it"

I am still convinced that storytelling is one of the most important skills that we have as humans. And, if we are going to create a better, more human, future, we’ll need to re-learn this skill. When I was a kid, we had typing classes. Everyone my age

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Three Characteristics of Smart Teams, and Two notes to self

I am interested in building great teams but I am even more interested (or samely interested in different ways) about building great communities. I could also argue that, at best, those are the same thing. Regardless, this was an interesting story in NYT that Jason Wehmhoener pointed out to me

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I'm not convinced AI is the biggest danger. I am more concerned with people losing their humanity.

Elon wrote a big check to the Future of Life Institute to make sure AI keeps working for us, and doesn’t take over the world. Good. We should be working hard to make sure that computers don’t take over the world and turn us all into human batteries,

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“If” by Rudyard Kipling - for those of you who wonder what it feels like to be an entrepreneur. #500Strong

If by Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or

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Do you have any twitter lists you love?

Some of my favorites: * https://twitter.com/warrenellis/lists/future * https://twitter.com/bryankramer/lists/human-to-human-h2h * https://twitter.com/StartupTabs/lists/product-hunters-3 * https://twitter.com/500Startups/lists/mentors * https://twitter.com/lizstrauss/lists/sobcon * https://twitter.com/danmartell/lists/founders * https://twitter.com/joshelman/lists/

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Playing with YikYak because of a medium post

The Medium post that got my attention. <ul> <li>easy to get started, especially with the whole “text me a link to the app” thing</li> <li>didn’t do too much onboarding, which was nice, but stopped *just* short of making

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"The goal of [usv.com] is to expose more of our thinking, and to do it together with others"

I really love the way Fred and the team at USV think. Including the way they build tools and create space for conversations which demonstrates their beliefs. Beliefs manifest in the tools themselves. For those who have been asking, this is what Community Architecture means. Read more of the conversation