Harper Reed Quotes
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My career choice has largely been what I wanted to do. I always knew that technology would be one of the threads.
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We are often celebrating technology and codes, but we don't really think about the creative side.
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Donald Trump won the election. I think that's true. I also think there was interference. If this was another country, I think we'd be demanding another election.
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Let's say we were a peacekeeping force in some small country that most people had never heard of. And we were there to host a peaceful election, and we then found out a bunch of stuff was hacked. We probably would push to have another election to make sure that would be fair.
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Presidential campaign and White House are two aggressively separate things. They still think I'm the weird kid in the corner, so I don't have much power. But I'll definitely do something to help.
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The first thing is - and this is very important - I support the unmonitored use of the Internet for everyone. It doesn't matter what country you're in or what you do for a living - everyone should have the right to an unmonitored Internet.
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Our goal is to solve a problem for the retailer, not to solve a problem for my ego - which is big.
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The advice I used to give to engineers I hired was, 'Don't eat the pizza.' Sometimes when you walk into these high-pressure environments, it's, like, doughnuts everywhere and all these little cakes.
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My entire career has been based around commerce. The Obama campaign was famous for raising boatloads of money online. My question is how do you make conversions better through mobile and e-mail.
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One of my favourite books about hackers is 'Masters of Deception' about this hacking group in the 1990s. Many of them didn't come from wealthy families. These are kids that are very intelligent; they just happen to be misdirected.
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Photo management software is terrible. Mylio is pretty good - but disrupts the natural flow of things: i.e. Apple Photos.
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When I look for new books, I often struggle to find things that challenge and entertain me. This has caused me to spend a number of cycles thinking about where I can get the serendipitous book discovery experience that we had in physical book stores.
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I'm a white male in power. In many cases, I'm the enemy.
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I wonder which is ultimately more creepy: shopping at Amazon or using Facebook?
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My biggest worry is that no one seems to notice that we are not going to stop the technical progress that is going to continue to displace people through automation.
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Campaigns are crazy things. They're half startup, half enterprise.
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All of this conversation about chat and assistance lays the groundwork for what I would look at as the future of commerce.
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I find that I often forget that people come from all over. In interfaces, products, experiences, and building for people, we always forget that people are not us.
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The main ideas for us are scale, stability, and audience.
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It was on a bulletin board that I first learned about hacker culture, the 'Let's just break through this wall and see what's on the other side' mentality.
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We didn't want to waste time by sending our volunteers to Republicans; we sent them to the undecided.
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I try and wake up relatively early. I listen to some music and check Twitter. I also make sure I weigh myself and check how long I slept. I do that because knowing that data seems better than not knowing it.
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Don't eat the pizza; get lots of sleep - you have to take care of yourself. It's about being your tip top self at all times, and if you are unhealthy, or you're sick, or you don't feel good, even it's just because you're sluggish, you're not going to make it because you're not going to be able to react to things.
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Advice is always awesome because it never makes any sense when you compare it all together. It always contradicts other advice. I love advice.