Author: kevin

asked a couple people I know why they are mentors on the platform. "not sure" and "personal branding" was the best answers I got.

— Kevin Goldsmith (@KevinGoldsmith) August 10, 2018

Raised this with one of the founders of the company and he couldn't explain to me why this wasn't a rip-off of both mentors and mentees.

— Kevin Goldsmith (@KevinGoldsmith) August 10, 2018

I'm still trying to figure out why people act as mentors for Plato, they charge unreasonable amounts for access to their service but don't share revenue with the mentors at all. I'm also not sure why people would pay Plato that much in the first place.

— Kevin Goldsmith (@KevinGoldsmith) August 10, 2018

and rewrote the page with @LeafletJS and @openstreetmap before Google could issue me an API key. Not quite as pretty, but works fine and I prefer using OSS anyway. https://t.co/wX89mm7k25

— Kevin Goldsmith (@KevinGoldsmith) August 10, 2018

pic.twitter.com/H4KBPOLBzl

— Kevin Goldsmith (@KevinGoldsmith) August 10, 2018

wow, now that Google Maps requires an API key for everything, the site is so overloaded that I can't get it to generate an API key for me. whoops.

— Kevin Goldsmith (@KevinGoldsmith) August 10, 2018

A little bit of history I just found in a box of old files. pic.twitter.com/mwavpK4f5A

— Kevin Goldsmith (@KevinGoldsmith) August 7, 2018

"it's taken me a lot of years, but I've come around to this — if you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people, and if you're smart surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you." – the excellent management wisdom of Isaac Jaffe on Sports Night.

— Kevin Goldsmith (@KevinGoldsmith) August 6, 2018

Important thread on the criticality of an independent and skeptical press in a free society. https://t.co/XbSHfv7vKv

— Kevin Goldsmith (@KevinGoldsmith) August 5, 2018

Having fantasized about this in the past, this article was a good cup of strong coffee. “Digital Nomads Are Not the Future” https://t.co/ql9NhjEy7I

— Kevin Goldsmith (@KevinGoldsmith) August 4, 2018