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PhilWeston Twitter: Years After the Alphabet Acquisition

Why is there an earnings call if it's wholly owned by Alphabet?

PhilWeston How to listen to your customers - using Rails and Javascript

Nice idea. I'd genuinely like to see this open sourced. I could see it slotting into some of our efforts.

PhilWeston Dear brilliant students: Please consider not doing a PhD.

I'm defending my PhD on friday too! Good luck to us.

The article strikes a chord with me and what I see around me. There are serious structural issues and being a PhD student is a surprisingly weak position. I am glad you are finally managing to finish.