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ShiftPrintBlogon The reason China is pushing for Africa's digital sovereignty

Very valid!

ShiftPrintBlogon Crypto year in review and things to expect in 2022

Valid point and totally agree that it will stretch into the following years.

One point to distinguish is the "price winter"(aka correction) vs product winter (halted development) - according to Chris Dixon.

ShiftPrintBlogon Apple vs. (Or Plus) Adtech

Interesting!

ShiftPrintBlogon The winking emoji is only available with the right eye closed. Dicuss

Why is this the case?

ShiftPrintBlogon One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks

France is pushing a law targeting a similar issue with Apple phones and laptops

https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/26/22302664/apple-france-rep...

ShiftPrintBlogon Working at a startup is overrated, both financially and emotionally

Social enterprise/public tech startups more often than not are very warm places but then the financial/ESOP discussion become something else

ShiftPrintBlogon How to Write Release Notes

Slack used to do the best with a combination of funny and informative

ShiftPrintBlogon 50B birds live on Earth, new study finds

Wired had an article last week on "interspecies money" to identify and attach monetary value to everything on the planet - including birds and trees - to give agency to these actors.

Sounds like this mission will be more difficult :)

Thanks for sharing the article though

ShiftPrintBlogon Car Makers to Get No Special Treatment in Chip Shortage

Chip manufacturing is a really tough industry. There was a great article on this topic including capacity building, lab and finance requirements and more in Bloomberg the other week.

ShiftPrintBlogon Getting acquired by the government should be a startup exit option – EU example

That was a public-private vehicle so I guess the technology part was more pronounced :)

ShiftPrintBlogon Getting acquired by the government should be a startup exit option – EU example

Interesting - I meant it more for key technologies in which the state doesn't even have a presence e.g. cloud. The principle is inspired from public utilities e.g. energy or water services (sometimes bought/acquired/publicized by the state).

It's a long way to say that maybe monopoly rules don't apply here :). What do you think?

ShiftPrintBlogon Getting acquired by the government should be a startup exit option – EU example

How do you mean?