Dave Pifke

(This is almost-verbatim a memo I recently sent to company leadership.)

Starting around 20 years ago, a popular way for shady startups to skirt employment laws was to hire an outsourced “co-employer” or “employer of record.”

Nobody talks about murder hornets any more.

Much of the experience of browsing the web is actively hostile towards users.

I recently had the experience of watching a leader—whom I really respect and look up to—get lambasted by his employees for a couple of big strategic decisions at his company.

Thanks to a flood of robocall spam, I rarely answer the phone these days; if you want to get in touch, I recommend using email or SMS instead.

There’s been renewed talk on the internet recently about killing off Pretty Good Privacy, aka PGP, once and for all.