Welcome to another weekend bonus episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home. I'm Brian McCullough.

So remember the whole superhuman car fluffle over the last week or so Mike Davidson wrote a blog post

calling out some shady stuff that he saw in superhuman's email product.

All of Silicon Valley debated it.

Superhuman subsequently walked things back a bit.

And actually, I didn't mention this on the show,

but Mike had a second post about this

which was even more in-depth and eloquent than the first one. Link in the show notes.

I reached out to Mike to talk about this whole thing not because I wanted to

re-litigate it but because I wanted to poke at it in the way that I

wanted to poke at it last week. What does this whole debate say about the discourse in tech at the moment. Mike was true to his

original posts, thoughtful, eloquent, and really interesting about this whole

thing.

Please enjoy. Let's start with this.

Had you ever had anything that you had written online sort of go viral like that or whatever?

Yeah, I mean I used to write a lot more on like industries over the last let's say 10 years

or so I've just been writing less and less and you know I kind of yeah I blame myself a little

bit for that just kind of being lazy and I also blame Twitter a little bit for that just kind of being lazy and I also blame

Twitter a little bit because you know every time you have a thought that you want to get

out there in the world you can you know you can spend a proper three or four hours

writing an argument about it and writing an article about it.

Or you can just spend 10 seconds writing a tweet about it and move on.

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