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15th May 2019 - Link Blog

Why I (Still) Love Tech: In Defense of a Difficult Industry (via) If you only read one longform piece this week, make it this one. Utterly delightful prose and a bunch of different messages that resonated with me deeply.

Posted 15th May 2019 at 3:45 pm

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