Ben Werdmüller

Humanist technologist. Equality and adventures.

I co-founded Elgg and Known, worked on Medium, and now invest in innovative media startups to support a stronger democracy at Matter.

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Thanks, Treehouse.

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Just hanging out in my bedroom.

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Pausing for a fast food dinner near my storage unit, and feeling a bit sorry for myself for lots of reasons, I got this.

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Two people signed the lease on this apartment six years ago. It's been there for me during a rollercoaster period of change in my life; through heartbreak, terror and adventure. It's weird to think I won't be able to see it again after Thursday, but I'm also looking forward to the next chapter.

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Eggs polenta. I couldn't not Instagram this.

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When I wrote these notes, there was no such thing as a social intranet. Rather than white label social networks, I wanted to steer the platform to be a kind of social glue inside organizations. We even had a prototype for live chat with integrations from other applications. All of which goes to show: it's not the idea as much as the execution. Years later, Yammer would be worth billions, and Slack did ... quite well.

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One of the many people I owe a lot to.

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Pausing for lunch at Point Isabel.

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Today's brought to you by "improbable things I found while packing"

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Let 'er rip, coffee.

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While excavating his closets, our hero makes an alarming discovery

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Stumbled into an antique shop it might be haunted nbd

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The first photo from when I moved into this apartment. Six (!) years later, I should have just about everything cleared out tomorrow.

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I've had this on my fridge for far longer than I should have, which is never.

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My mother and her siblings.

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That'll teach me for missing my bus.

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Snapshot of a very bad good day. (I'm off the Soylent, but it was the only way I could figure out how to deal with 8 straight hours of back to back meetings without falling over.)

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Artifacts from another time and place

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Schloss Elgg (Donuts Antiqua Helvetica, 5/2015)

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Packing artifacts

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Farewell, handmade friends (you are being stored).

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Taking down everything with a frame. All of these are so personal.

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I love Mozilla but this is such a horrible ad campaign. Zero attempt to explain what's killing innovation or why we should care. Net neutrality is important but why is Mozilla the solution? Don't they make a web browser? If not, how should I think about them? Etc, etc.

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I miss the original incarnation.

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It's dinner time.

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Food truck lounge is looking a little worse for wear

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Genuinely can't tell if this is a really badly named media company or a portable dentist studio for busy startup workers.

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Almost done.