Guy Dickinson
@gdickinson
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Senior Staff Toilet Cleaner at the Dickinson Household. Engineer in my spare time. Unplaceable accent. Formerly @twitter, now elsewhere.
New York, NY
Joined October 2007
I’ve been reporting this same car for seven years! Does anyone care?
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Forget resort fees, just call the cost of a US Passport $130. What's a security surcharge?
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As a middle-class Englishman over the age of 35 I can state with confidence that I have never once "vibed."
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Today I attended a retirement party for three peacocks featuring readings from the book of common prayer, which is only the second strangest party I’ve been to. The weirdest was a birthday party for the Brooklyn Bridge where then-Mayor Bloomberg led a rendition of Happy Birthday.
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Today's trip to the dentist revealed baby's first cavity. Aged 36.
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I appreciate the good nerds at Google telling us which matches are Exciting.
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My first and last team at Twitter, notable for having a silly (fantastic) name, has made it to the Washington Post for being totally hollowed out. I assure you that this service requires care and feeding and without someone to keep it going, nothing good will happen.
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My brother in Christ the evidence is right before your eyes. With much commentary provided by thousands of former employees who know what they’re talking about.
It's remarkable how many people who've never run any kind of company think they know how to run a tech company better than someone who's run Tesla and SpaceX.
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I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means
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Within hours of the tech lead of the core tweet service being shown the door for failing to kiss ass, my notifications are showing default text in the header (no, the display name of this person is not set to “unknown”):
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I imagine “Communicate Fearlessly to Build Trust” is still painted on the wall on the 7th floor of HQ. But Elon’s canning the few people who remain for perceived slights and disloyalty. What a shame.
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In his house in San Francisco, the dead fail whale waits dreaming.
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In 2015 I found out about the Twitter layoffs (and Vine shutdown) via a Verge article that morning--and at the time I was nominally leading Twitter NYC Engineering. We saw layoffs come in watching people change state in LDAP. Now I'm outside watching 💙 tweets. Just as crazy.
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I’ve been gone for ages at this point, but to my former colleagues in the tweet mines: my network is your network, and if I can be of any help please let me know.
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There is much to critique about Twitter—the company and product—but its principled stance on pushing back on government intrusion, over-broad subpoenas, and takedown demands globally is one of the things that made me proud to have worked there.
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I just made the biggest gamble of my life by using the word “scrotum” within earshot of an inquisitive and parrot-like four year old. Keep us in your prayers.
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The greatest scam the fashion industry has ever pulled is convincing people to wear fanny packs around their necks.
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