Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for August 27th from 12:09 to 00:52:

• Butter In Your Coffee and Other Cons: Stories From a Fitness Insider – Three years after co-founding Fitocracy, we launched a new online coaching service to start bringing in money. We needed a way to hook people in, but no one…
• Apricot Computers – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – was a British company which, in the mid-1980s, produced desktop personal computers, such as the Apricot PC and the Apricot Xi, that competed with the IBM PC and…
• Marc Andreessen on Twitter: “How many businesses in history have ever touched 1 billion people in a single day? Times are changing… https://t.co/9RTe1B0CPJ” – And yet if I touched a billion people in a day, I'd be called a monster.
• Paul Ford on Twitter: “Oh heeeeeeere’s what they are thinking. http://t.co/HizmOn5dzM” – Oh heeeeeeere's what they are thinking.
• Paul Ford on Twitter: “Twitter asked me this question in a “brand survey” what in God’s name are they thinking. http://t.co/f7kabBhHZG” – Twitter asked me this question in a “brand survey” what in God's name are they thinking.
• That week I tried to unplug from Slack – I have a troubled relationship with my smartphone. I love the convenience and access it gives me, but it’s also made it more difficult for me to control my…