Adam Lasnik
Adam Lasnik

Adam Lasnik

I travel, dance, play piano, work for (but do NOT speak on behalf of) Google and more.

Medium member since September 2019
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Bridging the culture gap, one question at a time

A gaggle of giggling young teens, pre-Facebook, pesters this cranky, lonely guy, and asks him… everything.

Oct 18, 2015 · 4 min read
Oct 18, 2015 · 4 min read

Clubhouse, $5, and the Ash-hole rule

My ideas on how to at least moderately scale the community without it going to shirt.

May 24 · 3 min read

Let’s reform bad rating systems, starting with Uber. Gut check, please?

From my understanding, Uber ratings currently work like this for drivers: - 5 star average: Fine - 4, 3, or 2 star average: You’ll be fired…

Jul 10, 2017 · 2 min read

A nationwide strike? Here’s what’s better.

We need to persuade through defiant love, not anger.

Feb 1, 2017 · 2 min read

If I were running the upcoming presidential debate…

There’d be no running over time or interrupting, and candidates would be under more pressure to actually answer questions.

Oct 16, 2016 · 2 min read

Tweetstorms & tweetgifs are the voicemail of the internet

The only smart choice is for Twitter to smash the 140 character barrier and make these bad workarounds unnecessary

Mar 20, 2016 · 5 min read

Back to the future — importing past articles into Medium

When does it make sense to import a story from your blog vs. just cutting and pasting the content into a new Medium post?

Mar 18, 2016 · 2 min read

An Open Letter from an Open Letter

Why did you forsake me?

Mar 17, 2016 · 2 min read

So THIS is a *tiny* glimpse into being a minority…

She walked into the class and noticed right away that no other students looked like her.

Mar 6, 2016 · 4 min read

Hello? HELLO? There are real-life people in front of you

Whereupon I yell at clouds about people being increasingly self-absorbed and selfish in public spaces.

Feb 29, 2016 · 3 min read

#geekfail — Valuing immediacy over depth, accuracy, and understanding

Obsessing over #realtime prioritizes the Urgent over the Important, a recipe for personal and societal disaster.

Feb 7, 2016 · 4 min read

One shockingly effective habit of productive, successful, and happy people

They spend less time reading and writing about the specific habits of others and spend more time doing.

Jan 2, 2016 · 1 min read

Relishing those juicy leaked memos? Bad idea.

Supporting the publication of leaks provides short term infotainment but long term problems for all.

May 18, 2014 · 2 min read

Insights into surgery… the AMUSING way :o>

Lego, Portal, and Airplane videos and… okay, genuinely some *actual* details on what it’s like to get a septoplasty / turbinate-reduction…

Mar 16, 2011 · 12 min read