We become what we consume.

"Hacker Noon present emoji reaction and slogging progress with Mozilla Builders. It's David Smooke presenting in the snow with Linh Dao Smooke working the browser. More info about pixelated emoji reactions:. They are open sourced on GitHub. Read more Fix the Internet stories.... and check out some live #slogging stories.

Hacker Noon CEO David Smooke & COO Linh Dao Smooke recently spoke at University of Colorado Boulder’s Disruptive Entrepreneurship class taught by Professor & Hacker Noon contributing writer Nathan Schneider. Some quotes by David: “On the internet right now, there is a massive battle going on between centralization and decentralization... Know that the obstacles are only a day, and tomorrow will be a new day and that obstacle won’t be as bad, or maybe it’ll be worse and day after will be better... We’re people that built a company out of iteration, and we did not intend to make one of the most popular tech blogs."

"It’s called a newsfeed because it feeds us. We need what it offers. As a human, there is no living without stories. What we read, watch - or to more accurately say, what we consume - shapes what we post, snap, write, tweet, tag, message and frames our expectations of where the world is headed. We become what we consume. Every scroll through the newsfeed while we wait for Ubers to arrive. We become what we consume. Every morning when we wake up and newsfeed before the bathroom. We become what we consume. In these brief moments, how can we form any depth to our comprehension of story?"

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Caffeinated Mornings is a once a month design meetup. This talk is a walkthrough of my company's journey to 10 million minutes per month reading, followed by a thoughtful Q and A from moderator Jay Ferracane.

I talk briefly in the middle of this party. But it's mostly a party for what is IMHO the best community in tech.