In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David talks with Lesley Sim about Joel Spolsky on the Block Protocol, Matt Mullenweg for taking over for the exiting CEO of Tumblr, and a blog post by Dan Devine entitled "The Complicated Futility of WordPress."

Why This Is Important: It's good to examine the views of influencers inside and outside the WordPress community about managing content (especially with blocks) and how complex content management systems (like WordPress) have become. Tumblr is a potential wildcard — social network, gateway to more advanced publishing, both, or neither?

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🔗 Mentioned in the show:

Making the Web Better With Blocks
Twitter announcement: Matt "running Tumblr personally for a while"
The Complicated Futility of WordPress
Twitter conversation: Coderjerk / Matt & Others
Lesley Sim (Twitter)
David Bisset (Twitter)
Post Status (Twitter)

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