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Jack Herrick

@JackH

Founder of wikiHow. Interested in how the web and entrepreneurship can expand minds and improve life.

 Palo Alto, California, USA
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Joined November 2008
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@HermeticaFi23 Apr 2025
Hermetica 2.0 is now live. A new interface with full transparency - simpler to use, easier to trust, and built to scale.
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I've been yelling for a while about how WikiHow is deeply underrated/doing the best consistent service journalism on the web right now, so I was delighted to see this @kait_tiffany piece about it theatlantic.com/technology/a…
How to Make a Website

How to Make a Website

wikiHow embodies an alternative history of the internet, and an interesting possibility for its future.

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"I never learned how to email, which probably saved [Citi] billions." - Sandy Weill – at San Francisco, CA
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Hope the term "female founder" has quietly faded to history by the time my 10 yr daughter starts her first company
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@nxthompson7 Feb 2017
If you want to corrupt the education system, it helps to have a corrupt Congress.
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Former prime minister of Norway was detained at Dulles for an hour b/c he visited Iran in 2014 wjla.com/news/local/former-n…
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The tragedy of American urbanism in two photos. Same location on Genesee Street, Utica, NY, 1910 and now.
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More reasons why we need Netflix to participate in a Time Well Spent economy. teapaw.org/herf/status/7909078613…
Michael Herf (@herf) profile pictureMichael Herf@herf25 Oct 2016
Netflix claims to compete with "sleep". No company should have a goal to make its customers ill. teapaw.org/bill_gross/status/7907…
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Happy 25th birthday, #Linux! Here's your f-ing #cake, go ahead and compile it yourself. – at Bucharest, Romania
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Women's vault 1956 vs 2012
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@sama2 Jun 2016
Please help tell @JerryBrownGov we need affordable housing in the Bay Area by right. Contact your legislators!
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What you think about Millennials says a lot about you, nothing about them boingboing.net/2016/03/26/wh…
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WikiHow acquires Dublin start-up Guidecentral irishtimes.com/business/comp… via @IrishTimesBiz
WikiHow acquires Dublin start-up Guidecentral

WikiHow acquires Dublin start-up Guidecentral

Enterprise-Ireland backed company will remain a separate brand

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@dhh10 Jan 2016
Over-staffed, over-collaborating companies are nothing new. The Effective Executive, '67 amazon.com/The-Effective-Exe…
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dragging a ball of endorphins in the internal part of the parietal cortex, which is responsible for happiness. 2/2 teapaw.org/rabihalameddine/status…
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Peter Singer@PeterSinger1 Dec 2015
New Wiki-How page on #effectivealtruism! wikihow.com/Be-an-Effective-…
3 Ways to Be an Effective Altruist - wikiHow

3 Ways to Be an Effective Altruist - wikiHow

Effective altruism is a philosophy that encourages people to make doing the most good they can one of their important goals in life. Effective altruists make educated, logical decisions about which...

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@FastCompany3 Sep 2015
This robot will make you the pancakes it's learning to cook (from reading WikiHow): f-st.co/yJWC3Kj
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Dalai Lama
@DalaiLama3 Sep 2015
The goal of happier human beings living together, supporting each other, in a more peaceful world, is, I believe, something we can achieve.
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@wikiHow29 Jun 2015
Professional surfer @bethanyhamilton has reviewed our How to Surf article! Learn more: wikihow.tumblr.com/post/1227… #Surf
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Zac Carman
@zcarman18 Mar 2015
Loving that @wikiHow was mentioned on @jimmyfallon way to go @JackH
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