Balázs Búzás
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Balázs Búzás
It turned out that as the world has become technology-driven, as we say, our customers are technology-driven organizations. If you’re a large organization for whom technology is your key distinct advantage, it doesn’t matter whether you’re making chips and databases or whether you’re making rockets or cars or whether you’re making financial... See more
An Interview with Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes About Atlassian and AI
Our fundamental value has always been actually, and it took us one of these things, it took a decade to realize, firstly, we don’t solve technology problems, we never have, we’ve never had anything that’s like, “I care what code you write, which language the code is in, what the code does”. We solve collaboration and people problems, we always have... See more
An Interview with Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes About Atlassian and AI
When McLuhan coined this phrase in 1960s, he was making a counterintuitive claim: the tools we think with shape us more profoundly than whatever we happen to think about.
https://open.substack.com/pub/generativethinkers/p/three-years-of-chatgpt-and-the-medium?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=22no3
We often chalk up the Church’s resistance to superstition or ignorance. While that played a role, there was something deeper at work. The Church wielded immense power, but that power ultimately depended on the beliefs of the people. For society to function as the Church wanted, people needed to carry certain information in their heads—ideas that
... See morehttps://vasily.cc/blog/facts-dont-change-minds/
But it also appears that social media has fundamentally transformed the way information is generated and distributed in a manner that is particularly conducive to the formation of bubbles, regardless of financial conditions.
https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakingviews/global-markets-breakingviews-2025-11-20/
Technological changes in both the second and third oikoi have led to massive social change. People are more lonely and more isolated. They have fewer close friends, spend less time socializing, and are invested less in community organizations like churches, unions, and hobbyist groups. Work norms have shifted toward decentralized, always-on models.... See more
What Is the Third Oikos?
The nature of technology is that it is always shifting, but our last 20 years or so have been marked by a complete digital transformation of society.
What Is the Third Oikos?
The railroads turned spatial connections into temporal connections. I live in Los Angeles, and when I talk about going someplace, I don’t measure it in terms of distance [e.g., 10 miles away] I measure it in terms of time [e.g., 40 minutes away]. The railroads did that.
Derek Thompson • AI Could Be the Railroad of the 21st Century. Brace Yourself.
You begin to get a political structure of regulation, which will in fact not stop this great explosion of American ingenuity but harness it and begin to make it useful.