Ben Cuan

We already have hacker houses, and hacker houses can last for months or even years, but they usually only fit around ten or twenty people. We already have conferences, and conferences fit thousands of people, but each conference only lasts a week. That is enough time to have serendipitous meetings, but not enough to have connections with true... See more

can't shake the feeling that the only real way to prevent people from getting sucked into the digital slop vortex is to make the physical world more beautiful, nourishing, convivial, kind

Links on the In­ter­net last for­ever or a year, whichever in­con­ve­niences you more. This is a major prob­lem for any­one se­ri­ous about writ­ing with good ref­er­ences, as link rot will crip­ple sev­eral per­cent of all links each year, and com­pound­ing.

There’s always a next step, and the higher you climb, it doesn’t necessarily get easier. For the creators who are just getting started: Enjoy your five subscribers. That’s a dinner table. Forget more people—what are you going to bring to the table?