reading, watching & listening to
sharing a selection of things I'm reading and find thought provoking
reading, watching & listening to
222. Automating Processes With Software Is HARD
Steven Sinofskyhardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.comwhat a performance
Meet the woman who lives without money: ‘I feel more secure than when I was earning’
Louise Southerdentheguardian.com
love these kinds of profiles/stories
Smaller, slower distribution could mean better content, better relationships, and better businesses — doubtless at smaller scales than what was hoped from BuzzFeed, Vice, etc., but then those didn’t work out. The benefits of cultivating and controlling your own distribution are mutual comprehension between a publication and its consumers; feelings of loyalty and trust; and perhaps an ability to survive in the long term, building a more durable institution.
On Nonscalability: The Living World Is Not Amenable to Precision-Nested Scales
The document explores how scalability, the ability to expand without changing the framework, has shaped modern projects, economies, and knowledge, leading to a loss of transformative diversity.
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