Hendrik

In the United States, long known as the land of opportunity, the chance of middle-class earners’ moving to the top rungs of the earnings ladder has dropped by approximately 20 percent since the early 1980s

The inability to rise, or even to maintain middle-class status, has sparked calls for a universal basic income, a policy embraced by many in the clerisy and throughout the oligarchy. A universal basic income would stand as what Karl Marx called “the proletarian alms bag,” keeping the masses from destitution without assisting them to move up, start ... See more

Reid Hoffman (@reidhoffman) thinks studying philosophy is more important for entrepreneurs than an MBA. Reid is co-founder of LinkedIn, investor at Greylock, podcaster, author, and early backer of @OpenAI. But before he did any of these things, he almost became a philosophy professor with a specific focus on Wittgenstein's theories of language a... See more

I embraced being a digital hermit.

everyday, I wrote my ideas and made art. I posted them on my website. then, I sent a newsletter about it. that was it.

You don’t need to be showing up everywhere. Nor do you need to be showing up all the time.

or an entire generation, the imagination of people making the web has been hemmed in by the control of a handful of giant companies that have had enormous control over things like search results, or app stores, or ad platforms, or payment systems. Going back to the more free-for-all nature of the Nineties internet could mean we see a proliferation ... See more

For tech giants, the long period of open internet evolution is over. Their internet is not an ecosystem. It’s a zoo.