Ian Vanagas

When things go wrong in your company, nobody cares. The press doesn’t care, your investors don’t care, your board doesn’t care, your employees don’t care, even your mama doesn’t care. Nobody cares.

We are in the age of hyper-competition. Being a big spender is a seductive way to make you feel like you belong.

Ideas are alien life forms with an agency and intelligence independent of any mind or substrate which they inhabit.

An accurate definition of an internet “creator” would have to be: someone whose income is determined by a platform’s algorithms.

Given these realities, I find the furthest extreme of the free and open source philosophy not only unethical in its own right in that it incentivizes wide-scale consumption over production and thus impoverishes the software world, but divorced from reality in that it misunderstands the economic forces responsible for the production of software (and... See more

I should be able to scroll through the history of my browsing as an enormous branching graph that I can annotate, travel around, share with others, and version.

This browser should present entire paths of potential searches to explore.