Jake
@jake
writer, creative programmer, running Printernet and trying to make the internet more interesting.
Jake
jakeweber.net
"For the first thing a writer should be is—excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms." - Ray Bradbury
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
All you need is links
Material artifacts have an ability to enroll and align different tribes in a way that text doesn’t. The goal is to make “boundary objects” - artifacts that self-translate for all kinds of different tribes, and allow these actors to communicate with one another, even when they’re speaking different languages.
Think of the magical role of self-evident... See more
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Matt Webb • Protocol Fiction, Desire, and Belief
From Matt Webb in Protocols, Desire, and Belief
37signals Isn't Smarter Than You, But They Are Different
nateberkopec.com"The situation comes first. The characters—always flat and unfeatured, to begin with—come next." - Stephen King
Bill Wurtz
billwurtz.com
The weird thing is that the word “leader” itself is cliché and boring, but when you come across somebody who actually is a real leader, that person isn’t cliché or boring at all; in fact he’s sort of the opposite of cliché and boring.... See more
Obviously, a real leader isn’t just somebody who has ideas you agree with, nor is it just somebody you happen to