Joey DeBruin
@joeydebruin
Helping communities build public knowledge online. Founder @withBackdrop. Past/current product/advisory roles @Benchling @ResearchGate @Forefront__ @SeedClub
Joey DeBruin
Consider vacuum tubes. It was obvious to nobody that they would enable the first computers. This only became clear after vacuum tubes and associated computing discoveries had been made, so that someone could make the connection. If you had set out to build a computer in the 1800s (as Charles Babbage did), it’s unlikely that you would have drawn... See more
Oliver Hunt • DAOs as novelty search engines
Still, as Baszucki made clear, the goal is still actual social networking: surely that will always be better than interacting with an AI! Or will it? It seems to me that perhaps the most important constraint on the web — to actually interact with people as if they are, well, people — disappeared a long time ago.
Stratechery by Ben Thompson • Regretful Accelerationism
6. Company
6.1 Business Collectives
- @try_pineapple by @david_diam
- @vercinyc by @amiyoshimura_
- @_buildspace by @FarzaTV
- @hamptonfounders by @thesamparr
- @UseCollective by @JRauglaudre
- @beondeck by @david__booth
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Hugo Amsellemtwitter.comjust as in physical territory, online territory starts out as default autocratic, then only can become democratic through revolt, revolution, and reform.
every.to • Twitter as a City-State
The importance of agentic program managers to the success of the ARPA model isn’t surprising or new. The “aha” was that the only way to cut through the paradox of inconsistent process leading to consistent success was that the agentic program leader may be the only thing that’s important to get right; everything else may be cargo-culting.
Ben Reinhardt • The ARPA Model isn't what you think it is
If you’re trying to replicate DARPA’s success, most of the structural bits are a distraction. They’re certainly useful, but if you don’t get the agentic program leader piece right, nothing else matters.
Ben Reinhardt • The ARPA Model isn't what you think it is
So, representing systems dynamically is important for learning about and understanding systems deeply. This is important for both novices and experts. However, dynamic representations of systems are not just useful for learning. Dynamic simulations are models of some interacting phenomena, which makes them able to predict things.
Oliver Hunt • Building a 21st century interface for science
The divide between those who do and don’t own capital is an important driver of widening wealth inequality [50]. Forms of accessible co-ownership could be an antidote to chronic wage stagnation and anxieties about job-replacing automation.
Nathan Schneider • User Trusts: Broad-Based Ownership for Online Platforms
There is no heaven for newthings. There is no Hall of Fame. There is only memory and change. Nothing (the opposite of newthing) and no one are immune.
The goal of newthing is to live as long as possible while staying true. The longer it does this, the stronger and more itself it will become.
The goal of newthing is to live as long as possible while staying true. The longer it does this, the stronger and more itself it will become.