Cam Jones

The feeling of progress is one of the best feelings of all. This is true even when progress is small.

I have been fumbling on what to tell high school and college students about the future of computer science and software engineering. What to focus on? It’s obvious now. I can be so dense.

All I know is everything I needed to know to do everything I’ve ever done. I never once in my life thought about what I wanted to study. I just tried to make... See more

Anyway, I sent him Bill Clinton above. Yes, Bill’s being self-serving. He did rather a lot of that. Still does. But what he says is also devastatingly right. The media sits at the centre of discussion — between protagonists of different positions.

I wrote a whole article on this and how fundamental it is for those institutions that convene spaces... See more

Being invisible doesn’t mean being absent. It means being purposefully light. It means resisting the urge to fill the space or solve the problem. It means shifting from holding the spotlight to holding the space.

Here are five small actions that make a big difference:

Open with contribution, not context.Instead of kicking off with a long intro,... See more

Sometimes you meet someone, and you know from the first moment that you want to spend your whole life without them.

Welcome to Rate Your Music

RYM is one of the largest music databases and communities online, which you can use in endless ways to discover new music.

If you want a long career in the tech industry, you have to embrace whatever is fashionable, no matter how stupid it seems.

Learn the new thing, use it, become an expert in it. And then be ready to throw it aside and denounce it when the next thing arrives.

Spotify’s current incentives indicate that they’ll continue moving away from promoting human-made (and thus independently owned) music and toward anonymous first-party (and, inevitably, AI-generated) background music. As the most widely used music streaming platform gradually transforms into an AI white noise company, where does that leave recorded... See more