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Some decisions affect particular stakeholders more than others. Some stakeholder groups may not want to be responsible for certain decisions. In the design of elegant decision making structures, it is important, through codesign, to identify which decisions particular stakeholder groups should be a part of...  As an example, musicians on a col... See more

But despite forty years of commercial products, open source, and deep academic work, we have yet to reach an end-user programming utopia. In fact, the opposite: today our computing devices are less programmable and less customizable than ever before.

Hardware enablers—AirPods and smart speakers—are colliding with changes in consumer behavior. On top of that, screen fatigue is drumming up demand for screen-less content. This confluence of factors is creating huge demand for “water”—for audio content and audio-first social networks.

Mercedes Bent: The greatest income arbitrage exists when an emerging new form of income develops and few have the skills and platform knowledge to transact. To keep up with the increasingly fast rate of change, people will need to learn new skills faster than ever.

I find that going wide and learning the best lessons from the people who have dedicated their entire lives to a certain pursuit gets you really, really close to mastery.

People who hate ads, like people who hate money and capitalism, don’t end up designing some better, less morally-compromised version of the world without those things: they just end up bitter at those who mastered the supposed evils.