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The ability for anyone in a vast network of disconnected, distributed participants to leverage the work of others to create new applications didn’t just arise spontaneously — it required the cooperation of many people. Ethereum smart contract developers enabled composability over time by converging on community standards that describe how certain t... See more

Receipts and checks are not going to disappear overnight, but tech tools like optical character recognition and machine learning can eliminate the need to manually enter invoice information, collect receipts, and match the information against checks received on a company’s bank statement.

While Edison the individual is celebrated as the inventor of the electric light, it is the less visible corporate organization of the laboratory and business enterprise that enabled him to succeed. Edison was inventing not just the light bulb, but a new kind of relationship—however prickly and difficult—between corporate capital and scientific crea... See more

Substack also seems to understand something that few other technology platforms have understood: that the atomic unit of media isn’t an article, nor a media brand, but instead is the creator themselves.

Human scale institutions strive for optimum scale. Not mega scale. The point at which maximum quality can be attained. Their purpose is not to maximize profitability. It is to maximize well-being. Whose? Everyone’s.