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Kelly’s vision depends on an evolution of the Internet in which the vast tangle of possible one-on-one connections partition into countless small cliques—each one a fandom or a mini community revelling in the discovery of others who share their quirks. Instead, the social-media giants effectively rerouted these connections through a small number of... See more
Cal Newport • The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class
Nature’s laws do not change very much. So long as the store of human knowledge continues to expand, as it has since Gutenberg’s printing press, we will slowly come to a better understanding of nature’s signals, if never all its secrets. And yet if science and technology are the heroes of this book, there is the risk in the age of Big Data about
... See moreNate Silver • The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
This style of thinking is foreign to me, but I find it fascinating, and important. Stereotypical "wealthy white liberals" ignore this at their peril: these more "traditional" values are actually quite popular even among some ethnic minorities in the United States, and even more so in places like Africa and India, which is exactly where Balaji is... See more
Vitalik Buterin • What do I think about network states?
The World Wide Web is what I know best (I’ve coded for money in the programming languages Java, JavaScript, Python, Perl, PHP, Clojure, and XSLT), but the Web is only one small part of the larger world of software development. There are 11 million professional software developers on earth, according to the research firm IDC. (An additional 7... See more
Paul Ford • Paul Ford: What Is Code? | Bloomberg
I’m fascinated with history’s thinker-doers: Cicero, Marcus Aurelius, Benjamin Franklin. There’s no greater achievement than calling your shots: laying out a theoretical worldview, then executing ruthlessly to bend reality.
There exist people like this today, who write a manifesto and go build a $100B company on top.... See more
Johnathan Bix.comLegacy Media Is Lying To You - Balaji Srinivasan | Modern Wisdom Podcast 519
youtube.comNational Review writer David French, who is a libertarian Christian, has been subjected to scathing attacks for his belief that Christians should realize that America is highly unlikely to ever vote to criminalize abortion or roll back same-sex marriage
Matthew Sheffieldx.comShopify is selling itself to potential 10x engineers with the stat, “increasing the projects per PM by 56%.”
What a wild time to be a PM. Your non-existence is a selling point to engineers.
I asked Marty Cagan about that this morning.
He shared that there are so... See more
Aakash Guptax.com