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The software industry has evolved in just a couple of generations, leaving little time to reflect on how things are done.

Adam Barr • The Problem With Software: Why Smart Engineers Write Bad Code (The MIT Press)

Decisions were made at the advent of the internet about critical things such as security, privacy, user sovereignty et cetera without any form of democracy. As we now know, many of these choices had profound, often irrevocable, consequences that will reverberate throughout the digital world for decades to come.

Piers Kicks • Into The Void

Kevin Kelly, editor of Wired, puts it this way: “To multiply several prime numbers into a larger product is easy; any elementary school kid can do it. But the world’s supercomputers choke while trying to unravel a product into its simple primes.”

James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

One of the lessons that TMitTB has tried to get across to you, the big message that matters most to him, is that code is never done; after shipping the new platform (no longer a website, this is a platform), with all its interlocking components, he and his team will continue to work on it forever. There will always be new bugs, new features, new ne... See more

PAUL FORD • Paul Ford: What Is Code? | Bloomberg

Palm, on the other hand, regrouped. It surveyed Zoomer buyers to find out what they liked and didn’t like, what they used and didn’t use: What these people said opened the company’s eyes. More than 90% of Zoomer owners also owned a PC. More than half of them bought Zoomer because of software (offered as an add-on) that transferred data to and from

David S. Evans • Invisible Engines: How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries

Publishers still perform other functions in selecting, editing, and marketing work (dozens of people besides me have worked to improve this book, for example), but they no longer form the barrier between private and public writing.

Clay Shirky • Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators

The internet unlocks distribution. Traditionally, gatekeepers dictated who had influence: record labels, newspaper editors, studio executives. Now anyone can build an online community. You can share videos to YouTube, writing to Substack, music to Soundcloud

Rex Woodbury • The Creator Manifesto 🎨

bottom-up community ecosystem that founder Pierre Omidyar calls an “of the people, by the people, for the people” environment.25

Rachel Botsman • What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption

This “undulant interface” was made by John Underkoffler. The heresy implicit within is the premise that the user, not the system, gets to define what is most important at any given moment; where to place the jeweler’s loupes for more detail, and where to show only a simple overview, within one consistent interface.