Sublime

Small is beautiful: moving away from large knowledge sharing communities such as Stackoverflow, niche knowledge sharing communities are emerging. Based around communal values of

Now Google, Microsoft, Facebook, all mean well. They want to help us. The filters-at-source are there to personalise service to us, to make things simple and convenient for us. The risks that Pariser and Zittrain speak of are, to an extent, unintended consequences of well-meaning design.

We are living through the emergence of a new business category which I believe will become an important part of our digital lives: community-curated knowledge networks  (a thread on why) https://t.co/ZNg3FHiGUD

Social Will Go Local

In "The End of Software" @cpaik gets it half right. He totally nails the arc of history (the availability of application software will explode) but it's worth asking "so what?" Who win: new classes of companies to make order from chaos + take advantage of new markets Who loses: founders + ... See more

Death of the attention economy and a focus on the betterment of users. Platforms that focus on fostering meaningful connections and are founded on principles that champion our mental health, personal growth, and happiness.