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What I want to see from every product team
July 26, 2024
Here’s what I want to see from every technology-driven product team: Do you know your user? Not “this is the industry we’re targeting” or “this is for...
This week's notable links
July 22, 2024
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. It's a shorter email because of illness. Luckily, nothing much happened over...
The Silicon Valley Would-Be Vice President
July 18, 2024
JD Vance is an obvious, bald-faced opportunist. It makes sense that Trump would pick him as his Vice Presidential candidate; they probably understand each...
15 books that made an impact
July 11, 2024
I really like Lou Plummer’s list of 15 books which made the most impact on him , which I discovered via Tracy Durnell’s own list : I think you can figure out...
My technology coaching and consulting in 2024
July 9, 2024
My availability has opened up for a handful of consulting engagements in addition to my regular work as Senior Director of Technology at ProPublica . I’ve...
This week's notable links
July 8, 2024
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. (A lighter email than usual because I’ve been on holiday on the Oregon...
The America I love
July 4, 2024
I’m a natural-born American citizen but never lived here until my early thirties. I have a complicated relationship with the country: I never thought I’d...
This week's notable links
July 1, 2024
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! Calm Down—Your Phone Isn’t Listening to...
This week's notable links
June 24, 2024
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! Systems: What does a board of directors...
Don't let them tell you what to think
June 22, 2024
Last year I wrote a little about how I hope AI will be used, using the GPS navigation in my car as an analogy:I like my GPS. I use it pretty much every time...
This week's notable links
June 17, 2024
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! Succor borne every minute [Michael...
Escaping the 9-5
June 14, 2024
Imagine a life where you dictate your own schedule, free from the confines of a traditional job.That’s a thought experiment I’ve been playing with lately:...
Innovation depends on inclusion
June 13, 2024
A few weeks ago I wrote about how solving the challenges facing the news industry requires fundamentally changing newsroom culture. While newsrooms have...
Community survey 2024
June 11, 2024
I consider myself really lucky that people stop by and read my posts. Thank you!Every year I like to pause and ask folks a little bit more about themselves,...
This week's notable links
June 10, 2024
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! What if we worked together "Remember! If...
This week's notable links - June 3, 2024
June 3, 2024
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! The 21 best science fiction books of all...
Protecting artists on the fediverse
June 3, 2024
Over the weekend, I started to notice a bunch of artists moving to Cara, a social network for artists founded by Jingna Zhang, herself an accomplished...
This week's notable links
May 27, 2024
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! Nostr Journalism Accelerator Nos is...
Unoffice Hours
May 24, 2024
I’m enamored with Matt Webb’s unoffice hours: a way to chat with him about anything, without needing to email him first, for 30 minutes.As Matt says:I loved...
Dispatches from the media apocalypse
May 23, 2024
Without serious intervention, newsrooms are going to disappear. Changes to social media and the advent of generative AI threaten their businesses and the...
This week's notable links
May 20, 2024
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! Share Openly: A simple icon for a new...
This week's notable links
May 13, 2024
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! British newspaper groups warn Apple over...
Think twice before exercising your stock options
May 11, 2024
I recently wrote a short aside about stock options:But in general, for regular employees, I think options are rarely worth it. They typically require an up-...
Some ShareOpenly updates
May 10, 2024
It’s been a little over a month since I launched ShareOpenly, my simple tool that lets you add a “share to social media” button to your website which is...
Asides
May 10, 2024
Some shorter, collected thoughts from the last week: A letter to Russell T Davies Here’s what I would say to Russell T Davies if I could:One of my very first...
The baby stack at 20 months
May 5, 2024
When our son reached nine months old, I published this UsesThis-style list of products and services we were using; I had previously published one before he...
This week's notable links
April 29, 2024
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! Mastodon forms new U.S. non-profit...
Where I'm coming from
April 26, 2024
I’m paralyzed by the world. We seem to be at a kind of crossroads.There’s so much to be appalled by, so much to be worried about, and I worry that not saying...
The xenophobic, un-American TikTok ban
April 24, 2024
The requirement for TikTok to relinquish Chinese ownership or face a nationwide ban was signed into law today, as an add-on to a foreign aid bill:But even as...
Asides for April 19, 2024
April 19, 2024
Some shorter, collected thoughts from the last week: Backdoors are an everyone problem From the OpenJS Foundation:The recent attempted XZ Utils backdoor...
This week's notable links
April 8, 2024
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! Making version noir This is completely...
72
April 3, 2024
It’s my mother’s birthday. She would be 72 today.The week we lost her, I wrote this piece, which I re-read today.In it, our friend Anita Hurrell remembered...
This week's notable links
April 1, 2024
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! Replay: Memoir of an Uprooted Family, by...
Share Openly
March 27, 2024
You know all those “share to Facebook” / “share to Twitter” links you see all over peoples’ websites? They’re all out of date.Social media has evolved over...
This week's notable links
March 25, 2024
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! Threads has entered the fediverse "We’re...
Building engineering
March 23, 2024
I’ve spent most of my career — now well over two decades of it — building things on the web. I’ve worked as a software developer, I’ve founded a couple of my...
This week's notable links
March 18, 2024
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! The weird world of altruistic YouTube...
Exploring AI, safely
March 13, 2024
I’ve been thinking about the risks and ethical issues around AI in the following buckets:Source impacts: the ecosystem impact of generative models on the...
This week's notable links
March 11, 2024
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! AI gives the news you need I can't share...
Some asides
March 8, 2024
These are some shorter, collected thoughts from the last week. Introducing asides I’ve set up a new post type, “asides”, on my site. I’ve been kind of...
Startup pitch: Social VIP
March 8, 2024
Here’s my pitch for a fediverse product for organizations.Think of it as WordPress VIP for the fediverse: a way for organizations to safely build a presence...
This week's notable links
March 4, 2024
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! TinyLetter: looking back on the humblest...
Some personal updates
February 29, 2024
I write a lot about the intersection of technology and society here, and lately a lot about AI, but over the last year I’ve written a little less about what...
Platforms are selling your work to AI vendors with impunity. They need to stop.
February 28, 2024
404 Media reports that Automattic is planning to sell its data to Midjourney and OpenAI for training generative models:The exact types of data from each...
This week's notable links
February 26, 2024
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! Demoted, Deleted, and Denied: There’s...
ASCAP for AI
February 24, 2024
Hunter Walk writes: The checks being cut to ‘owners’ of training data are creating a huge barrier to entry for challengers. If Google, OpenAI, and other...
Stop what you're doing and watch Breaking the News
February 20, 2024
Breaking the News, the documentary about The 19th, aired on PBS last night and is available to watch for free on YouTube for the next 90 days.It’s both a...
This week's notable links
February 19, 2024
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! Heat pumps outsold gas furnaces again...
Social, I love you, but you’re bringing me down
February 19, 2024
This weekend I realized that I’m kind of burned out: agitated, stressed about nothing in particular, and peculiarly sleepless. It took a little introspection...
This week's notable links (really)
February 12, 2024
Earlier today you received a weekly notable links email with exactly one link in it. As it turns out, this was a bug with my newsletter service provider,...
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