This week's notable links
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! HOW TO SUCCEED IN MRBEAST PRODUCTION...
Threads is trading trust for growth
Yesterday the Internet Archive lost its appeal in the digital lending case it’s been fighting for the last few years. In March 2020, the Internet Archive, a...
This week's notable links
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! Founder Mode [ Paul Graham ] "In effect...
What I've learned about writing a book (so far)
Some things I’ve learned about me and writing recently: I’m impossibly distractible. It’s a learned behavior: I check all my social networks, take a look at...
This week's notable links
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! A Developer's Guide to ActivityPub and...
More Unoffice Hours
Back in May, I announced Unoffice Hours , inspired by something Matt Webb had established with his community . Anyone could book a 30 minute meeting with me,...
Using AI to feed my toddler on a road trip
This past week I embarked upon two long car drives — from Philadelphia to Cape Cod and back again — with an almost-two year-old. He’s a remarkably good...
This week's notable links
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! Inside Project 2025’s Secret Training...
Asides
Some shorter, collected thoughts from the last week: No, the news is not information junk food Every so often, a post goes around in tech circles about how...
This week's notable links
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! Kamala Harris Can Be the Pro-Innovation...
Call for startups
I don’t invest any more, but here are some areas I’d be interested to see startups explore: The hallway track for remote and hybrid teams. One reason many...
This week's notable links
This is my regular digest of links and media I found notable over the last week. Did I miss something? Let me know! How Do You Solve a Problem Like Elon? [...
What I want to see from every product team
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...