Thomas Ptacek: My AI (LLM) Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts. Tech execs are mandating LLM adoption. That’s bad strategy. But I get where they’re coming from. Some of the smartest people I know share a bone-deep belief that AI is a fad — the next iteration of NFT mania. I’ve been reluctant to push back on them, because, well, they’re smarter than me. But their arguments are unserious. (more)

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Great Founder Theory - 2020 Manuscript by Samo Burja http://samoburja.com/gft/ (more)

A university (from Latin universitas 'a whole') is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines.[1] University is derived from the Latin phrase universitas magistrorum et scholarium, which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars".[2] Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. The first universities in Europe were established by Catholic monks.[3][4][5][6][7] The University of Bologna (Università di Bologna), Italy, which was founded in 1088, is the first university. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University

There has never been an immortal human society. I work on figuring out why... In 2017, I founded Bismarck Analysis, a consulting firm that investigates the political and institutional landscape of society. I am a Senior Research Fellow in Political Science at the Foresight Institute where I advise how institutions can shape the future of technology. https://samoburja.com/

Kei Kreutler: Inventories, Not Identities. Why multisigs are the future of online accounts. (more)

Kevin Kwok: The Arc of Collaboration. When Slack.com first started growing, there were many debates over which company would own collaboration-ware, Slack.com or Dropbox. (more)

Dorian Taylor tool. In­ter­tw­ing­ler is an engine for making websites. Its specific focus is managing very large numbers of very small objects, densely connected to one another in disparate ways. It was borne out of an observation that the Web, at least out of the box, is actually pretty bad at this.... End Users: In­ter­tw­ing­ler was designed primarily as a substrate for communicating complex topics. It’s made to maximize linking between small pieces of information, in a style called dense hypermedia (IBIS?). This helps you gain comprehension while only having to read the parts you need to... Self-Hosters: In­ter­tw­ing­ler is designed to ship as a single, stand-alone, open-source package that you can run on your personal computer, your server—​whether in your house or in a data centre—​or your cloud account. Eventually, a version of In­ter­tw­ing­ler will run on your phone. In­ter­tw­ing­ler is designed to federate with other instances of itself, not only for scale but also for balancing security and availability. With In­ter­tw­ing­ler, your single source of truth can be virtualized and spread across multiple physical locations, for a single, seamless information space. https://intertwingler.net/ (more)

I have come to tell you that you are free. Many ages ago, My consciousness left man, that he might develop himself. I return to find this development approaching completion, but hindered by fear and by misunderstanding. (more)

Erlend Sogge Heggen: Sense-making in federated discourse. In Feed Overload I made a brief case for some content gardening tools I'm missing in my fediverse experience (2023-03-27-ErlendFeedOverload) (more)

Flo Crivello: Feel Like a Team Again With Teamflow, Your Own Virtual Office. Teamflow is a virtual office for remote teams. It recreates the casual, unplanned chats and the seamless collaboration that people miss from physical offices. (more)

Vitalik Buterin: Why I Built Zuzalu. We tend to think about physical places, as well as the activities and cultures that come with those places, as being immutable. (more)

Samo Burja: Functional Institutions are the Exception. Within nearly every institution larger than a dozen people, insiders feel resigned about how hard it is to get things done. They complain, but don’t expect improvement. They maintain a coordinated competence only barely above the level necessary to keep the institution in existence. (more)

Samo Burja: Why I'm Writing A Book. I am writing a book on great founder theory. (more)

Erlend Sogge Heggen: Feed Overload. The all too common firehose stream has never worked for me. It’s undoubtedly a big reason why I never got properly into Twitter. (more)

A Mobile Virtual Network Operator is a wireless communications services provider that does not own the wireless network infrastructure over which it provides services to its customers. An MVNO enters into a business agreement with a mobile network operator to obtain bulk access to network services at wholesale rates, then sets retail prices independently.[1] An MVNO may use its own customer service, billing support systems, marketing, and sales personnel, or it could employ the services of a mobile virtual network enabler (MVNE). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MVNO (more)

A variety of philosophies/attitudes around Less Is More/Good Enough. (more)

This kinda space: a single-author Wiki that supports WebLog features (though I suppose you could do it the other way around, as well). Single-writer (though others can leave comments), public for reading. Also (as of 2020) calling this an Outer Garden. (more)

l'eau de vie (more)