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Tyler Cowen: Marc Andreessen on Learning to Love the Humanities (Ep. 152). Without understanding the deep patterns of human behavior, how can you know what to build, or who should build it, or how? For Marc, that means reading deeply in the humanities (more)

Steven Levy: The Curse of the Creator Economy. Journalist Taylor Lorenz isn’t the first to declare legacy media a dead industry walking. (more)

Venkatesh Rao: Elderblog Sutra: 13. ...rebuilding of the foundations on something other than PHP and MySQL, but I suspect it will eventually happen when the hedge value of a non-platform alt-stack, with capacity for genuine commercial independence, becomes high enough. (more)

Bob Lefsetz: Taylor Lorenz's Book. You’ve got to read it. Like right now. Because this is the key to the real America, the real world, that the boomers and the straight media pooh-pooh but drives all the viewers, eats up all the attention, generates all the dollars. (more)

John Oliver on management consulting firms: ‘They shouldn’t get to be invisible’. John Oliver tore into management consulting firms on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, and in particular the track record of McKinsey. (more)

Robin Sloan: Week 47, the Jaws of the commons. For several years, I have been a devoted user of an app called Tapstack. (more)

W David Marx: Why haven’t internet creators become superstars? We’re a decade into online video emerging as the most powerful and popular form of mass media, and yet almost none of its stars have truly “crossed over” into mainstream success (more)

Cristobal Sciutto: Folk (Browser) Interfaces. For the past couple of years I've found myself returning to vanilla Javascript to build a variety of media interfaces. Ignoring the networked potential of the internet, I've felt liberated to simply point at local files and enjoy the multi-media power of the web browser as rendering engine. (more)

W David Marx: Review | Taylor Lorenz offers a new history of the ‘Extremely Online.’ As Washington Post technology and culture columnist Taylor Lorenz notes early in her debut book, “Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet,” a “complete history of the internet” would be an impossible, encyclopedic task (more)

Watch This Guy Work, and You’ll Finally Understand the TikTok Era. Ursus Magana put off eating his last brisket taco to whip up a blueprint for how he would guide me to stardom. It started with me ditching journalism to focus on churning out daily TikToks in which I’d offer tips about storytelling. (more)

How Twitter Users Can Generate Better Ideas (idea generation). The more diverse a person’s social network, the more likely that person is to be innovative. (more)

Blake Watson: MagnoliaJS 2023 talk: The joys of home-cooked apps.What is a home-cooked app? It’s the kind of app that you make for yourself, to solve your own problem or for your own entertainment. I didn’t invent the term, home-cooked app. A couple of years ago I read an article by Robin Sloan. (2020-02-28-SloanAnAppCanBeAHomecookedMeal, indie) (more)

Robin Sloan: on Moonbound! The title of my new novel, coming in June 2024 from MCD×FSG, is: Moonbound: The Last Book of the Anth (more)

Robin Sloan: An app can be a home-cooked meal. I made a messaging app for, and with, my family. It is ruth­lessly simple; we love it; no one else will ever use it. 2019-11-17-SloanWeek47TheJawsOfTheCommons (more)

What Makes Godot Engine Great for Advanced GUI Applications? While it was designed to make games, it has an exceptionally sophisticated system for making graphical user interfaces. I think this is the future for advanced GUI applications. Not convinced? (more)

Matt Ridley: Against Environmental Pessimism ...Example of things going right in the environment... Far from starving, the seven billion people who now inhabit the planet are far better fed than the four billion of 1980. Famine has pretty much gone extinct in recent decades. In the 1960s, about two million people died of famine; in the decade that just ended, tens of thousands died—and those were in countries run by callous tyrants. (more)

Joe Biden Team Prepares $3 Trillion in New Spending for the Economy. A pair of proposals would invest in infrastructure, education, work force development and fighting climate change, with the aim of making the economy more productive. (more)

The United Nations Climate Change Conferences are yearly conferences held in the framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). They serve as the formal meeting of the UNFCCC parties (Conference of the Parties, COP) to assess progress in dealing with climate change, and beginning in the mid-1990s, to negotiate the Kyoto Protocol to establish legally binding obligations for developed countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Climate_Change_conference