neo-Enlightenment for a Network Society: see (2021-07-07) Network Enlightenment (more)

An Exciting Leap Forward for Glitch, becoming part of Fastly. Why are we joining forces with Fastly? There are a couple of great reasons. It starts with having more support and resources to keep improving Glitch. We’re hiring for incredible people to come help with this work, starting today with engineering roles on the Developer Relations team, and watch for Glitch-focused support, community and engineering roles coming soon, too. (more)

Fog Creek is now Glitch! We’ve renamed Fog Creek to Glitch, Inc. to represent our single-minded focus on Glitch (more)

webdev, etc. https://x.com/gabriel_export (more)

Ryan Gil: A Crucible Moment. A Metaverse is a big idea — the Open Metaverse can be even bigger. Perhaps the biggest idea of our modern times. It can fundamentally change not only what we know, but also how we connect as a networked species. (more)

Gergely Orosz: Twisting the rules of building software: Bending Spoons (the team behind Evernote). *Today I'm happy to have the Bending Spoons team here with me. We have Luca, Francesco and Federico. When I first tweeted about Bending Spoons and how I discovered the interesting things that you're doing, I had Italian developers ping me and telling me, oh, I actually applied to Bending Spoons. They're the hottest place to be in Italy. And I asked them, when did you apply? (more)

James Pethokoukis: The techno-optimist Up-Wing lesson that William Gibson's 'The Peripheral' (Jackpot series) inadvertently teaches. There’s so much pessimistic, Down-Wing science fiction out there that I have to scrounge whatever snippets of Up-Wing, techno-solutionist optimism wherever I can. (solutionism) (more)

up-wing/down-wing, a different lens than right-wing/left-wing

Distraction by Bruce Sterling (1998!) ISBN:0553576399 (more)

Extending past Progress conversation with NotebookLM on potential for a NetworkEnlightenment.... (2025-06-14) Collaborative Groups Of Thinkers That Instigated Significant Technological And Political Changes (more)

Tim Bray links to the latest anti-MsPowerPoint discussions, triggered by Edward Tufte, summarized by WiredMag, and talks about his own attempts to talk-outside-the-bullet. (more)

Ben Horowitz suggests how to scale your Start Up. In this post, I will discuss the basics of scaling an organization. In doing so, I will lay out the fundamentals, but not go as far as writing a how-to guide. Hopefully, this will give you the context to apply the myriad of scaling techniques in the management literature appropriately. I will save for later posts more advanced topics....At the point when adding people into the company feels like more work than the work that you can offload to the new employees, the defensive lineman has run around you and you probably need to start giving ground grudgingly. The first scale technique to implement is specialization... (more)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonkolb/ http://www.jasonkolb.com/ (more)

Evelyn Rodriguez on business Metaphors. She says Ricardo Semler debunks the need for a top-down Mission statement within a corporation. In the Seven Day Weekend, Ricardo Semler says that the mission statement is a carryover from the military and mainly intended for "public relations" and debunks the need for a top-down mission statement within a corporation. Semco itself does not have a mission statement. "The mission and credo terminology is borrowed from the military, and the deficiencies in the military analogy illustrate why grassroots, deed-driven values are preferable and successful." (more)

bottom-up, organic/emergent

creating a fake GrassRoots movement (more)

A Global Web of Chinese Propaganda Leads to a U.S. Tech Mogul. The Times unraveled a financial network that stretches from Chicago to Shanghai and uses American nonprofits to push Chinese talking points worldwide. (more)

book-to-be from Eric Markowitz https://www.eric-markowitz.com What can the world’s oldest companies—and nature’s most resilient lifeforms—teach us about longevity? Over the next 12 months, I’ll travel the globe—from Central American rainforests to centuries-old businesses in Europe and Asia—on a quest to answer one question: what allows a rare few systems to outlast? (more)

Chris Barber: career & startup advice for the GenAI era... AI makes some things cheap and easy. But not everything. The things that it doesn’t make cheap and easy but that are still demanded by customers then become the bottlenecks, and are generally more valuable. (more)

Chicago dev, building Hearken (more)