Accelerated Expertise expert: https://acsilabs.org/team/lia-a-dibello/ (more)

Jack Dorsey's buzz.xyz: the Dev Workflow Game Changer We Didn't Know We Needed? It's an integration of team chat, AI agents, and Git hosting. As a full-stack dev grinding on Next.js, TypeScript, and constantly wrangling Supabase and various AI APIs, this immediately piqued my interest. (more)

Jack Dorsey: why we're buzzing. yesterday we released buzz.xyz. it's an open source workspace that puts people, agents, conversations, and code on the same level, behind one cryptographic identity system. we built it to reduce our dependency on slack.com and github, and we're sharing it so anyone can do the same. (more)

Jack Dorsey is taking on Slack.com with Buzz.xyz, a group chat platform for teams and their AI agents. Twitter and Block co-founder Jack Dorsey announced a new app on Tuesday called Buzz. Positioned as a challenger to Slack and GitHub, Buzz is a group chat platform for the workplace that puts humans and their AI agents in the same conversations. (more)

Swedish essayist. I used to be a programmer and last worked in an art gallery. I write about things I like--relationships, literature, agency, attentiveness escapingflatland.substack.com/ https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/

free diagram tool - mimics hand-drawn style like Balsamiq Mockups https://excalidraw.com/ (more)

Michael Strong: The Most Progressive Movement on the Planet. What if there was a global movement that had the potential to eliminate poverty and war in our lifetimes by expanding opportunity for the world's poorest people? Most people would regard such a movement as an extraordinary source of hope and progress; it could lay claim to being the most progressive movement on the planet. What is this movement? (more)

Visakan Veerasamy: Are you serious? It’s frustrating to not be taken seriously. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: The Most Important Charts In The World (more)

AI companies are racing to build AIs that are smarter than humans in every way. In AI 2027, we predicted that this would result in either extinction or irreversible concentration of power. Plan A is our positive vision for what should happen instead. https://ai-2040.com/ (more)

Paul Ford: Stop trying to make computers human—and get back to making them awesome. That day, people online had been discussing how good ChatGPT was at guessing where a picture was taken, so I fed it this image and asked it not just to figure out what building, but which floor. It identified the exact building (17 State Street), and then suggested it was the 34th floor (it was the 30th). This was, I thought, surprisingly accurate. (more)

Library Startup ‘Briet’ Wants to Revolutionize E-Book Sales, Not Licensing. With publishers and libraries at odds over e-book licensing’s long-term expense, hold times, and ethical concerns, a new platform called Briet is pursuing an open-access approach. Briet invites publishers to sell their e-books to libraries outright, providing universal, perpetual access. Several independent publishers including PM Press, Punctum, Sideshow, and Silver Sprocket are on board. (more)

Paul Ford: Claude Code for web ruined my brain. Anthropic recently launched a browser-based version of its Claude Code product. I’ve been using their desktop- (or rather, terminal-) based coding tool for nearly a year. Now it’s on the web, and in their mobile app (more)

Paul Ford: AI explains Palantir. I spent a lot of time using AI tools to generate text, and most of it was predictably forgettable, but I did get ChatGPT to help me finally understand what Palantir does. Basically, they strap a graph database on a CRM and some dashboards, solve deploy for police departments, throw consultants in front of that, and use a government-friendly version of agile to actually ship product in months instead of years (more)

Venkatesh Rao: Eigenyou Theory. software eats you...in a medium-is-the-message way, the digital environment changes you and makes you a different and, as I will argue, more characteristic version of yourself. And less of an interchangeable part. (more)

Chris Butler: Decision-Forcing Cases: Gaining experience without the hurt. Product people play an amorphous, uncertain, and constantly renegotiated role on product teams. To do well in that role requires experience. (more)

Paul Ford: AI is ushering in a miraculous age. We shouldn’t waste it. There’s a lot swirling right now (more)

Paul Ford: My Practical “Pre-Meeting“ AI Prompt That Helps Me Be a Better Listener. At Aboard, we’re building a tool that helps you build business software very, very quickly. And lately we’re starting to have more meetings to pitch our approach—and I've been using AI to prep myself for those meetings. (more)

FourGW term? Foreign Policy? wider? or is it really a generic phrase? (more)

Fabius Maximus on the Myth of Grand Strategy. We can describe these as "grand strategies", but to do so has an element of falsity. Such intellectual analysis, based on theory, had no place in the hearts of these peoples. History also suggests than leaders cannot manufacture a "Primal Strategy." You either have it, or you don't (Emergence?)... We can only envy these "primal strategies." The people of a developed western state seldom have a widely agreed goal and the willingness to sacrifice for its achievement. History shows that a mature state often tries to imitate a "primal strategy," a vain attempt to recapture a lost element from its past. Developed states have wealth, income, and security. They have complex societies, whose elements have a wide range of goals and viewpoints (Coalition). Their leaders and people have a large degree of cynicism. All of these make a "primal strategy" difficult to achieve. Europe"s last attempt was burnt out of its culture in the fires of World War I... General Semantics also sees the world in terms of maps. It is a science of applied epistemology invented in 1933 by Alfred Korzybski. The "ABC-s" of General Semantics explain why grand strategies tend to fail, and greater ambition increases the odds of failure. (This is 1st in his 4-part Grand Strategy series.)