Ben Werdmuller - Ben Werdmuller

Technology

The community-first software era

Some ideas about how to encode our values into the tools we use

Notable links

Notable links: May 29, 2026

On sustainably building tech that serves humanity.

Technology

"The protocol world has been trying to solve the problem of how to leave, and the next step is working on how we can stay together."

It's not enough to be free. We also need to be in community

Business

To reach your big goal, you need to sell where you're heading next

"You need to sell Point C: the concrete, vivid destination you will take yourself, your team, and your company to over the next twelve to twenty-four months."

Technology

The Fediverse is not a product. It's time to get real about marketing

If projects are going to convince people to try alternatives to Big Tech, they need to do a much better job of explaining why they're better for people who don't care about technical details like protocols and decentralization.

When the AI boom subsides, the data centers will remain. What we do now matters

Data centers are the new factories. How we think about the precedents they set matters.

The Pope used his first encyclical to warn about tech centralization

"When such power is concentrated in the hands of a few, it tends to become opaque and evade public oversight, [giving] rise to new dependencies, exclusions, manipulations and inequalities."