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I'm pretty critical of the NYT's coverage these days - I wish they'd do much better on trans issues and on being more critical on America's involvement in global conflicts - but this is a fascinating, illuminating interview. It's honestly
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A glimpse into a surprising design problem created by constitutional monarchy: the need to update the crown in your logo when a new King has taken the throne. "On each accession, the monarch will choose a Royal Cypher, or symbol to represent their personal authority. You can see the
Breaking the News, the documentary about The 19th, aired on PBS last night and is available to watch for free on YouTube for the next 90 days. It’s both a film about the news industry and about startups: a team’s journey to show that journalism can and should
This weekend I realized that I’m kind of burned out: agitated, stressed about nothing in particular, and peculiarly sleepless. It took a little introspection to figure out what was really going on. Here’s what I finally decided: I really need to pull back from using social media in
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"Americans bought 21 percent more heat pumps in 2023 than the next-most popular heating appliance, fossil gas furnaces." Quietly, the way we heat our homes is changing - and it has the potential to make a big impact. Because heat pumps use around a quarter of the energy
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"We are professional editors, with extensive experience in the Australian book publishing industry, who wanted to know how ChatGPT would perform when compared to a human editor. To find out, we decided to ask it to edit a short story that had already been worked on by human editors
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"We need people with a service mindset, who understand how to run a business, but a business with a mission that’s more important than ever. We need leaders who embrace new revenue models, run toward chaos, and are excited to build new structures from the ground up. We
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"On one occasion, a handful of children, all about ages 5 to 8, were carried to the emergency room by their parents. All had single sniper shots to the head. These families were returning to their homes in Khan Yunis, about 2.5 miles away from the hospital, after
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"My fundamental position is that paying people to work on open source is good, full stop, no exceptions. We need to stop criticizing maintainers getting paid, and start celebrating. Yes, all of the mechanisms are flawed in some way, but that’s because the world is flawed, and it’
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"A trove of leaked emails shows how administrators of one of the most prestigious awards in science fiction censored themselves because the awards ceremony was being held in China." What's remarkable here is that they weren't censored by the government - instead this trove
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It's hard to read this without feeling like the social contract of the web is falling apart. And when social agreements fall apart, that's when we start having to talk about more rigid, enforced contracts instead. As the piece notes: "There are people on both
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Catnip for me: the first post in a new blog that tells the story of building Slack from the ground up, by two of its former employees. This was surprising to me, although I guess I don't really know why: "We used the tried and true LAMP
