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@kylewmahan One of the things I really ...

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07 Apr 2016

@kylewmahan One of the things I really like about #indieweb is that it's about making new things for the future.

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The honest truth about leaders who want to replace their workers with AI

"The problem tends to show up when a CEO is handed an agentic tool like Claude Code, and has it create something, which will work just fine, and thinks “oh, wait, why do we need so many people, when I can just sit here and make things work?” This is a bad CEO."

10 Jun 2026

To build the future, we need theories of change

News tends to treat technology as something that happens to it, like an asteroid. To better navigate the future, we need to imagine what might come next.

10 Jun 2026
Robin Berjon speaking at PublicSpaces

It's not enough to have better ideals.

You also need to build a better product.

10 Jun 2026
The community-first software era

The community-first software era

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

04 Jun 2026
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