Business
Why You Need Systems Thinking Now
"Focus on flows and relationships, not products or services." An argument for systems thinking instead of design thinking or breakthrough innovation.
Notable links
Commentary on links that caught my attention around the web.
AI
Political Pollsters Are Trying to Save Money by Polling AI Instead of Real People, and It’s Going About as Well as You’d Expect
"Obviously, any campaign that used only that AI-generated data would miss the mark — instead of looking at the views of real respondents, it would be looking at a funhouse mirror reflection of a demographic cooked up by a language model with no access to actual data."
Media
The 19th's Strategic Plan
"The 19th developed seven key initiatives to guide our priorities for the next three years." Doing this work in public is such a smart move.
Democracy
How Do We Tell the Story of Gaza’s Murdered Journalists?
"Now, nearly two years and more than 250 assassinations later, I can count the names of the living journalists in Gaza I follow on one hand."
Technology
Funding Open Source like public infrastructure
"Open Source runs much of the world's critical infrastructure. It powers government services, supports national security, and enables everything from public health systems to elections. This means governments must help fund Open Source."
Technology
Perplexity Makes Longshot $34.5 Billion Offer for Chrome
"Artificial-intelligence startup Perplexity offered to purchase Google’s Chrome browser for $34.5 billion as it works to challenge the tech giant’s web-search dominance."
Technology
Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December
Japan, the EU, and the UK all now require Apple to support third-party browser engines. That's great news for the open web.
Technology
Silicon Valley’s Dream Tech Job Is Disappearing
“We’re seeing right now why tech needs unions.”
Technology
Ghost 6.0
The new version of Ghost connects every site to an open social network that provides built-in reach without losing independence.
Media
Did Craigslist decimate newspapers?
"Here in six short chapters is the tale of Craigslist’s rise to a business generating hundreds of millions of dollars a year, how Newmark has used that fortune and how newspapers, slow to adapt, failed to respond effectively to the digital shift.”
Media
Curate your own newspaper with RSS
"In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder."
AI
Trump and the Energy Industry Are Eager to Power AI With Fossil Fuels
The Trump administration is using AI as a way to shill fossil fuels. But even for tech companies that don't care about climate change, renewables are a far better option.