Technology
How to know if that job will crush your soul
"But these questions are framed in this way to encourage us all to aspire towards roles that enable us to do our best work, to have the biggest impact, and to live according to our values."
Commentary on links that caught my attention around the web.
Technology
"But these questions are framed in this way to encourage us all to aspire towards roles that enable us to do our best work, to have the biggest impact, and to live according to our values."
Notable links
Looking ahead: humans are cool again.
Technology
"Instagram no longer believes it can beat AI by making more or better content. It wants to be the referee, to decide what is real and what is not, and to build systems that can do it at scale."
AI
Simon Willison breaks down what happened in the LLM space in 2025. Some of it has the potential to transform tech forever.
Technology
This year's predictions from tech experts and decision-makers are notably pro-human.
Media
"Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked."
Notable links
An alternative Christmas; lies we tell ourselves.
Technology
Tim's 2026 predictions are worth paying attention to - and form a great map for following where the open social web is going.
Technology
"Airbus is preparing to tender a major contract to migrate mission-critical workloads to a digitally sovereign European cloud – but estimates only an 80/20 chance of finding a suitable provider."
Media
We don't need to educate our audiences to fit our needs. We need to educate ourselves to fit our audiences.
Notable links
Predictions for journalism; paperbacks are dead; feeling the fear.
Business
"Feeling fear goes hand-in-hand with being ambitious. Imposter syndrome is real and normal. In fact, if you aren't feeling fear in what you do, I'd argue that you aren't being ambitious enough." Here's a way to build in the fear and do it anyway.