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Library
Cards and collections from my Semble library. Pages saved for later, grouped into shelves I return to. 1429 cards, 32 shelfves.
Shelves
32 collections- Collection 3 cards
Articles I keep thinking about
Pieces that I return to over the years. Don't necessarily agree with them but I keep thinking about them.
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Tools for Thought
Reading that adds up. The lineage of ideas behind notes, memory, and understanding.
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The Craft
Classic essays on doing good work in software, worth rereading every few years.
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The Open Web
Why the social web is being rebuilt on protocols, and what that buys you.
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How We Read Now
Essays on attention, screens, and what reading is for.
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p(doom)
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Modern reading apps
Cool apps to help you read better
- Collection 1148 cards
Skyreader Saves
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toread
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To process
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Building with agents
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Protocol thinking
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Cybernetics
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Cryptocurrency
It's bad
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Thinking about thinking
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ATproto development
Tools and resources for building on atproto
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Cool Atmosphere apps
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Internet sensemaking
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The structure of social media
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Books I've been reading
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Tools for thought
- Collection 1 card
Cool tools
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Awesome terminal
- Collection 8 cards
Local first
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Tech right analysis
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Security?
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Tech and Law
- Collection 153 cards
the AI of it all
- Collection 5 cards
understanding events
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vc stuff
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development
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atproto stuff
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Arbiter Progress Report 4
In which we abuse permission sets to create virtual custom scopes for the arbiter.
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Post by @jachiam0 on X
There is a fact about the future that I feel many people are not facing for reasons that are largely psychological: there are going to be ro
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LLMs and self-referentiality
I woke up yesterday with the following thoughts, which are probably either obvious or dumb. A central thesis that many readers, including me, took from Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel Escher Bach when young was that the secret of intelligence (and therefore, of AI) was going to have a lot to do with self-referentiality and “strange loops.”…
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What we want is a hunter gatherer lifestyle with space age tools
Those who are convinced that there is more to things spend their time chasing it and not finding it often as not, and those who are convinced there isn't find themselves frustrated at the abyss.
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Robot startups are trying everything they can think of to get more data
Free apartment cleanings, exoskeletons, 100 robots in a warehouse...
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Federating friendly spaces
hearkening back to the cozy vibes of old-web neighborhoods
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An Interview with OpenAI President Greg Brockman About Astra and Alignment
An interview with OpenAI President and Co-Founder Greg Brockman about the history of OpenAI, Astra and alignment, and the weight of building the future.
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The Grug Brained Developer
this collection of thoughts on software development gathered by grug brain developer
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Dan McKinley :: Choose Boring Technology
Probably the single best thing to happen to me in my career was having had Kellan placed in charge of me. I stuck around long enough to see Kellan’s technical decisionmaking start to bear fruit. I learned a great deal from this, but I also learned a great deal as a result of this. I would not have been free to become the engineer that wrote Data Driven Products Now! if Kellan had not been there to so thoroughly stick the landing on technology choices.
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Learnable Programming
Here's a trick question: How do we get people to understand programming?
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You and Your Research
Transcription of the Bell Communications Research Colloquium Seminar 7 March 1986
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Atproto for distributed systems engineers - AT Protocol
In this article we're going to explore atproto from the perspective of distributed backend engineering.
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The Internet Transition
The Internet is allowing us to build a richer, more complex society but the way in which we Internet today is failing to support the governance systems that a more complex world requires. I take a look at why these issues are related, try to develop an intuition for a way forward, and point at the emerging field that is coming together to build that future.
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Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech
What is clear is that there is no simple solution to these challenges, and most of the ones that are normally presented tend not to deal with the reality of the problems or to understand the technical and societal challenges that likely make them impossible.
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Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.
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The Web We Lost - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
A newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web
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The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral
Opening keynote for dLRN 2015. Delivered October 16th @ Stanford. Actual keynote may have gone on significant tangents… 1 | a year in the garden A week or so ago, I was reading about the Oreg…
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Why books don't work
Designing media to reflect how people think and learn
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As We May Think
“Consider a future device ... in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.”
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The Website Obesity Crisis
This is the text version of a talk I gave on October 29, 2015, at the Web Directions conference in Sydney. [53 minute video].
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An app can be a home-cooked meal
I made a messaging app for my family and my family only.