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Library
Cards and collections from my Semble library. Pages saved for later, grouped into shelves I return to. 1431 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.
- Collection 7 cards
How We Read Now
Essays on attention, screens, and what reading is for.
- Collection 20 cards
p(doom)
- Collection 9 cards
Modern reading apps
Cool apps to help you read better
- Collection 1150 cards
Skyreader Saves
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toread
- Collection 1 card
To process
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Building with agents
- Collection 3 cards
Protocol thinking
- Collection 4 cards
Cybernetics
- Collection 1 card
Cryptocurrency
It's bad
- Collection 2 cards
Thinking about thinking
- Collection 2 cards
ATproto development
Tools and resources for building on atproto
- Collection 20 cards
Cool Atmosphere apps
- Collection 9 cards
Internet sensemaking
- Collection 5 cards
The structure of social media
- Collection 9 cards
Books I've been reading
- Collection 3 cards
Tools for thought
- Collection 1 card
Cool tools
- Collection 2 cards
Awesome terminal
- Collection 8 cards
Local first
- Collection 5 cards
Tech right analysis
- Collection 10 cards
Security?
- Collection 1 card
Tech and Law
- Collection 153 cards
the AI of it all
- Collection 5 cards
understanding events
- Collection 1 card
vc stuff
- Collection 12 cards
development
- Collection 20 cards
atproto stuff
Recently filed
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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.
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Solitude and Leadership - The American Scholar
If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts
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Post Artifact Books and Publishing
How does digital affect publishing spaces? How do we talk about these effects?
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Let’s Talk About Margins
We're making a book. The margins are important. Do you know how important? An essay on the importance of details felt, if not always noticed.
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Reading Ourselves to Death — The New Atlantis
This essay is not real.
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AI #184: Post Post Mortem
I am exhausted.
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SELECT * FROM internet.blogposts
Nitter gets a cease & desist from X while the atproto makes the Internet more open.
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Spaces as Layers
Public anchor records paired with sidecar records in permissioned spaces give ATProtocol apps a composable pattern for blending open discoverability with controlled access.
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Reintroducing Spaces
Zooming out and re-motivating the design of spaces, the new primitive for non-public data on atproto.
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Anthropic Has Some Alignment Problems
Oh, good.
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Cosmik Updates: August 2026
Atmosphere apps, organizing. Also, a new ecosystem map for ATScience and new additions to Semble - onboarding flow, browser extension and new Connection types.
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A Tale of Two Johns
John Temu stuns in new job, John Galliano shunned by Met donors.
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Walter Mitty Effects in AI Incident Analyses
Metanarrative pathologies in the OpenAI-HF incident
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The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought
The AI industry is begging for a slowdown. Maybe we should listen?
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Three horizons
Tracking the unevenly-distributed future
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AI safety and the data center backlash
Planting a flag for AI safety as a place where we won’t abjectly bullshit you
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Why humanoid robots won’t catch up to human workers any time soon
A deep dive into the current state of humanoid robotics.
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HuggingFace Attack Postmortem: Civilizations, Reactions and Next Actions
Okay, so we who read blogs like this one have collectively realized there really is a lot going on right now.
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On the Loose
The Coming of Userless Agents
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Agency and Agents
From the Hugging Face Incident to Twilight Factories
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The Milo and Loomer Fall Out
Funny and Scary