👋 On time for your weekend: a weekly round-up of stories at the intersection of #technology, #business, #design and #organisation that stood out.
📚 Reading
Internet 3.0 and the Beginning of (Tech) History:
[T]echnology itself will return to the forefront: if the priority for an increasing number of citizens, companies, and countries is to escape centralization, then the answer will not be competing centralized entities, but rather a return to open protocols [..] Open technologies can be worked on collectively, and forked individually, gaining both the benefits of scale and inevitability of sovereignty and self-determination.
😃 Open mode—Stratechery
Neofeudalism and the Digital Manor:
After all, the thing that gives tech companies the power to overrule your choices on your computers and devices is that they’re not really yours. Thanks to onerous licensing terms and bizarre retrofits to copyright and patent law, the only entities who can truly be said to “own” anything are aristocratic, who may have to capitulate to the king, but owe no fealty to us, the peasants
😕 Close mode—Cory Doctorow, Locus Mag
Beer Mode and Coffee Mode:
The see-saw of beer and coffee mode is like breathing. Your best ideas emerge when you balance the inhale of beer mode with the exhale of coffee mode. Coffee mode rewards action, while beer mode rewards laughter. Coffee mode rewards focus, while beer mode rewards conversation. And while coffee mode rewards clarity, beer mode rewards serendipity.
🤗 Clarity and serendipity—David Perell
🎧 Listening
Developers as Creatives:
[A] vendor would inevitably come in and say "don't reinvent the wheel", and you just bought something off the shelf. But now in the world where the software you use is your source of competitive differentiation, the act of building is the act of listening to your customer, and so now the question has gone from build versus buy to build versus die.
Jeff Lawson—a16z Podcast
On Media - Marshall McLuhan:
Any new technology that's invented, or any new idea that we come up with is ultimately an extension of ourselves, an extension of our physical bodies, an extension of our consciousness. It is us extending something about ourselves further out there into the world.
Episode 149—Philosophize This!
There's no such thing as data:
There's a lot of people on continental Europe that look at the Internet as something that happened without government involvement and that is ipso facto a failure. Why were we not involved, we have failed, we should be involved in this and be controlling it, and that is the role of the state.
Episode 13—Another Podcast
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