Rob Hardy: The Case Against Substack. In a media ecosystem increasingly dominated by the loudest, most outrage-driven voices, Substack’s carved out a space where thoughtfulness reigns, and individual creators are rewarded for the depth of their contribution. It’s refreshing, and it gives me a glimmer of hope for the future of indie media. As a creator and entrepreneur, I’m perplexed and concerned by Substack’s seemingly endless list of shortcomings. (more)

high fidelity, high quality (of reproduction) (more)

hacker/writer? https://doriantaylor.com/ https://twitter.com/doriantaylor

"Smallest" possible product you can start market-testing ("doing validated learning") with real customers - validate biggest assumption (Theory Building) in your Lean Canvas. (more)

Matthew Charles Mullenweg (born January 11, 1984) is an American entrepreneur and web developer living in Houston. He is known for developing the free and open-source web software WordPress, now managed by The WordPress Foundation. After dropping out of the University of Houston, he worked at CNET Networks from 2004 to 2006 until he quit and founded Automattic, an internet company whose brands include WordPress.com, Akismet, Gravatar, VaultPress, IntenseDebate, Crowdsignal, and Tumblr (acquired). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Mullenweg

Ash Maurya describes how he designed the Minimum Viable Product for Cloud Fire, a Photo Sharing service. (more)

Peter Valentinovich Turchin[needs IPA] (Russian: Пётр Валенти́нович Турчи́н; born 1957) is a Russian-American evolutionary anthropologist, specializing in cultural evolution and cliodynamics—mathematical modeling and statistical analysis of the dynamics of historical societies.[1] He is a professor at the University of Connecticut in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology as well as in the Department of Anthropology and in the Department of Mathematics. As of 2020, he is a director of the Evolution Institute.[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Turchin

One of the big "themes" associated with the Internet. (more)

the Open Standards part of the World Wide Web? Is this redundant? (more)

Victoria Hart (born 1988),[1][2] commonly known as Vi Hart (/ˈvaɪ hɑːrt, ˈviː hɑːrt/),[3] is an American mathematician and YouTuber. They describe themselves as a "recreational mathemusician" and are well-known for creating mathematical videos on YouTube.[4][5][6] Hart founded the virtual reality research group eleVR and has co-authored several research papers on computational geometry and the mathematics of paper folding.[7][8] Together with another YouTube mathematics popularizer, Matt Parker, Hart won the 2018 Communications Award of the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics for "entertaining, thought-provoking mathematics and music videos on YouTube that explain mathematical concepts through doodles". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi_Hart

MemeTracker site http://reddit.com/ (more)

One of the greater treasons against Freedom in the history of America. (more)

Was Richard Nixon's war on drugs a racially motivated crusade? It's a bit more complicated. Last week, the internet exploded with a fairly shocking allegation: President Richard Nixon began America's war on drugs to criminalize black people and hippies, according to a newly revealed 1994 quote from Nixon domestic policy adviser John Ehrlichman. (more)

Filecoin is an open-source, public, cryptocurrency and digital payment system intended to be a blockchain-based digital storage and data retrieval method.[1][2][3][4] It is made by Protocol Labs and builds on top of InterPlanetary File System (IPFS). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filecoin (more)

Hyperlink is a course platform and online school built for seriously effective learning. https://hyperlink.academy/

High Fidelity provides a social virtual reality platform for users to create and deploy virtual worlds, and explore and interact together in them. The software is free and open source, and it supports the Oculus Rift (DK2 and CV1), including Oculus Touch controllers, and the HTC Vive, including HTC Vive Trackers.[5] On April 27, 2016, High Fidelity entered open beta.[6] In 2017 High Fidelity started offering original programming to players. HiFi has the first network ordered VR show titled Glitched: A VR Talk Show from Studio Capon and followed up with a weekly streamed dance party series with in VR DJ Tha Phlash... High Fidelity was founded in April 2013 by Second Life founder and former CEO Philip Rosedale, and Freidrica Heiberger... Plans for gatherings on the High Fidelity platform to use virtual reality were scrapped by the beginning of 2019, and the platform became audio-only. Users appear as dots in a birds-eye view of a space, and can move their dots around the space to have conversations with individuals or groups. Audio is spatialized (spatial audio), so that users will hear other users at different volumes depending on their relative locations within the space... In May 2019, High Fidelity announced it would focus its efforts on an application for remote and distributed teams.[29] The yet-to-be-named application, accessible through both desktop mode[30] and VR,[31] provides a virtual space where people can collaborate using High Fidelity's spatialized 3D audio and realistic avatars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Fidelity_(company)

Canadian software engineer. He is the principal co-author of the OAuth and WebFinger specifications. He is the former lead developer of social networking site Twitter.[1] He has worked for Yahoo on the Fire Eagle project[2] and is currently a member of OsmoSoft, a small team of Open Source developers at BT Group.[3]... He was founder of collaborative text editing startup Poetica.[4] Poetica was acquired by Condé Nast in March 2016 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaine_Cook_(programmer)

Proof of stake (PoS) protocols are a class of consensus mechanisms for blockchains that work by selecting validators in proportion to their quantity of holdings in the associated cryptocurrency. Unlike a proof of work (PoW) protocol, PoS systems do not incentivize extreme amounts of energy consumption. The first functioning use of PoS for cryptocurrency was Peercoin in 2012. Other uses have followed, and the Ethereum Foundation has announced a plan to switch Ethereum from PoW to PoS within 2021. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_stake

P2P web browser running over DAT protocol. Beaker uses a new peer-to-peer network called Hypercore Protocol. https://beakerbrowser.com/ (more)

Jason Pereira: Retreating to values. In the past, my values were expressed through the technology I used. The fathom project was intertwined, from the start, with Ethereum, and peer-to-peer (P2P) technology more broadly. During one night of the retreat I was explaining why that choice made sense at the time. I had a vision for an educational system rooted in both individual agency and collaboration and interdependency. A positive-sum replacement for the zero-sum, competitive educational system we have today. Ethereum was a practical choice to implement such a system, but it also shared many of the same values. (more)