Internet Service Provider (more)

Nadia Eghbal: The creator economy. The “creator economy” popped into our vernacular with surprisingly little moral inquiry, a phrase that is further bleeding into web3 as creators explore new paradigms for ownership. Never before has it been so easy to build a life around making things, and to do so on one’s own terms. From this angle, it’s easy to see how the growth of creators might be a good thing. (more)

On Deck: Origins and Next Chapter. ...build a modern education institution for the future of work. (more)

Tendency of groups to become mediocre over time/growth.

Default Friend: The pro-anorexia memory hole. ...whether there was any overlap between pro-anorexics and incels. You probably know my answer to the latter question already: yes. Anorexia touches everything on the Internet, both implicitly and explicitly. (more)

Anorexia nervosa, often referred to simply as anorexia,[11] is an eating disorder characterized by low weight, food restriction, body image disturbance, fear of gaining weight, and an overpowering desire to be thin.[1] Anorexia is a term of Greek origin: an- (ἀν-, prefix denoting negation) and orexis (ὄρεξις, "appetite"), translating literally to "a loss of appetite"; the adjective nervosa indicating the functional and non-organic nature of the disorder. Anorexia nervosa was coined by Gull in 1873 but, despite literal translation, the symptom of hunger is frequently present and the pathological control of this instinct is a source of satisfaction for the patients. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorexia_nervosa (more)

Wide Area Information Server (WAIS) is a client–server text searching system that uses the ANSI Standard Z39.50 Information Retrieval Service Definition and Protocol Specifications for Library Applications" (Z39.50:1988) to search index databases on remote computers. It was developed in 1990[1] as a project of Thinking Machines, Apple Computer, Dow Jones, and KPMG Peat Marwick. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_information_server Basically a pre-Web search engine of (non-HTML) documents across the internet, esp via Gopher.

creator of WAIS, which got bought by AOL and made him rich (more)

The Problem With ‘Uber for Therapy’. At 10 o’clock one morning this November, Rob Beal’s bosses summoned him and his co-workers onto a mysterious Zoom call. Beal had spent more than two years working as a coach for AbleTo, which provides mental-health services to people through apps, videochats, and calls, like Uber for anxiety. (more)

Steven Johnson asks Chris Dixon: Is The Blockchain Delivering On The Promise of Web3? One primary reason I thought of you that night is that about three years ago, I wrote a very long story for the NY Times Magazine called “Beyond The Bitcoin Bubble”... As you probably know, a significant part of the framing of that piece had been inspired by things you’d written at the time—and by some related posts from Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham—on the relationship between tokens and open protocols. (more)

Hunter Walk: Why I Worry About Venture-Backed Mental Health & Addiction Startups: what happens to the clients of the ones which fail? (more)

Yancey Strickler: The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet. In his sci-fi trilogy The Three Body Problem, author Liu Cixin presents the dark forest theory of the universe. (more)

business-writing guru, from consulting

see (2013-07-15) Taco Task Hub

Build and Fund the Open Web Together. Connect with the community developing digital public goods, creating financial freedom, and defining the future of the open web. https://gitcoin.co/ (more)

Venkatesh Rao: Eagles Don't Flock, Elephants Don't Dance. ..often work closely with rich people trying sincerely to do "good" things, the topic of getting them to work together came up. We arrived at the consensus that this is really hard to do, (more)

Tim Bray: URI-based Integration. If you need to integrate an arbitrarily large and and diverse set of software capabilities, URIs are the best integration glue. (more)

3 reasons why Gitcoin (GTC) price has rallied 100% in a month. ...the focus on interoperability and cross-chain collaboration is coming to the forefront. One project that is specifically designed to help advance the ecosystem as a whole and develop the future of the open internet is Gitcoin (GTC), a community of builders, creators and protocols. (more)

aka EVM

Robin Sloan: Notes on Web3. Cards on the table: I am not merely a skeptic, but a fullfledged enemy of Web3. (more)