tech author, esp JavaScript http://www.dori.com/ (more)

Email series, spreading out message over multiple days (more)

Richard Bartlett: #9: Decentralised Tech & the Future of Organising. Let me share some more context about what web3 is and what problems it is trying to solve. (more)

Greg Isenberg: A Day in the Life of a Crypto-Fueled Future. The year is 2030. (more)

Dark Star: Reputation in Web3: Ships Built on the Great Flood. Implicit in the name ‘Web3’ is the expectation of replacement. Will it replace the set of principles, technologies and behaviors that we’ve come to know as Web2? (more)

Gordon Brander: Knowledge gardening is recursive. One my core design goals for Subconscious app is to grow ideas from the bottom-up (more)

Max Read: Web3 has a dork problem. On Thursday night, a bunch of crypto kids tried to buy the constitution (ConstitutionDAO). (more)

Simon Owens: Should creators accept VC investment? Back in early September, I published a piece titled “The gritty reality for Substack’s middle class.” (2021-09-01-OwensTheGrittyRealityForSubstacksMiddleClass) It was my attempt to push back against the case studies that dominate Creator Economy media coverage. (more)

Gordon Brander: Is web3 a Petri dish? (more)

Chris Dixon: Computers that can make commitments. Blockchains are computers that can make commitments. Traditional computers are ultimately controlled by people, either directly in the case of personal computers or indirectly through organizations. Blockchains invert this power relationship, putting the code in charge. A game theoretic mechanism — a so-called consensus algorithm — makes blockchains resilient to modifications to their underlying physical components, effectively making them resilient to human intervention. (more)

A Former Facebook VP Thinks Investing in Humans Is the Future of VC. When Sam Lessin first tried as a young man to create a company based around this idea near the turn of the century, he admits, the world was not ready for such a proposal (more)

Steven Johnson: Capturing and Colliding (more)

Simple Mail Transport Protocol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Mail_Transfer_Protocol The EMail protocol involved in sending messages (typically from sending-user to sender's server to recipient's server). (more)

Evan Armstrong: on Product-Led Growth’s Failure. Qualtrics should’ve lost but somehow emerged victorious. By wielding a 3 pronged strategy of utilizing cheap Utah labor, gutsy product marketing, and aggressive GTM tactics, the company resoundingly beat Surveymonkey. (more)

In sociology, anomie (/ˈænəˌmi/) is a social condition defined by an uprooting or breakdown of any moral values, standards or guidance for individuals to follow.[1][2] Anomie may evolve from conflict of belief systems[3] and causes breakdown of social bonds between an individual and the community (both economic and primary socialization).[4] E.g. alienation in a person that can progress into a dysfunctional inability to integrate within normative situations of their social world like to find a job, find success in relationships, etc. The term, commonly understood to mean normlessness, is believed to have been popularized by French sociologist Emile Durkheim in his influential book Suicide (1897). Émile Durkheim suggested that Protestants exhibited a greater degree of anomie than Catholics.[5] However, Durkheim first introduced the concept of anomie in his 1893 work The Division of Labour in Society. Durkheim never used the term normlessness;[6] rather, he described anomie as "derangement," and "an insatiable will."[7][need quotation to verify] Durkheim used the term "the malady of the infinite" because desire without limit can never be fulfilled; it only becomes more intense. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomie

John Cutler: On Being "Product-Led". It does not mean being “product manager led”. Great products emerge from empowered fully cross-functional product teams. (more)

see (2019-04-12) Cutler On Being Product Led

Tim Bray on the Wiki For CollaborationWare experience in Sam Ruby's Echo Standards project. The weird thing about the Wiki work is that successive refactorings appear to produce coherent structure out of chaos via the sum of a lot of independent Collective Action. Which feels like it ought somehow to be a violation of the Second Law of Thermo-Dynamics. But there you go. I haven't been participating, but it's great that it's working for some people. Others haven't been as pleased. My experience says: (more)

Functional Programming is when functions, not objects or procedures, are the fundamental building blocks of a program. (more)

Literate Programming is a phrase coined by Donald Knuth to describe the approach of developing (more)