Joe Procopio: I’ve Had 100 Startup Meetings About How No One Can Find a Job. I just wrapped up my 100th meeting with people from startups and established companies alike, all of whom are trying to solve a massive problem: That no one seems to be able to find a job. (job market) (more)

Joe Procopio: “Big HR” Gets Hit With Big Job Cuts. Workday announces its own mass layoffs, so what does that mean for the tech industry? (more)

Joe Procopio: How’s Hiring Going? Because LinkedIn Made $2 Billion On Subscriptions Last Year. LinkedIn’s social network might be hurting your hiring whether you use them or not.* (more)

Joe Procopio: Hiring Is the Billion Dollar Problem To Solve in 2025. AI is sucking the oxygen out of the room, but another huge opportunity is starting to become clear (more)

I'm reading Marcus Buckingham's The Truth About You ISBN:9781400202263 book plus DVD (Book List). I got it for free in return for writing about it. (more)

Peter Kaminski has a site/newsletter to walk people through 20 days of getting started with GenAI. (more)

Can the Startup Mindset Fix America? The defining document of the internet is not a hacker’s manifesto or some cyberpunk screed espousing the virtues of anarchy. Instead, it is a permission slip, dotted and signed by the U.S. federal government, entitled Section 230. This portion of the Communication Decency Act, which was enacted in 1996, allowed websites to publish users’ content while not being held legally liable for what those users posted. (more)

Dan Davies: abundance on the cheap. Don’t worry, readers, this is not going to become an Abundanceism blog (more)

Venkatesh Rao: The Poverty of Abundance. A rhetorical letter in response to the question: “Is this book worth reading based on what you know about me? (more)

Dan Davies: cybernetic abundance and its limits. Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s new book “Abundance” has been described as “not so much a book as a Discourse-generating machine”, and you know how much I love one of those (more)

Matt Breuenig: The Abundance Agenda. I spent the last few days digesting Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson and then reading twelve recent pieces commenting on the book, with the goal of getting a handle on this particular area of discourse and trying to determine what exactly to make of it all. (more)

Mike Konczal: The Abundance Doctrine. Something has changed. Whether it is transit and infrastructure projects that seem to take forever or new laws that take years to go into effect, the government now moves much more sluggishly than in decades past. Two new books argue that these aren’t just isolated problems but instead reflections of a broader ideological dysfunction within left-liberal and Democratic coalitions. (more)

Dan Davies: the most ambitious crossover. I’ve been trailing this for a while, but my Niskanen Center White Paper is nearly out, and the summary essay for it has now been published along with a load of others, in a collection called “The Law Of Abundance”. That title is meant to be a contrast to “The Law of Constraint”, in its sense meaning the way that administrative law is currently set up to stop the government from doing things. (more)

co-founder/CEO of Shopify https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_L%C3%BCtke

Shopify Inc., stylized as shopify, is a Canadian multinational e-commerce company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario. Shopify is the name of its proprietary e-commerce platform for online stores and retail POS (point-of-sale) systems. The platform offers retailers a suite of services, including payments, marketing, shipping and customer engagement tools.[2] As of 2024, Shopify hosts 5.6 million active stores across more than 175 countries.[3] According to the company's yearly financial report for 2023, its total revenue reached $7.1 billion, and Gross Merchandise Volume (GMV) increased 20% to $235.9 billion over the prior year.[4] Shopify is the second largest publicly traded Canadian company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopify

Tobi Lutke: Reflexive AI usage is now a baseline expectation at Shopify. (GenAI) Team, We are entering a time where more merchants and entrepreneurs could be created than any other in history. We often talk about bringing down the complexity curve to allow more people to choose this as a career. Each step along the entrepreneurial path is rife with decisions requiring skill, judgement and knowledge. Having AI alongside the journey and increasingly doing not just the consultation, but also doing the work for our merchants is a mindblowing step function change here. (more)

The loony left is a pejorative term used to describe those considered to be politically hard left. First recorded as used in 1977,[1] the term was widely used in the United Kingdom in the campaign for the 1987 general election and subsequently both by the Conservative Party and by British newspapers that supported the party, as well as by more moderate factions within the Labour movement to refer to the activities of more militantly left-wing politicians that they believed moderate voters would perceive as extreme or unreasonable... The 1980s UK press campaign against the "Loony Left" was echoed in the 1990s in the United States where sections of the press campaigned against political correctness (Politically Correct), using much the same rhetoric. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loony_left I'll probably use this page to list things that I think qualify. Though I still think I'm a liberaltarian. (more)

secure instant messaging that works over email https://delta.chat/

Signal is a cross-platform centralized encrypted instant messaging service developed by the non-profit Signal Technology Foundation and Signal Messenger LLC. Users can send one-to-one and group messages, which can include files, voice notes, images and videos.[15] It can also be used to make one-to-one and group voice and video calls,[16][17] and the Android version can optionally function as an SMS app.[18] Signal uses standard cellular telephone numbers as identifiers and secures all communications to other Signal users with end-to-end encryption. The client software includes mechanisms by which users can independently verify the identity of their contacts and the integrity of the data channel.[18][19] Signal's software is free and open-source. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software) (more)

see Signal app