"Focus on flows and relationships, not products or services." An argument for systems thinking instead of design thinking or breakthrough innovation.

"Obviously, any campaign that used only that AI-generated data would miss the mark — instead of looking at the views of real respondents, it would be looking at a funhouse mirror reflection of a demographic cooked up by a language model with no access to actual data."

After Arc's pivot to AI left power users behind, I found the browser I actually wanted.

"The 19th developed seven key initiatives to guide our priorities for the next three years." Doing this work in public is such a smart move.

From startup CTO to newsroom leader: Ask me anything.

"Now, nearly two years and more than 250 assassinations later, I can count the names of the living journalists in Gaza I follow on one hand."

"Open Source runs much of the world's critical infrastructure. It powers government services, supports national security, and enables everything from public health systems to elections. This means governments must help fund Open Source."

"Artificial-intelligence startup Perplexity offered to purchase Google’s Chrome browser for $34.5 billion as it works to challenge the tech giant’s web-search dominance."

How self-tracking became self-incrimination

Japan, the EU, and the UK all now require Apple to support third-party browser engines. That's great news for the open web.

It was a war crime. And my relationship to it is complicated.

“We’re seeing right now why tech needs unions.”

The new version of Ghost connects every site to an open social network that provides built-in reach without losing independence.

Drinking Sunday coffee in the hyper-normal

"Here in six short chapters is the tale of Craigslist’s rise to a business generating hundreds of millions of dollars a year, how Newmark has used that fortune and how newspapers, slow to adapt, failed to respond effectively to the digital shift.”

"In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder."

How to think about vendors, technology, and power

Designing a values-centered life from first principles.

Building community-driven public media for the post-federal funding era.

OpenAI claims a significant result: gold-level performance International Mathematical Olympiad. But they're scant on details and it needs to be independently verified.

The Trump administration is using AI as a way to shill fossil fuels. But even for tech companies that don't care about climate change, renewables are a far better option.

When vendor promises meet government warrants, the warrants win every time. Microsoft's Senate testimony shows why "trust us" isn't a data protection strategy.

Without public media funding, local stations will close, creating news deserts and allowing political corruption to thrive.

Global Majority nations are building ways to store their citizens' data locally. But will they own the datacenters themselves?

Tony Stubblebine's account of saving Medium is remarkable in its transparency - and in its execution.

How to transform the internet's most toxic platform into essential infrastructure.

"I do not have the time or emotional energy to screen out regular attacks by Large Language Models, with the knowledge that making the wrong decision costs a real human being their connection to a niche community."

It's wild to me how many people are still engaging with X.

As more people look to AI to learn about the world, the people who control how it's trained and how it responds will control our prevailing narratives. That's wildly dangerous.

Forget San Francisco - I wish every single US city would do this. We're too car-dependent, too isolated, too unhealthy. (Honestly, European mixed-use development should be the model.)