People should be paying a lot more attention to in this presidential race. He's thoughtful and real, no posturing, with policy positions developed by observing the needs of real people. #SXSW
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OH: "We can't entirely eliminate our technical debt. My goal is to refinance it at a lower interest rate." 😂
If you like Trump as a disruptor of the status quo, so did until he spent time talking with him
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Please step up, and do everything you can to have a truly independent investigation. History has its eyes on you and your peers.
If you need a dose of optimism, take a look at these statistics. What amazing progress we have made as a species! Let's not blow it now
There are so many inventions hiding in plain sight when you try to serve customer needs rather than corporate needs. #NextEconomy
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After working with poor kids in Kenya, Kenton Lee invented shoes which grow 5 sizes in 5 years #SundayMorning pic.twitter.com/iEICqmVCLf
The view of San Francisco from the Rockridge BART station looks like a science fiction movie poster!
When you read this story about how New Orleans reduced homelessness by 90%, you realize that the answer is not rocket science: Get people into housing, then work on their other issues after that. wbur.fm/2GKhuyr
So impressed with the intelligence, practicality, and values of @Ocasio2018. She gives me hope for the future of democracy in America. "Big money can only win against other big money. Everything changes when you can out-organize big money."
I've witten a critique of Silicon Valley's obsession with monopoly as a business model. It's a #longread but I hope you will stick with me to the end. And more importantly, if you are an entrepreneur or a VC, I hope you will make different choices!
Incredibly insightful and important, and puts its finger on my worry that we are all playing into Trump's game google.com/amp/s/www.wash
At 's studio, I got to hold the circuitry for a byte from an IBM 702 computer circa 1953. Also, a memory circuit from Apollo 11... He says "You can touch anything because the sweat and the patina of your enthusiasm becomes part of the history of the object."
"White people are afraid that if they lose power, black people will do to them what they do to us." #AspenIdeas
This is just one more of many negative economic externalities coming home to roost. We will reach a tipping point where sustainable circular economy no longer seems to be a “nice to have” but a "must have "
Philip Guo's new article about programming with ChatGPT is one of the few that actually describes the experience of doing something non-trivial with ChatGPT, and talks about what works, what doesn't work, and what could be improved.
What do you get when your country offers free university education? Open source projects such as Linux, IRC and MySQL! I’m not Finnish, but I’m still happy to #BragForFinland
This piece about why the Industrial Revolution happened in Europe is really worth reading
I love what has done! Twitter and FB should make this a standard feature w authorized fact checkers!
Brings tears to my eyes. Makes me proud of our country, while makes me ashamed. twitter.com/JackSmithIV/st
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A nice review of what is also my own favorite book on machine learning. has created a masterpiece. It is one of the best books has published in our entire history.
“When rich people do it, we call it the sharing economy. When poor people do it, we call it the black market.” - #WTFeconomy
Important thread. Understanding this as information warfare rather than traditional media is the first step to combating it twitter.com/justinhendrix/
Jimmy Carter told a story about a talk in Japan after the end of his presidency. He opened with a joke, which got a great reaction. But when he asked why the translation had been so short, the translator replied "I said 'President Carter told a funny story. Everybody laugh.'"
If you are a space nerd like me, this story will tug at your heartstrings. Sure, they are just machines, but they are also repositories of human genius, and striving, and hope. Au revoir, Mars Opportunity Rover. arstechnica.com/science/2019/0
If Facebook really wants to be a force for good, they would stop accepting all political advertising. Is hyper-targeting really good for democracy? twitter.com/antoniogm/stat
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The modern Rome doesn't fall; it is pushed. In future history, this turning away from science will be known as the pivot to darkness
"Trump is walking the road away from democracy, and he is not walking alone."
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"When people talk about Trump condoning and inviting political violence, his behavior over the past 48 hours—and that of his followers—is exactly what they have in mind," argues @DavidFrum:
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With a well-functioning press, we might have expected to see a story like this during the election. Why did it take so long to be reported?
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Incredible reporting by @partlowj @Fahrenthold provides the best look yet at how Trump's private business has relied on the labor of undocumented workers -- even as he railed they were stealing jobs from Americans.
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I've been a defender of Mark's good intentions and honest efforts in the past, but this political ads decision pushed me over the edge in the other direction. I'm with Aaron Sorkin and tens of millions of others on this.
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This is exactly right. I come to the same conclusion in my book, WTF? What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us. eoionline.org/blog/x-marks-t
I don't know what's brutal about it. It seems remarkably honest and insightful. independent.co.uk/news/world-0/a
Toys R Us was making plenty of money as an operating business. The problem was billions of dollars of debt incurred by a private equity firm extracting capital via an LBO. Financial looting is what's wrong with our economy
This is an important read.
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1. WTF is going on with Trump's social media accounts?
Let me explain in plain English.
What happens when a country has an actual economic strategy, rather than just pretending that "the market" will solve everything. This video is well worth your time if you want to understand the future.
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My favorite parlor game — from Silicon Valley to NYC to DC — is to ask people what is “One Belt, One Road.” Fewer than 5% can. It’s the largest global engagement strategy since the Marshall Plan — only that like 40 X as large in real dollars. youtu.be/EvXROXiIpvQ @voxdotcom
Wow - I am SO glad I don’t use Apple Music bit.ly/1rtKaiN This is insane, and a sad commentary on the “lock in” cloud future
Wow! I thought I was strong on the topic in my upcoming book, but goes biblical on VC fueled startup culture bit.ly/2mTxeBM
I've feared the worst intellectually since Trump was elected, but Comey's firing is the first time that I've felt it in my gut.
What I don't understand is why the moderators don't have the ability to shut off the mike.
This critique of an Apple ad may well be the most important thing you'll read this year: bit.ly/115U5uT Take it seriously.
Don’t replace people. Augment them bit.ly/29Gtxsx My thoughts on the current anxiety about tech and the future of work #NextEconomy
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Elon isn't rich because of profit. He is rich because people are betting on him. Don't mistake stock market winnings for earned income. Ben Graham: "In the short run the stock market is a voting machine. In the long run, it's a weighing machine"
I'm finding Amazon's urban integration to be so much more interesting than Silicon Valley's isolated campuses.
Amazing essay by . Echoes many of the themes of my book, but with a far more powerful ecological analogy
It only illustrates what pale shadows of human beings so many men are. I love it when I am referred to as 's husband. I don't stand in her shadow. I stand in her light.
Totally awesome find by : a Wikipedia page listing the oldest companies on earth en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_o I love this!!
So true. There is so much rent seeking in the US economy. Rooting it out should be a priority.
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“A contract is a program that runs on the brain of a lawyer.” on “wet code” vs “dry code.” Great podcast convo w
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The Quiet Master of Cryptocurrency — Nick Szabo buff.ly/2qQBTdw cc @naval cc @jess
I wish I’d written this! A really good explanation of how to think through the possible impact of inventions bit.ly/2s6G0BX
I’ve always believed that insurance brokers and real estate agents will be more compelling spokespeople for the reality of climate change than scientists. #sadbuttrue bit.ly/2P7nPEf)
Wherever I go, I take pictures of trash haulers. They are unsung heroes of civilization. We all depend on their work, but appreciate it so little.
We've been worrying about robots taking all the jobs since the 1920s. It hasn't happened yet. The problem isn't technology; it's whether we use it to create wealth for all, or extract it at the expense of others.
When people ask me what I think about #wikileaks, I can now just point them to 's thoughtful, nuanced post http://bit.ly/icksd5
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"There is no reason to fear science. Science is a force for good. What we have to fear is the economic system we've agreed to live by." Kim Stanley Robinson
Hilarious poster . Here it is ironic fun; should be up in many an office as a useful reminder :-)
As the world moves on, bikes, not self-driving cars, may be the biggest competitor to Uber and Lyft. Faster and cheaper way to get around
2. A lot of people think of robots as substitutes for people. That’s only if we don’t use them to do new things that are impossible today!
I must be a third kind of person, because I believe that both statements can be true. Putting them in opposition gives our society a pass on understanding how wealth is too often built by expropriation from the poor. Colonialism is an obvious example, but they are all around us.
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You can divide the world into people into people who think poverty is created and people who think wealth is created.
Entirely unrelated: until 250 years ago, 90% or more of the earth's population were impoverished peasants or hunter-gatherers.
A truly provocative TED talk: bit.ly/MyHB8E Capitalists don't create jobs. Customers do. Which is why we need a vibrant middle class
90% of the kelp forest along the California and Oregon coast are gone, ravaged by a cascade of climate-related disasters. Ecological cascades like this are one of the big worries that haven’t yet hit the mainstream radar.
Every time Alexa makes a suggestion to me or tries to get me to subscribe to Amazon music, I am one step closer to abandoning it. I want the service to do what I ask it to do, not what Amazon wants it to do.
This story highlights why open APIs should be a condition of outsourcing government services to contractors. APIs allow for competition at the service layer, and result in better services for end users, less lock-in for vendors nyti.ms/2HUF352
This resignation letter is a must read. Its advice to the Secretary of Defense should strike home for many other government officials.
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"Secretary Esper, you violated your oath in aiding Trump’s photo op. That’s why I’m resigning." — James N. Miller
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This is a far more profound moment than the victory over top human players. A self-taught AI beats one that learned from human experts
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AI versus AI: Self-taught AlphaGo zero vanquishes its predecessor bit.ly/2xPdjZ1 (By @lggreenemeier)
Gosh, this is beautiful! twitter.com/buitengebieden
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"Citizens who vote for third party candidates aren't voting their conscience...they are voting their ego" medium.com/@cshirky/there
Google is just begging for a Microsoft style antitrust investigation. This article lays out the case of how they abuse their monopoly position to crush competitors, just like Microsoft did two decades ago.
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"The best relevancy algorithm in the world is trumped by preferential placement of inferior results which bypasses the algorithm."
I was a fool to dismiss Aaron for years as a cynic. He was an oracle, not a conspiracy theorist: seobook.com/brands-vs-ads
This is an awesome, eye-opening #visualization! Pictures like these really do help you understand the world better. bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-
Absolutely fantastic interview with John Sculley about Steve Jobs and what makes him great. http://bit.ly/aOEliJ #userexperience
It is so easy to think that Silicon Valley's digital technologies are the only world-changing technologies. This is true "work on stuff that matters!" Even if overhyped, as it likely is, this breathless article is utterly fascinating. nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/
Sad that there should be an obituary for one so young, but it’s good to remember and celebrate him. He lives on in the hearts and minds of all he touched. Hack heaven, !
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An excellent reminder in today’s fractured political environment, with constant incitements to anger for profit. From C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters, via one of my sisters, with whom I might disagree from time to time, but never disagreeably.
Fascinating article about the connection between sugar, heart disease, and cancer. Time to change what I eat! http://nyti.ms/efhj89
"That’s the story that needs to be told about tackling climate change. Not a story of privation or giving things up. Not a story of economic decline or inexorable ecological doom. A story about a better electrified future that is already on the way."
vox.com/energy-and-env
In Aristotelian philosophy, virtue itself was defined as a habit. This is life advice, not just writing advice.
New report says it all: Rising consumer income is the largest source of job creation. So why are we optimizing for the return to capital rather than the return to people? #churchillclub #newworldofwork
The Next Economy in a nutshell. Brilliantly explained by
I met my first room service robot last night. It waited politely for me to get in the elevator first.
"Big data is what happened when the cost of keeping information became less than the cost of throwing it away." - George Dyson #longnow
A lot of people have asked me to respond to ’s piece about income inequality. Here it is. bit.ly/1ZNWQeN #wtfeconomy
A staggering calculation of the $47T cumulative wealth transfer from the bottom of the income distribution to the top over the past forty years.
An interesting deep dive history of the phrase “if you’re not paying for something, you’re not the customer, you’re the product,” which today is used of Facebook, but far predates it. I was surprised to learn that I played a role in popularizing the phrase slate.me/2Kkmrw5
This is an excellent introduction to quantum computing, as well as a fascinating experiment in online pedagogy. Highly recommended! via quantum.country/qcvc
I thought Google said in a paper from April that they had fixed this. But I just tried it, and it still gives this unfortunate, biased translation. As I like to say, though, AI is a mirror, not a master, an opportunity to see and improve ourselves and our culture.
What's killing your wifi? Tools for figuring out what's wrong with your wireless network http://bit.ly/kiurrQ
If you didn't read Isaacson's book, here's the cliff note: The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs bit.ly/GWhKVq