2023 Predictions

Every year we make predictions. The purpose is to inspire a conversation. We also try to hold ourselves accountable. Here are some of our… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 months ago

A Practical Application Of AI And Exciting News In The World Of Credit Cards

Plus, the people behind virtual influencers, how to build a tiny audience, and rethinking operating systems. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 months ago

Identity Crisis: How Modern Applications Generate Unique Ids

TL;DR: Use Cuid2 so you don’t need to worry about all this identifier complexity. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 months ago

How to Use Social Media Without it Using You, The Perils of Event Driven Humanity, and How to Write

Plus a fascinating look back at the Alex Jones trial, Netflix’s bold move into theaters, and the subtle influence of ports on LA | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 months ago

Why you aren’t learning if you aren’t embarrassed, the cost of being a star, and the real risk of…

Plus the best summary of the Twitter situation, how big tech companies pick tech, and the stupid latency that holds us all back | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 months ago

2022 Predictions Review

Every year we make predictions for the coming year. We try to get them right, but the real objective is to catalyze a conversation. As I am… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 months ago

Why I Undervalue Fiction and Why You Shouldn’t Move to a Cabin in the Mountains

Plus Saas Economics, why we shouldn’t worry about inflation, and parenting in Italy | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 months ago

On Joining Mastodon

From my vast experience of three weeks, a guide to diving in An academic friend asked for help joining Mastodon. I wrote a detailed email in response that I thought it might be useful to others. I'm also going to teach a master class in Mastodon at my school on Dec.(jeffjarvis.me … | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 months ago

Team Work & Dream Work, An iPhone Pedometer Speaks, & Why Russia is so Big

Plus a dash of the digital impact of China’s Belt & Road Initiative and a thoughtful story from Elon Musk’s first wife | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 months ago

Friendship

A good friend is sick, and I’ve been thinking about him and friendship more broadly. Friendship is prevalent across hundreds of species —… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 months ago

A Beginner’s Guide to Sunsama

I’m a tool fiend. While everyone else partied in college, I stayed up late trying new tools. The fruits of my years of labor? Sunsama.Continue reading on Jimmy on Learning » | Continue reading


@medium.com | 6 months ago

Cognitive Dissonance

Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it seems | Continue reading


@medium.com | 6 months ago

A Eulogy for Twitter, How to Fix a Bad Personality and a Serbian Deep Dive

Plus Brazil’s innovative financial policies and a dash of the Great Books | Continue reading


@medium.com | 6 months ago

The Cosmic Opportunity

Time has a lot to do with our perception. Time stands still, yet accelerates. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 6 months ago

AI: The Tech of 2023

We’re in the midst of a great leap forward in AI | Continue reading


@medium.com | 6 months ago

Why I Might Break Up With Twitter, Dispatches from a Cloudless World, and The Black Panthers

Plus, a primer on venture capitalists and the boring tech behind a one person tech company | Continue reading


@medium.com | 6 months ago

It’s down from its summer peak, but it’s creeping into new sexual networks — ones that will be harder to reach than leather bondage… | Continue reading


@donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com | 6 months ago

What’s Up With Serverless?

“Every new app should start serverless.” | Continue reading


@medium.com | 6 months ago

Hubris

The rich get richer. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 6 months ago

Elephants in the Room

Ads have become Big Tech’s Achilles’ heel | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 months ago

How to Find Flow: The Levers that Make it Go

My takeaways from Finding Flow and how they helped me get my mojo backContinue reading on Jimmy on Learning » | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 months ago

A Quick Start Guide to Ad Tech

Plus lots about latency, why I’m struggling with my Kindle, and a job switch | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 months ago

Drawing the Line and Our Moral Obligations

Neutrality in the face of evil is not neutrality | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 months ago

7 Steps to Product Market Fit

Deciding what to build is the most important step in product development, but almost every team sucks at it. Here are 7 steps to build the… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 months ago

Finally out of stealth mode: a plea for Quantum Foundations

A personal account on the 2022 Physics Nobel prize | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 months ago

The New Setting That’s Keeping Your iPhone from Charging

In iOS 16.1, it’s on by default. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 months ago

Build your brand like Linus with a bit of marketing insight

One of the biggest things developers can do to stand out doesn’t have anything to do with coding. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 months ago

Cypress Tests Parallelization in Gitlab CI

An approach to shorten test execution time altogether without spending extra cash on fancy software in the market | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 months ago

The Modern Data Stack Through ‘The Gervais Principle’

Data doesn’t move left-to-right in an organization, it moves through Losers, the Clueless, and Sociopaths. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 months ago

Ethics: Who’s at fault for the missile strike which killed civilians?

Aboard a military ship somewhere around the world, an order is given by a Captain to launch a missile to a designated target. The missile… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 months ago

Layers of change: How buildings and software are alike

Stewart Brand’s model of how buildings learn applied to product design | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 months ago

Top Biggest Telecom Outages and how to prevent them

Unlike Enterprise networks , outages in cellular networks are the worse since people’s lives are at stake, be it a outage on data network… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 months ago

Python List Comprehensions: Yes or No?

List comprehensions are actually nothing but a list() function applied to a generator object. Let’s create a list and a function that takes… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 months ago

Tesla's New Battery Isn't What They Said It Would Be

Has Tesla pulled a fast one on us? | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 months ago

Steve Jobs Fleeced Carly Fiorina

The former HP CEO boasted of her friendship with Apple’s leader — but he took her to the cleaners with the iPod | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 months ago

Time to Get Fit – An Open Letter from Altimeter to Zuck and Meta Board

October 24, 2022 | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 months ago

Time to Get Fit – An Open Letter to Meta

October 24, 2022 | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 months ago

Breakthrough Twin-Fuel Hydrogen Engine Could Cause a Revolution

The cheapest way to decarbonise transport? | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 months ago

The Comic Misanthrope in a Moral Age

There has been in recent years an interest in enforcing moral correctness on people through the use of the tools that the internet… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 months ago

I Got Scammed by a Silicon Valley Startup

Telling my story isn’t going to be easy. Oftentimes I feel embarrassed, enraged, and regretful when I have to relive it, but in the end it… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 months ago

A Word of Caution to AngelList LPs

To The AngelList LP Community, | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 months ago

Rust 1.64 Became 10-20% Faster On Windows

If you are a Rust developer you have most likely celebrated the news that the version 1.64 released on 22/09/2022 is 10-20% faster on… | Continue reading


@tomaszs2.medium.com | 7 months ago

A Software Engineer’s Guide to Cybernetics (2020)

Before ‘cyber’ was a prefix for everything internet and computers, it was how mathematicians were going to conquer the world. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 months ago

‘The Sound of Silence’ is a hymn to resistance (2018)

The 1960s hit by Simon & Garfunkel conveys a powerful warning against the dangers of indifference, which still comes in handy today | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 months ago

8 Ways I Use HomeBrew on macOS to Increase Productivity

The following is how I use HomeBrew on macOS to install, update, uninstall apps, and much more. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 months ago

Useful Keyboard Shortcuts on Mac That I Can’t Go Without

These shortcuts improved my productivity by helping me do tasks faster without using mouse, hence less hand/wrist strain. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 months ago

Building a Set Solver Using Python and OpenCV

Between the end of my summer internship and the beginning of the semester, I built a SET solver: a computer program that took an image or… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 months ago

Churn

Our leaders are too old | Continue reading


@medium.com | 7 months ago