Big fan of Framer for a while, and excited about every step they make to bring code and design UI closer together -> Import your Framer components now directly into your React code: framer.com/developers/han…

Crypto cities! vitalik.ca/general/2021/1…

There are two classes of problems caused by new technology. Class 1 problems are due to it not working perfectly. Class 2 problems are due to it working perfectly. [I've expanded this tweet into a short piece:] kk.org/thetechnium/cl…

How you might incentivize YIMBYism If residents owned fungible shares in a citywide REIT, rather than the nonfungible land under a house, they’d be incentivized to recruit great people to the city at large. Can test the concept in a new startup city first, backport if it works.

Note the use of decentralized storage on the backend. Every web2 app will be disrupted by a more private, programmable, and user-aligned web3 version. x.com/skiffprivacy/s…

On decentralized identity - by Jad Esber 💥 and Scott Kominers future.a16z.com/decentralized-…

Have been thinking a lot this week about the topic of funding public goods in the future. Thread to try to capture some raw pieces:

The Third Way | by Kevin Kelly kk.org/thetechnium/th…

“Technology’s challenge to traditional geopolitics goes beyond crypto, tech companies, and even digital space itself, as it has begun reshaping the physical world.” - A great follow up to ⁦⁦Balaji⁩ post from 2013: wired.com/2013/11/softwa… foreignpolicy.com/2021/12/11/bit…

Open source is an infinite game. Closed source is a finite game.

What the Zettelkasten was for Niklas Luhmann is the blog for Cory Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK. A great thread about how blogging is the foundation behind his great threads and essays.

A short list of media properties owned/run by billionaires today: New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, New York Daily News, Bloomberg, NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, Time, Fortune, Politico, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Daily Beast, The Intercept.

START A BLOG. Don't keep giving your keystrokes to companies that aren't YOU. Own your words or your words are WASTED. hanselman.com/blog/your-word…

Really looking forward to:

I joined Automattic 11.5 years ago. During that time, we grew from 70 to 2,000 people. I am proud of building products with such a team and glad to see Automattic recognized as a most loved workplace. mostlovedworkplace.com/companies/auto… #tweet100

Excited for Europe’s startups, best thing since Seedcamp! -> Plural

"What's the motivation for people doing open source? It's fun. If you're a coder ... it is so cool to know that code you wrote is running billions of times a day, all around the world." Great to talk with Matt Mullenweg Full interview here: pushkin.fm/podcasts/whats…

All this has happened in just the last 30 days at Runway

Failure is learning. From kindergarten to Nobel Prize, the iterative loop of trial and error creates gradual human progress. Enter machine learning: * zero emotional hesitation to fail * systematic embrace of what worked and what didn't * exponential rate of iteration

Probably the best thing you'll see today. In 2017, a group of developers hilariously competed for who could create worst volume control interface in the world. The results 🧵 1/22