Now that you've preordered Stewart Brand's new book, read an exclusive excerpt on Ideas, the Long Now blog: longnow.org/ideas/the-esse…

Tammy Winter Tamara Winter wrote a pitch/summary of my MAINTENANCE book that is better than any I've had on previous books. Here it is in full (link to pre-order in the reply): "Over a 60-year career, Stewart Brand has invited us to look at everyday life anew. With the Whole

Stewart Brand 🥳 have to give a huge chunk of credit here to our already deeply-missed Rebecca Hiscott, too :)

12 Lessons from John Coogan and Jordi Hays on building TBPN 1. You can’t copy compounding. 2. Discipline eliminates inspiration as a bottleneck. 3. Entertain, inspire or educate—Simply. 4. Go high and low at the same time. 5. Borrow laterally, not recursively. 6. Your niche is

Great reflection post. Similar energy to this Ribbonfarm snippet by Venkatesh Rao ☀️ from 2017. It's a good reminder that your work can be meaningful and feel effortless at the same time. Dialectic has been a fun podcast to follow along because there's no way you can predict the next guest

Discussed AI with some great artists who are not stressed and are having a ball experimenting and digesting the gravity of the technology of our time

i love that the TBPN guys don’t curse in another life they could have been incredible youth pastors

15 notes on writing online in 2025

AI art conversation on ArtReview_ with Mat Dryhurst Holly Herndon Avery Singer Jon Rafman and i in conversation - and remembering one of my favorite conversations on a16z crypto pod with Sonal Chokshi ε=ε=┏( >_<)┛

The New Titans of Media The future of media is shifting fast — and creators are becoming the defining force in how people choose to get information. Legacy publications are closing. Many are losing relevance. Startups and VCs are increasingly choosing to break stories with

Special issue from Big Think coming out of Progress Conference 2025! Featuring pieces from some of the speakers and perspectives from several Roots of Progress Institute fellows who attended, with an intro from me: bigthink.com/collections/th…

Gonna pause on water posting for now. I must insist that if you want to water post like me, this one post is written to get you up to speed on everything important about the problem: andymasley.substack.com/p/the-ai-water… We can be a whole legion.

A big thank you to Scott Kominers for recommending my bird products in the a16z crypto favourite gifts 2025 blog post! 🙏😀🐦 a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/…

11 takeaways from my chat with Tarek Mansour Kalshi 1. Prediction isn’t gambling. 2. Adapt and adopt, or die.   3. Go global with stablecoins. 4. Don’t try to win debates. 5. Compliance is a moat. 6. The curse of scale. 7. It’s not about money. 8. Focus on process. 9.

compute will set us free, eventually

illustrations from the book "chemical atlas, or, the chemistry of familiar objects", 1856, by Edward Livingston Youmans

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