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oreilly.com

AI and the Next Economy

The narrative from the AI labs is dazzling: build AGI, unlock astonishing productivity, and watch GDP surge.

matthewbutterick.com

The copyrightability of fonts revisited

How many existing regis­tra­tions of font copy­rights might be vulner­able to attacks during liti­ga­tion?

zeldman.com

Cold storage

Good UX is what companies do when they have to. A company that has your stuff locked away doesn’t have to.

mikefisher.substack.com

More efficiency, more demand

The future of software engineers and data scientists is bright.

wheresyoured.at

The enshittifinancial crisis

The horrifying result of 15+ years of steering the tech industry away from solving actual problems in pursuit of eternal growth.

epochai.substack.com

The changing drivers of LLM adoption

Public data as well as our original polling suggest LLM adoption is roughly on trend, but the underlying drivers are shifting.

anildash.com

They have to be able to talk about us without us

Is it simply impossible to effectively tell a story at scale if you don’t have massive resources?

wesleystubenbord.com

Billionaire migration: an interactive map

An interactive map of city-level migration flows for 3,146 billionaires from birth to most recent residence.

msuiche.com

When machines pay machines

The internet was built with a missing piece. Three decades later, that vision is finally materializing.

lethain.com

Facilitating AI adoption at Imprint

A side-quest for every engineering leader in the current era.

notboring.co

Hardware is a fruit

One of the tensions at the heart of capitalism: trying to do the “right thing” is disadvantageous.

thorsell.io

Estimates: a necessary evil?

Estimates come in various disguises, but when you peek under the trench coat there is always the same old question.

staysaasy.com

Own a graph

One of the quickest ways to get better at your job is to own a graph.

chrbutler.com

What AI is really for

Best case: we’re in a bubble. Worst case: the people profiting most know exactly what they’re doing.

humaninvariant.com

Blame as a service (BaaS)

Productized scapegoating—a reflection.

trevorlasn.com

Good enough is a strategy

Your competitors will eat your lunch while you refactor.

boagworld.com

Marketing UX within your organization

Guerrilla marketing tactics to raise UX awareness and shift your organization’s culture without a big budget.

ethanmarcotte.com

Against the protection of stocking frames

“Artificial intelligence” is a failed technology. It’s time we described it that way.

idiallo.com

The TikTok model is the future of the web

Not the future we want, but the one we're getting.

brodzinski.com

Trust networks as antidote to AI slop

In response to AI slop we will increasingly rely on trust networks in professional dealings. Trust will be the new business currency.