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seangoedecke.com

Large tech companies don’t need heroes

It's processes and incentives that determine what happens, not any individual heroics.

interbrand.com

Best Global Brands 2025

Top 100 most valuable global brands according to Interbrand, with historical data since 2000.

dri.es

The software sovereignty scale

Digital sovereignty depends less on where software comes from and more on who controls it.

chrbutler.com

Progress without disruption

There’s nothing about progress that inherently requires disruption—except our inability to cooperate for stability.

peterboeckel.com

The displacement of purpose

What happens with purpose when AI automates our labor.

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.