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Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
More fundamentally, though, for both music and books, most of the arguments and questions are music industry questions and book industry questions, not tech or software questions. Spotify is suing Apple over the App Store commission rules, but otherwise, all the Spotify questions are music questions. Why don’t artists make more from streaming? Ask ... See more
Benedict Evans • Outgrowing Software
I want to insist on an amateur internet; a garage internet; a public library internet; a kitchen table internet. At last, in 2023, I want to tell the tech CEOs and venture capitalists: pipe down. Buzz off. Go fave each other’s tweets.
Robin Sloan • A Year of New Avenues
The Vox Doctrine
Media companies are profiting from a crisis they helped create. Vox/Recode dismissed the pandemic, scorned precautions, told you not to wear masks, even attacked philanthrophy!
Now they're setting traffic records.
Need citizen journalism, not corporate media.
Os gigantes da tecnologia estão em contato direto com os governos mais poderosos do mundo e investem muito dinheiro em campanhas de lobby para estrangular regulamentações que possam minar o seu modelo de negócios. Por exemplo, lutam tenazmente para proteger a Seção 230 da Lei de Telecomunicações dos Estados Unidos de 1996, que torna as plataformas
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Nexus: Uma breve história das redes de informação, da Idade da Pedra à inteligência artificial (Portuguese Edition)
Copyright nearly killed the open web, in fact. Until the 11th hour of international decision-making on the subject, copyright law in both the US and the EU was going to make all intermediaries on the web, from search engines to internet service providers, liable for all copyright infringements that traveled over their networks, whether they knew ab... See more