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Nadia Eghbal: It’s not just the discovery of knowledge (i.e., learning new things) that’s easier now, but also the validation (where your peers, rather than an accredited institution, decide whether your insights are worth discussing) and distribution of knowledge. Sharing new ideas previously required working with centralized gatekeepers, like a u... See more
future.a16z.com • 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future
Triumph of the Nerds: Part 1: Impressing Their Friends
youtube.comseemed like Amazon was reinventing the wheel with each integration effort, and this duplication of effort was an expensive and time-consuming waste. So, CEO Jeff Bezos assigned Rick Dalzell the task of “hardening the interfaces” between systems—making sure, in other words, that all the main databases and applications had the same set of ways that t
... See moreAndrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson • Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
If you accept this premise that there is no tragedy of the commons – that open source software cannot be over-grazed by having more people use it – that freeloaders are free, and scarcity is not an applicable concept, then you’re forced to look skeptically at other assumptions we’ve been starting to make lately in the broader open source community.
David Heinemeier Hansson • Open source beyond the market
Sometimes I find some of the open systems to be some of the most interesting things going on. I think it’s interesting when Linux can go and be an operating system that competes with the very biggest companies. IBM is now supporting and has moved over to Linux. What does that mean? That the open world can work. It does require a large amount of inv... See more
Recode Staff • Full transcript: Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on Recode Decode
Although the data integration platform Company B selected was an established and widely adopted product, the process for obtaining architectural approval and
Steve Williams • The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence
And so they did something recently that was very smart, but perhaps not surprising given the limitations of standards: they launched an app that enables them to build out their own rich experience for email newsletters. This makes a lot of sense, in my opinion. If Substack is able to scale its app successfully, it can rapidly innovate on the newsle... See more