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I don’t think we have any clue about how disruptive this shift is going to be.There are people and organizations that are racing to break the fabric of community that we all …

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. quoted Theodore Parker: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”But it’s not bending …

Both are true. It either benefits from everyone knowing it, or it becomes worthwhile because it is …

...when the web was young, the free market in ideas was open to anyone with access to a library’s internet connection.But the web rewards network effects and network effects …

Seth has put together what he calls …

I dislike generations. So does Seth. But he makes a good point that right now we're living through something unprecedented, on multiple fronts. So don't think of Generation C as the people born …

Whether or not you choose to wear a mask, drive a Prius or even a pickup truck, it’s worth remembering that because we’re human, we start with two things: What’s the story I’m …

Seth reckons there are three ways to track whether people are working …

Expectations can be all the difference. Getting wet whilst outside? Understandable. Getting wet whilst inside, …

It’s almost impossible to make a list of all the things I didn’t have to worry about yesterday. We need to work overtime to make that true for more …

Parents can do their children a favor if, from an early age, kids hear them say “famous college” instead of “good college.”Because there’s very little data that …

We like what we choose. Not the other way around. [...] If you had grown up somewhere else or some time else, there’s little doubt that you’d prefer something else. The things we …

Something something Micropub and posting from my …

A simple anecdote: window panes exist because it used to be too expensive to make larger sheets of glass. Over time that cost has decreased, to the point that it now costs less to create one large …

There's a lot going on in this analysis of trust (or lack of it) online. Some parts I agree with, some I don't. It's interesting thinking about the early web in the context of naive communities with …

I don't find this surprising. Or actually a problem. As we say in software development: this is a feature, not a bug 😁 Forcing people to consider their actions, to weigh up possibilities, and …

NFTs continue to get a lot of publicity and debate. Seth has some useful insight into the potential "bubble" of value they …

I really like the concept of practical elegance that Seth argues for. It's effectively an argument for true UX: optimising the user's experience to make it as useful and memorable as …

(I often wonder how much the Left's ever-changing vocabulary hurts its ability to work cohesively, for …

A really succinct quote from Seth on glass-is-unoptimised thinking (as opposed to cyber-optimism or cyber-pessimism, which I agree are both untenable …

I've chopped out the middle here, but I really like this sentiment from Seth on the nature of media, control, and the illusion of …

~ Seth …