Capitalism excels at innovation but is failing at maintenance, and for most lives it is maintenance that matters more
Opinion | Let’s Get Excited About Maintenance! (Published 2017)
Innovation is overrated. When it comes to technology, we need to celebrate upkeep.
What we can’t measure about AI – yet | Aeon Essays
The costs of transformative innovations are immediately clear: it’s the longterm gains that are hardest to understand
We used to get excited about technology. What happened?
Innovation that truly serves us all is in scarce supply. That’s a problem.
Dawn of a new era in Search: Balancing innovation, competition, and public good | Kagi Blog
Google search is in the news.
The Rot Economy
At the center of everything I’ve written for the last few months (if not the last few years), sits a cancerous problem with the fabric of how capital is deployed in modern business. Public and private investors, along with the markets themselves, have become entirely decoupled from the concept of what “good” business truly is, focusing on one metric — one
Repair Culture: Learning to Fix Instead of Replace – Wayfinders Now – Living small to gain abundance.
Repair culture is the growing mindset of choosing to fix what’s broken instead of immediately replacing it. It challenges a habit that has become almost automatic in modern life: when something stops working, we discard it. A new phone, a new appliance, a new chair, a new everything. Repair culture asks a quieter question: What […]
A Trillion-Dollar Industry Deserves a Better Engine — Renaissance Philanthropy – A brighter future for all through science, technology, and innovation
With a new wave of philanthropic capital on the horizon, the most pressing binding constraint on that capital won't be the will to give it away; it will be the operational capacity to do so well.
The Disappearing Art Of Maintenance
The noble but undervalued craft of maintenance could help preserve modernity’s finest achievements, from public transit systems to power grids, and serve as a useful framework for addressing climate change and other pressing planetary constraints.
The Innovation Fallacy
In the U.S.-Chinese tech race, diffusion matters more than invention.
Repair and Remain
Escaping our problems, whether in our homes, our marriages, our careers, or elsewhere, is easier than remaining where we are and doing the hard work of repair.
Separating AI’s Technological Problems From its Capitalism Problems
Nathan E. Sanders and Bruce Schneier say integrating a technology as disruptive as AI responsibly requires deep structural reforms.
Rebuilding product strategy for the next era
For tech leaders navigating change, this is how we’re doing it differently. By Suba Vasudevan, COO, Mozilla.
Innovation Methods in 2025 with the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ | ITONICS
What innovation methods are overhyped and what will actually benefit their company? We examine the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Innovation Practices
Prompt Engineering Is Dead. Context Engineering Is Dying. What Comes Next Changes Everything.