People really need to coordinate on problems with other people. This is a very persistent element of technology work and I think we'll get a lot of mess for a while but it was really broken for many before. Groups that already could learn & collaborate are figuring it out imho
May 30, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Toward People’s Community Control of Technology: Race, Access, and Education
This field review explores how the benefits of access to computing for racialized and minoritized communities has become an accepted fact in policy and research, despite decades of evidence that technical fixes do not solve the kinds of complex social problems that disproportionately affect these communities.
What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit
The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collective effort
Workshops — Guiding Threads Collective
Our skill-building workshops help participants build their toolkit around key organizational development areas, including growing leadership skills, developing generative conflict practices, and making collaborative decisions.
Rachel Thomas on Twitter / X
"We argue for a reorientation from autonomous to human-centered coding agents: systems designed not only to complete tasks, but to collaborate effectively with people."@ZhiruoW @jyangballin @KLierethttps://t.co/ncWiAUxwbo 1/— Rachel Thomas (@math_rachel) October 20, 2026
The collaboration curse
The fashion for making employees collaborate has gone too far
Peopleware: productive projects and teams
Demarco and Lister demonstrate that the major issues of…
The Digital Life Collective
The Digital Life Collective is an enabler. If you think we should be doing something we're not currently doing, we're here to help you and your project make the change you want to see in the world.
Education for collective intelligence
Collective Intelligence (CI) is important for groups that seek to address shared problems. CI in human groups can be mediated by educational technologies. The current paper presents a framework to ...
From groups to individuals, micro-computing and us, Paul Rony
From groups to individuals, micro-computing and us, Paul Rony
"The protocol world has been trying to solve the problem of how to leave, and the next step is working on how we can stay together."
It's not enough to be free. We also need to be in community
Reality Blind - Vol. 1
Integrating the Systems Science Underpinning Our Collective Futures
