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Why I Love Polywork as a Software Developer
If you haven't heard about Polywork yet you're definitely missing out on something exciting. I...

Transformational Pathways to Sustainability Through Polycrisis
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Polygon Ventures: Backing the Bold
We are thrilled to unveil the official home of Polygon Ventures at polygonventures.xyz. Our journey, which started as an ecosystem fund, has evolved to encompass a broader vision, focusing on nurturing startups across the vast spectrum of blockchain networks.

Settling in, and looking ahead - pckt - Dev Journal
Hey Bloggers ! A lot has happened since our last post. Which always seems to be the case... We've been hard at work crafting new features and refining existing...

Polytunity - The Ideas Letter
“Polycrisis” has become a ubiquitous descriptor for the multisector, intersecting problems afflicting the world—but the term masks the systemic nature of these crises and overwhelmingly reflects Eurocentric voices, priorities, and…

Polycrisis - Cascade Institute
The polycrisis program examines how today’s multiple crises are linked and how the polycrisis could create possibilities for positive outcomes.

Welcome to a Multidimensional Economic Disaster
The AI boom wasn’t built for the polycrisis.
Polymarket is America, America is Polymarket
As the US celebrates its 250th birthday, prediction markets have already taken over—now they are coming for you

Opinion | Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass
The people building A.I. fear that we have only a short time before advanced A.I. disrupts the labor force.


Build the thing you wish to see in the world
For most of my career, I've been confusing building products with building businesses—and that confusion kept me from pursuing a lot of ideas. Two weeks off helped me realize that not everything needs to be a startup, and some of the best things we build are the ones we build just because we want them to exist.

R. Michael Thomas — Polymath + Community Infrastructure Architect
Building upstream infrastructure across technology, community, writing, and culture.
Hey! I'm Isaac
I like building tools, breaking workflows, and putting them back together better.

Why craft-lovers are losing their craft
Les Orchard made a quiet observation recently that I haven't been able to shake. Before LLM coding assistants arrived, the split between developers was…
2026 State of the Workplace
Get the latest insights from state of the workplace report spanning more than 443 million hours of work activity across 1,111 organizations and 163,638 employees over three years.

Reflections on a decade of coding
I've been programming professionally for about 12 years. Here are some of the things I worked on in the last 2 years.