After my critique of Bluesky's 2026 Report resonated across the Atmosphere, the company's new interim CEO reached out. We talked about what went wrong, what collaboration should look like, and why private data is the next test of whether the words match the work.
Proof of Work - The Marshmallow Test got a response. Now the real test begins.
After my critique of Bluesky's 2026 Report resonated across the Atmosphere, the company's new interim CEO reached out. We talked about what went wrong, what collaboration should look like, and why private data is the next test of whether the words match the work.
Marathon is a satire
Bungie's latest is a vicious send-up of work, debt and the corporate world
When Nature Calls: The Enshittification of Science and Its Enablers
Proof-of-work papers, policy laundering, and the collapse of self-correction
Howtown
Super pumped: the battle for Uber
"A New York Times technology correspondent presents the dramatic rise and fall of Uber, set against the rapid upheaval in Silicon Valley during the mobile era. In June 2017, Travis Kalanick, the hard-charging CEO of Uber, was ousted in a boardroom coup that capped a brutal year for the transportation giant. Uber had catapulted to the top of the tech world yet for many came to symbolize everything wrong with Silicon Valley. In the tradition of Brad Stone's Everything Store and John Carreyrou's Bad Blood, award-winning investigative reporter Mike Isaac's Super Pumped delivers a gripping account of Uber's rapid rise, its pitched battles with taxi unions and drivers, the company's toxic internal culture and the bare-knuckle tactics it devised to overcome obstacles in its quest for dominance. Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees, along with previously unpublished documents, Super Pumped is a page-turning story of ambition and deception, obscene wealth and bad behavior, that explores how blistering technological and financial innovation culminated in one of the most catastrophic twelve-month periods in American corporate history"--
Prompting Science Report 4: Playing Pretend: Expert Personas Don't Improve Factual Accuracy
<span> <p><span>This is the fourth in a series of short reports that help business, education, and policy leaders understand the technical details of working w
Prompting Science Report 4: Playing Pretend: Expert Personas Don't Improve Factual Accuracy
<span> <p><span>This is the fourth in a series of short reports that help business, education, and policy leaders understand the technical details of working w
Bluesky 2025 Transparency Report - Bluesky
Throughout 2025, our Trust & Safety work was guided by the premise that social media should serve the people using it. Our transparency report provides data and details about those investments, and the progress we made this year.
Bluesky’s new CEO wants a big tent, not a bubble
Bluesky is many different things in a trenchcoat.
The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick
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Socialized Proof of Work — Open Indie
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Private data: developing a rubric for success - Paul's Leaflets
What will an effective solution look like?
Coming Off the Bench for Bluesky
I’m excited to tell you that I will serve as interim CEO at Bluesky, a company whose mission I believe in deeply. I’ve been a partner at True Ventures for many years, and one of the gre…
