The CHECKS Pattern Language of Information Integrity - by Ward Cunningham (more)

Deciding whether to create a new component yourself vs buy/outsource. (more)

Effective Entrepreneur practice. I use WeeklyLog pages for review and plan. (more)

Twin Pages: for the current page, show which Sister Sites have a page with the same Wiki Name (more)

May'2022: Elon Musk Buys Twitter (more)

Max Read: Elon Musk won't fix Twitter (but he won't kill it, either). It has a core of extraordinarily dedicated users, who spend hours a day creating and sharing content for the site, and yet many of those users would agree that the product is broken and the experience of using Twitter sucks ass. (Musk Buys Twitter) (more)

The Shadow Crew Who Encouraged Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover. (Musk Buys Twitter) Before and during Mr. Musk’s breakneck takeover of Twitter, a close-knit group of libertarian-leaning activists and businessmen have been encouraging him to get involved. This group includes the so-called PayPal mafia—former executives at the online payments company who include Mr. Musk, the investor Peter Thiel and entrepreneur David Sacks—as well as ancillary figures like the venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson, an early Tesla investor who once served on the auto maker’s board; and Mr. Musk’s brother, Kimbal Musk, a Tesla board member (more)

Let's talk about Bluesky. A couple of years ago, Twitter announced that they were working on a decentralized social media protocol. Shortly after that announcement, dead silence. Coincidentally, after Elon Musk buys 9.5% of Twitter (Musk Buys Twitter), Bluesky pops their head out, announces to the world that they're still alive, and finally detail what they're working on. 2022-04-06-BlueskyASelfauthenticatingSocialProtocol (more)

Erik Hoel: Elon Musk's Twitter and the "crisis" of scientific misinformation. (Musk Buys Twitter) Let’s say you are a psychiatrist. A good one, renowned in your field, although you aren’t a public name. At some point, you begin to suspect that there is something rotten within your discipline—a rot that goes beyond misapplications or misdiagnoses. No, something is wrong with the foundations of psychiatry itself. Particularly around depression. (more)

Bluesky: A Self-Authenticating Social Protocol. Bluesky’s mission is to drive the evolution from platforms to protocols. (more)

Steven Levy: Barack Obama, once seen as the embodiment of a tech-savvy leader of the free world. On April 21, in a rare post-presidency policy speech at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center, Obama addressed disinformation. (more)

Parag Agrawal (born 21 May 1984)[1] is an Indian-American software engineer who is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Twitter. Agrawal held research internships at Microsoft Research and Yahoo! Research prior to joining Twitter as a software engineer in 2011.[13] In October 2017, Twitter announced the appointment of Agrawal as chief technology officer following the departure of Adam Massinger.[14] In December 2019, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that Agrawal would be in charge of Project Bluesky, an initiative to develop a decentralized social network protocol.[15] In November 2021, Dorsey announced that he was resigning as CEO of Twitter and that Agrawal was replacing him immediately.[16][17] As CEO, Agrawal was awarded annual compensation of $1 million as well as stock compensation worth $12.5 million. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parag_Agrawal

VP, Founders Fund https://foundersfund.com/team/michael-solana/ (more)

To split a company in pieces (more)

Michael Leggett says I founded Google Inbox with Keith Coleman and lead design for 4 years while also managing the Gmail Design Team. The project was an amazing exploration of managing information and communication across many products. In 2012, Sundar Pichai asked us to narrow our focus to email. (more)

Pichai Sundararajan (born June 10, 1972[1][4][5]), better known as Sundar Pichai (/ˈsʊndɑːr pɪˈtʃaɪ/), is an Indian-American business executive.[6] He is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google... Pichai joined Google in 2004,[8] where he led the product management and innovation efforts for a suite of Google's client software products, including Google Chrome and Chrome OS, as well as being largely responsible for Google Drive. In addition, he went on to oversee the development of other applications such as Gmail and Google Maps. In 2010, Pichai also announced the open-sourcing of the new video codec VP8 by Google and introduced the new video format, WebM. The Chromebook was released in 2012. In 2013, Pichai added Android to the list of Google products that he oversaw. Pichai was selected to become the next CEO of Google on August 10, 2015, after previously being appointed Product Chief by CEO Larry Page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundar_Pichai

The "best" public Search Engine of the moment. (more)

Michael Aaron Nielsen (born January 4, 1974) is a quantum physicist, science writer, and computer programming researcher living in San Francisco. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Nielsen (more)

A user-app for Twitter (more)

Matt Haughey does not recommend using a Twitter Fat Client. Imagine if you had a permanent desktop application that featured Google Reader scrolling up every new post on every blog you follow combined with every new link on delicious from people you trust and every photo added to flickr by your friends plus tons of instant messages sent to all, constantly streaming with no end in sight. (Attention Management, Twitter Client)