We’ve tried making Big Tech into better tech for decades. That project has been an abject failure. To make tech better, we have to make it smaller—small enough that the bad ideas, carelessness and blind spots of individual tech leaders are their problems, not everyone else’s. We need lots of tech, run by lots of different kinds of people and organizations, and we need to make it as close to costless as possible to switch from one to the other.
Currently reading: The Internet Con by Cory Doctorow 📚
The Art Of Not Asking Why this guy doesn’t stop to surprise me. Not that I just I agree with most of what he writes, but he writes so much! Blog posts every day, books seem to come out almost every month, he help running the EFF and boing boing, talks often on social media and take interviews… And all of those are thoughtful (though spicy) opinions.