Why Apple’s Tim Cook doesn’t want his nephew to use social networks Web Publication: Market Watch, by Mike Murphy This brief article is not exactly news nor is it unique. Plenty of tech notables have confided their reservations about the Internet connected life; it’s actually kind of a thing now in Silicon Valley. I do […]

Bitcoin Is a Delusion That Could Conquer the World Web Publication: The Atlantic, by Derek Thompson I’m sure most people have caught a glimpse of Bitcoin news in the past few weeks if they’re watching the news at all. There’s a lot of confusion about what is Bitcoin. This article addresses that as best as […]

The Long, Slow, Rotten March of Progress Web Publication: The Outline, by Sam Kriss This is the first article I’ve seen that starts to forcefully ask the important existential question about the locus of tech, coding. Of course coding is a useful thing. It pays a lot of bills and it creates efficiencies and connections […]

Revealed: Facebook’s internal rulebook on sex, terrorism and violence Web Publication: The Guardian, by Nick Hopkins In the age in which Facebook quietly rules the personal media selection of hundreds of millions of people, this is something that you should be aware of. Most people don’t know what goes on in the larger Facebook world […]

Sir Tim Berners-Lee lays out nightmare scenario where AI runs the financial world Web Publication: Tech World, by Scott Carey I’ve been sitting on this article a couple weeks but it won’t run out of relevance – ever. As you may know, Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the architect of the Internet. For those raised on […]