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This is a blog adaptation of a recent 15-minute talk I was asked to do at an Ambition Empower event. Having noticed that I am no longer on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or LinkedIn people are naturally curious as to my reasoning and how this works for a small business owner.

Group was put in place to address potential downsides of the company’s products; Meta says efforts will continue.

Blog posts with images get 2.3x more engagement. Here’s the problem - we make a query engine for streaming tables. How the heck are you supposed to pick images for technical topics like comparing the similarities between Deephaven and Materalize, viewing pandas DataFrames, gRPC tooling for getting data streams to the browser, using Kafka with Parquet for storage, or using Redpanda for streaming analytics?

Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences

The story of Moral Imaginations one year on, since we launched on 12th April 2020

Meaningful human oversight over AI requires a critical look at the temporal dynamics of how AI enters our lives. I argue that ideologies such as “move fast and break things” do just that - move fast and break things. Instead, what if we could slow down and contribute to crafting empowering futures?

The Kingdom of Luba is an ancient African Kingdom which was based in current day Democratic Republic of Congo.

Having moved this year from a modern open plan, flexible learning area school, to a classroom in an old red brick building built in 1922, I have had some new challenges with learning spaces. I have…

Our economic system feeds on the belief that eliminating all friction is our road to happiness. We perpetuate this belief to drive profits — but we’re reaching a point of diminishing returns.

Should Governor Gavin Newsom sign the California Age Appropriate Design Code into law, a new era will begin, writes Jennifer King.

Founder Yvon Chouinard announced that all the company’s profits will go into saving the planet

Recently, startup veterans have identified four core challenges with the Lean Startup. Let's break each of those down & look at a more effective methodology.

The Pattern, and the Battle for the Soul of the Internet

Here's a thought experiment: every search result is now contested by 100 AI-generated articles. How do you respond?

Four creators share their Dall-E-generated images – and their hopes and fears about AI in art

The number of democratic countries around the world is shrinking steadily, and autocratic countries are registering more patents than the West. A new era is dawning – and it could have dramatic consequences for our work, our money and our lives.

Dieter Rams’ profound influences on modern design blossomed throughout his 30+ years working for Braun and in his text, “10 Principles for Good Design.”

How does this work? Recorded a selection of open cameras for weeks. Scraped all Instagram photos tagged with the locations of the open cameras. Software compares the Instagram with the recorded footage. I launched the project on 12 September 2022. The YouTube video was just created with results of 10 days. I will publish new…