Reading Naisbitt’s Megatrends again The lessons we should have learned forty years ago https://mamund.substack.com/p/reading-naisbitts-megatrends-again

Why I keep talking about affordances Because science tells us intelligence starts with what you can do, not what you know. https://mamund.substack.com/p/why-i-keep-talking-about-affordances

"Information has become a form of garbage ... barely useful in providing coherent direction to the solution of even mundane problems."

Technopoly flourishes when "the tie between information and human purpose has been severed, i.e., information appears indiscriminately, directed at no one in particular, in enormous volume and at high speeds, and disconnected from theory, meaning, or purpose."

-- Neil Postman, Technolopy (1992)

Why API Stories Come Before the Spec Designing intent while change is still cheap https://mamund.substack.com/p/why-api-stories-come-before-the-spec

Shortwave: AI fatigue and the long middle of adoption A field report from the people watching users closely. https://mamund.substack.com/p/shortwave-ai-fatigue-and-the-long

Signal ping : Schools have seen this movie before Tools do not fix institutions. https://mamund.substack.com/p/signal-ping-schools-have-seen-this

Hypermedia is the missing control surface for AI Clear affordances deliver reliable agents. https://mamund.substack.com/p/hypermedia-is-the-missing-control

@AkaSci

GEB changed my life.

Happy Birthday to Douglas Hofstadter (born 15 February 1945), cognitive and computer scientist, author of "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" and "I Am a Strange Loop".

From GEB, Hofstadter's law - "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law."

From IAASL - “In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.”

How many of you were influenced by GEB?

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Shortwave: Human-centered AI is not a new idea Human-centered AI treats machines as tools, not replacements. https://mamund.substack.com/p/shortwave-human-centered-ai-is-not

Signal ping : Repair before reinvention Reinvention is optional; repair is not. https://mamund.substack.com/p/signal-ping-repair-before-reinvention

Interoperability, not integration Treat everything in your network space as someone else’s system. https://mamund.substack.com/p/interoperability-not-integration

Shortwave: When institutions stop thinking for themselves The erosion of institutional norms in the age of AI https://mamund.substack.com/p/shortwave-when-institutions-stop

Signal ping : Demand is easier to promise than to sustain Optimism depreciates faster than buildings. https://mamund.substack.com/p/signal-ping-demand-is-easier-to-promise

"Why is it the things you want in life are there only for an instant?" -- Burt Lancaster as Starbuck in Rainmaker

#movies #quotes

"The forest will always be larger than any beam of light we bring into it. A flashlight that cannot reveal everything at once is not a failure; it is a reality of complex systems.”

Too often I notice people trying to design APIs that aim to be exhaustive. They want to cover all the possible actions for all possible clients.

Good API design is less about exposing everything and more about helping people navigate to their chosen location.

See the full article here: https://mamund.substack.com/p/the-flashlight-the-forest-and-the

The flashlight, the forest, and the API APIs are tools for navigation, not explanations of the world. https://mamund.substack.com/p/the-flashlight-the-forest-and-the

Shortwave: They Just Don’t Work (Yet) Karpathy reminds us why agentic AI still has a long way to go. https://mamund.substack.com/p/shortwave-they-just-dont-work-yet

Signal ping: Coordination fails before systems do Scale without shared meaning is fragile by design. https://mamund.substack.com/p/signal-ping-coordination-fails-before

Lowering the cost of exploration in API design A different kind of shift left for API design https://mamund.substack.com/p/lowering-the-cost-of-exploration