Alexander Grothendieck, later Alexandre Grothendieck in French (/ˈɡroʊtəndiːk/; German: [ˌalɛˈksandɐ ˈɡʁoːtn̩ˌdiːk] ⓘ; French: [ɡʁɔtɛndik]; 28 March 1928 – 13 November 2014), was a German-born French mathematician who became the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry.[7][8] His research extended the scope of the field and added elements of commutative algebra, homological algebra, sheaf theory, and category theory to its foundations, while his so-called "relative" perspective led to revolutionary advances in many areas of pure mathematics.[7][9] He is considered by many to be the greatest mathematician of the twentieth century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Grothendieck

Matt Webb: Diane, I wrote a lecture by talking about it. Diane, it’s Thursday and I’ve been figuring out how transcription fits into my everyday work. I had to make up a character to make it make sense, as I’ll say. (more)

Matt Webb: Sometimes the product innovation is the distribution. Did you know that Moleskine notebooks have their own ISBN? (more)

Alexander Obenauer: Adding to the corpus of ideas, some observations on process. My exploration into the operator environment for an (itemized) OS of the future has been guided by need and intuition, but how I’ve reacted to those forces has evolved over time. If you’ll allow some naval-gazing, I’ll share some observations and reflections on process. (more)

Matt Webb: Who will build new search engines for new personal AI agents? Short version: We’re going to end up running personal AI agents to do tasks for us. The actual issue here is how exactly to make them personalised. Ultimately this is where new search engines come in, as I’ll explain. (more)

Matt Webb: The destination for AI interfaces is Do What I Mean. David Galbraith has a smart + straightforward way to frame how AI will change the user interface. (more)

Matt Webb: Spinning up a new thing: Inanimate. I’m spinning up something new with a buddy and you can guess what it is by what I’ve been writing about recently. (more)

Matt Webb: Cyborgs vs rooms, two visions for the future of computing. Loosely I can see two visions for the future of how we interact with computers: cyborgs and rooms. The first is where the industry is going today; I’m more interested in the latter. (more)

Ron Jeffries: Extreme (Programming) Thoughts. Chet Hendrickson said something to the effect that when we were first talking and writing about Extreme Programming, we said that it was simple enough that ordinary programmers could do it. He went on to say that on the C3 team that first did XP, the team was self-selected from a group that had been immersed in the domain, and in Smalltalk, for well over a year, and that had all been programming for quite a few years before that. He wondered whether we should have said that yes, you do have to be good to do XP. (more)

Thoughtworks Radar volume 28. Themes for this volume (more)

Exodus: General Idea of the Revolution in the XXI Century by Kevin Carson, 2021 (more)

Alexander Obenauer: The Interfaces With Which We Think. Binary is how our chips process logic. But the apps, windows, desktops, notifications, and such — these are all constructs of human imagination. This is true of nearly all the systems, metaphors, and interface patterns we’ve built on top of our binary-crunching chips. Today, our abstractions are holding us back. (more)

Codex is a web-based operating system for knowledge workers. With Codex you can transform your notes, texts, images, videos, etc., into a multimedia knowledge graph: just highlight text and create bidirectional links, entities, relationships, attributes, events, and more. This is done from a special text editor which not only offers rich text styling but also separates the markup from the text. https://bsky.app/profile/codexeditor.bsky.social (more)

David Oliver Sacks (born May 25, 1972)[1] is a South African-American[2] entrepreneur, author, and investor in internet technology firms. He is a general partner of Craft Ventures, a venture capital fund he co-founded in late 2017. Additionally, he is a former co-host of the All In podcast, alongside Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis and David Friedberg.[3] Previously, Sacks was the COO and product leader of PayPal,[1][4] and founder and CEO of Yammer.[5][6] In 2016, he became interim CEO of Zenefits for ten months.[7] In 2017, Sacks co-founded Craft Ventures,[8] an early-stage venture fund. His angel investments include Facebook, Uber, SpaceX, Palantir Technologies, and Airbnb.[9][10][11] In December 2024, President Donald Trump named Sacks the White House AI and crypto czar for the incoming administration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_O._Sacks

Alexander Caedmon Karp (born October 2, 1967)[1] is an American businessman and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of the software firm Palantir Technologies. Karp began his career investing in start-up companies and stocks, and established Palantir in 2003 with Peter Thiel.[2] In 2025, Time magazine named him on the Time 100 list of the world's most influential people. In 2025, his net worth exceeded $12 billion, making him among the wealthiest 300 people in the world as reported by Forbes and the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Karp

MBS is being welcomed to the Donald Trump White House (more)

Multimodal interaction provides the user with multiple modes of interacting with a system. A multimodal interface provides several distinct tools for input and output of data. Multimodal human-computer interaction (HCI) involves natural communication with virtual and physical environments. It facilitates free and natural communication between users and automated systems, allowing flexible input (speech, handwriting, gestures) and output (speech synthesis, graphics). Multimodal fusion combines inputs from different modalities, addressing ambiguities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimodal_interaction (more)

a flavor of ChatGPT

Andy Matuschak: Ratcheting progress in tools for thought. There are some people trying to develop tools for thought, but there isn’t yet a meaningful field around tools for thought. The difference is that a field is about ratcheting: developing a growing shared corpus of general knowledge and methods which allow projects to meaningfully build on each other, across researchers and across years, on and on in an upward cycle. (compounding) (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Google Gemini 2.5 Pro: From 0506 to 0605. Google recently came out with Gemini-2.5-0605, to replace Gemini-2.5-0506, because I mean at this point it has to be the companies intentionally fucking with us, right? (more)