Short Thoughts

Jack Danger explains the concepts of Infrastructure Gravity & Domain Engineering in an excerpt from his book, Executive Engineering.

Lena Cohen writes for the Electronic Frontier Foundation that Online Behavioral Ads Fuel the Surveillance Industry — Here’s How. Joseph Cox of 404 Media dives deeper on Wired.com to identify specific apps that contribute to surveillance: Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location.

Derek Thompson writes in The Atlantic about The Anti-Social Century.

Benji Webber provides a list of tips for overcoming resistance to Extreme Programming.

Simon Willison summarizes key learnings about LLMs in 2024.