India just unveiled its BRICS 2026 chairship with a bold new agenda: a CBDC bridge connecting central bank digital currencies across BRICS nations. This paym…

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Funny video.

There will be some small winners from the original unbundling chart above, but the really big winner in each category is a horizontal platform for the whole category, eg, community, forums, personals, classifieds, etc. This meets the needs of real people with limited attention units. It also reflects the real world, where people might apply to jobs for several different functions (Indeed), be interested in selling both used furniture and used cars (OfferUp), hiring both a painter and a handyman for your house (Thumbtack), or simply discussing both tech and politics in online forums. Each one of these categories can support just 1 or 2 mega-platform businesses that can scale to be multi-billion dollar companies.

Probably one of the most important ideas in contemporary economics.

Forge is the open-source runtime for Anthropic’s Agent Skills standard — built for the agent that runs next to a service, in your environment, on infrastructure you already operate. Write a SKILL.md. Compile to a portable, hardened agent. Deploy it anywhere containers run: Kubernetes, on-prem, air-gapped, embedded in CI, or as an A2A endpoint.

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I think from this blog you may misunderestimate how absolutely giddy I am about AI. I did hacking from 2007-2014, after that my whole career has been devoted to AI. I love the progress. I’m so excited for the new LLMs, self driving cars, video generation models, and coding agents. I set up a Linux box with opencode on my local GLM-5.2 last week and wow like just saying install tmux with the geohot configuration works; the Year of the Linux Desktop is finally here!

I’m a software engineer at Tyba, open-source maintainer, amateur musician, recovering entrepreneur, and father of two. In my copious free time I work on Biff (Clojure web framework) and Yakread (reading app).

Had a lot of really interesting ideas on unbundling social media while Twitter was going through the shitter. Unfortunately, a lot of his business bets on said ideas didn’t work out the way he wanted, but still an impressive designer and engineer, nonetheless.

see: https://obryant.dev/unbundling-social-media/

I’m a software engineer and (reluctant) policy wonk with an interest in complex human problems, often having to do with institutions.

Met him at an event he hosted in summer 2023 while he was doing an Interact Fellowship. He stopped posting regularly to his blog that summer, and now irregularly writes a newsletter. After moving between various gigs, he’s now at Anthropic. Damn, does this company swallow up everyone.

see: https://daveguarino.substack.com/

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