I sat down to write about design and AI and somehow ended up spending all morning tracking down a citation for how many airline pilots there were in 1969.
@rianvdm @lethain thanks! Lemme know if you have thoughts/comments!
fediverse friends: what is the best (simplest) way to cryptographically sign a web page? I’d love to include a signature on my blog posts that establishes provenance in an independently verifiable (public key?) way.
Huge respect for the team behind Wikipedia's latest design updates. I can't imagine how hard it is to confidently change a framework that has so many users, edge cases, and technical history.
@xabhishek I'd love to know more about what you mean by "the gradient in between the discrete choices they have to make"! Maybe we can chat about it soon :)
Reading Donella Meadows’ “Thinking in Systems.” a. It’s a great book, please read it, and b. It’s reinforcing my belief that optimism or pessimism can be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/thinking-in-systems-international-bestseller-donella-meadows/8755142?ean=9781603580557
@xabhishek I’ve gone back and forth about whether or not the newsletter should be the exact same content as the blog — right now the former allows for a bit more narrowcast stream-of-consciousness content, where the latter needs to be a bit more buttoned up. The archive of the newsletter is here if you wanna read!
https://buttondown.email/mattstrom/archive/ 
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