An in-depth exploration (~30k words) of how software is eating the world, based on research supported by Andreessen-Horowitz in 2014. The essays are free to read online.
Kindle ebook $7.99
- Introduction (by Marc Andreessen)
- A New Soft Technology
- Getting Reoriented
- Towards a Mass Flourishing
- Purists versus Pragmatists
- Agility and Illegibility
- Rough Consensus and Maximal Interestingness
- Running Code and Perpetual Beta
- Software as Subversion
- Prometheans and Pastoralists
- The Allure of Pastoralism
- Understanding Elite Discontent
- The Principle of Generative Pluralism
- The Future in the Rear-View Mirror
- A Tale of Two Computers
- The Immortality of Bits
- Tinkering versus Goals
- The Zemblanity of Containers
- Free as in Beer, and as in Speech
- The Serendipity of Streams
- Breaking Smart
- Acknowledgments
An 8-hour online workshop (English) available via Teachable ($250), based on live workshops delivered in 2015-16.