Article argues that "management" skills (gasp!) will be key to good careers as agentic AI use increases.

The characterization that IP law is only intended to spur creative activity is incorrect. It was designed to balance the interests of the creator with those of society. And that balance is off, IP regulation has become a tool for rent seeking.

You are actually incorrect here as far as the US goes.

Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the US constitution states:

To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.

The whole constitutional purpose of IP law is to spur creative activity. The interests of the creator are only a means to this end. This has, unfortunately, been perverted by regulatory capture.

>The characterization that IP law is only intended to spur creative activity is incorrect. It was designed to balance the interests of the creator with those of society.

I will just note that characterization is a very American one, and that different cultures have different characterizations.

Yes, I had the exact same reaction and actually donated a print version of the book to the Internet Archive so they might create a digital ebook. It never materialized and I ended up reading the print version, and found it well worth the physical effort.

Pretty sure it was channel 9. I used to listen to that all the time.

This is absolutely the easiest solution. We did this for open.media.mit.edu in order to archive the old wordpress site. Used wget to fetch all of the HTML and ran a script over it to remove some obvious clutter. Happy to help out. Your writing really shaped the way I thought about the potential of an open internet.

Since you list other non-open source solutions as well in your question, I’ll mention one more, which might be the closest to what you are looking for > maven.com.

We started collaborating with them right after they launched, and just finished our first course on their platform.

I also wish there was a good open source alternative but the revenue sharing with maven is fair, the team is a joy to work with, and the product is improving rapidly.

Sasha Frere-Jones used to be the music critic at the New Yorker and writes a fantastic (although somewhat irregular) substack blog > https://substack.sashafrerejones.com/

Tap water in Amsterdam is tested daily and perfectly safe for drinking: https://www.waternet.nl/en/service-and-contact/tap-water/can...

Where is it tested? In Flint a lot of the lead came from pipes into the house.

I the US the water provider is supposed to follow EPA rules and sample water at household taps on a yearly basis for lead and copper. I wonder if Flint complied with that rule.

Can you share some articles or studies that demonstrate the increasing openness? (I hope it’s true that it cuts both ways, but would like to see more data/research).

I would still like to see an answer to the questions above. In particular, does a user who connects on three devices count as three MAUs?

If MAUs is hard, then don't use MAU as a billing metric? Charge for concurrent connections or by the minute maybe?

Sounds like it. But at 35cents / month, that doesn’t sound like a bad outcome.