Breaking Smart is a technology analysis site. We aim to produce a binge-worthy collection of essays approximately once every 2 years. Season 1, comprising 20 essays totaling approximately 30,000 words, is written by Venkatesh Rao and illustrated by Grace Witherell. This inaugural season is an in-depth exploration of Marc Andreessen’s observation that “software is eating the world.” Season 2 (due out in 2017) is currently under development.
https://breakingsmart.com/en/season-1/
SEASON 1
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