Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading - 3rd/4th MAY 2025
Agency Is Eating the World by Gian Segato
“Many people in tech today, myself included, are working to create digital systems capable of interacting with and adapting to the external environment to achieve specific outcomes. We call these programs “agents.” A legal agent might autonomously scan court documents and compile a legal strategy; a financial agent might continuously monitor market conditions and dynamically adjust pricing or investment strategies. For the past three years, I’ve been part of the core team behind Replit, a coding agent that writes, runs, and deploys software programs autonomously...”
The group chats that changed America by Ben Smith
“It’s the same thing happening on both sides, and I’ve been amazed at how much this is coordinating our reality,” said the writer Thomas Chatterton Williams, who was for a time a member of a group chat with Andreessen. “If you weren’t in the business at all, you’d think everyone was arriving at conclusions independently — and [they’re] not. It’s a small group of people who talk to each other and overlap between politics and journalism and a few industries” …
Slack”: The key to resilience in a world that keeps breaking by Eric Markowitz
“Animals carry slack, too — inside and out. Your immune system, for example, maintains an army of idle B and T cells trained to recognize threats you’ve never encountered. These cells consume energy. They sit in wait. They look inefficient. But when a virus invades, they become the frontline. Your lungs are the same. At rest, you’re using only a fraction of their capacity. But if you sprint, climb, or fight for your life, your lungs can rapidly scale up. That surplus — that dormant function — is what lets you survive sudden change…”
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Who it’s for?
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Qs?
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