Archive - What's Really Good? Insights on mission-driven tech

Bluesky: Will or won’t they enshit?

For now, Bluesky is a freer, less profit-driven internet — but can it last?

Jan 31 •

Michael Linares

November 2024

The Algo Election: How 2024 revealed a fragmented reality

The algorithm has become the retina of the mind's eye

Nov 13, 2024 •

Michael Linares

December 2023

Attack of the Clones: Understanding the AI population boom

Why anthropomorphism is taking root in AI, with a case study on OpenAI's GPTs

Dec 7, 2023 •

Michael Linares

November 2023

Slow it all down

Recommendations for meditation, journaling, and art.

Nov 26, 2023 •

Michael Linares

August 2023

Outlook cloudy: Designing for uncertain times

How weather apps attempt to provide certainty-as-a-service despite uncertainty-as-a-reality

Aug 29, 2023 •

Michael Linares

June 2023

Objective function, what's your function? How to grok AI and existential risk

It's the optimization, stupid!

Jun 8, 2023 •

Michael Linares

May 2023

Whose Line Is It Anyway? Human Decentered Design in ChatGPT

What ChatGPT's product design can tell us about its creators, their ideas, and ourselves

May 22, 2023 •

Michael Linares

March 2023

Oops! ... I did it with GAN: Living in Generation AI

Unpacking the magic and pitfalls of generative AI, with a case study on Midjourney

Mar 11, 2023 •

Michael Linares

August 2022

How to do nothing productive (with tech)

In which I recommend three art projects and a few new ways of seeing.

Aug 31, 2022 •

Michael Linares

March 2022

Tech debt is eating the world

Web infrastructure begets inequality, especially for tech nonprofits

Mar 14, 2022 •

Michael Linares

April 2021

Building ethics and equity into software

Wouldst thou like to live ethically?

Apr 5, 2021 •

March 2021

Against growth: Building a slower, more thoughtful internet

Unlearning growth-by-default like our lives depend on it

Mar 14, 2021 •

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