All memos tagged #judy-estrin

"Don't Be Evil" is the first podcast-episode of the Everything They Know podcast, hosted by Ari Andersen. Ari opens with the frame that carries the series: Harari's Faustian bargain between humans...

"This Will Change Everything" is the eighth podcast-episode of the Everything They Know podcast, hosted by Ari Andersen. Recorded in late March 2020, weeks into COVID-19 lockdown, this is a special...

"While We Were Looking Over There" is the second podcast-episode of the Everything They Know podcast, hosted by Ari Andersen. Ari opens on the ten-year whiplash from techno-optimism to a "society of...

"Extraordinary Levels of Specificity" is the fourth podcast-episode of the Everything They Know podcast, hosted by Ari Andersen. Ari opens with the rigged-poker frame — you're betting against a house...

Judy Estrin is an internet pioneer, Silicon Valley leader, technology entrepreneur, author of Closing the Innovation Gap, and CEO of JLabs. Since 1981, Estrin has co-founded over ten technology...

Ignoring the harm is the pattern Judy Estrin identifies in industries whose incentives reward growth over consequence: executives rarely set out to do damage — they ignore early signals, dismiss...

Friction as a good thing is Judy Estrin's counter-axiom to Silicon Valley's frictionless ideal: some level of resistance in systems and in daily life is healthy, and engineering all of it away makes...

Open systems innovation is the design philosophy of the early internet era — succeeding by interconnecting diverse systems rather than owning every layer — under which value spreads broadly across an...

"Mother Of The Cloud" was a title assigned to Judy Estrin by Forbes publisher, Rich Karlgaard, who prefaced his interview with this potent summary of her career: Judy Estrin is the most influential...

On the final day of PrimeMind's life, Judy Estrin was there along David Carrico breaking the news of their decision—to shutter the startup. While the publication didn't make sense financially, the...

"Scale down for trust, interconnect for power." ~ Judy Estrin Contexts judy-estrin (See: Judy Estrin)

When Ari Andersen asked Judy Estrin, the Mother Of The Cloud, "how should founders of companies prepare for the future?" she responded, "Scale down for trust, interconnect for power." Contexts...

Authoritarian Technology is the outcome of a concentration of power in companies like Google and Facebook who have co-opted the human need for connection, and a desire for convenience, in the pursuit...

"Large-scale machine-learning systems cannot be audited in this way. They use information to learn how to do things. Like a human brain, they change as they learn. When they go wrong, Artificial...

Digital pollution is the contamination of online environments with non-material waste. The phrase was popularized with support from internet pioneer Judy Estrin and Sam Gill in their co-authored...