What if technology didn’t feel so… hollow? Some friends and I just released a manifesto about a world where tech leaves us feeling nourished (along with an evolving list of theses about how we can build it) resonantcomputing.org

This is a plot point in Naomi Alderman’s book The Future

Celebrating books that started my career 📚: 
The Lean Startup by @ericries.bsky.social. This book made it so clear why startups (when done correctly) can move so much faster, and I instantly knew this was the kind of environment I'd thrive in - and I still do to this day!

@howard.fm now on O'Reilly: www.oreilly.com/radar/build-...

Most companies scale by cutting corners. Seth Goldman built a brand by refusing to. Seth is one of the founders of Honest Tea, a longtime chair at Beyond Meat, and the cofounder of Just Iced Tea.

Red Queen Bio is "is trying to make sure the AI industry's defenses are growing at least as rapidly as those who seek to exploit models to harm humans". www.reuters.com/technology/o... I hope to see a lot more companies and non-profits started with this kind of mission. Also love the PBC trend.

Counting down the top caves in the US that are not (yet) named for a prominent politician or statesman. 5. Lehman Caves, Great Basin National Park, Nevada - Beautiful limestone cavern with intricate formations.

The combo of walled-garden social media and AI replacing search means the death of the useful/open/free internet. Why would anyone create anything when it will just be summarized by AI and no one will ever see it? When social media deprecates outbound links, how will anyone find original content?

Most companies optimize for profit. Devoted Health was built to serve people. In this episode of The Eric Ries Show, I sit down with Todd Park, co-founder of Devoted Health and former U.S. Chief Technology Officer, to explore what it looks like to design a company for human flourishing at scale.

Seeing Ann Leckie make this point on here is kind of breaking my brain because she wrote a 1200 page trilogy with this idea as one of the major themes lol. Go check out Ancillary Justice if you like scifi because it rules.

This is a chronic problem in all kinds of metrics-obsessed systems (OKRs, compensation, engagement, etc). We easily draw conclusions about cause and effect without double-checking the intermediate steps in the causality. cc @sethgodin.bsky.social's work on false proxies

In this episode of The Eric Ries Show, I sit down with Dr. Brent Ridge and Josh Kilmer-Purcell, co-founders of Beekman 1802, to explore how a small act of compassion grew into a multimillion-dollar skincare brand rooted in community and purpose.

this was a good reminder, for anyone still dealing with Office subscription pain

No startups, no science: How the Republican Administration switched off America's most important engine of economic success. steveblank.com/2025/10/13/n...

I purchased this on launch day - very excited to read it. Ken Liu is a phenomenal writer. PS. If you haven't read The Grace of Kings you're really missing out.

Lukas Biewald has been shaping the future of AI for nearly two decades. In this episode, we explore how his early passion for the board game Go, his hard-won lessons as a founder, and his focus on alignment and culture helped him build Weights & Biases into a trusted toolmaker in machine learning.

solveit is on ProductHunt today: www.producthunt.com/products/sol... feel free to ask any questions

I'm incredibly excited to share the new "solveit" course with you. Basically anyone who finds vibecoding frustrating or hasn't gotten a lot of value out of the whole agents thing (even if they're afraid to say so) will get a lot out of it www.answer.ai/posts/2025-1...

Bureaucracy was once a breakthrough. Today, it’s become a costly drag on innovation, human potential, and business impact. I sit down with Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini, authors of Humanocracy, to explore how organizations can move beyond outdated management models and unlock true human thriving.

I hadn't considered this angle; I wonder what will happen as a result

Patagonia has always been different. While so many companies lose their way when profits come before people, the planet, or even their own products, Patagonia continues to stay true to its values.

not true. reporting was semiannual until 1970. many UK and EU companies also report semiannually

There's really good evidence that quarterly reporting is costing the US economy billions. Studies suggest it's at least a 5% tax on the value of every company that forced to report this way. It's time to do something about it: www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

What if your company’s mission turned out to be bigger than you imagined? Today, I speak with Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare, now a $70 billion company defending 20% of all internet traffic.

In this episode of The Eric Ries Show, I’m joined by Guillermo Rauch, CEO and founder of Vercel—a company powering the front end of the internet for brands like OpenAI, Nintendo, Chick-fil-A, and many more.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Tom Lehrer was the absolute GOAT. May he rest in peace. Among the many awesome things he did, near the end of his life, he put all of his work in the public domain, including music, lyrics and his performance notes.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Anil, thanks, very much appreciated!

A quick @skylight.social update ✨ If you’re a creator posting videos to Skylight ⬇️ drop a comment! I want to come follow you!! Shout out to all of the people who helped us troubleshoot sign-in earlier 💕 Y’all are literally the backbone of this operation 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

In this episode of The Eric Ries Show, I’m joined by Sid Sijbrandij, co-founder and Executive Chair of GitLab—one of the world’s most radically transparent and values-driven software companies.

I love talking with @ericries.bsky.social. Eric wrote the blockbuster "The Lean Startup", launched Long-Term Stock Exchange , and so much more. We both believe companies can thrive financially and innovate, and treat employees and customers well, at the same time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Zc...

I love talking with @ericries.bsky.social. We both believe that capitalism and caring about people (rather than acting like a selfish asshole) are compatible and desirable goals.

In this episode of The Eric Ries Show, I’m joined by @bobsutton.net, organizational psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of several influential books on leadership, behavior, and workplace culture, including his latest: The Friction Project.

What does it take to challenge a century-old status quo in aviation? In this episode of The Eric Ries Show, I sit down with Blake Scholl, Founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, a company on a mission to bring back supersonic air travel—sustainably and affordably.

Incredibly grateful to @jay.bsky.team and the entire @bsky.app team for building the AT Protocol and taking on the burden of building an ENTIRE social network just to prove that open social can work. Thanks for shouting out @skylight.social! We stand on the shoulders of giants 🙌🏽

In this episode of The Eric Ries Show, I’m joined by Maria Colacurcio, Co-Founder and CEO of Syndio, a workplace equity analytics platform. Syndio helps companies close pay gaps and build high-trust organizations.

attn please, here is some further Murderbot footage to enjoy incl the definitely best little moment in All Systems Red

Has anyone created a video yet based on the idea that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was sent to Narkina 5?

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

"I write this letter as the sun rises, hoping that the suspension of my rights will raise alarm bells that yours are already in jeopardy."

In this episode of The Eric Ries Show, I sit down with Ev Williams—someone whose work has profoundly shaped the modern internet. Ev co-founded Twitter, created Medium, and before all that, built Blogger, the original blogging platform.

this was a fun interview

My favourite idea from The Lean Startup by @ericries.bsky.social: Everything a startup does [every product, feature, marketing campaign] is an experiment designed to achieve validated learning. ↳ Validated learning = backed up by empirical data collected from real customers.

Spectech is hiring a program associate for the Brains Research Accelerator! Are you/do you know someone relatively early in their career who has: - Technical training - Intense attention to detail - An interest in ambitious research programs? If so, please get in touch. spec.tech/jobs

In this episode of The Eric Ries Show, I'm joined by Jess Mah, an extraordinary entrepreneur who launched her first six-figure business in middle school and went on to co-found more than 10 companies collectively valued at over $1 billion.

THEY ARE DOING SANCTUARY MOON THIS IS NOT A DRILL

Wish that you spent your Friday doing something besides checking if TikTok was banned or not? Try out @skylight.social — a video app built upon the same open network as Bluesky. You can login with your Bluesky account, and all of your followers seamlessly come with you.

friendly reminder that building on atproto gives you immediate access to >30 million users, an existing social graph, and a huge network of open data & content it's increasingly becoming a no-brainer to build new social apps on atproto congrats to the skylight team on the launch 🙌

Welcome to Skylight!! I’m overjoyed to have you here!!! 🥰 @skylight.social @reedharmeyer.bsky.social #skylightsocial #tiktokrefugees #tiktokban