When you start work on an ambitious project, you’re forced to make many foundational decisions.

It’s hard to know the consequences of each and every one of those decisions. Will this decision help the project thrive? Will that decision constrain it?

The solution is to establish the fundamental principles of the project right from the start. That way you can simply ask of any decision: is it consistent with those principles?

That’s what I did when I started work on my most ambitious project, the Open Web Mind.

Here, then, are 7 principles of the Open Web Mind.

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The full article is here.

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Welcome to Tangled Web.

I’m Mark Jeffery, and this is a quick message to let you know that I’m switching to an every-other-week schedule for Tangled Web over the summer.

I have long list of tech topics I want to talk about, and you’ll get another full episode in your podcast player next Tuesday, and every other Tuesday after that.

The reason for the switch?

Well, as well as getting out into the wilderness over the summer, I want to have time to work on the Open Web Mind, the inspiration behind Tangled Web.

I’m really enjoying creating this conversation about where we are now and where we’re going with the web, and about the Open Web Mind in particular. I hope to continue it long into the future.

If you’re enjoying it too, please leave a rating and review in your podcast player!

It’ll really help other people find the podcast and help me attract more great guests.

So if you’re able to spare a couple of minutes to leave a rating and review right now, I’d be truly grateful!

Thanks so much for being part of Tangled Web.

I’ll talk to you again on Tuesday!

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Everyone agrees that we need to do something about Facebook, Google, Apple and Twitter.

Well, almost everyone. As I said in Episode #013, Everyone wants to fix Facebook (listen or watch), I’d prefer we did nothing. But that’s just me.

Given that the something-must-be-done mob is likely to win, here are three ways we could fix Facebook: the worst way, the not-quite-so-bad way and (let me dream a little) the best way.

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“Of the top 10 companies by market capitalization at the turn of the century, only one is still in the top 10 twenty years later” – 2001 v 2021 – Michael Mauboussin on the Acquired podcast

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The full article is here.

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When I quit my job to go all in on my own projects, I had to make a decision.

I had so many ideas.

Should I pursue several of these ideas at the same time? That way, I’d increase the odds that one of them would take off.

Or should I focus on a single idea? That way, I could put all my time and energy into making it a success.

Many small bets or one big bet?

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Today’s episode is from an article I published on Indie Hackers this week

Indie builders I mention:

• Pieter Levels
• Arvid Kahl
• Josh Pigford

My biggest idea is the Open Web Mind

You can find all my projects at markjeffery.com

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There are a lot of numbers on the web.

Table after table gives you column after column and row after row of numbers.

If only there were a way to visualize all those values.

Here’s how the Open Web Mind might make sense of all the numbers on the web.

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This episode follows on from a previous post on Tangled Web:

• A visualization from the Open Web Mind

Open Web Mind:

• Open Web Mind

Wikipedia:

• List of chemical elements
• Atomic radii data page
• Electrical resistivities data page
• Thermal conductivities data page

things made thinkable:

• things made thinkable
• Atoms
• Planets

NASA:

• NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive – Planetary Fact Sheet

Licensing:

• Content from Wikipedia reproduced under CC BY-SA 3.0
• Content from NASA reproduced under US Government Works License

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The full article is here.

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The defining characteristic of our times is this: everyone wants to tell everyone else what to do.

Especially when it comes to Facebook.

Twitter, too. And TikTok. But mostly Facebook.

Everyone want to fix Facebook.

Here’s why I, for one, would rather leave Facebook alone.

I release Tangled Web as a video too! Watch here.

The full article is here.

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Doc Williams’ YouTube channels – Doc Williams and Maker Tech Tools – cover a wide range of just the kind of tech topics that interest me.

I especially wanted to talk to him when I saw that he’d created NFTs called Atom Bomb Bunnies using no-code tools.

No-code meets web3: that’s irresistible!

You can connect with Doc Williams on Twitter @_docwilliams or on his YouTube channels Doc Williams and Maker Tech Tools

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Doc Williams mentioned:

• 100 days of no-code
• Sabrina’s Workshop – his wife’s YouTube channel

as well as these people:

• Max Haining @HainingMax
• KP @thisiskp_
• Noah Kagan @noahkagan

and these tools:

• AppSumo
• buildspace
• thirdweb
• Procreate
• MetaMask

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Disclaimer: This is not investment advice. Tangled Web is about tech, not investment. It’s for information purposes only and you should not base any investment decisions on it. Do your own research.

Packy McCormick takes a simple approach to podcasting.

On most episodes of his Not Boring podcast, about web3 and startup strategy, he simply reads his latest newsletter.

This works for me as a listener. I don’t have much time to read. I do have time to listen: while I’m driving, while I’m doing the dishes, while I’m working out.

Simply by reading what he’s written, Packy widens his audience to include me and countless other podcast-first people.

But a wider audience isn’t the only reason I’ve adopted Packy’s podcast style.

Here are some even more compelling reasons:

• writing helps you think
• writing helps you talk
• talking helps you write

You can connect with Packy McCormick on Twitter @packyM, read his writing at notboring.co and find his podcast by searching for Not Boring in your player.

I release Tangled Web as a video too! Watch here.

The full article is here.

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The Open Web Mind is my most ambitious project.

It’s what I work on when I’m not writing articles or recording podcasts.

It’s so ambitious that it’s difficult to know where to start when talking about it.

When I talk expansively to my friends about what the Open Web Mind could be, they come away confused about what it is.

So I’m going to start small and specific.

Today I talk about a visualization of Startup Hubs around the world, and how the Open Web Mind made it easy to generate.

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Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2021

Startup Genome

My visualization of Startup Genome’s top 40 startup ecosystems

things made thinkable

Open Web Mind

I release Tangled Web as a video too! Watch here.

The full article is here.

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How much time do we lose when important emails end up in our spam folders? How many opportunities do we miss out on?

We tend not to think about it, because we tend to think that there’s nothing we can do about it.

We think of spam filters as if they’re forces of nature.

They’re not.

Spam filters are software written by the likes of Google and Microsoft: software so bad that the most innocuous emails from my closest friends and family are being classified as spam these days.

There’s a reason spam filters are so bad... and getting worse.

I release this podcast as a video too! Watch here.

The full article is here.

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