WordPress 5 – new editor

WordPress 5 – new editor

Last week WordPress core was updated to version 5.0. A new version is generally no big deal and if you look at the release archive you can see this is number 12* for the year. Most of those are incremental updates prompted by performance or security improvements. In...
Bring back the social contract

Bring back the social contract

Just because we can do something is not a great argument for doing that particular thing. I’m thinking that the current monopoly of the online universe by Google and Facebook in particular is being distorted well beyond what we altruists ever imagined. In a...
Thinking the Elon Musk way

Thinking the Elon Musk way

Elon Musk has a way of thinking about first principles and solving problems that is absolutely gobsmacking brilliant.  Just a few weeks ago Elon had a wide ranging conversation with Chris Anderson at the latest TED conference. Instead of talking about Tesla they...