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Sunday, 17th March 2019

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Howard H. Aiken

# 3:15 pm / ideas

What the Hell is Going On? (via) David Perell discusses how the shift from information scarcity to information abundance is reshaping commerce, education, and politics. Long but worthwhile.

# 4:50 pm / internet, politics, education

The Cloud and Open Source Powder Keg (via) Stephen O’Grady’s analysis of the Elastic v.s. AWS situation, where Elastic started mixing their open source and non-open source code together and Amazon responded by releasing their own forked “open distribution for Elasticsearch”. World War One analogies included!

# 7:08 pm / open-source, aws, elasticsearch

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