Interesting Things on the Internet: October 29th 2018

• Did I Make a Mistake Selling My Social-Media Darling to Yahoo?. Nice look back at the sale of a Web2.0 darling. This bit in particular rings true with my experience - "I think a lot of time that selling is not the victory it seems. It takes away all of your forward momentum."
• Unfeeling Fire. Very readable slides/notes about the threat/risks of AI from Bolster.
• It’s not for you. I like this (which presumably means that it is, in this case, for me.

And a great talk from Anand Giridharadas (as featured in last week’s Interesting Things…) challenging us to make actual progress on society, rather than looking for not-really-effective-but-inoffensive-to-propose “win-win” solutions…