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Lydia Conwell (lydiaconwell@todon.nl)'s status on Monday, 25-May-2026 06:56:48 JST

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@aral You know my super power is criticising things?

So you know this comes from a good place ...

But I follow your link and I don't know what I'd be donating to. Then I click 'about' and still I don't know. I have to follow more links to know what your project is about.

In fact, I end up on a different website -- your own website -- before I get more of a clear explanation of what the project is.

And it's a good explanation.

I think you need to make it clear what your project is on your donation page and your about page. And a simple tagline/explanatory paragraph is no bad thing.

This is good:

"The Small Web is for people (not startups, enterprises, or governments). It is also made by people and small, independent organisations (not startups, enterprises, or governments).

On the Small Web, you (and only you) own and control your own home."

Although I think there's room from start up independent businesses on the small web, no?

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Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@mastodon.futurist.info)'s status on Thursday, 14-May-2026 19:15:59 JST

Futurist Jim Carroll

"Curiosity is your most important asset." - Futurist Jim Carroll

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Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
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Be like Curious George.

I'll often share that quizzical observation on stage to an audience of serious business executives - and the fact is, I mean it.

Here's why: curiosity is not a personality trait that allows you to accelerate innovation, spot trends before others do, or think differently in a world in which everyone is thinking the same thing.

It is an economic asset. And in 2026, with the acceleration of AI, it could very well be the single most valuable thing you can own.

Why? In an AI economy, almost everything you can know has been commoditized. Information is free. Expertise is downloadable. Knowledge has lost most of its scarcity. Everyone is pumping out the same stuff as everyone else. Heck, I'm feeling it with what I write and speak about.

In that context, what remains scarce, and therefore valuable, is a mindset of exploration, the ability to explore new ideas, and a willingness to let go of the norms and find new ones. That's curiosity - the actual human drive to follow things down a rabbit hole, to spend an evening reading about something you have no business reading about, or to tinker with something simply because it seems interesting. That drive to explore cannot be outsourced. It cannot be downloaded. It cannot be faked. It is intrinsic to your value.

In the era of AI, curiosity is the one asset that does not lose value.

And it's powerful. I learned this almost by accident. In the early 1980s, I spent thousands of hours on obscure BBS boards, clunky early communication software programs, and bizarre online communities most of my coworkers had never heard of, via. 300-baud and 1200-baud modems. I didn't know what was going on, but I wanted to know more. To a casual observer and to my co-workers, I was wasting my time sitting up till 2 am or 3 am exploring online worlds. They often told me so in blunt terms. I was throwing away my career. I should be doing more important things.

I didn't care. I just wanted to know what this strange new "thing" was. That apparently frivolous curiosity became the foundation of my entire career as an Internet author, a futurist, and eventually whatever it is I am now.

I wasn't lucky. I was curious.

So here is the practical version. Weaponize your curiosity. Schedule it. Defend it. Block thirty minutes a week to chase something you have no business chasing. Read the article outside your industry. Try the tool you don't yet need. Ask the question that makes you sound naive in the meeting.

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Futurist Jim Carroll is looking forward to reading the entire Curious George series to his new grandson.

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/05/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-35-curiosity-is-your-most-important-asset/

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Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jun-2025 02:15:01 JST

Paul Cantrell

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When I say that I wish the bubble would burst so we could start having actual conversation, this is the kind of thing I’m talking about.

In the meantime, not being a researcher myself in any kind of position to critique the paper, I’m happy to just look at it and cherry-pick the conclusion that I think is unequivocally helpful regardless: we all (students in school, students of life) should cultivate active, engaged minds that work with ideas by •doing• and •creating• instead of simply passively receiving.

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Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 08:02:24 JST

Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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@tassoman you asked what I meant by "server for staff" and I told you.

I realise there are other characteristics to an enterprise social network, but those weren't what I was asking about.

In the future, if there are unspecified dimensions to a question that would change your answer, feel free to discuss them, and answer "qualified yes/no".

And please don't frame the discussion as a question to me for clarification, because I don't do that.

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Tantek Çelik (tantek.com@fed.brid.gy)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2024 12:52:08 JST

Tantek Çelik

Recently @W3.org (@w3c@w3c.social) published the first Group Note of the Vision for W3C:

https://www.w3.org/TR/2024/NOTE-w3c-vision-20240403/

I’m the current editor of the Vision for W3C and helped get it across the line this year to reach #w3cAB (W3C Advisory Board @ab@w3c.social) consensus to publish as an official Group Note, the first official Note that the AB (Advisory Board) has ever published.

I’m very proud of this milestone, as I and a few others including many on the AB¹, have been working on it for a few years in various forms, and with the broader W3C Vision TF² (Task Force) for the past year.

W3C also recently announced the Vision for W3C in their news feed:

https://www.w3.org/news/2024/group-note-vision-for-w3c/

One of the key goals of this document was to capture the spirit of why we are at #W3C and our shared values & principles we use to guide our work & decisions at W3C.

If you work with any groups at W3C, anything from a Community Group (CG) to a Working Group (WG), I highly recommend you read this document from start to finish.

See what resonates with you, if there is anything that doesn’t sound right to you, or if you see anything missing that you feel exemplifies the best of what W3C is, please file an issue or a suggestion:

https://github.com/w3c/AB-public/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22Project+Vision%22+-label%3ADefer

Check that list to see if your concerns or suggestions are already captured, and if so, add an upvote or comment accordingly.

Our goal is to eventually publish this document as an official W3C Statement, with the consensus of the entire #w3cAC (W3C Advisory Committee).

One key aspect which the Vision touches on but perhaps too briefly is what I see as the fundamental purpose of why we do the work we do at W3C, which in my opinion is:

To create & facilitate user-first interoperable standards that improve the web for humanity

The Vision does mention “#interoperable” explicitly as part of our Vision for the Web in https://w3c.github.io/AB-public/Vision#vision-web:

”There is one interoperable world-wide Web.”

The Vision also mentions “#interoperability” explicitly in our Operational Principles https://w3c.github.io/AB-public/Vision#op-principles:

“Interoperability: We verify the fitness of our specifications through open test suites and actual implementation experience, because we believe the purpose of standards is to enable independent interoperable implementations.”

These are both excellent, and yet, I think we can do better, with adding some sort of explicit statement between those two about that “We will” create & facilitate user-first interoperable standards that improve the web for humanity.

In the coming weeks I’ll be reflecting how we (the VisionTF) can incorporate that sort of imperative “We will” statement about interoperable standards into the Vision for W3C, as well as working with the AB and W3C Team on defining a succinct updated mission & purpose for W3C based on that sort of input and more.

In a related effort, I have also been leading the AB’s “3Is Priority Project³” (Interoperability and the Role of Independent Implementations), which is a pretty big project to define and clarify what each of those three Is mean, with respect to each other and Incubation, which is its own Priority Project⁴.

As part of the 3Is project, the first “I” I’ve been focusing on has unsurprisingly been “Interoperable”. As with other #OpenAB projects, our work on understanding interoperability, its aspects, and defining what do we mean by interoperable is published and iterated on the W3C’s public wiki:

https://www.w3.org/wiki/Interoperable

This is still a work in progress, however it’s sufficiently structured to take a look if interoperability is something you care about or have opinions about.

In particular, if you know of definitions of interoperable or interoperability that resonate and make sense to you, or articles or blog posts about interoperability that explore various aspects, I am gathering such references so we can make sure the W3C’s definition of interoperable is both well-stated, and clearly reflects a broader industry understanding of interoperability.

References:

¹ https://www.w3.org/TR/w3c-vision/#acknowledgements
² https://www.w3.org/wiki/AB/VisionTF
³ https://www.w3.org/wiki/AB/2024_Priorities#Interoperability_and_the_Role_of_Independent_Implementations
⁴ https://www.w3.org/wiki/AB/2024_Priorities#Incubation

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Kem Herkes (kmherkes@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2023 19:26:12 JST

Kem Herkes