ZD 26.16: The Hacker Mindset
Thinking like a hacker, technology leaps and more curated picks for the week.
👨💻 The Hacker Mindset (Escaping Flatland)
Thinking outside the box lets you walk through walls. See through the abstraction and past the convention to win. Just do it.
⚓ Visualizing the Pace of Change (PastPresentFuture)
Change comes at you fast. Just ask the HMS Warrior.
⚡Trouble with Transformers (Happy Future)
The bad news: transformers are getting harder to build in the US. The good news: we can fix most of that with the stroke of a pen.
🧙♂️ Mythos Misinformation (Artificial Intelligence Made Simple)
Claude Mythos has been said to be the end of software as we know it, finding all kinds of unpatched vulnerabilities. The truth is less scary.
🎬 The Clip Economy (Prof G Media)
People don’t watch content, they watch clips.
💾 How an SSD Works (The Coder Cafe)
SSDs exploit quantum physics to do their magic.
🏢 15 Observations on Life and Work in China (Behind the Craft)
996+ and big family meals at malls.
💸 The “Passive” “Income” Trap (JA Westenberg)
A generation of young entrepreneurs got infected with passive income brain and kept losing money from ineffective “systems” instead of doing the thing.
🤡 Everyone You Meet Online is a Freak (Infinite Scroll)
Today’s reminder that the people you interact with online represent a very small subsection of humanity.
The Look
Openclaw creator Peter Steinberger walks on stage at TED 2026 with a beaming smile and lobster in his pocket and shares how Openclaw came to be one of the fastest growing platforms known to man. It is the kind of thing you could get fired for using — or fired for not using.
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