Alex Komoroske
Person on 4 sites
Alex Komoroske is an American technologist and writer.
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4 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Google: 13 years: Search, DoubleClick, Chrome's Open Web Platform, Augmented Reality in Google Maps (opens wiqqi.app)
- Stripe: Head of corporate strategy (earlier role) (opens wiqqi.app)
- Now: Co-founding a startup to reimagine the web for the AI era (as of October 2024) (opens wiqqi.app)
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5 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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Bluesky: @komorama.bsky.social (opens bsky.app)
“I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Dead-end software. Just-in-time software. The Coasian Floor in a silo. Banal catastrophes. The parasitic internet as local maxima. Data…”
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GitHub: jkomoros (opens github.com)
“card-web — The web app behind thecompendium.cards”
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Blog: Medium @komorama (opens medium.com)
“What Got Lost in the Optimization”
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Bluesky: @komorama.bsky.social (opens bsky.app)
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11 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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AI will be a fundamentally new kind of thing, as the web was, not the next version of what came before. (opens korrents.com)
“Netscape originally thought they'd be the next Windows. But the web was a fundamentally different kind of thing that enabled all sorts of newness -- think: publishing a page for anyone in the world to read. AI will be…”
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Even small utilities are dangerous, because you must implicitly trust every piece of software with your data. (opens korrents.com)
“Little, helpful utilities are still dangerous. For example, a wordcount utility or file converter. You just hope the person who created the software won't misuse your data. You have to implicitly trust every piece of…”
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AI makes infinite software possible: to change something, you simply ask. (opens korrents.com)
“AI makes infinite software possible: if you want something to be different, you simply ask. Would you like your grocery list to be sorted by aisle? Ask. For programmers, that’s a massive reduction in friction. For…”
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AI will be a fundamentally new kind of thing, as the web was, not the next version of what came before. (opens korrents.com)
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3 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Origin of Wealth (opens rcmnd.app)
“origin of wealth by Eric bker which is great”
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Thinking in Systems: A Primer (opens rcmnd.app)
“the other one is the meows thinking in systems which is short easy to read very approachable”
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The Green Knight (opens rcmnd.app)
“the Green Knight again when I was I I'm not excited to watch it again but I found it to be the most impactful movie I've seen in the last couple of years”
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The Origin of Wealth (opens rcmnd.app)