June 2025 – Luis Villa: Open Tech and Policy
Some brief notes on books, at the start of a summer that hopefully will allow for more reading.| Luis Villa: Open Tech and Policy
Some brief notes on books, at the start of a summer that hopefully will allow for more reading.| Luis Villa: Open Tech and Policy
Some brief notes on books, at the start of a summer that hopefully will allow for more reading. Monk and Robot (Becky Chambers); Mossa and Pleiti (Malka Older) Summer reading rec, and ask for more …| Luis Villa: Open Tech and Policy
Social networks are expensive to run, so Mastodon and Free Our Feeds are right to be asking for millions of dollars.… Continue reading non-profit social networks: benchmarking responsibilities and costs→| Luis Villa: Open Tech and Policy
Writing about reading tools, including Readwise by Reader and the Daylight DC1.… Continue reading Reading in 2024—tools→| Luis Villa: Open Tech and Policy
I love words, and have as far back as I can remember. Mom says I started reading the newspaper religiously in kindergarten, I proudly show off a small percentage of my books in my videoconferencing background, and of course the web is (still) junk straight into my veins. So I’ve long wanted an e-ink device… Continue reading Boox Page: A Review→| Luis Villa: Open Tech and Policy
Replacing Twitter is not a task for a few—it is a barn raising that the entire social community must undertake together. Here’s my tips for joining this change.… Continue reading Leaving Twitter for New Frontiers→| Luis Villa: Open Tech and Policy
A mini-guide to the Manual of Style for Contract Drafting for outside counsel: what I recommend first-timers read, skim, and skip.… Continue reading The brief guide to MSCD 5→| Luis Villa: Open Tech and Policy
I'm starting a podcast on the broad, cutting edges of open.… Continue reading Announcing the Upstream podcast→| Luis Villa: Open Tech and Policy
I’ve been using freedom.to more or less since it launched. I was recently asked by someone how I use it, and since it didn’t fit in the text box on that platform, here’s a mid-ish-long set of notes on how I use it. Because of my recent participation in the Mind Over Tech Accelerator trainings… Continue reading Notes on using Freedom to block digital distractions→| Luis Villa: Open Tech and Policy
I’ve been doing a lot of writing elsewhere of late. Some links: I don’t love (mostly) leaving Twitter; as I’ve said a few times, the exposure to different people there helped make me a better person. But one of my primary political concerns is the rise of fascism in the US, and that absolutely includes… Continue reading Writing elsewhere; the pain of moving platforms→| Luis Villa: Open Tech and Policy
In talking with someone about “preferred form for modification” over the weekend at FOSDEM, the FSF (now sort-of-OSI?) four freedoms came up. They’re not bad, but they’re extremely developer-focuse…| Luis Villa: Open Tech and Policy
