Satya Nadella’s Insights on the Future of Organic Intelligence (OI)
Michael Feldstein,
e-Literate,
2026/06/29
Reading Michael Feldstein's post I would have thought Satya Nadella's post was a tome, but in fact it's only a few well-chosen paragraphs long. We need to frame our understanding properly to even understand it. Feldstein compares it in a way to Ronald Coase's 1937 paper, The Nature of the Firm, where it is written, "that people join together in firms when the cost of coordinating as individual agents is too high." Now when Coase - or Nadella - are talking about people, they are not talking about you or I, they are talking about owners who run companies and enter into compacts. We are nothing more than "human capital", owned by them, alongside (writes Nadella) 'token capital', which "is the firm's AI capability it builds and owns". What Nadella sees is that there is no purpose to increasing token capital for its own sake; at most, it could eat entire segments of the economy, but to what end? But it's not clear he can see what more there is. "Our priority has to be building a frontier ecosystem, not just a frontier model, so value flows broadly across every company, every industry, and every country... When that happens, companies will create value for themselves and for the economy around them. Employees will see their expertise amplified and their judgment become part of systems that make it replicable and scalable."
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W Social: a Broken Ghost Town?
Elena Rossini,
2026/06/29
W Social is a new Europe-based social network service build on the Bluesky network. As Elena Rosssini reports, "it has been experiencing major technical problems for over a week: it is effectively a ghost town, filled with thousands of new accounts that cannot use the platform." What has been happening is that the new accounts have been throttled by Bluesky's home servers, rendering them useless to their new owners (by 'throttled' we should be clear that what is meant here is "rate-limited to zero"). The problem is resolved, but questions remain. As Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko comments, "'Bluesky PBC is rate limiting this server so you can't post or like anything' is definitely one of the decentralized social networking protocols of all time."
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Enabling Collaborative Initiatives
BCcamous,
2026/06/29
I wrote a report with Terry Anderson some 26 years ago on institutional collaboration supporting online learning, and while this current resource obviously benefits from much more experience and a wider perspective (and better presentation), many of the issues and approaches remain the same, as does the ongoing need to ensure people have a sense of what they're doing when they're trying to work together. Though the document is specifically addressed to the B.C. post-secondary system, that should stop people from using as a resource. Sections include enabling collaboration, standards and good practice, governance, getting started, IP, and business models.
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