Roundup: January – June 2014

Here’s the mid-year roundup. Not counting procedural posts, we’ve had 23 essays in the first six months. The Now Reading page also been updated for the year, check it out for the current state of the ribbonfarm reading radar.

1. Free, as in Agent
2. Consent of the Surveilled
3. The Poor Usability Tell (Jordan)
4. Technical Debt of the West (Kevin)
5. An Information Age Glossary
6. From Cognitive Biases to Institutional Decay (Kartik)
7. The Cactus and the Weasel
8. Demons by Candelight
9. Immortality in the Ocean of Infinite Memories
10. Authors and Directors (Sam)
11. Love Your Parasites (Jordan)
12. Ritual and the Productive Community (Ryan Tanaka)
13. The Legibility Tradeoff (Kartik)
14. A Life with a View
15. Product-Driven versus Customer-Driven
16. Replaceability and the Economics of Disequilibrium (Sam)
17. Science! and Other Off-the-Wall Études
18. Power Gradients and Spherical Cows (Jordan)
19. The Logic of Uberreaction
20. Saints and Traders: The John Henry Fable Reconsidered
21. The Deliberate Practice of Disruption
22. The Physics of Stamp Collecting
23. Portals and Flags