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Joi Ito
Personal blog · joi.ito.com/weblogculturewriting
Joi Ito's personal blog at joi.ito.com covers culture and writing. Since 2007, 47 different Hacker News readers have linked it 53 times, most often “Joining the MIT Media Lab”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Joi Ito's blog as background and source on his own posts, such as leadership, yak shaving, MIT Media Lab announcements, and his conflict-of-interest disclosures.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Joi Ito's conversation with the living web.
Most-linked posts?
- Joining the MIT Media Lab2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-04-25
- The Fintech Bubble2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-06-19
- Antidisciplinary2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-11-28
- Shenzhen trip report – visiting the world's manufacturing ecosystem2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-09-01
What Hacker News says?
You're both right, here's his blog entry on leadership in World of Warcraft: https://joi.ito.com/weblog/2006/03/13/leadership-in-w.html I'd guess by this point, he'd already made some money as a tech founder and CEO in Japan. He was apparently an early investor in Twitter, which was founded eight days after he wrote this blog post.
Comment linking /weblog/2006/03/13/leadership-in-w.html
on “Joi Ito Resigns from M.I.T. Media Lab After Outcry over Jeffrey Epstein Ties”Submitted Reports that Bassel Khartabil has been sentenced to death as a story · 221 points
HN discussion“After it was unveiled parents loudly objected to the proposal. Less than a month later, the district repealed the proposed new school start times. As Dimitris Bertsimas, a professor who led the MIT team, pointed out in a presentation about the solution, those who favored the status quo had the most to lose. “When your kids are affected negatively, it is hard to see the big picture,” he said.” Joi Ito wrote on this…
Comment linking /weblog/2018/12/05/what-the-boston-school-bus-schedule-can-teach-us-about-ai.html
on “One City Saved $5M by Routing School Buses with an Algorithm”Submitted Shenzhen trip report – visiting the world's manufacturing ecosystem as a story · 203 points
HN discussionI loved the HipTop. It really was one of the first "smart" phones on the US market. The article's claim "we all started microblogging/lifestreaming" needs a little context as it claims credit that I feel belongs to someone else... While Danger had a very basic implementation running internally (pretty cool, see [1]), they surely didn't have a clue of the potential/value of lifestreaming/public status updates. Neithe…
Comment linking /weblog/2003/01/13/danger-announce.html
on “Some of the work we did at Danger”Submitted My view on the current situation of Bitcoin and the Blockchain as a story · 131 points
HN discussionAs someone that actively engages in disobedience it is disheartening that they'd award $250k to a single winner instead of $50k to five, $10k to twenty-five, etc. So many people struggle to make a difference, no matter how small, and being honored for their efforts, when it's most likely that it rarely if ever happens in real life, would be inspiring to them to keep up what they're doing. For those interested in rea…
Comment linking /weblog/2016/03/21/on-disobedience.html
on “MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award”Submitted Becoming a Professor as a story · 104 points
HN discussionhttp://joi.ito.com/images2/mathjoke.gif
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on “Deep Learning with Spark and TensorFlow”Submitted The Fintech Bubble as a story · 56 points
HN discussionThis is a yak: http://www.springbrook.com/Tibetan-yak/Tibetan-yak-picture-f... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yak This is “yak shaving”: http://catb.org/jargon/html/Y/yak-shaving.html https://joi.ito.com/weblog/2005/03/05/yak-shaving.html http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2005/03/dont_shave_t...
Comment linking /weblog/2005/03/05/yak-shaving.html
on “My God, it's full of yaks”Submitted Joining the MIT Media Lab as a story · 40 points
HN discussionThere were app stores in Japanese phones from 1999. We're not forgetting that they sucked. We're pointing out Apple didn't invent this stuff. Touchscreens, had those for years. Multi-touch? Lots shown in the ARS article. Here's some http://tactiva.com/demo.html . Includes pinch to zoom, 2 finger rotate objects. Also includes tactile feedback, something no tablet has introed yet AFAIK. Apps, had those too for years.…
Comment linking /weblog/2002/11/15/my-new-p504is.html
on “If Android is a "stolen product," then so was the iPhone”Submitted Joi Ito: Formal vs informal education as a story · 23 points
HN discussionHe founded the MIT Media Lab Digital Currency Initiative, so he must have a pretty good grasp of the domain ( http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2015/04/15/announcing-mit-dci.html ). He also held stakes in Blockstream, who favors small blocks ( http://joi.ito.com/coi.html ).
Comment linking /coi.html
on “My view on the current situation of Bitcoin and the Blockchain”Submitted Joi Ito: Dubai bashing and 'what-aboutery' as a story · 22 points
HN discussionJoi has posted to his blog about the announcement: http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2011/04/25/joining-the-mit.html Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2483392
Comment linking /weblog/2011/04/25/joining-the-mit.html
on “Joi Ito Named Director of the MIT Media Lab”Submitted MIT Media Lab Digital Currency Initiative as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSome brief googling shows this: https://joi.ito.com/coi.html So at minimum he's a great networker who can help his students get good placements. He's also been involved heavily in creative commons and helped secure funding to keep it going. He might rub you the wrong way but I'd give the probably not-stupid MIT people the benefit of the doubt that they chose him because they think he adds value to the institution, n…
Comment linking /coi.html
on “Becoming a Professor”Submitted Society in the Loop Artificial Intelligence as a story · 4 points
HN discussionJoi Ito has another view on this: http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2009/04/15/followup-to-my.html
Comment linking /weblog/2009/04/15/followup-to-my.html
on “The dark side of Dubai”Submitted Is mobile Internet really such a good thing? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionTwo reasons: Because when researched and managed properly you can still get a quality product at much lower costs. It just requires more effort on your part (a decent supply chain department that does their research and manages the risks, mobilizing an appropriate team in country and all the costs associated with that, which may or may not end up working out more). I'm not from the US but we (Australia) have similar…
Comment linking /weblog/2014/09/01/shenzhen-trip-r.html
on “From $250M to $6.5B: The Bay Bridge Cost Overrun”Submitted Antidisciplinary as a story · 3 points
HN discussion1. AVC : http://avc.com/ 2. Feld Thoughts : http://www.feld.com/ 3. Benedict Evans : http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/ 4. andrewchen (Growth at Uber): http://andrewchen.co/ 5. Ben Horowitz: https://a16z.com/author/ben-horowitz/ 6. Accel: http://theaccelblog.squarespace.com/blog/ 7. Both Sides of the Table： https://bothsidesofthetable.com/ 8. cdixon blog： https://medium.com/@cdixon/ 9. Coding Horror： https://blog.c…
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on “Ask HN: What tools do you use to digest news?”Submitted Joi Ito: Why we need to stop SOPA and PIPA as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Antidisciplinary as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Joi Ito's 2002 Moblog as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Disobedience as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Bitcoin is and isn't like the Internet as a story · 2 points
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