Notable links: July 31, 2026

Most Fridays, I share a handful of pieces that caught my eye at the intersection of technology, media, and society.Did someone forward this to you? Subscribe for free.Leaders are LeverageI’ve often shared Corey Ford’s pieces. I find his frameworks and thinking genuinely useful, and he’s been a friend and mentor to me for well over a decade.This piece outlines his underlying thinking, and why he’s focused where he has:“When I work with one leader, I'm not working with one person. I'm working with every person on their team, every meeting they'll ever run, every piece of feedback they'll ever give, every subculture they'll ever build. A leader is not a single node in an organization. A leader is a multiplier. Change how one leader leads, and you change what work feels like for everyone around them, and everyone around the people they develop, for years.”It’s all about seeding culture. I see a lot of similarities in the underlying ideas in Corey’s work and the intention behind culture…