The technology is less important than the ideas it represents. | Continue reading
Dead-tree media: good. VC business model: bad. | Continue reading
It's been a wild few weeks, so I'm going to try to use the newsletter to corral some disparate thoughts into something approximating a larger narrative. For the last month or so, my job has felt more surreal than usual. Yes, I'm referring to Elon Musk and Twitter and, to some deg … | Continue reading
It’s a trap. | Continue reading
Social media isn’t dying; it’s changing | Continue reading
An era of brute-forcing innovation (or why AI art is different than Web3) | Continue reading
‘Coin’ is the latest frontier in corporate propaganda | Continue reading
Welcome to the vibes-based political culture | Continue reading
How I fell in love with the “big metal fart-maker” | Continue reading
Living in an exhausting world of obsolescence. | Continue reading
What feels like magic is actually incredibly complicated and ethically fraught. | Continue reading
The scourge of business-dude lorem ipsum | Continue reading
A theory for resisting information overload | Continue reading
A few lessons from my mistake | Continue reading
The volcanic response to the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago is the latest escalation of pro-Trump intimidation | Continue reading
Watching the Alex Jones trial with an ex-Infowars staffer. | Continue reading
If tools like DALL-E 2 really are the next great leap, it’s worth thinking about who owns that future, and what we want it to look like. | Continue reading
Kate Lindsay on TikTok, the influencer trickle-down, and what social media breaks in our brains | Continue reading
Conspiracy theorizing about bots like your great-uncle | Continue reading
My unexpected obsession with rapid testing | Continue reading
I cannot stop watching crypto profiteers get owned. I cannot stop watching videos of Web3 boosters failing to explain the usefulness of the technology. I realize this is petty, but the videos are deeply cathartic. I'm talking about two clips in particular, both of which were post … | Continue reading
I cannot stop watching crypto profiteers get owned. | Continue reading
It's not what Google helps you find—it’s what it allows to flourish. | Continue reading
Dispatches From the Elon Musk School of Management | Continue reading
Why we can't escape the doom-loop | Continue reading
Welcome to Galaxy Brain. | Continue reading
“When people use my photos to judge the people in them, that is a mistake. The real judgment in my work is on the society that allows this.” | Continue reading
Author Elizabeth Williamson on what she’s learned from the Sandy Hook families | Continue reading
Multiple things can be true at once | Continue reading
A case for Twitter | Continue reading
Even when they win, they still play victim. I want to take a moment and share a few observations about the GOP reaction to the leaked draft opinion of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade (with the obvious caveat that scope of the decision could still change befor … | Continue reading
Even when the right wins, they claim they are the victims. | Continue reading
There's a line from the tech analyst Benedict Evans that has been making the rounds recently. Evans says that Elon Musk is "a bullshitter who delivers." It's a good line because it is (1) true enough, and (2) that contradiction is what makes lots of people pay attention to Elon's … | Continue reading
He doesn’t know what he’s talking about. But you don’t have to be the one to educate him. | Continue reading
Or: Why Twitter’s future looks like its recent past. | Continue reading
At this strange stage of the pandemic, we continue to direct ire at individuals instead of addressing larger issues. | Continue reading
How the billionaire creates pseudo-events that commandeer our attention (like another famous Twitter power user) | Continue reading
“This is an old trick from the financial industry: Make things more complex.” | Continue reading
As unbelievable as the Apple TV+ series is, the actual WeWork was even worse. | Continue reading
Online, reactions follow an unsurprising pattern, even as the events that cause them feel increasingly unpredictable. | Continue reading
What happens to our brains when we have an infinite memory? | Continue reading
Contrarians aren’t critical thinkers. They’re gullible reactionaries, vulnerable to conspiracy theories. | Continue reading
A conversation with one of the few people who have real historical perspective on digital communities | Continue reading
A conversation with one of the few people who have real historical perspective on digital communities The Atlantic A 10-Year-Old Nuclear-Blast Simulator Is Popular Again The Bad Ideas Our Brains Can't Shake How to Spend 432,870 Minutes on Spotify in a Year.(newsletters.theatlanti … | Continue reading
Doing terrible things in the open is propaganda, too. | Continue reading
A conversation with the man who built Nukemap about what he's seen change in the past week. | Continue reading
Two Q&As about asset bubbles, NFTs, and Phil Mickelson’s crypto brain | Continue reading
My lame excuse to write about Web3 | Continue reading