Also, the real danger of AI chatbots, and hype cycles of failed tech.
Category: Somethings
Archive of all my newsletters
Lost in the Race—Somethings
Also, the history of the compact disc, the ephemerality of slang, the weirdness of probability and the death of Platforms.
What is Pricing?—Somethings
Also, tight storytelling, tuberculosis, standards hindering innovation, artifice in academia, pareidolia, and much more.
Cyber Oppression—Somethings
Also, weird reading patterns, polarization hysteria, gardens as life and the power of football
Rejecting Surrealism—Somethings
Also, how to build new things, how to embarrass yourself, and nobody can make you more productive.
Also, writing for the past, re-contextualizing history, mystery cinema, inconsequential real name policies and the interesting history of the name “Fiona”.
Long Live The Web—Weekly Wisdom
Also, the pain of bureaucracy, philosophical history of the computer, terminally online people and the meaninglessness of the term ‘Toxic’.
Digital Entropy—Weekly Wisdom
Also the debacle of Twitter, the unintended consequences of the culture war, and the dying gasps of American conservatism.
Long Walks—Weekly Wisdom
Also, telling ghost stories, and how the internet is turning into TV or maybe it is getting better.
Digital Pseudonyms—Weekly Wisdom
Also, on indulgence, China, the people, and how IQ is a grift.