Bangers
A(Junior)VC
A(Junior)VC
The best place for junior VC's to hang is on the fringe
Futures of text
Futures of text
A survey of all the current innovation in text as a medium
Art, culture and creativity at zero marginal cost
Art, culture and creativity at zero marginal cost
We're moving to a world where machines not only recommend human-created creative work, but one where machines actually do the creative work
Owner mode
Owner mode
Why Owner Mode, introduced in Madden in 2013, explains everything
On jury duty
On jury duty
The thing that everyone tries to avoid which is actually awesome
An Ode to Tinder
An Ode to Tinder
A Winklevossian tale of an invention whose time has come, and nearly left me behind.
And so on
Vibecoding is skeuomorphic because code generation is slow
Why exactly do vibecoding apps stream their decision-making and code? Because 1/ They’re optimized for a temporary state of affairs where code generation isn’t instantaneous and 2/ Low-ish value customers are being over-served
AI still doesn't really understand memes
We tested OpenAI's ability to interpret memes. We found that it's heavily reliant on textual content and very quickly distracted by complex visual narratives.
Remember when
The worst form of design
The honor system is the best system
Or how we should learn to stop worrying about new forms of cheating and love the status quo
Creating and playing games
The closer a learning product is to the bottom of Bloom’s Taxonomy, the greater the risk of being commoditized by AI
Cynical optimism for crypto
Three heterdox and cynical but optimistic takes on crypto
Shitposting is the highest form of consciousness
The internet is a web of puzzles now, and the shitpost is the king of puzzles
What the Turing test got wrong
Computers can now talk like humans but humans also talk more like computers