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You Are Inventory
Yesterday I read a newsletter from another writer named Dave Karpf, in which he offered a framework for understanding the current AI bubble. His framework is comprised of the three stories he says we can tell about the dot-com bubble and subsequent crash: 1. overvalued startups and out-of-control speculation, 2.
This Medium isn't the Message
It's 7:00 pm on the 41st Wednesday of 2025, and I do not have a newsletter written. I don't even know where to begin. The content of this newsletter is meant to be tech-related, or at least to gesture at tech in some way. But
Algorithmic Beef
Depending on the various internets you inhabit, you may not yet be aware that another virulent Twitter (please don't make me call it X) fight erupted last night between rap superstars Nicki Minaj and Cardi B. To be honest, depending on the various internets you inhabit, you may
What Does Community Mean?
Last week, I had no intention of writing about open source principles, and how we might use them to build more than just software. There was something else I wanted to write about, but I wasn't quite sure how to go about it. To be honest, I'
Open Source the Revolution
Before I was a contractor at Mozilla, I'd never spent much time thinking about open source software. I knew what it was obviously, had friends who cared a lot about things like decentralized development and universal distribution and other keywords from the open source Wikipedia page. But I&
Doctor's Note
Hey all, my apologies: I am knocked out this week with whatever nasty bug is going around. Not sure if it's a bad cold, RSV, Covid, or what, but I've been holed up sick for two days, and my brain can barely string sentences together. There&
It Might Work
New York City, as you are very aware, is a challenging place. It's dirty, loud, crowded, expensive, and sometimes the MTA (the Metropolitan Transportation Authority) sucks. New Yorkers are therefore a frequently annoyed people, on the whole. This is off-putting to many. Not to me. Sometimes I think
Out of Office Message
I took Tuesday and Wednesday off this week to go watch tennis and not think or write or do anything productive. My brain – maybe like your brain – has felt like sludge the past few weeks (months??), overloaded and overtired with too much information and bad news, too many opinions and
Surely You Can't Be Serious
You may have heard the news that Microsoft recently shoved its Copilot AI tool into Excel by creating the =COPILOT() function. I'm going to be honest with you: Up until three hours ago, I knew almost nothing about this, and even now I still know almost nothing about
A Matter of Volume
Last August, something very important happened: I started listening to novels by Anthony Trollope. You might not think that "started listening to novels by Anthony Trollope" would be a major life event, but you would be wrong. Or at least you should be wrong, because I have personally
