You’re doing great.
I want to talk to you, yes you, about any lingering sense of guilt you might have. Let it go. You’re doing fine. Better than fine: you’re thriving.
Category: Commentary
Tech is cool; business is boring.
AI isn’t a solution looking for a problem—it’s a market strategy made by people who aren’t even thinking about problems.
Watch me be in three meetings at once
You can be forgiven if you have the impression that I hate AI. I do have profound concerns with the ways the technology is being rolled out, sure, but I’m still an enthusiast at heart…
“Number go up” isn’t everything
I have no idea how many people read my articles. I love it. This hasn’t always been true. When I worked at a culty tech company, I was forced to obsess over metrics. I was told…
The life changing magic of shutting up
Here’s a secret the people who run social media networks don’t want you to know—the one thing you can do to mess up their entire plan. You can, if you want to, shut the fuck…
Startup founders: hire me to be your CEO
An open letter. You should make me the CEO of your company. I promise to upset your investors in ways that are really, really, funny. It’s okay to upset investors because they’re not people, just…
Facebook moderators miss key directives because the news feed is terrible
Many current social problems—not all, but many—can be traced back to our collective decision to prioritize #engagement in the systems we use to communicate with each other. Facebook’s newsfeed is the most prominent example of…
There are tiny hippos living in your house (and other thoughts)
All these years later I still think about house hippos once a month or so. Confused? So was I, as a kid, seeing this PSA for the first time. The footage looked so…real. I couldn’t…
Does the decline of local journalism explain declining trust in government?
Calling the government useless only works if you take for granted all the many ways public employees make modern life possible. Officials doing their jobs are the reason we have fresh water and roads to…
Facebook throws pocket change at local news outlets, expects gratitude
Facebook killed local newspapers by sucking up all the revenue that used to pay for the person who’d sit in on council meetings and spell your nephews’ name incorrectly. Now they’re starting to feel bad…