Long-form thinking on tech, culture, and the questions worth sitting with.
This is Part 1 of a three-part series examining the emergence of AI artists and what it means for human creativity. When Was the Last Time You Witnessed...
"America First" rolls off the tongue like apple pie and baseball. It sounds wholesome, protective, prioritizing. But if you're keeping score at home, the...
We've built an entire creator economy around a backwards premise: that good content comes from chasing metrics instead of meaningful contribution. This didn't...
I saw this question on Threads the other day that stopped me cold: "Is AI only considered slop if it's bad, or is all AI-generated content automatically...
Here's what $580 million bought Tom from Myspace: the right to never have to work again. While Elon's tweeting at 3 AM about who knows what and Zuck's building...
I've been watching an uncomfortable trend unfold across LinkedIn, design conferences, and startup communities: seasoned design leaders throwing their own...
The word "inevitable" has for me become the most troubling four syllables in modern language. It rolls off the tongues of tech executives with the confidence...
AI isn't giving you your time back. It's giving you more to do. Some people believe AI will be our liberation. An age of automated tools, lightning fast...
"AI is gonna kill the creative industry!" "Designers are cooked, bro!" I keep hearing variations of this panic, and in my view the conversation is missing the...
A Critical Look at AI, Innovation, and the Pressure to Keep Up Last week my Instagram feed was literally flooded with ads for "revolutionary" AI selfie...
In a world where anyone can generate content, the ability to share knowledge becomes revolutionary. The Opinion Surplus, Knowledge Famine We're living through...
How Default Settings Shape Experience & Why Changing Them Feels Threatening Two people open the same app. For the first user, it's a seamless experience. The...
