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Taking Blogging Seriously

It’s a warm summer night in NYC and I’m walking through central park with a friend, the fireflies blink around us like an external reflection of the neurons firing in our brains as the conversation sparks.

4 days ago 6 votes
Google is Grounded and Needs to Learn How to Soar

Here’s the punchline - I think Google is missing the mark with their AI search efforts. In this post I have a concrete proposal and a prototype you can try yourself that shows a different approach for the future of search. An approach that’s better for users and in a way that’s beneficial to the open web at the same time.

3 months ago 20 votes
3,573 Days On The Road

Every year on the 24th October I've written a reflection on the last year of my independent consulting. This would have been my 10th issue, but is instead a special issue, for reasons that will become apparent.

10 months ago 82 votes
Working With Founders Who Have Conviction and Taste

Consulting can be easy money. Fleecing clients for cheap tricks. Clients have problems, you have powerpoints. It’s easy to flip a few quick slides into a chunk of cash and cackle off into the mountains.

a year ago 119 votes
LinkedIn is not a social or professional network, it's a learning network

The world of work is changing.

a year ago 116 votes

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Make Fun Of Them

Have you ever heard Sam Altman speak? I’m serious, have you ever heard this man say words from his mouth?  Here is but one of the trenchant insights from Sam Altman in his agonizing 37-minute-long podcast conversation with his brother Jack Altman from last week: “I

15 hours ago 2 votes
Would you rather have cheap energy, or stupid culture wars?

Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is an attack on American energy production.

2 days ago 2 votes
The Hero as Flexible Bureaucrat

against efficiency and accountability

3 days ago 5 votes
Hayao Miyazaki: 9 Creative Lessons

Notes on the creative process for the legendary Japanese filmmaker and founder of Studio Ghibli.

3 days ago 3 votes
Brazil rules that social media platforms are responsible for users’ posts

A new regulation from the Supreme Court holds Meta, X, and other online platforms accountable for content and user safety, setting Brazil on a collision course with the Trump administration.

4 days ago 4 votes