Writing Wrapped

I published 52 pieces this year (plus favorite tweets and an essay from the vault).

7 months ago

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Doomprompting Is the New Doomscrolling.

The new slot machines of thought — AI’s infinite scroll and the quiet outsourcing of our intention.

a week ago • 21 votes

Playing to Win Friends & Influence People

The Craft 003: A conversation with founder Avi Schiffman on conviction, AI companionship, and launching the first version of Friend.

3 weeks ago • 19 votes

Encore Anxiety

Fear of disappointing people you've already impressed is more paralyzing than fear of impressing nobody at all.

a month ago • 34 votes

Five Jobs

On human work in the gentle singularity.

a month ago • 39 votes

From "Shadow Artist" to Artist

A conversation with Dipa Halder, software engineer turned full-time artist.

2 months ago • 34 votes

SharkNinja’s $16B+ Product Machine

The strategy behind how SharkNinja operates in 37 categories and has seen sales grow 24x from $250m in 2008 to ~$6B in 2025.

23 hours ago • 6 votes

Adopting foreign technologies is scary, but it's what makes a society rich.

14 hours ago • 2 votes

Featured on People & Blogs

Thanks to Manu for featuring me on his series People & Blogs. I wrote a bit about the history of this blog and how (and why) I write online…

yesterday • 4 votes

OpenAI, Google, and Perplexity create partnerships and free offers for a steady stream of consumer data that can't be scraped from the internet.

2 days ago • 5 votes

Moderation is good for its own sake

Winning elections is important. But so is serving the people.

3 days ago • 6 votes