The Economics of Belief Transmission
Everything I’ve learned about writing on the internet
Physics metaphors are everywhere in business. If you follow where they lead, you end up in fascinating places
Smaller, faster, cheaper, weirder
GPT-powered journaling is changing my life
If you’re building the tech equivalent of balsamic strawberry ice cream, don’t expect vanilla scale
Reading the tea leaves and reacting to the hype
Scale, speed, or freedom: choose two
The past, present, and future of writing on the internet
The point isn’t just to make money—it’s to change the systems that human attention flows through. You can’t understand Substack without understanding this.
The math that quantifies how much execution matters
Narratives have network effects
By Means of Natural Selection
How I learned to stop worrying and love the robots that tell me what to do
How AI will—and won’t—change writing
They’re betting the farm on Reels. Will it blow up in their face?
25,000 users in 24 hours
What will happen to the internet?
Mastering the art of 0 to 1
How media creates power
How to gain serenity *and* success with one weird trick (care less about results, and learn to love the process)
Meta thinks it will, and they are betting everything on it.
Or, how to learn something useful from big events