Napkin Math

Profit and power in technology.

Aug 4, 2022

The Meh-taverse

A Book Review

Feb 1, 2024

Crypto’s Prophet Speaks

A16z’s Chris Dixon hasn’t abandoned the faith with his new book, 'Read Write Own'

Jun 10, 2022

Software is Eating the Individual

The Embedded Human

Jun 16, 2022

Selective Optimism

People who promise high returns forever are liars

Sep 7, 2023

You Need to Know What You Are Betting On

How to think about investing in a startup versus a public company

May 11, 2023

Why Are Republicans Better at Making Money on the Internet?

What consumer tech and media got wrong

Sep 8, 2022

What I Learned From Being Cancer Free

Seven Years of Freedom

Apr 8, 2022

The Futility of Utility

A personal essay

Feb 15, 2024

Autonomous Vehicles Have a Problem of Narrative

The tech industry needs to be honest about the trade-offs of risk

Aug 25, 2020

The Quest for Monopoly

A history of stock market exchanges: from fragmentation to monopoly, monopoly to fragmentation and back again.

Oct 1, 2024

Dad Mode

The secret to personal growth isn't in self-help books or ayahuasca trips. It's in a $1.99 pregnancy test from Target.

May 4, 2023

7 Reasons Media Is a No-Good, Horrible, Rotten Business That I Love Anyways

Plus a few things that bring me hope

Sep 14, 2023

Defense Tech Shouldn’t Be Sexy

Weapons are a necessary evil, not a hype-y consumer product

Jul 15, 2022

Has Venture Lost Its Soul?

A Book Review of The Power Law

May 19, 2022

How Startups Can Survive the Creator Economy Winter

The Race for Revenue Share

Mar 7, 2024

Ads in the Age of AI

Weirder, different, and new

Jul 18, 2024

A New Book of the Startup Bible

It’s the rare business book that you should actually read

Jul 21, 2022

Crypto Has A Use Case

How Braintrust Used Tokens to Kickstart a Market

Jul 27, 2023

Snap’s Probably Screwed (Again)

Maybe Elon should buy it

Nov 9, 2023

We Should All Want to Be Mitt Romney

What is the point of F U money if you never say F U?

Sep 30, 2021

NFT Projects are just MLMs for Tech Elites

A somewhat impartial review of current NFT business models

Jul 11, 2024

Searching for Signal

When building a startup gets hard, where should we turn?

Mar 26, 2024

How to Make Millions on Discord

A new distribution channel has opened

Apr 16, 2024

Distribution Is King

What video games can teach us about building billion-dollar companies