Napkin Math

Profit and power in technology.

Jun 10, 2022

Software is Eating the Individual

The Embedded Human

Jun 16, 2022

Selective Optimism

People who promise high returns forever are liars

Apr 4, 2024

How I Use ChatGPT (As a Reasonable Person)

My AI awakening

Sep 7, 2023

You Need to Know What You Are Betting On

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

Feb 1, 2024

Crypto’s Prophet Speaks

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

May 11, 2023

Why Are Republicans Better at Making Money on the Internet?

What consumer tech and media got wrong

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

Sep 8, 2022

What I Learned From Being Cancer Free

Seven Years of Freedom

Aug 25, 2020

The Quest for Monopoly

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

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

May 19, 2022

How Startups Can Survive the Creator Economy Winter

The Race for Revenue Share

Jul 15, 2022

Has Venture Lost Its Soul?

A Book Review of The Power Law

Jul 21, 2022

Crypto Has A Use Case

How Braintrust Used Tokens to Kickstart a Market

Mar 7, 2024

Ads in the Age of AI

Weirder, different, and new

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.

Jul 27, 2023

Snap’s Probably Screwed (Again)

Maybe Elon should buy it

Jul 18, 2024

A New Book of the Startup Bible

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

Sep 14, 2023

Defense Tech Shouldn’t Be Sexy

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

Sep 30, 2021

NFT Projects are just MLMs for Tech Elites

A somewhat impartial review of current NFT business models

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?

Mar 21, 2024

Why Polarity Pays

The complicated social and financial incentives at the heart of online publishing

Apr 28, 2022

Cash—Kingmaker or Killer?

A examination of when cash can anoint a market winner

Nov 10, 2022

Pinterest Has a Chance

The first full-stack shopping platform