Perspective as a service from the internet's laziest philosopher
I recently finished listening to the audiobook version of Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux. The subtitle tells it all: The book is about the craziness that was the first crypto bubble. (As Bitcoin's price hovers around $70,000, another bubble appears raring to pop.)
If I were a single-issue voter in 2024, I'd vote solely on how I felt the presidential candidates would handle antitrust cases against Big Tech, not because I think tech antitrust is America's greatest issue but because it's one of the few issues we have long-overdue positive momentum on.
So many of us love tech yet have fallen out of love with the companies which comprise the tech industry.
In a clip that starts a recent episode of the podcast Tech Won't Save Us, Sam Altman acknowledges generative AI's Achilles' heel: energy.
Economic growth is a hell of a drug. But what do you do when the well's run dry?
21st-century living is complicated. But must it be?
Writing by hand is the best.
Why is business so hard?
What will be your life's sweetest dessert?
If there's one thing I've come to value after the last 16 years full-time in the workforce, it's simplicity.