Jake LaCaze

just another clown on the internet

Why don't he write? — February 6, 2026
What's on your 2026 bingo card? — January 3, 2026
Do milestones make up for writerly failures? — December 16, 2025
The downsize of self improvement — October 21, 2025
Welcome to the Multiverse — September 14, 2025
Why we share ourselves — July 14, 2025
As if you have only 12 years to live — June 30, 2025
When numbers lie — June 14, 2025
Inputs, outputs & doomscrolling — June 12, 2025
Be wary of AI's potential — June 9, 2025
Simple math to guide life — June 6, 2025
Writing with ego — May 26, 2025
What's the value of your art? — May 26, 2025
The fallacy of optionality — May 26, 2025
The math of being human — May 24, 2025
No country for old landmen — May 23, 2025
Waffle House—An American institution you can trust — May 7, 2025
2x spicy ramen—An exploration of personal agency and trust — May 1, 2025
The profundity of personal post-punk philosophy — April 22, 2025
Looking for my orange — April 17, 2025
Maintaining personal equilibrium — April 15, 2025
How my kids inspire my art by managing upward — April 10, 2025
What's a billion years really? — April 8, 2025
Growth at all costs? The case for corporate efficiency — April 1, 2025
Solution-made problems and cash from chaos — March 21, 2025
Make no promises beyond intent — March 16, 2025
How sketching helps me get over perfectionism — March 8, 2025
Curiosity as a business asset — February 26, 2025
What inefficiencies drive your business? — February 1, 2025
Does quality belong in American efficiency? — January 25, 2025
Addicted to distraction — January 19, 2025
The truth you know vs. the truth you feel — January 12, 2025
What gives generative AI its value? — January 5, 2025
Details are like salt — December 29, 2024
Is this Bluesky's time? — November 17, 2024
Education's role in business communication — November 14, 2024
Creative vs. generative — November 13, 2024
Make art, not friends — November 11, 2024
Sam Bankman-Fried and the imperfect calculus of effective altruism — November 1, 2024
Will either presidential candidate challenge Big Tech? — October 28, 2024
Why we hate the tech industry even though we love tech — October 27, 2024
Is generative AI the best use of the world's electricity? — October 21, 2024
Living in a post-growth world — October 12, 2024
Simplicity is the lost art we must rediscover — October 10, 2024
Writers should kill more trees — October 4, 2024
Maybe businesses should kick it old school — September 21, 2024
The thing about the cherry on top — September 16, 2024
Simplicity is hard — September 13, 2024
The right fit vs. the qualified candidate — September 12, 2024
This revolution is small but it mattes to me — August 28, 2024
To embrace the absurd, to be human — August 22, 2024
Lessons from writing a novella I'll likely never release — August 1, 2024
Don't become the Southwest Airlines of writing — July 28, 2024
Writers ain't gotta use AI if they don't wanna — July 24, 2024
What if I have only one novel in me? — July 22, 2024
The business model dependency problem — June 4, 2024
How can capitalism be reformed? — May 30, 2024
Replacing human workers with AI is easy when we've already removed humanity from work — May 21, 2024
Frugal reading—Tips for reading on a budget — May 19, 2024
Friends don't let friends become monopolists — May 13, 2024
Managing expectations with a failure-first mindset — April 3, 2024
Creating in the time of AI — March 15, 2024
Is artificial general intelligence the real benchmark for AI? — March 14, 2024
Writing is more than words — January 24, 2024
Will there be enough AI? — November 13, 2023
Be here now — September 27, 2023
What is the cost of convenience? — September 3, 2023
Digital Minimalism and philosophy in tech — May 21, 2023
The folly of predicting the future of AI and augmented intelligence — March 1, 2023
AI vs. augemented intelligence—Marketing semantics in the tech industry — February 27, 2023
Social media engagement algorithms and the illusion of choice — January 9, 2023
Marketing on a post-Web2 internet — December 25, 2022
The simple math of Web3 — December 18, 2022
Unlearning how to write — May 2, 2022
Great writing is iterative — February 1, 2022
400 applications in 3 months — January 27, 2022
The Cult of We and the dangers of FOMO and hubris — September 4, 2021
Writing the puzzle — July 31, 2021
Writing's common thread — February 6, 2021