Archive - Virtual Elena

Eastward the Course of Mission Meets the Market

On Slack, developers, and Silicon Valley Narratives

Aug 12 •

June 2025

Vanishing World, Real World

On CrossFit, Daytona, hard things, and birth rates

Jun 29 •

Notes on Creative Transparency

Wherein I investigate why (some) companies are publishing increasingly granular data

Jun 9 •

May 2025

Toward a working definition of paperclip-punk

That style you see everywhere but can't fully articulate finally has a name

May 20 •

April 2025

The Long Way Home

Or, the LLM is the process: on calculators, video games, and chess

Apr 10 •

March 2025

On Crypto and Overcoming Limits

Tech for when the center cannot hold

Mar 6 •

February 2025

Are We Agentic?

(or: TEEs as self-help therapy)

Feb 6 •

July 2021

Is This Public?

It’s All Stocks

Jul 1, 2021 •

January 2021

(or...the death of physical retail has been greatly exaggerated)

Jan 17, 2021 •

November 2020

Is this Profitable?

(or, what we talk about when we talk about eyeballs)

Nov 12, 2020 •

October 2020

Garbage numbers

A few days ago, while reading an article about the rise of made-for-TikTok brands, I came across a statistic I’d seen a couple times before, but had…

Oct 22, 2020 •

Welcome to Virtual Elena by me, Elena Burger.

Oct 21, 2020 •

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