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Eastward the Course of Mission Meets the Market
On Slack, developers, and Silicon Valley Narratives
Aug 12
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June 2025
Vanishing World, Real World
On CrossFit, Daytona, hard things, and birth rates
Jun 29
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Notes on Creative Transparency
Wherein I investigate why (some) companies are publishing increasingly granular data
Jun 9
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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
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April 2025
The Long Way Home
Or, the LLM is the process: on calculators, video games, and chess
Apr 10
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March 2025
On Crypto and Overcoming Limits
Tech for when the center cannot hold
Mar 6
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February 2025
Are We Agentic?
(or: TEEs as self-help therapy)
Feb 6
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July 2021
Is This Public?
It’s All Stocks
Jul 1, 2021
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Elena Burger
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January 2021
Bit Structures
(or...the death of physical retail has been greatly exaggerated)
Jan 17, 2021
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November 2020
Is this Profitable?
(or, what we talk about when we talk about eyeballs)
Nov 12, 2020
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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
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Oct 21, 2020
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