Welcome back to Campfire! In this season, we’ll be talking with thought leaders and executors on what it means to have a successful city and how to b...

Nestled in the California Desert, Mars College can be thought of as a pop up city. It rises from the sand, disassembles, and then comes back. This we...

I’m reading Carlota Perez’s excellent book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital after seeing it referenced in several essays by Venkatesh ...

When VC thought-leaders opine about the future of work on Twitter, they mostly just mean that people will use video conferencing more than they used ...

The great challenge of logistics has historically been the last-mile: in a fractal expansion of road networks, how do you traverse the last bit of di...

I signed up for David Perell’s Write of Passage class expecting two things: (1) some tips and tricks for online writing and (2) weekly homework assig...

GPT-3 is a natural language processing neural network that is taking the internet by storm with examples of incredibly human-like outputs. Put simply...

Kevin Kelly described one of the first paths to becoming an independent creator employed by the internet in his classic essay 1,000 True Fans:To be a...

Last Wednesday at 4:00am, bleary-eyed and freshly caffeinated, I watched in awe as a dozen people, many who had never met before, descended on my pro...

One of the favorite past times of tech twitter during the pandemic has been predicting the next Silicon Valley.Austin, with its natural beauty, weird...