You’ve probably heard tech people talk about 10x founders, 10x engineers, 10x marketers, yadda yadda… Ever since automation, no-code, and agents became consumer-ready, Silicon Valley types started foaming at the mouth at the prospect of a single person yielding ten times (sometimes a hundred times) the results. But I’m genuinely starting to wonder what that truly means. It’s hard to deny that people can do more nowadays than they could five or ten years ago. Though, there’s a very real argume...

You’ve probably heard tech people talk about 10x founders, 10x engineers, 10x marketers, yadda yadda… Ever since automation, no-code, and agents became consumer-ready, Silicon Valley types started foaming at the mouth at the prospect of a single person yielding ten times (sometimes a hundred times) the results. But I’m genuinely starting to wonder what that truly means. It’s hard to deny that people can do more nowadays than they could five or ten years ago. Though, there’s a very real argume...

We, the people existing in today’s world, are like babbling babies when it comes to sharing stories. We like to blame the internet, or LLMs, or our failing education systems for it. And while there’s a component to that, the art of captivating an audience has measurably been in decline for generations before technology threw that decline into overdrive. You've probably noticed AI-generated writing online—those telltale "vibrant tapestries" and bullet-pointed posts with excessive em-dashe...

We, the people existing in today’s world, are like babbling babies when it comes to sharing stories. We like to blame the internet, or LLMs, or our failing education systems for it. And while there’s a component to that, the art of captivating an audience has measurably been in decline for generations before technology threw that decline into overdrive. You've probably noticed AI-generated writing online—those telltale "vibrant tapestries" and bullet-pointed posts with excessive em-dashe...

Let me begin by stating something I know in my heart of hearts to be true. **Being a nerd is the coolest thing in the world** With that said, I do think the word “nerd” has hijacked that amazing feeling of curiosity and passion, bordering on obsession, that you get when you try to understand anything deeply. I seriously believe the world would be a better place if people started chasing their curiosity without the constraints of being productive, getting rich, or even mastering anything. Half...

Let me begin by stating something I know in my heart of hearts to be true. **Being a nerd is the coolest thing in the world** With that said, I do think the word “nerd” has hijacked that amazing feeling of curiosity and passion, bordering on obsession, that you get when you try to understand anything deeply. I seriously believe the world would be a better place if people started chasing their curiosity without the constraints of being productive, getting rich, or even mastering anything. Half...

It's common knowledge that the talk of town in the Bay Area, at least in terms of "The Future of Government", circles around technocracies and Network States (as presented by Balaji Srinivasan). Between Balaji's book of the same name, the holier-than-thou attitude of most tech people, and Elon Musk's bid for power earlier this year, I’d say there's a pattern we oughta look at. There are few things more dangerous in this world than a powerful individual believing they can d...

It's common knowledge that the talk of town in the Bay Area, at least in terms of "The Future of Government", circles around technocracies and Network States (as presented by Balaji Srinivasan). Between Balaji's book of the same name, the holier-than-thou attitude of most tech people, and Elon Musk's bid for power earlier this year, I’d say there's a pattern we oughta look at. There are few things more dangerous in this world than a powerful individual believing they can d...