The List

If you’re new to my writing, here’s the full list of essays that live on this blog.

My essays are a mix of theories, examinations, and empirical ideas about what’s going on in the world, how we’re dealing with it, and where things are headed— circling around the worlds of technology, startups, media, art, and creativity.

Favorites

These are my top picks, out of ~80 essays / posts here, selected roughly by reach, resonance, and personal affection. They’re ordered by most recent first. Some have gone “viral” in communities I care about, and some featured by Substack or other publications and magazines.

• Make Something Heavy (top 5)

• The Aesthetic Is The Art Now

• Your Dreams Demand Your Best Hours

• Invisible Duels

• Intellectualism Goes Mass Market

• Taste Is Eating Silicon Valley (top 5)

• The Theory of the Cool Self

• The Rise of Software Creators

• What I Talk About When I Talk About Reading

• Writer-Builders

• Early-Arriver Arbitrage

• Great Products Have Great Premises

• Pursuits That Can’t Scale (top 5)

• Love the Mission or Love the Game

• Companionship Content

• Status Limbo

• Positive-Sum Products

• One-Round Wonder

• Social Utilities

• The High Potential Handicap

• Trophy Jobs

• Rise of the Silicon Valley Small Business (top 5)

• What I Learned at Clubhouse (top 5)

• Ritual Social

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