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 successful creator you don’t need millions. You don’t need millions of dollars or millions

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, it uses a massive dataset of text to predict what words go well together. It's as if someone took the entire

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 assignments that would hold me accountable to start producing content. In short, I was looking for a traditional

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 distance to every home? It is an under-rated marvel of modern civilization that this challenge has been largely and

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 to. And this, of course, is a big change with lots of second-order effects. As people have been forced

I’m reading Carlota Perez’s excellent book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital after seeing it referenced in several essays by Venkatesh Rao and others. It’s a great read if you don’t take it too literally and just try to play the

A question from Steve Jobs’ 1985 Playboy interview (worth a read!): Most computers use key strokes to enter instructions, but Macintosh replaces many of them with something called a mouse — a little box that is rolled around on your desk and guides a pointer

This week, Amazon released a small plastic button that you can affix to anything. You press the button, and it orders more of a specific product for you. The device was panned on Hacker News. The general public was so skeptical that journalists had