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If you don’t have time to clean up, you don’t have time to cook Professionals understand that the project is the whole project, not simply the fun

Hindsight is 2020I don’t mean “hindsight is 20/20.” I’m talking about the year 2020.See, early in 2023, I wrote an article about starting and growing

A solid foundation requires a robust team structure. Hiring individuals who not only have the requisite skills but also align with the company’s cultu

When i search my heart I find that there’s a rather strange complex of anger and frustration... at the world... for its dogged insistence on changing

So what makes us human? Here’s the analogy I would give. If you think about all of our ancestors from hundreds or thousands of years ago—what would

“It is not easy to convince people that I am not dealing with ideas but with perceptions, not concepts but observations. It is easy to disseminate ide

Although still using the language of tools, in 1988 Illich explained, “I would like to get together a certain number of people to think about what too

Digital capitalism does not pose the same kind of threats as industrial capitalism, in part because it does not act on us through straightforward inst

“Everyone will just prompt their own movies” “Everyone will just prompt their own apps” You don’t get it. Humans crave shared context. They want to

Society is increasingly cutting the nourishing ties that attach us, and calling it innovation. I worry about how encouraged we are to do things effici

I couldn’t help but come to the conviction, right there on the bus, that one of the most important questions modern man must ask himself is how much t

Most of the world’s free time has now been monetized by tech companies. In fact, the monetization of leisure time is how Silicon Valley execs make the

One of the saddest things to me is the cultural decay cycle in our new age of virality. Sub-cultures that took years to form through meaning are esse

Post-Authentic Sincerity a Premium Generic Essay

Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature.

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Remember in the before times how on hard days you could grab your work bestie and go have lunch blocks away from whatever was bothering you?

Like many people I thought Covid, with its stopped clock and blunt force, would bring a major reckoning. A reckoning with small things, like what we w

I have always tried to take lots of notes, typically as snapshots of my mental state. What I’m thinking about, what my priorities are, where my attent

A note from Erikc when I asked him how we would approach our first ever social ad campaign: I gave this some thought on my morning run, and here's wha

Sort of in line with the “build it, and they will come” philosophy, if you make a space for something, you are more likely to engage with it. Put frui

Most AI backlash is economic anxiety coated in a veneer of social justice. Alfalfa farming consumes 19 times the water that data centers do; there’s n

“Diffusion lag” reflects a lack of product-market fit. Even AI optimists are still hitting practical roadblocks. That’s why detailed case studies are

Here are some things I’ve asked chatgpt recently: “why is Toblerone so popular at airport duty-free stores?” “give me a recipe for a chickpea tagine

CLAUDE.md growth: why it happens and how to fix it

#GPT4 saved my dog's life. After my dog got diagnosed with a tick-borne disease, the vet started her on the proper treatment, and despite a serious

Consumer behavior is never done or satisfied. One of the great things about brands is that magical products or platforms or experiences can delight cu

Consumer founders today are solving for abundance. Too much food, pollution, stimulation, and connections leads to obesity, climate change, mental hea