Sublime

I gave a talk in 2018 on the incompatibility of technological progress and privacy at the @Stacks conference in Berlin. Since then the advancements in AI have made this argument ever more relevant. The talk is short (15 minutes)

Fortunately for Amazon, and perhaps critical to much of its growth over the years, perhaps the single most important asymptote was one we identified very early on... You don't even need to rewind to that time to remember what that factor is because I suspect it's the same asymptote governing e-commerce and many other related businesses today.

Right now, we’re either witnessing a golden age of expertise or a crisis of expertise, depending on who you ask. It’s undeniable that technology has democratized access to high-quality information, data, and tools for research, creation, and distribution.

Most recently, I have been comparing the current AI frenzy to previous platform shifts and their aftermaths. For example, do you remember the explosion of applications in the early days of the iPhone? There were hundreds of apps that unleashed all sorts of superpowers, and then entire cohorts of these startups got destroyed every year at the Worldw... See more

“Getting distribution on something new is insanely hard in this day in age”