Sublime

Cool Code, Bro: Brogrammers, Geek Anxiety and the New Tech Elite

Nick Parish

amazon.com

Cover of Cool Code, Bro: Brogrammers, Geek Anxiety and the New Tech Elite

Bleeding Edge

Thomas Pynchon

amazon.com

Essay: The digital death of collecting

Kyle Chayka kylechayka.substack.com

Ben Barry

benbarry.com

Tyler Cowen, the man who wants to know everything

John Phipps economist.com

Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria

James Somers theatlantic.com

The Dream Was Universal Access to Knowledge. The Result Was a Fiasco.

David Streitfeld nytimes.com

Another example: Ben Thompson, creator of the Stratechery newsletter

Anthony Pompliano • Writing for Leverage, Teenage Billionaires, The Problem with Mainstream Media, and More - David Perell on Off the Chain, Hosted By Anthony Pompliano • Podcast Notes

Krause's isn't a canny operator who roots out waste: he's a guy who tears out all the wiring and then grudgingly restores the minimum needed to keep the machine running (no wonder Musk loves him, this is the Twitter playbook)

Cory Doctorow • Pluralistic: “The Fagin figure leading Elon Musk’s merry band of pubescent sovereignty pickpockets” (07 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow