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How Crypto Is Like Early Corporations - 2022/05/02

And how they’re both artificial life
How Renewables Are The Only Secure Energy Source Now - 2022/04/06

Nobody can depend on fossil fuels anymore
How BitTorrent Is Better Than BitCoin - 2022/03/23

We already have a protocol for decentralizing content. Web3 is a fugazi
I Tried The Metaverse, and It’s None Of Facebook’s Business - 2022/02/16

VR is cool, but useless for Facebook
How Cars Are The Apex Predators - 2022/02/05

If aliens were looking down from space, why would they think the roadkill are in charge?
How AI Evolved In Money - 2022/02/02

Chapter 3 of Das Kapital: dat money
Why Capitalism Keeps Falling Over - 2022/01/25

Sometimes the simplest way to move forward is to keep building towers and crashing them.
Blackberry Died, But I’m Still Using One - 2022/01/08

RIP to the perfect low-distraction phone
How Commodities Are Artificial Life - 2021/11/10

Marx's commodity fetish wasn't necrophilia
How Marx's Capital Is About AI - 2021/11/01

Capital is not a form of human life, it's a lifeform.
How I Finally Understood Crypto (Thru Animal Farm) - 2021/10/13

Crypto is just the idea that 'hey, if those fuckers can make up money, so can we.'
Cars Are Dinosaurs And Electric Dinosaurs Won't Help - 2021/07/24

Electric cars are completely inadequate for surviving our climate catastrophe. We need to evolve a completely different form of life.
What Life Is Like Without Amazon - 2021/06/30

It's fine.
Corporations Are People And They're Killing Us - 2021/06/16

Companies have legal personhood, limited liability, and it’s not going well
Why Substack Sucks - 2021/03/20

Imagine if Facebook paid Ben Shapiro. That’s Substack Pro
How Tesla Is Bad For The Earth - 2021/02/27

An electric car is still a car, and cars are bad
How Bitcoin Is Hostile AI - 2021/02/22

Who needs Skynet to take over the world? Just throw techbros some coin
How Our Family Takes A Digital Sabbath - 2021/02/08

The power of disconnecting from distraction
How I Turned Our TV Into A Computer (a TVC) - 2021/02/04

The best Smart TV is just a shitty computer, so I built one
Screen Time Can’t Be Worse Than My Dangerous Childhood - 2021/01/26

Whatever you do on a screen, you can’t light it on fire
How I Quit WhatsApp - 2021/01/10

Quitting the demon app is not for everyone, but it’s possible
The Terrible Telegraph - 2020/12/16

Just open the bloody telegraph, Out pours a litany of shit. Now put it in your pocket. You can’t get rid of it.
Corporations Are Already AI - 2020/08/20

The stock market is sentient and it hates you
Life Without A Smartphone - 2020/06/24

It’s fine
How Video Calls Are Made For TV - 2020/04/14

The big screen is the best screen
The Latest Coronavirus Drugs and Vaccines - 2020/03/20

In two infographics
Green Energy Is Now As Cheap As Fossil Fuels - 2020/02/06

Fossil Fuels are the energy of the past
Yahoo Will Pay You $100 If You Had One of Their Shitty Accounts - 2020/02/06

It’s settlement time.
The Climate Crisis Is an Opportunity - 2020/02/04

When did we become so resistant to progress?
How Instagram Could Have Beat Facebook - 2020/02/01

They could have been a contender
How Google Tricked Us Into Clicking Ads - 2020/01/25

Google just ran a psychology experiment on all of us, and it worked
A Design For A Paid Internet - 2020/01/24

What if the whole thing was a paywall?
Netflix’s Secret Weapon: The World - 2020/01/23

Over 50% of Netflix’s business is now international
Forget Mars. We Should Colonize Venus First - 2020/01/20

Venus is our galactic AirBnB
Mercedes And Tesla Had A Bastard Child - 2020/01/19

The affordable, appealing and tragically flawed B250E
How The 737 MAX Went Down - 2020/01/05

Boeing’s cost-cutting finally led to disaster
How The Dreamliner Became A Production Nightmare - 2020/01/05

How the 787 Led to the 737 MAX
Boeing’s Culture Crash - 2020/01/03

Boeing’s culture crashed before the planes did
What If Steve Jobs Made A TV? - 2019/12/23

His death killed a timeline where TVs didn’t suck
Why Apple Is Better Without Jony Ive - 2019/12/20

Ive’s mobile products were a revelation, but his larger computers left a lot to be desired
Uber’s Rise And Fall In One Map - 2019/12/09

How Uber won and lost the world
Self-Driving Cars Should Be Tuk-Tuks - 2019/12/07

Why move metal when you can move humans
Pooping In Space - 2019/12/05

In space, everyone can hear you fart
Self-Driving Cars Make Traffic Worse - 2019/11/24

It doesn’t matter how efficient you make a car. It’s still a car
How Nature Reuses Code - 2019/11/24

The original agile developer
To Fight Political Lies, Facebook’s Whole Business Model Has To Change - 2019/11/06

Speech is not the issue. Targeting is.
The Problem Isn’t Screentime. It’s Parent Time - 2019/10/22

Don’t lecture parents. Invest in them.
How Facebook Video Almost Killed Us - 2019/10/18

And how they’re still using monopoly power to kill competition
Feeding My Children To Google - 2019/08/28

I love Google Photos. I also worry about it
WeWork Is Stupid AirBnB - 2019/08/18

And now they want your money