Dipshits

If you don’t like the imperfect results that experts produce, you’re going to love what the dipshits do.

– Nils Gillman, What comes after the cleansing fire of MAGA?

March 22, 2025

Real Genius

If you double down on the LOTR brainrot, and add things like Ayn Rand and Rene Girard to the soup, you get a profoundly stupid vision of the world that it takes real genius to buy into.

— Venkat Rao

March 8, 2025

A fine dust of evil

On reflection, this is about right.

March 3, 2025

Trying is cool

March 1, 2025

Not technology but the exercise of power

Silicon Valley has changed remarkably in the intervening two decades. Its culture now centers not simply on technology but the exercise of power.

Henry Farrell

January 14, 2025

The internet was meant to be weightless

Dan Davies:

It seems to me that today’s problems were written into the original declaration of weightlessness — precisely because, for the longest time, the online economy seemed to have marginal costs as close to zero as made no odds, it expanded until the constraints became impossible to ignore.

November 30, 2024

Good, Very Good, Great

Dan Davies:

good bankers take clients to expensive restaurants, very good bankers take clients to very expensive restaurants, but great bankers meet clients for a sandwich in the pub

October 20, 2024

Agile abdicates decision-making

Charles Lambdin:

At the end of the day, Agile desperately needs something to fill the product strategy gap it left in its wake, and not because it failed at product strategy as much as it assumed it didn’t need to have one in the first place.

October 5, 2024

Another” is doing a lot of work in this headline

Quartz:

AIs thirst for energy has another nuclear plant coming online

October 2, 2024

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