Writing

The pitch deck is dead. Write a pitch.md instead.

Every week, thousands of founders open Canva or Google Slides or, God help them, PowerPoint, and begin the ritual. They agonize over fonts, nudge logos three pixels to the left

The Coherence Premium

I don't necessarily believe in second brains. The notion (pun-intended) that you can offload your thinking to a perfectly organized system of notes and links has always struck

The Case for Blogging in the Ruins

In 1751, Denis Diderot began publishing his Encyclopédie, a project that would eventually span 28 volumes and take more than two decades to complete. The French government banned it twice.

The Rime of the Ancient Maintainer

Every culture produces heroes that reflect its deepest anxieties. The Greeks, terrified of both mortality and immortality, gave us Achilles. The Victorians, haunted by social mobility, gave us the self-made

Why My Newsletter Costs $2.50

In the 1980s, Minor Threat frontman Ian MacKaye discovered he was opening for The Damned at a show where tickets cost $13.50. His response was to voluntarily cut his

Comfort Food for the Thinking Class: The Great Intellectual Stagnation

Wander into any bookstore (I dare you.)  The non-fiction table will be all but dominated by the usual suspects: Malcolm Gladwell's latest exploration of how some counterintuitive thing

Podcasting Could Use a Good Asteroid

I'm told there are now over 4.5 million podcasts in existence. The industry is worth 40 billion dollars, 158 million Americans tune in monthly, and the medium

Everything is Dead and We Killed It.

SaaS is dead. Punk is dead again, for approximately the four hundredth time since Sid Vicious actually died in 1979. Rock is dead. The novel is dead. Cinema is dead.

I Have Declared Feed Bankruptcy.

On Brainrot

The conservative commentator Erick-Woods Erickson observed on his Substack this week that Twitter has now convinced large swaths of the American right that Europe has been completely overrun by Muslims,

PSA: Forums are Cool Again

(And I just launched one)

You Are Not Late

Kevin Kelly: You Are Not Late The last 30 years has created a marvelous starting point, a solid platform to build truly great things. However the coolest stuff has not