Venture Capital
Why Does Everything Have to Scale?
I make a living investing in companies that need to become enormous. I’m not convinced everything else should have to do the same.
Carmelo Giuliano
Investor, venture capitalist, advisor, and historian by training. Writing about technology, money, power, politics, culture, and the strange systems shaping modern life.
Artificial Intelligence
Nobody Is Driving
AI researchers are quitting, labs are talking about slowing down, governments are worried about China, and everyone has an incentive to keep accelerating anyway. Maybe we have been looking at the AI alignment problem one layer too low.
Artificial Intelligence
The Human Is Becoming Latency
Humanity would very much like to keep a human in charge of the killer robots. Unfortunately, humans are increasingly becoming the slowest part of the system.
Technology
The ROI of Staring at a Wall
Twenty minutes. No phone, no music, no work. I tried meditating for two weeks and accidentally turned doing nothing into another performance metric.
Investing
Tech Doesn’t Understand Why You Don’t Like It
Tech companies say people don’t understand the future. Maybe the bigger problem is that tech no longer understands the people expected to live in it.
Internet Culture
The Internet Was Better When It Was Worse
Myspace was ugly, slow, chaotic, and deeply human. As the internet became cleaner, smarter, and more personalized, we may have accidentally lost something valuable along the way.
Artificial Intelligence
The Internet Ouroboros
AI learned from decades of human-made internet. Now it is writing the internet too. Suddenly, old books, dead forums and forgotten files have a strange new value: provenance.
Venture Capital
Everyone Is Asking Someone Else for Money
Founders ask VCs. VCs ask LPs. Somewhere above them, someone richer is still saying no. A personal essay about money, status, bad pitches, conditional affection, and the strange humility of asking for capital.
Artificial Intelligence
Music for People Who Aren’t Listening
I once played live music for a Russian oligarch who never once looked at the stage. That gig is where this piece on Suno, copyright, and the AFM's lawsuit against Warner and Universal begins.
Privacy
The Most Observed Event in Human History
The 2026 World Cup became a global test bed for facial recognition, robot dogs, counter-drone systems, and surveillance infrastructure built to last.
Venture Capital
Confessions of a Compromised Capitalist
From homeless anti-capitalist to venture capitalist, a personal essay on power, hypocrisy, and the unresolved question of whether capital can be used with a conscience.