Culture
Would You Watch Someone Die?
The U.S. may livestream Nidal Hasan’s execution by firing squad. What happens when state violence becomes transparent, permanent, and consumable online?
Culture
Essays on music, books, media, creativity, internet culture, technology, and the strange ways markets and machines reshape what humans make.
Artificial Intelligence
The Things Beneath Us
We’re trying to build intelligence greater than our own while discovering, once again, what humans do when something cannot fight back.
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.
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.