Dec 26, 2022The Rise and Fall of the NontrepreneurIn recent years, the term “entrepreneur” has become synonymous with success and innovation. From Silicon Valley to Main Street, the image of the scrappy, risk-taking entrepreneur has been held up as the model for economic progress and personal fulfillment. But alongside this idolization of the entrepreneur, there has been a…Entrepreneurship3 min readEntrepreneurship3 min read
Dec 18, 2022Member-onlyThe amount of content I just generated using ChatGPT represents an existential threat to GoogleIn recent years, the role of artificial intelligence in content creation has become a topic of intense debate. On one side of the argument are those who believe that AI has the potential to revolutionize the way we create and consume information, streamlining the process and providing new insights and…ChatGPT3 min readChatGPT3 min read
Mar 10, 2021Member-onlyRefoundingThe most disruptive communications paradigm shift in the history of humankind — Since leaving politics in 2016, I have spent my time helping startups build business strategies and the technology that supports those strategies. …Metamodernism4 min readMetamodernism4 min read
Feb 20, 2021Member-onlySurviving Metamodernism, Part IIIdentifying the meta-metanarrative. In the weeks since writing Part I of Surviving Metamodernism, the world has changed. Like many Americans, I was first ambivalent about Donald J. Trump’s second impeachment and then riveted by the House impeachment managers’ performance. The slick presentations, supercut videos, and tweet-sized recriminations led the media…Metamodernism5 min readMetamodernism5 min read
Jan 12, 2021Member-onlySurviving Metamodernism, Part I“For everyone else, it would resemble mind control.” Last week, I mentioned metamodernism in my letter encapsulating the 30+ 2020 Year in Review reports. Metamodernism is incredibly dangerous because of its authentic power, its disregard for the norms of previous epochs and the velocity with which it accelerates change. It…Metamodernism5 min readMetamodernism5 min read
Jan 23, 2020Member-onlyFrom Pariah to Messiah5 Essential Steps to Rehabilitate a Disgraced Public Figure — There are the true to life examples of the international businessman accused of embezzlement and dodging his taxes; the religious leader accused of assault; and the politician who unwittingly presented the inaccurate evidence that started a twenty-year war in which thousands perished. …Public Relations5 min readPublic Relations5 min read
Aug 19, 2015We’re selling SocialistWhen we launched Socialist in 2014 we were the highest voted product on Product Hunt for that day. We gained thousands of users and rolled out bug fixes as quickly as we could keep up. With over a year spent in development there wasn’t much room left for us to…Product Hunt2 min readProduct Hunt2 min read
Jan 11, 2015Algorithms, Homogenized News and the Atomic BombI wrote a widely shared post in June titled “Facebook can save itself with two simple measurements it already collects.” Some three months later, Facebook has implemented one of the two changes I advocated for. I was originally inspired to write that post during the Kim Kardashian / Kanye West…4 min read4 min read
