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Imparting Online Security onto the Next Generation
I just spent three weeks—mostly weekends, but also waiting days for email responses from customer support—trying to settle my son's Xbox account. All he wanted to do was play Minecraft on his desktop PC. But neither…
The Differentiation Premium
Recently, I've taken to watching a YouTube channel critiquing mansions. He goes over many of the flaws he finds in these ultra-luxury mansion tours in an entertaining and educational way: interior design mishaps, poorly-planned home layouts, architectural mediocrity,…
Cairn: Flow Within Constraint
Cairn is a game about climbing. It was released merely days after Skyscraper Live , a Netflix special also about climbing. I'm not a climber; the closest I've gotten was fumbling on gym walls back in high…
The Vision Pro, an Unintentional Trojan Horse for AR
We just passed the second anniversary of the Apple Vision Pro. At launch, it was—and is—an amazing piece of technology. I initially reacted with excitement to this new device category. But the Vision Pro also faced plenty of…
Eccentric Founders
Despite changing its corporate structure and name to Block, and even though it's been over a decade since I last worked there, I will always think of the company as Square. Those were formative years. For me, Square…
Gawking at the AI Zoo
Recently, Moltbook made the rounds in tech circles for experimenting with agentic AI societies. It's a social network populated by AI agents, built as an experiment to see how autonomous agents interact and what types of unusual behaviors…
