Visionaries

I was ranting to my wife the other night about how frustrating it is that so much energy is going into absurd nerd fantasy when there’s just SO MUCH to improve about the actual technology real people use every day. At some point, I blurted out something about how maybe getting two completely insane platforms […]

Someone Else Further Down the Stack

I mentioned this when I first saw it, but I just cannot get over this ridiculous interview with the CEO of Zoom. Somehow, it manages to simultaneously highlight pretty much all of the major things that are bothering me as I careen into my grumpiest, middle-ag-iest years. It features an incredibly successful (and presumably rich) […]

Zoom Delusion

I don’t know a polite way to say it, but the CEO of Zoom sounds like he’s completely lost his mind. You should read this whole Verge interview to experience his bizarre, dystopian, AI-double fantasy for yourself, but also to witness the perfect example of zero-accountability AI-fueled investment hype, pictured here: “It’s someone down the […]

Anti-Social Media

Quitting social media over the last five years has been a net positive for me, but I do miss having a place for quick observations and small rants. Turns out it’s not the audience that does it for me, it’s just the therapeutic exercise of documentation. Crazy, huh? Anyways, I’m adding a feed here for […]

The Excesses of Art & The Limitations of Science

When I’m not pretending to be a tech visionary, I work in product marketing. This means that everyone in my personal life (most of whom do not in work in marketing for software startups) thinks my job is basically to come up with cool advertisements, and most of those people have suggestions. Meanwhile, every job […]

Prompts, Web Applications, & the Death of Accountability

I have a theory for where things are going, and I don’t like it. Web Apps I could write a big giant post about why I have a lot of problems with web applications. I love the web, but I think from a pure productivity perspective, we’re using it wrong, and asking it to be […]