Writing
- Simplicity is the wrong abstraction
- Against Duolingo
- Reclaiming Vancouver
- Where are all the banger blog posts?
- Fixing BC’s leaky talent funnel
- Putting the service back in software as a service
- Are you writing to write or writing to publish?
- The stay/go spectrum of smart young people
- Distributing builder culture
- Million dollar blog posts
- Why spring smells like marbles
- November 2023: Async, Coworking, French 79
- October 2023: London, Exits, Birthdays
- The hidden reason why BC’s startup scene struggles
- September 2023: Camping, SQL, Reality
- August 2023: Translations, Junk Time, Mid LLMs
- LLMs are mid (but that’s ok)
- Reclaiming Your Junk Time
- History Is Written by the Translator
- July 2023: London, Romania, Bologna
- June 2023: Banff, Waterloo, HogQL
- May 2023: Illegiblity, Housing Crisis, LA, Four Tet
- Beyond Vancouver’s Eternal Housing Crisis
- The Future of Work is Illegible
- April 2023: Network State, Data Stacks, Ice Cream
- March 2023: Aruba, Gibsons, Outmaneuvering Bureaucracy
- Outmaneuvering Bureaucracy with AI
- February 2023: 26, Sovereign Programmers, Friends
- You Must Become a Sovereign Programmer
- January 2023: Urbit, Product Engineers, Squats
- Rebuild the Internet (or Why You Should Care About Urbit)
- December 2022: Woodworking, Year-End, 10,000 Names
- How Municipalities Can Attract and Retain Smart Young People
- BC Tech’s Problem Is Not Office Space
- How Does BeReal Do It?
- Lee Kuan Yew on Talent, Andrew Wilkinson, Red State Migration and Housing Transparency
- Smart Young BC
- How DAOs Create Community Capacity
- Building Community Capacity
- Everyone Wants To Be a Poster
- Better Testing Is Better Learning
- Spatial Communities
- Encouragement is Actually Important
- Offensive and Defensive Community Onboarding
- Always Be Onboarding: Creating Community Arcades
- How to Create Social Capital Like Travis Kalanick
- Expanding Your State of Play
- Community Information Bankruptcy
- NFTs Are All About Access
- Building and Bending Frames with Friends
- The Group Chat Could Be So Much More
- Observers of the In-Between
- Say What?! Rewards for Communication in Internet Communities
- The Community Clock
- The Infinite Remix of Kanye West
- Every Point Matters
- Clubhouse Is a Cargo Cult
- Winning The Crypto Status Game
- Social Media Is as Social as You Make It
- Saints, Knaves, and Moralists of Internet Communities
- How Dunbar's Number Makes Or Breaks A Community
- Content About Creation Is Procrastination
- How To Discover Your Ideal Internet Community
- Why Executives Should Care About Internet Communities
- Supercharging Communities Through Ownership
- Explore Higher Friction Communities
- The Speed of Community
- Your Future Makes You Unique
- Communities Should Create Paid Content
- How To Keep Big Writers On Substack
- Exit Feeds, Enter Community
- How Discord Won
- Build Above Ground
- The Readership Will Take Care of Itself
- The Opportunity for Internet Communities
- Don't Forget The Goal
- TikTok Succeeds by Making Copying Easy
- Be Irreplaceable
- How To Fix The Future: Make More Values Legible
- Curation and Creation
- Unbundling YouTube
- How to Be a Better Listener: Always Be Collecting Dots
- TikTok's Viral Video Growth Machine
- Posthuman Brands
- 3 Ways to Read More Books
- Why Choose Spotify? Podcasts Are the Answer of the Future
- Mars Or Bust: Why Humans Must Become A Multi-Planetary Species
- Why Write