DOJ vs. Apple is a Bad Idea

I’ll open with a caveat. This is, unfortunately, how the United States does regulation now — settlements and consent decrees in response to broad, annoying lawsuits. I wish it wasn’t that way, but Congress is full of too many old, stupid, unserious people to keep up with most of the issues you encounter in everyday […]

North Stars

I just happened to read/hear two very different — but oddly related — things on the way back from walking my kid to school this morning. The Funded Dead “The Funded Dead” is from Failory, a newsletter/site about startups failing that I enjoy, mostly because it’s a good reminder of just how many software startups […]

Sellouts

Andy Baio has a really, really great post on the long, slow failure of a social media site called Ello. That word — post — doesn’t really seem to do it justice, to be honest, but it’s bloggy in all the best ways so let’s just go with it. I won’t rehash its contents here […]

Quick Thoughts from the Green Goblin of Generative AI

Okay, I’m going to let you in on a secret. One of the reasons I’m so frosty about the gap between generative AI’s narrative, and what it actually can do when you build an application with it and put someone in front of it is that for the last couple of months, I’ve been building […]

The Last Mile

I make a lot of generative AI jokes, because they’re obvious, and because they’re hilarious. But, in all seriousness, there is a huge problem with the value proposition of almost every generative AI application that everyone is just whistling past for a variety of reasons. The Promise is the Problem Generative AI as a technology […]

Work Paste

As I’ve gotten older, one thing I’ve started to realize is that there are many different kinds of burnout. I know this, because I’ve gone through several, and watched my friends, family, and colleagues go through an even wider variety of them.  For starters, there is the most physical kind of burnout. I’m talking about […]