The microblog
The waiting room before a thing becomes a longer piece of writing
Google Reyðarfjörður
Melrakkaslétta Institute of Technology
Tomato compute
Instead of trees and streetlights, trees and streetlights, the trees will become the streetlights
The big refresh
Free will in the age of algorithms
The personal computer
The game is defined by its edges: from train robberies, to bank robberies, to cybercrime
It all started with whaling
From TV presidents to Tiktok presidents to what?
Life after media
Digital catastrophes: Building great things is catastrophic, being human is catastrophic, from construction accidents to emotional crisis
Algorithmic feeds are not neutral
How platforms age
Why every radical protocol social media platform ended up recreating Twitter
Good old work
Why Apple should kill the App store
Nuclear powered global transit
Slow travel, blimps, liners, overnight high speed rails.
Agents and automation, ask why first
Tech world glossary
The history and future of: media, venture capital, transportation, social media, private equity, fine art, photography, the internet
Fine art, literature, and movies, require a world made from atoms
Digital signs and symbols
The everyday person stack
The two shutter button camera
Streaming knowledge
Offline, on device
Content is not content
Energy in Iceland: The top 50 Icelandic aluminum products
The personal computer was made for children
Local, on device, private, but powerful
Von Neumann architecture, Harvard architecture, now what?
How would we build the internet if we started building it today?
The lowest common denominator of taste
The overloaded web browser
Permissionless
The desktop is over
What do we actually need?
How long are we going to live with a phone, some headphones, and a smart watch?
Cafe life
The original composition of the iPhone
What is a digitally integrated world?
Life after email
A thousand cold hidden sales marketing emails in your pocket
The people who help you on the way
Eating red tape. Asking for permission.
Please build the new thing, before you regulate the old thing.
The German idea of the web is like a car with 8 seatbelts for each person.
The LLM to kernel
Messages are the beating heart of platforms
A phone that not only receives mobile connection but broadcasts it
Cut the middlemen
Ahh, finally, no more apps
Trust, friendships, communities
Desktop gene synthesizers
Biological future, bioluminescense, dna data storage, energy abundance.
Computers that forget things.
When every platform is building their own AI assistant
AI agents do not exist yet
Culture and technology
Jumping to solutions, the things people ask for
Perspective comes before a clear vision of the future
The boutique hardware revolution
The unbundling of everyday life, has the time for a camera and a music player come again?
Platform risk
Form factor
Cancer research
Sodium batteries
A mesh network protocol so self driving can communicate obstacles between each other.
A phone that not only receives, but transmits signal.
Self driving is already here, using Lyft and Uber dashcams to collect data for the next generation.
Take Dieter Rams off your moodboard
The end of customer service
It is up to us to build it
Most of our problems are cultural, not engineering issues
Hardware support, technological shelf life
Why we need 6 more Tesla equivalents
The next Kubrick is working on a video game
There will be more companies started in the next decade than ever before
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