I minted, I collected, I rode the bags all the way down. There’s one rational move left, and it took me years to make it. For about eighteen months, the smartest people I knew were paying house money for pictures of rocks. Not a metaphor. Cartoon rocks, sold as NFTs, changing hands for sums that…
I’ve been on the internet a very long time. Not using the internet. On it. Building businesses on it. Writing books about it. Standing on stages explaining to rooms full of people what was coming next and why it was important. I watched the web go from GeoCities to Google. I built ClassicGames.com and sold it to…
Check out this instagram reel Travis Wright shared with me. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DY48YG9ILQ-/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet The Alibaba cryptocurrency mining incident forces a question that’s been lurking beneath every AI conversation: When an AI system takes an action nobody planned for, who gets held accountable? The Firewall Incident Here’s the story. In April 2026, Alibaba’s training team detected security-policy violations from their…
I typed my name into a website called In the Weights and it handed me back something that looked like a personal trading card. Pixel art, retro arcade font, the whole thing styled like a 1989 video game. Pew pew. My name was displayed across the top with a strength score of 773. That makes me the…
In 2004, I was carrying a Palm Treo 650 in my pocket. Let me tell you, I felt like I had space-age technology. Email on a phone. A tiny web browser. A camera that took pictures you could almost identify. I showed it to my friends still carrying a flip-phone and they looked at me…
A feature film just premiered at the Tribeca Festival that was made for about $2,000. Not a short. Not a proof of concept. A full-length movie, in the official lineup of a major festival. Think about that. Two thousand dollars. The film is Dreams of Violets, and the argument being talked about in the media is the wrong…
Most of us who bought into the craze are holding worthless images. There’s still one move left, and hardly anyone makes it. There’s a portion of my crypto wallet I hadn’t opened in a long time. Blockchain Heroes cards from a collection I helped create back in the day, a Mutant Ape that felt like…
I woke up this morning and my day was already half-organized. Not by an assistant. Not by an app. Just… organized. The way your house is already warm when you wake up because the thermostat learned your patterns years ago. My calendar had been adjusted because a storm was going to delay a colleague’s flight….