Aug 22, 2025
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8 min read
How the rise of the Internet unleashed sharks, short-term thinking, and shady practices.
Aug 15, 2025
6 min read
Join me for an IMAX-sized epic of online advertising. Perverse incentives! Corporate culture clashes! Ad blockers! It’s all here, for three weeks only.
Aug 8, 2025
7 min read
Get your schadenfreude fix (and some useful insights) from the blunders of a previous generation of tech leaders.
Aug 6, 2025
From Project Wolf to the “spaghetti football,” Ari tells a gripping story previously known only to insiders. Plus jokes!
Aug 1, 2025
Casey Newton of Platformer wrote about TrustCon and got a lot of feedback. I am adding two things that I think the conversation missed.
Jul 25, 2025
9 min read
Platforms offer us features, but we actually need context and customization. Believe it or not, AI could help. Call it Vibe Parenting.
Jul 18, 2025
Two millennia ago, Plato called them “philosopher-kings.” Today, we call them “global heads of platform safety.” They are still not a good idea.
Jul 11, 2025
Online policing could be corrupted and we’d never know.
Jun 27, 2025
Current and former luminaries from Harvard, ROOST, and the ad tech world weigh in on my first few weeks.
Jun 20, 2025
Ideas from the dial-up era are holding us back today. We can do better.
