Home
About
Tags
Logo
Subscribe

Explainer

Ideas and concepts to help you understand how we got here and where we're going next.

Five classic business books about tech failures to read after you finish “Yield”

Aug 8, 2025

•

7 min read

Five classic business books about tech failures to read after you finish “Yield”

Get your schadenfreude fix (and some useful insights) from the blunders of a previous generation of tech leaders.

Explainer #2: Guardianship Is Why Tech Execs Think They Are Uniquely Qualified To Protect Communities

Jul 18, 2025

•

8 min read

Explainer #2: Guardianship Is Why Tech Execs Think They Are Uniquely Qualified To Protect Communities

Two millennia ago, Plato called them “philosopher-kings.” Today, we call them “global heads of platform safety.” They are still not a good idea.

Explainer #1: “Implicit Feudalism” is why online communities feel like warring kingdoms

Jun 20, 2025

•

6 min read

Explainer #1: “Implicit Feudalism” is why online communities feel like warring kingdoms

Ideas from the dial-up era are holding us back today. We can do better.

How tech companies became unelected governments and what to do about it, as told by a former Google executive.

© 2025 Jonathan Bellack.

Privacy policy

Terms of use

Powered by beehiiv