A collection of posts by M.G. Siegler of around 500 words in length. - Medium
The below post was originally published on February 21, 2024 on Spyglass . If you start me up If you start me up, I’ll never stop. The Rolling Stones song , incidentally the one used to launch Windows 95 , is stuck in my head. Because it’s what I keep thinking about while trying to start using the Vision Pro. And I do mean “trying” because it’s really sort of a chore. I know, I know. Play me the…
Photo by Josh Hild on Unsplash The below post was originally published on February 21, 2024 on Spyglass . San Francisco is back! In 3 to 5 years it will be over again. And then back again. Anyone who has been around long enough has seen this story go round and round at least two or three or four times at this point. It’s perhaps the most clear example of the “build them up to knock them down” idea…
The below post was originally published on February 8, 2024 on Spyglass. In it, I attempt to make sense of the then just-announced sports streaming bundle spearheaded by Disney (now officially called Venu — and now officially in limbo following a series of weird missteps, many of which are alluded to below). If you’d like to sign up to get these updates in real-time, you can do so here . Now that…
The below post was originally published on February 6, 2024 on Spyglass. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here . Earlier tonight, I joked about Bluesky moving up in my social media power rankings. To position number 4 of the 17 sites and services that I now need to update in order to reach the audience that has now completely dispersed since Xitter shit the bed. This is actually not a joke…
The below post was originally published on February 6, 2024 on Spyglass. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here . TechCrunch+ Termination - Lux Capital With the unfortunate news of layoffs at TechCrunch last week, this post attempts to look at the why — and in particular, what went wrong with “TechCrunch+”, the site’s premium tier. With the large caveat that I was at TechCrunch a decade…
The below post was originally published on February 5, 2024 on Spyglass. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here . The year is 2024, and I’ve just been kicked out of a cafe for using a laptop. Well, technically I wasn’t kicked out , but rather was asked to put my laptop away because with the new year, they’ve decided to implement a no-laptop-policy. So I was effectively kicked out. I simply…
Photo by Miguel Angel Avila on Unsplash Hello! It has been a while . But with Spyglass , my new site, now firmly established, I thought I’d start to cross-post some content for this audience as well. Since I’m a firm believer in not letting content wither on the vine simply because it’s no longer “new”. The below post was originally published on January 23, 2024 . If you’d like to sign up for…
A narrowly avoided VC thought-leader post™ This is me not doing email… I sat down to write this and thought it would be some big reflection on the state of venture capital over the past dozen years. But I quickly came to my senses. The world does not want, nor need another one of those posts. And certainly I don’t want to write one of those posts. I was overthinking it. I have some pretty simple…
Apple Events Short and sweet like candy corn, I guess… Well, I think we all overthought it . As it turns out, there wasn’t too much to read into Apple’s “Scary Fast” event beyond the very surface: “scary” was a reference to the event taking place the night before Halloween and “fast” was a reference to the M3 chips. That’s it. That was the show. Part of the overthinking was the assumption that…
Reading between the lines of the ‘Scary Fast’ event… A flurry of Apple news, reports, and rumors hit in the past week — so much so that it’s hard to keep up. But you do have to wonder if many of them are related, hence the timing. If so, it likely all centers around the just-announced “Scary Fast” Apple event taking place next week. It’s always fun (and/or funny) to delve into some Kremlinology…