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What is 'AI psychosis'? Is it real? Is it a clinical phenomenon or a cultural meme? Is it something to be concerned about, or a pop-psychology fad of a passing technological era? On the morning of May 1st, 2026, I was reflecting on these questions, as well as on my experience the night before at an event called the "AI Psychosis Summit." I had stumbled upon the event on Twitter and…
This past year I started a comms and design agency called Ipso Facto . Naturally, I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about comms. Below I’ve gathered a non-definitive list of the Big Comms Moments from 2025. These are moments that span mediums and types of communicators. They are not all examples of ‘good’ comms. Many are chosen for their representative meaning. At the end of this post I’ve…
I've been a close follower of the Effective Altruism (EA) movement for almost a decade now. It's been equally gratifying and surreal to see EA grow so much in its influence. In a time of tremendous darkness, and an endless string of silver bullets promising salvation from it, there's something comforting about the presence of a group that cares so seriously about measurable…
Lately, I've been asking myself a question – what happened to the New Internet? By New Internet, I'm referring to the reformist and reactionary technology movements that began to bubble up in the early 2010s and could be unmistakably felt over the last five. I'm talking about the pushback by various groups of actors against social media, tech monopolies, platform capitalism, and the…
Preface The Civilian Climate Corps — a New Deal Era 'Civilian Conservation Corps' reinvented for the contemporary threat of climate change — is closer to reality than it ever has been. As of April 2021 the Biden Administration has made numerous announcements of its impending arrival and lawmakers have recently released a bill outlining its creation. While there are many logistical…
This proposal was quickly written in response to the prompt below put out by Chamath Palihapitiya of Social Capital. I've published my response here because I thought it might be interesting for others to see my thinking. Additionally, I'm curious how others would have gone about this problem, as I think it was a good exercise in succinctly framing the big picture of climate solutions.…
It always strikes me when I run into a friend who is amused that I am a Costco member. For someone who grew up in a suburban area, even with the nearest Costco being a 45-minute drive from our house, shopping there was a no-brainer for my family. The reasons why Costco made sense for us are probably not dissimilar from the reasons of its ~100 million other members. Since its founding in 1983, the…
The other weekend I watched on my feed a reposted video of a roaring glacial torrent in Greenland caused by an outlier heatwave, itself caused by climate change. The other weekend I also watched another string of mass shootings take place. I read countless articles and posts about the shootings and what we should do about them in the future. These events are now a distant memory though because…