Sifting Through Slop
Finding value in a world awash with AI content
Byte-Sized History
The origin stories of the technologies and innovations that shape our world today.
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Three Cheers for Joel Mokyr
Celebrating a fantastic pick for the Nobel Prize in Economics
Achieving Liftoff: How the Wright Brothers Jumpstarted the 20th Century
How the invention of flight symbolized and energized innovation at the turn of the century
The Fishy Origins of Venture Capital
A Whale of a Story
Is Technological Innovation Random?
Revisiting QWERTY in 2025
Coming Out of Hibernation
A quick update on my plans for Byte-Sized History in 2025
WWII and the Trajectory of Technology
WWII's dramatic effect on innovation
TSMC: The Quiet Titan
How Taiwan's Semiconductor Giant Shapes the Global Technology Landscape
Back When Europe Innovated
A Road Trip Down Memory Lane with The Race to the Future
The Age of Unprecedented Rivalry
How the 20th Century's Rise in Competition Shapes Our Lives and Careers
The World’s Greatest Graph
A picture worth 2,000 years
What Video Games Can Tell Us About the Limits of AI
Are we all doomed to be NPCs?
How Did Taiwan Become So Important to Semiconductors?
The story of the technology that started Silicon Valley growing up and moving out
How Will GenAI Affect Writing?
What painters can tell us from their experience with photography
Disney: The Life and Times of a Main Character
How Disney's past helps to explain its current malaise
Why did China Trade with the US?
Hint: Never underestimate the importance of non-digital innovations
5 Thoughts on IBM's History
If you thought your corporate trainings were awkward, just read on
Gutenberg, Word, and Sora
Social challenges and technological innovations
Rules of the blog
The rules I've set for myself
Network Effects: A Value Lost
Why we get less out of more