If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first blog about it online.
YouTube is one of the only social products I still find genuinely useful. It’s where I learn how to fix things around the house, where my kids watch a marine biologist explain how octopuses see color through their skin, where I go down rabbit holes on guitar technique or game ...
Anthropic’s Mythos model recently found security vulnerabilities in OpenBSD: One of the most carefully reviewed, security-obsessed codebases on earth. Code that serious people have scrutinized for decades.
My Twitter feed these days is mostly full of people talking about how fast they shipped some new thing with AI. Built this in a weekend. Vibe-coded my MVP in three hours. 100x engineers shipping PRs all day. Yes, the AI tools really are that good and they’re exciting. I’m beyond excited about a future where I can build anything I can think of. But I keep coming back to this nagging feeling that…
There’s a lot of discussion now about crypto gaming and where the next big hit will emerge. Axie Infinity has proven that novel token economics can be enough of a draw to grow a player base substantially and projects like Yield Guild Games can help ease the pain of buying into...
Discord has become a pretty major part of my internet life in the past year as I’ve descended the Web3 rabbit hole and spent less time on feed-based social media sites like Twitter and Instagram.
NOTE: This post is part of a select subsection of writing on my blog that I return to occasionally and should be considered a work in progress! If you’re interested in how my thinking has evolved over time, you can always look at the git commits for the post over on GitHub. Fi...
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about Zoom fatigue and what’s missing in the world of Zoom meetings.
Valheim hit 500,000 concurrent players yesterday on Steam, which is a new record for a “survival” game. This means Valheim now has the fifth-highest peak concurrent players of any game on Steam, behind PUBG, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dota 2, and Cyberpunk 2077. This ...
Many my age may remember a set of tools built on RSS that were prevalent in the open web, but have increasingly waned in popularity. Some, like Google Reader and Yahoo Pipes, have ceased to exist. I still think a lot about Yahoo Pipes as one of the early (first?) no-code tools...
Roblox is a supremely interesting company. I think their impending direct listing is going to be one to watch. After the Roblox S-1 came out in the fall, I did some analysis of it and the company alongside Mario at The Generalist and a few others. It was a lot of fun - we’ll p...
I have been playing video games as long as I can remember, probably about thirty years at this point. The first game I played was Super Mario Bros. This month, that game is 35 years old.
Earlier this summer, I left Samsung NEXT Ventures.
Today marks the launch of Google’s Stadia. A lot of people have asked me for my thoughts on Stadia’s chances for success, so I figured I would write them down here. Time will tell if I am right or not.
I’ll cut to the chase.
What Van Halen’s “No Brown M&M’s” tour rider policy can teach you about building products, raising money, and getting a job.”
Today we’re releasing a brand new iPad app to complement our existing iPhone app and web app. We’ve worked really hard on refining Shelby and I’m proud to say this is the best app we’ve ever built. So what sets it apart from the other stuff we’ve built and the rest of the vide...
Dear TV Manufacturers,
This past month, we shipped the new Shelby.tv iPhone app to the world. It was the culmination of over a year’s worth of work after we shut down our product over a year ago to rebuild it from the ground up.
One of the longstanding jokes in business school is that MBAs think in PowerPoint. In the startup world, people don’t often think in PowerPoint - they think in code. So what’s the easiest way to bridge that gap?
House of Cards has gotten a ton of attention lately for a few reasons: