Building AI tools. Writing about code, creativity, and the creator economy. A tech exec who still ships.
I've just launched Renaissance Geek – the company behind Impeccable – with backing from a16z led by @illscience , and a new partnership with @github . This is a repost from the X article and a16z substack post, so you'll find it on my website as well. Here&
I needed a few lightweight shaders for my new personal website. Six weeks later, I'd shipped 88. The original ask was simple: my site runs on Ghost, so I needed standalone, embeddable shaders with zero framework dependencies. Most shader libraries are tied to React or Svelte, and nothing
Ever noticed that cursed corner restaurant? The one with a revolving door of hopeful new owners, always promising a fresh concept, then quietly disappearing six months later? Same building. Same layout. Same fate. You can’t quite explain why...until you realize it’s not about the food,
(I'm republishing this oldie but goodie from a few years back, as I realized I accidentally put it back into my drafts!) Why do certain creators succeed at monetizing their fans on platforms like Patreon , Koji and Gumroad , but others fail? A grossly over-simplified conclusion is that
"An editor, a editor, my kingdom for an editor!" Almost every creator I know is looking for an editor. Not just any editor. That one elusive hire that is a one-in-a-million find: an editor who gets their *taste*. Not just someone who trims clips,
I’m now a few years into my journey into the creator economy. As Google's first Head of Creator Relations, then Koji's Head of Creators, I’ve learned a ton about the challenges of creators of all types and sizes. Some are similar, some
We're closer than you might think to getting the first video implementations in the exploding field of generative AI. Runway, an AI-assisted browser-based video editing suite, has been at the forefront of generative video for a while now, and they've just launched their biggest
Despite technological advancements, there is one particularly fascinating bottleneck holding back the full potential of generative AI today: humans
The story of why we perceive film as moving pictures, how TVs work, and how our brains create reality.
There's a category of side hustles that isn't soul crushing and might become more popular: Monetizing hobbies, passions and interests that people already have.
If you're a content creator or brand on social media, do this one thing today (and if you work with creators, forward this): Ask 10 regular visitors why they're following you. Deceptively basic, right? Let's analyze: Most creators or social media channels don'
Creators are often taught that they have to be consistent - but it's not just content that needs it.
An interesting paradox of the creator economy: Once a creator embraces the idea they're a business, they get the power to do *less* business-y stuff. Wait what?
If there’s one generation-defining skill that creators need to learn going forward, what will it be? My bet: The ability to make, then monetize fans.
Here are five promising ways to auto-reframe, or smart crop horizontal to vertical video.