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Who Hooked Up a Laptop to a 1930s Dance Hall Machine?

Everyone wants to replace us, but noone actually knows what we do.

Try to make your Image Quilt

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Edit, 11/20/2023: If you like this post, it inspired a book co-written by me and Liz Zalman. You can find it here. One of my portfolio companies raised a round a few months ago and I left their board. So, for the first time in a long time, I am not on any

Epistemic status: fiction Thanks for letting me put my story on your blog. Mainstream media is crap and no one would have believed me anyway. This starts in September 2017. I was working for a sm…

Today, the tech industry is apparently on track to destroy one of the world's most valuable cultural treasures, San Francisco, by pushing out the diverse

Salary negotiation advice, mostly for engineers. Running total of raises negotiated due to this essay: $15M+.

Joseph Mitchell's classic 1940 story about McSorley's Old Ale House, which opened in 1854 and remains one of the oldest bars in the city.

A reflection on the raw, unoptimized nature of American breakfast food and its honest simplicity