Mr. Market

If you haven't had Belvita breakfast cookies, you have probably had Biscoff cookies, which are similar. These are a classic airline snack. You've probably had one along with a Coke with ice in a plastic cup, and thought to yourself, 'these cookies suck.'

My wife gave birth on June 24, 2026. Before she gave birth, I would describe myself as helplessly ambitious, obsessed with abstract, inconsequential cognitive games (debating ideas with friends and reading/writing nonfiction and autobiographical poetry),

Yesterday I was looking at YC jobs to see if there were any interesting small startups hiring in my area (while I otherwise love my current fully-remote job, I'm looking for hybrid). I found one that advertised an opening they called "GTM". I thought that

I grew up in a Catholic family in Boston. As you can imagine, this was an especially Catholic upbringing. I loved being religious. For my first communion, my grandmother gave me a gold cross on a gold chain. I would kiss the cross before walking up to the

Skepticism is a vital function of a healthy, open mind. It keeps us from taking each piece of information that's thrown like a ninja star at our heads at face value. And now that nearly every digital surface we encounter is pre-processed by an opinionated

EDIT: It seems sometime in the night someone posted this to Hacker News, which is always a pleasant surprise but also a soft guarantee I'll wake up to some h...

I work in tech, the industry of optimization, monetization, efficiency, and frictionlessness. I'm generally opposed to what it 'stands for', but I love the work and I appreciate the money. My job makes being a mid skater and writing/reading poems a hallow

I've befriended some of the most thoughtful, brilliant, curious, eccentric, and sincere people I've ever met in the tech industry. Many of my dearest friends are former coworkers. I've also encountered the most egocentric, delusional, irritating personali

At 4am most mornings I go onto my sun porch in the dark and I watch the deep navy sky slowly blanch in degrees until 6 am or so, when it turns pale white. I listen to jazz and I drink coffee and I go on Hacker News or MIT Press and hunt for something inte

Right now, we're on a plane that has been hijacked by 5-10 really smart but misanthropic people. They have a lot of money. They have made a long series of good decisions in their lives, and now they're in a position where their influence is hundreds of mu