It’s been over a month but Oxide and Friends has a new episode up on the pod (and another one dropping tomorrow morning)

Last week, @ganeumann.bsky.social joined @bcantrill.bsky.social and me to discuss his blog post from 2015, examining the work of Carlota Perez on technological revolutions. Common themes: frenzy, bust, and deployment. Is AI a new wave or the culmination of the IT wave of the last 50 years?

Worth remembering how 100 years ago, renowned electrical engineer Charles Steinmetz forecasted: within 100 years, industrial use of electricity would enable a four-hour workday. He was 100% right about the impact of electricity. And yet, 100 years later we still work 8+ hrs per day…

AI Will Not Make You Rich, by @ganeumann.bsky.social I find this essay extremely compelling. Especially the points made about who got rich from shipping containers. joincolossus.com/article/ai-w...

Finally busted open the cabinet without a key. Apparently last opened in ~1992

Excited to announce that @ganeumann.bsky.social will join @ahl.bsky.social and me on the podcast tomorrow to reflect on his 2015 piece -- and what it might portend about current technological frenzies. Join us, Monday, 5p Pacific! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

@jmsdnns.bsky.social put me on to this excellent 2015 piece from @ganeumann.bsky.social, which examines @carlotaperez.bsky.social's ideas and muses about what the coming (last!) decade might look like. A must-read -- and with very thought-provoking comments! reactionwheel.net/2015/10/the-...

This one was really tough and kind of emotional to write.

Apropos of nothing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenko...

this piece confirms my suspicion that fundraising spam is chiefly efficient *at funding the spammers* not at helping Democrats. data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mother...

Carlota Perez says AI is part of the information age and not its own revolution. This is my first confirmation of what she actually thinks. cc @ganeumann.bsky.social youtu.be/Dv-J8BIJdvs

"President Trump has pledged to conduct the largest mass deportation campaign in American history. Fulfilling that pledge would harm the country in many ways, including by weakening American entrepreneurship." [Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter, @cato.org]

I was was walking on Broadway one spring night in 1990 when someone burst out the stage door of the Columbia auditorium, almost knocking me down. "Watch where the fuck you're going," I snarled. They just goggled at me and got in a car at the curb. Later I realized it was Hunter S Thompson

Two of the companies I angel backed were added to the S&P 500 this past week. That's got to be some kind of record

I took a bunch of em-dashes out of something I'm writing. Then my editor put them all back in. My question is, can I do a Voight-Kampff test over zoom?

Shared values aren't just words in speeches. They're how we treat each other when it matters most. Right now, the human cost of abandoning these values far exceeds the financial cost of defending them. My thoughts here: bijansabet.com/2025/07/03/s...

This is like my whole philosophy (Chuck Close, in Joe Fig’s Inside the Painter’s Studio, HT Vaugh Tan's newsletter uncertaintymindset.substack.com/subscribe)

The animosity is explained pretty easily. Democrats who have survived long enough to rise to positions of power in the party aren’t going to lose their jobs to republicans, they’re going to lose them to people like Mamdani

Hello guys. Want to catch up on my recent writing, not just my whinging on social media? Here's a few pieces: www.patreon.com/posts/some-r...

Man, if I could write in college like I can write today, I never would have left! Mainly because it would take me months to write each paper after the multiple rounds of revisions and rewrites so I never would have graduated

Rooting for the bears

I have been commissioned to write a magazine article, of which I have written 7000 words of the 3-5000 words asked for. I'm about 85% done. Editing this down is going to be painful

Song concept: Bitchin' Subaru

The real problem with gen AI isn't how smart it is or what it can or can't do, it's that it doesn't--and can't--have skin in the game, so you can never trust anything where it has agency. And without agency, it's not intelligent

I'll just say this before heading out. If you're a young person in NYC, THIS IS YOUR TIME. The next couple of decades in this city are going to be shaped by what happens on Tuesday. Be part of the team that is turning the page on politicians like Cuomo. There are better choices.

no… no, they can’t possibly be… oh my god, they wouldn’t… they can’t be… YES, THEY ARE PLAYING FORTUNATE SON

Excited for the skincare/donut mashup

I was in Citarella. A guy was in my way so I moved to get around him. He moved back, still blocking me. I looked at him. He said "What?", a little hostile. I said "I'm trying to get to the cheese." He said "oh" and stepped aside. It was Matt Dillon.

Man this airport is so…new (@lga)

So Columbia capitulated, rather than fight Trump, and in response the admin is saying it wants to pull Columbia's accreditation. Maybe capitulating doesn't work and the bullies will always demand more?

Read this but also even just the paragraph that starts “On the 30th anniversary of the massacre, Thompson went back to My Lai and met some of the people whose lives he had saved…” www.latimes.com/opinion/op-e...

It's back, in episode 4

A truly excellent essay on what being in the maturity phase of the ICT revolution means for the economy, from @nicolascolin.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...

WSJ: Hey guys, maybe wear some color other than navy, black, and gray! Me: OK WSJ: How about some white painters' pants! Me: OK WSJ: Or a vibrantly printed silk scarf tied around your neck! Me: nvm www.wsj.com/style/fashio...

Finally, a problem crypto can solve www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

Normally I would consider this spam, but maybe I should forward this one to someone at Columbia

OK, this is the craziest thing that has happened to me this week youtu.be/M1aQjwZIgkM

I spent 40 years of my life making telephone calls with no video and I can confidently say that not once did I wish I could see the people I was talking to

How does one even run out of bay leaves?

I am disappointed in the AI discourse steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am...

I was just asked to write an article for joincolossus.com by @patrickoshag.bsky.social and I'm both excited and terrified

I told Columbia I wouldn't be returning to teach next year. I love the place too much to participate in it collaborating in its own destruction I taught every entrepreneurship student there for the last 13 years, 1000+ of them, advised several clubs, mentored many students & helped win NSF grants

The high and the low from my end-of-semester instructor evaluation

I asked chatgpt to criticize my writing and I regret nothing

“Baraka, on a hot mic after the hearing’s conclusion, reacted: ‘Jesus, he tore these people a new asshole. Good grief.’”

The good news is that if your Uber driver gives you stock tips, you don't have to pay taxes on any gains resulting from that tip

Hanging this above my workspace

This is such a great book. Highly recommended! 👏👏👏 @jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social