THIS IS A FANTASTIC STORY How TTI and Stanley Black & Decker took the same playbook in opposite directions. www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-power...

Just lost my university library access. Kind of crushed, actually

From now on “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it” shall be known as SL-17 for conciseness

I have heard through the grapevine that my latest essay is pissing off the powers-that-be in silicon valley so, to stay in their good graces, don't read it colossus.com/article/we-h...

This is a brilliant essay from @ganeumann.bsky.social: “Startup Punditry’s 25 Years of Failure”. I have thoughts. colossus.com/article/we-h...

Liked this as usual with your writing. In a rare disagreement, the argument about failure rates doesn't seem right to me. Wouldn't targeting expected returns be better? It might be _necessary_ to have a high enough failure rate to maximize returns. Recently posted: benoitessiambre.com/fail.html

Thanks for reading. I'm off to see if there's still any snow in these mountains

This chart has been bothering me for a while. Why, with all the new methods we have to build startups, have failure rates stayed the same? So I wrote about it colossus.com/article/we-h...

Happy Cinco de Patrick

The great thing about writing something for three months and then hammering it until all the stupidity I can find is driven out, is that the resulting ten minute read sounds way smarter than I actually am

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

If you're a subscriber to Colossus, you can read my new essay today, otherwise you'll have to wait colossus.com/article/we-h...

My dad once said the only reason they allowed betting on horses was because horses couldn't talk

Went to Whole Foods, couldn’t find split peas

Still not beating the null hypothesis

#BooksYouMightHaveMissed #booksky #💙📚 Founder Vs Investor: The Honest Truth about Venture Capital from Startup to IPO by Elizabeth Joy Zalman, Jerry Neumann bookshop.org/p/books/foun...

Jerry Neumann on the Problem With Investing in AI Right Now buff.ly/wiCBk3e

Sure. The most interesting recent argument I've integrated is economic. It moves beyond the usual cognitive/social critiques. The thesis is that generative AI isn't a revolutionary, wealth-creating technology for innovators, but a late-wave, commoditizing force, much like shipping containerization.

Just as my childhood cartoons foretold www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/u...

People tell me that AI code is fine, because you can run automatic tests. But tests can only tell you if code is doing the thing you want it to do. To know what it SHOULD do, we used to have requirements. But now requirements are themselves vibe-coded slopotypes. The result: waste and risk.

FINALLY The whole age verification idea is nonsense The US founders would hang every politician that supports this bsky.app/profile/evan...

Now is your chance. Founder vs Investor is one of Audible's March deals. You can read it for only $7 and use the rest to buy a decent suit. You can't come in here looking like that www.audible.com/pd/Founder-v...

In terms of general writing, I think LLMs are no better at filling in the blanks than you or I. If so, then the prompt you use to generate some writing may be a better, and much more concise, substitute for what the LLM would write. I think this is true for any intelligent audience

I don't use the other site anymore because I don't feel like I can have a normal conversation on it But on this site, people seem to just want to grandstand, making conversation painful

I decided to use AI to help me with this essay I have been working on for far too long by rewriting it in the style of Paradise Lost

We’re killing people for no discernible reason again

Claude was pretty sure it was a safe bet to make up shit about Wittgenstein BUT I AM TOO SHARP FOR IT

Talked about my essay "AI Won't Make You Rich" with Bertrand Chen on the Schelling Point! YouTube: youtu.be/WRDIvXlo6W0 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7z3q...

The problem with the Citrini Research AI doomer article that caused markets to crash yesterday is how much it assumes the big problem in many markets is how hard it is to write an app. It argues anyone can now vibe code a delivery app so DoorDash is doomed. That’s silly. Network effects matter.

Busted it

Why isn’t the right excited about technology?

If a slider is just a hamburger to a smaller stature being, and their species also has a concept of a slider, then given the size of the universe we can assume there are a series of much bigger and smaller sandwiches than we can imagine.

“One of the biggest mistakes investors make is to look at the last few years and assume that’s the new norm.” -- Francois Rochon

This just makes me sad

go off jack white

This is what passes for a well-regarded historian, at least among non-historians. The world, notoriously predictable!

CITY OF HEROES, my song celebrating the courage of the people of Minneapolis defending their community from Tяump's goons, is now available to stream on numerous platforms via this link: bbragg.lnk.to/cityofheroes

Co-sign

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Science magazine: US government has lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs since Trump took office. [science.org]

Okay I think I've mapped out ICE politics as of Monday night

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - George Orwell, 1984

Springsteen dedicated “The Promised Land” to the “memory of slain Minneapolis woman Renee Good, decrying the ‘Gestapo tactics’ that he said have resulted in a climate where citizens can be ‘murdered for exercising your American right to protest.’” variety.com/2026/music/n...

If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

Thank god Chuck Schumer isn’t alive to see this.

Something very funny about de santis praising Coolidge for “immigration.” Coolidge’s immigration policy was that people named de santis shouldn’t be allowed to come here bsky.app/profile/anth...

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...