My deepest thanks to @nytimes.com for including my forthcoming book, CATCH THE DEVIL, in this list of summer nonfiction titles! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/b...

Consider the potential implications of “The Full McConaughey” (h/t @karaswisher.bsky.social) for the rest of us. medium.com/@gob/the-rea...

“Whatever this bundle of personal-brand rights McConaughey is asserting morphs into over time … we might one day look back and see that [he] has trademarked something else entirely: A prototype for personal agency in a world of AI."

In which I explore whether fellow Texan Matthew McConaughey’s approach to AI holds wisdoms for our shared challenges with identity under modern life. medium.com/@gob/the-rea...

Some personal news, as they say: My first book, CATCH THE DEVIL, comes out July 14! I’m hugely grateful to @nytimes.com for naming it as one of the books everyone will be talking about in 2026. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/b...

We've announced our Spring '26 Camp theme: Agent Systems. We're seeking teams building autonomous systems of agents that deliver complete solutions to concrete problems. Read the full thesis: beta.works/camp Apply! beta.works/agentsystems Priority deadline is 12/24 🎄

This morning I was listening to a Sarah Silverman podcast, and one of her listeners asked who she’d have dinner with, if she could pick any four living people she didn’t already know. I ticked through a few writers and comics in my head, then settled on Tom Stoppard as first draft pick.

Handy financial news resource of the day, from @yahoofinance.com @bsky.app @graze.social -- timely, topic-specific custom feed on NVIDIA earnings, curated by Yahoo! Finance bsky.app/profile/yaho...

A salute and word of gratitude to all veterans today, starting with my brother, Dr. Carlos Brown. Here's a portrait of his time as a U.S. Navy trauma surgeon embedded with U.S. Marines -- a 2007 Texas Monthly profile by John Spong: www.texasmonthly.com/articles/car...

Probably the most exciting thing we've done @graze.social to date!

Get all your breaking NYC election news here, thanks to @gothamist.com @graze.social bsky.app/profile/did:...

Graze is doing great work in supporting the entire ATProto Ecosystem, and their latest newsletter is a great illustration. Also featuring an interview with @sjgreenwood.bsky.social about Paper Skygest (bsky.app/profile/pape...)

You can just do things, together

OH WOW! Congratulations to our contributor, László Krasznahorkai, for winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature!!! 😍🥳 wordswithoutborders.org/.../view/lsz...

If This Then AT:// (IFTTA) is now open source under the MIT license! Build powerful automation workflows triggered by any event in the ATProtocol ecosystem. Lexicon-agnostic and ready for the decentralized social web. GitHub: github.com/graze-social/iftta

Only a few days left to apply! We'll be announcing the final winners soon after the deadline of *June 31*

The Magna Carta turns 810 years old today. medium.com/@gob/project...

As you may have heard, there’s an important birthday this weekend. We can only hope that people across the nation — nay, the globe — engage in tribute and fanfare proportional to the occasion. 1/