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A Beautiful Web
May 27, 2025

A Beautiful Web

It's time to admit that we have the web we deserve.

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The Value of Boring
May 20, 2025

The Value of Boring

AI is revolutionary, just not in the ways the hype bubble says it is

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Fake It, Baby
May 16, 2025

Fake It, Baby

Authenticity matters, but so does its opposite

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Better The Devil You Know
May 13, 2025

Better The Devil You Know

Incumbency is a weird phenomenon.

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Resist Categorization
May 06, 2025

Resist Categorization

We're obsessed with putting each other in buckets. None of them fit.

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Getting Seen Is Hard
Apr 29, 2025

Getting Seen Is Hard

Like it or lump it, newsletter writers are part of the attention economy, somewhere near the bottom. We need to help each other be seen.

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Zingers Don't Sting
Apr 22, 2025

Zingers Don't Sting

Public figures once feared exposure of their misdeeds. Those days are over.

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Toxic Tech, Toxic Youth
Apr 15, 2025

Toxic Tech, Toxic Youth

The current legal and regulatory structures around technology make it impossible to protect children from online harms. Fundamental change is needed.

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Global Goods
Apr 08, 2025

Global Goods

There is little value in equivocating: we are in a new economic world. The change is bad.

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Humans Are Leak Machines
Apr 01, 2025

Humans Are Leak Machines

While charmingly meme-ready thanks to a presumed intoxication among its actors, the national security over Signal debacle is not surprising.

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Optimism At Last
Mar 25, 2025

Optimism At Last

Brexit became a warning against international disengagement. While it appears to have been unheeded by others, Britain itself is emerging from the mess.

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AI Shrinks Moats
Mar 18, 2025

AI Shrinks Moats

As the hype fades and reality sinks in, we might see some genuinely brilliant uses of AI.

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Away from the hype, I try to understand what's going on. At the very least, I've made over 14,000 inboxes less boring.

Ben J. Clarke

Away from the hype, I try to understand what's going on. At the very least, I've made over 14,000 inboxes less boring.

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