Fair warning: It’s Tuesday, I have deadlines to meet, and I just brain dumped all of this in like 2 hours. I’m not editing it, I’m sorry. This is in response to The Fleishman Effect, which ran on The
Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty Images It’s difficult to narrativize Silicon Valley history. Narratives usually have a rising and falling action. Conflicts build, peak, resolve. The e
Hi! Dan and Nathan here. Early in 2020, we launched the Everything Bundle, a Substack devoted to productivity and business strategy. We started with two newsletters, Superorganizers and Divinations, w
I grew up lower-middle class on the outskirts of Copenhagen. Anywhere outside of Scandinavia, the socioeconomic label would probably have been ‘poor’, but Danish safety nets and support systems did th
I joined Google just before the pandemic when the company I had co-founded, AppSheet, was acquired by Google Cloud. The acquiring team and executives welcomed us and treated us well. We joined with gr
F lorida’s city du jour is eager to earn permanent status on travelers’ lists of sunny, accessible escapes worthy of a weekend stay, as a cutting-edge, multi-billion-dollar landmark development projec
I'm taking pictures with a camera again. 📸 Back When Five Hundred Dollars Got You a 5MP camera About fifteen years ago I walked away from digital photography for a couple of different reasons. First,
Banking is a confidence trick. Financial history is littered with runs, for the straightforward reason that no bank can survive if enough depositors want to be repaid at the same time. The trick, ther
An expert on antitrust and Big Tech and author of The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age , Timothy Wu , Julius Silver Professor of Law, Science and Technology, joined the Biden administ