Data for the decentralized economy. Today, public blockchains and other crypto networks offer incredibly compelling datasets which are only beginning to be understood. We strongly...
A weekly roundup of the most important news in tech and media by Simon Owens. I'm a longtime tech reporter and marketing consultant. My writing has appeared in places like US News & World Report, The Atlantic, New York Magazine, and
I’ve been told this newsletter has been making people cry at their desks at work since 2015, so maybe you want to cry in front your coworkers. Maybe you want to read someone talking about death and failure and weird sex and small joys an…
Historians are fond of saying that the past doesn’t repeat itself; it rhymes.
To understand the present, we have to understand how we got here.
That’s where this newsletter comes in.
I’m a professor of American history.
Hello! Katherine Spiers here, announcing my shiny new e-newsletter. It’s a companion to my food history podcast Smart Mouth (I’m about 150 episodes in), but it won’t cover the exact same topics. They’re sisters, not twins...
Fortnite is a game unlike any I’ve ever played before. It’s layered and complex. It reminds me more of chess than Halo. At any time there can be over 10 things to keep in your head at the same time: where other enemies are in your build, which...
Covers a very eclectic mix of topics, often having to do with sociotechnical transformations, but also cities, systems, hybrids, the environment, history, scifi, design, and many other ideas that matter. Feed your curiosity & make better sense of...
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This is the newsletter formerly known as Snippets, which I wrote at Social Capital from 2015-2019.