Hello from out here on the Thames Delta. I am on low power this week - I am, in fact, doing a couple of days of Slow Carb to try and kickstart the loss of the annoyingly clinging winter weight I picked up, and I would murder you for a...
A twice-weekly newsletter on the forces that shape college football, including history, business, politics, media, and more. Also, jokes. Twice a week, I’ll share some news and analysis about some the forces that shape college football beyond ...
This newsletter is about food and its constellation of concerns, from politics and labor and hospitality and sourcing and everything else. On Monday, I send out an essay, along with notes on what I’ve published, read, and cooked. On Wednesday,
The Pirate Wires newsletter tends to summarize and riff on current events, whereas podcast episodes and longer-form essays deep dive into fringe, uncomfortable, or otherwise strange topics I find interesting. In the broadest sense, I like to focus on
I’ve been lucky to be a venture capitalist since 2010, and wake up every day excited to try to find and invest in the next big thing. The next world-changing product and business. The once-in-a-lifetime investment opportunity. A “generational”
The Diff is a daily newsletter covering inflection points in finance and technology. I aim to answer a simple question: in a few centuries, when historians reach a consensus on what was happening today, what will they believe?
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...
News Items is a collection of news stories, commentaries, analyses, essays and research reports that I think are interesting or important (or both). The items are usually 2 or 3 sentences long.
News Items is distributed at around 6:45am ET…
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...