2025-11-14 16:59:55
In case you missed it, Kanye has started apologizing for the event he went through. I didn’t comment on it publicly when it happened because it seemed so strange to me that such a beautiful soul, who had created so much life-changing music with so much love, could express such hate. I’ve had close friends who are bipolar, so I’m familiar with the disease, and seeing Ye’s episode was really heartbreaking, both for the things he was saying and also that it was clearly a medical issue, unfortunately, playing out in the public sphere. (I can’t imagine anything worse.) Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Who knows what’s next, but hopefully this is the start of a new generative era for Ye, who clearly has the ability to innovate across many fields. Especially with no rap songs in the Billboard 40 for the first time since 1990! It does feel like we’re living through a New Renaissance right now, there’s an explosion of creativity and access. I’m wishing Ye peace and equanimity with the challenges he’s facing, and I’m definitely going to revisit some of his early work (The College Dropout (ha!) through Cruel Summer) that was so influential on me as I was growing up.
2025-11-12 15:33:00
Choose your heroes very carefully and then emulate them. You will never be perfect, but you can always be better.
I’m an unabashed fan of Warren Buffett and the late Charlie Munger, I even have bronze busts of them in my office! I was very lucky to attend his last shareholder meeting, as part of stepping down he’ll no longer write their legendary shareholder updates, but he will keep doing his Thanksgiving letters.
You should give it a read. It’s heartbreaking and beautiful.
2025-11-11 09:34:00
The story of what Bending Spoons has built is very impressive, and I’m a customer of theirs through Evernote, WordPress uses Meetup a ton. I think Automattic’s Noho office used to belong to Meetup. They’ve built an incredible engineering and product culture that can terraform technology stacks into something much more efficient. I think their acquisitions of Vimeo and AOL are brilliant. This interview with Luca Ferrari on Invest Like The Best goes into their story and unique culture. I also always love a good Matrix reference. 
2025-11-10 09:37:44
I’ve been following this cool open source project called Meshtastic, which is “An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices.” I finally got some time to set it up tonight. It was super easy; you just flash the Meshtastic firmware in your browser to any of the compatible devices. I got a Heltec v3 device for $35 bucks on Amazon. (I’d link but it’s out of stock, and I think there’s a newer version.) Apparently, there are enough people running nodes that you can bounce a message from Portland to San Francisco! I love the idea of parallel to the internet networks, and I’ve been meaning to get a HAM license, but in the meantime, this looks pretty fun.
2025-11-09 12:45:06
Check out Ben Thompson of Stratechery (one of the most valuable subscriptions) on The Benefits of Bubbles.
2025-11-08 07:36:21
Mimi Lamarre at Switchboard Magazine has a delightful long read in The Curious Case of Kaycee Nicole, where, in the early days of online communities and blogging, a fake person claimed to have leukemia. The blogging community was relatively small back then, and I recall some of this happening contemporarily.
