Archive - Long Press

Egghead Manifesto

Nov 7, 2023 •

October 2023

The real problem with the new Slack UI

Unfounded assumptions and Q2 goals

Oct 6, 2023 •

September 2023

Walter Isaacson's Great Men

The issue is not the portrayal but the choice of subject

Sep 21, 2023

April 2023

A.I. is the new crypto

Why don't we learn?

Apr 7, 2023 •

February 2023

Why chatbots fail

Novelty only gets you so far

Feb 24, 2023 •

A case for personal efficacy

Feb 8, 2023 •

December 2022

The Big Tech Welfare State

To be or not to be hardcore

Dec 16, 2022 •

November 2022

How's that autocracy coming?

The PayPal Mafia reemerges

Nov 23, 2022 •

The Twitter Thing

...and the Meta thing, and the Google thing, and the Amazon thing.

Nov 11, 2022 •

August 2022

The Googleplex Critique

The concept of “the future of work” has long proved fertile ground for a certain giddy prediction discourse. In the last couple of years especially, the…

Aug 5, 2022 •

July 2022

What was school?

Academic success and modern life

Jul 22, 2022 •

The Silicon Valley State

Reflecting on Balaji Srinivasan’s Y Combinator talk from 2013

Jul 1, 2022 •

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