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100 from 3 May 2020 to 16 Jun 2026
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2026 9

  1. slop is a bad story
  2. New Media is Insider Media
  3. The Season Finale of TBPN
  4. White Collar Goes Blue
  5. Dreams of Stability
  6. Proof of Humanity
  7. Franchise Thinking
  8. Notes on Not Posting
  9. The Freaks Are the Last to Go

2025 14

  1. Congratulations, Publicly
  2. The Self Is The Platform
  3. Doomprompting Is the New Doomscrolling.
  4. Playing to Win Friends & Influence People
  5. Encore Anxiety
  6. What Humans Do Next
  7. From "Shadow Artist" to Artist
  8. The Relationship Is the Job
  9. MEDIA AND MACHINES.
  10. In the age of slop, craft is rebellion
  11. Make Something Heavy.
  12. Man's pursuit of greatness is the pursuit of a great film.
  13. Your dreams demand your best hours
  14. The Aesthetic Is The Art Now.

2024 54

  1. Writing Wrapped
  2. Two Shticks
  3. Invisible Duels
  4. Intellectualism Goes Mass-Market
  5. Taste Is Eating Silicon Valley.
  6. About Practice
  7. The Unmistakable Weight of the Co-sign
  8. Notes on 'Founder Mode'
  9. The Founder's Dilemma
  10. The Lost Sense
  11. 30 and Not Retired
  12. Second Nature Skills
  13. Tattoo Decisions
  14. Cool Self
  15. The Prestige-Prosperity Gap
  16. Writers Block
  17. In Defense of 'Tarpit Ideas'
  18. Personal Firewalls
  19. How to Be Like Derek Guy
  20. The Rise of the Software Creator
  21. Background Social
  22. Accountability as a Service
  23. Membership clubs are cool again.
  24. Baseline Fame
  25. What I Talk About When I Talk About Reading
  26. Writer-Builders
  27. 3 Hours or Nothing
  28. How to "Go Direct"
  29. The Taste Subsidy
  30. On Airchat
  31. "New Social App"
  32. New Media, New Standards
  33. Hands-On, Thumbs-Off
  34. Placeholders of Life
  35. Early-Arriver Arbitrage
  36. Rabbitholes as Portals
  37. Second Encounters
  38. The Time-Boxed Startup
  39. The New Wordmark
  40. Great Products Have Great Premises
  41. Creator-Operator Partnerships
  42. Time-to-lameness
  43. Pursuits That Can’t Scale
  44. Love the Mission or Love the Game
  45. Books are the new athleisure
  46. Crypto social games
  47. Companionship Content is King
  48. “Healthy” social apps
  49. Angel Investing
  50. Digital Tug-of-War
  51. Status Limbo
  52. The 20/20 Workweek
  53. Zero-Sum vs. Positive-Sum Products
  54. 24 Working Theorys for 2024

2023 17

  1. The Idea That Won't Go Away
  2. One-Round Wonder
  3. How to Do Business School Right
  4. Don't Build a Social Network, Build a Social Utility
  5. The "High Potential" Handicap
  6. Big TAM Founders, Small TAM Startups
  7. Why Are All the Public Intellectuals Men?
  8. Full-Stack Something
  9. The Brunch Test
  10. Unbundling Cash & Equity
  11. Define the Game
  12. Trophy Jobs
  13. The Generational Business Trap
  14. Agency in the Age of AI
  15. Product vs. Production
  16. Collective Experiences
  17. Rise of the Silicon Valley Small Business

2022 3

  1. What I Learned at Clubhouse 📓
  2. Ritual Social
  3. Community Fission & Fusion

2021 2

  1. The Group Chat Renaissance
  2. Group-Generated Content

2020 1

  1. The Revival of Consumer Social