Newsletter
Apr 7, 2025
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13 min read
In which there's a new, very special, rating.
Oct 5, 2024
21 min read
Thanks to Matt Mullenweg, this is the way WordPress ends: not with a bang but a whimper.
Jul 23, 2024
35 min read
What’s striking is what they’re declaring out loud, and how it’s like a long-arriving, barely-decayed message from the past: You can do business with Trump.
Jul 2, 2024
27 min read
These aren't small groups of fans trading fanfiction and fanart about their favorite ships and characters – these are endlessly ravenous robots whose appetites for intellectual property have the potential to destroy the livelihoods of artists from across the spectrum of creative life.
Jun 22, 2024
34 min read
Am I surprised that, as far as I can tell, there have been absolutely no public consequences for Matt Mullenweg's public misbehavior? No, not really. And I’m not mad. I’m just disappointed.
Apr 18, 2024
8 min read
It’s Friday as I write this, and I’ve been doing what I often do when I’m trying to process difficult feelings, which is scrolling mindlessly through Tumblr.
Mar 14, 2024
9 min read
These are the agonal gasps of a man who knows his thoughts and opinions, which were once respected and sought after in the Tech space as revolutionary, are not only no longer relevant but also downright basic.
Mar 13, 2024
46 min read
In which the main story is about cheeseburgers -- but also it's really not. Plus, a Bad Job Bingo section so long you'd think it was an advertisement for the Brief.
Feb 27, 2024
18 min read
Last week, Matt Mullenweg made a series of unfortunate and baffling decisions, including some of the most egregious lapses in judgment from a Tech CEO I’ve witnessed on Al Gore’s internet.
Feb 15, 2024
40 min read
We're all lost in a forest. Plus: more good news, and I read shitty company career pages so you don't have to.
Feb 5, 2024
CX's metaphorical Robot is sounding the alarm. Also, some good news and lots more Bad Job Bingo.
Jan 30, 2024
31 min read
A venture capitalist demonstrates exactly zero judgment on LinkedIn, and I try not to lose my goddamn mind. Also, more good news, more Bad Job Bingo.
