Why I'm Still Building Murmel

All product ventures incubated in the Muni collective (like Weird inc.) are designed first and foremost to Do Good by means of radical openness.

2026 Competitive and Complementary Tools — DAVID C. KRAKAUER

Everything in public life has already ceased to be narrative and no longer follows a thread, but instead spreads out as an infinitely interwoven surface. —Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities, Chap. 122, “Going Home”

The Beginning of the End of Big Tech

From politicians to VC firms, everyone is falling out of love with the massive, money-oriented, global technology titans. In their place, we have the chance to build something open and trustworthy.

The trust boundary moves inward - Sensemaker

GitHub's poisoned-extension breach, Railway's GCP account suspension, and SpaceX's AI-heavy S-1 all point to the same thing: the inside of infrastructure is now the story.

Open strategic questions for digital minds

My current takes on issues the field should focus on more

What would Muskism be without Musk?

The mode of production behind the man

AI, Artifice, And Authenticity

The era of badly-automated homogenized engagement slop is upon us. I desperately want to believe there's a renaissance for authenticity on the other end.

“Policy Without Tools Is Just Poetry” - AT Protocol

Juliet Shen from ROOST joins the show to talk through the Coop 1.0 release, what open-source trust and safety unlocks for new builders, and where AI actually belongs in moderation

Why MCP Won

Learnings from Anthropic's extraordinarily successful Launch and Workshop

Moving Forward from Hot Fable Summer

Suggestions on how to move forward on the craziest 90 days in cyber and AI history.

Everyone is a Strategist and No One is a Writer

From politics to culture, we face a crisis of cleverness and a society addicted to marketing