On competing without feature wars. When identity, trust, and story matter more than what's on your roadmap.
All product ventures incubated in the Muni collective (like Weird inc.) are designed first and foremost to Do Good by means of radical openness.
The future for platform holders is cooperation, not just competition | Opinion
When an industry changes -- even quite radically -- it can be hard to pinpoint the moment that the shift began. There a…
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.
Rediscovering The Spark
The last few years have been hard as someone who is not only very much engaged with technologies, their applications, damages and affordances as well as their politics. We’ve been moving through hype cycle after hype cycle with increasing promises at increasing speeds. Which is somewhat natural of course: Being built not around something material, […]
The scent of Musk: Power, charisma and paranoia in Silicon Valley
Muskism, capitalism according to Elon Musk
Open strategic questions for digital minds
My current takes on issues the field should focus on more
Mektup #32: Product Shouldn't Be Left to Product Managers
Hunting timeless insights into humans and software and helping others on the way.
Claude Mythos 5.1 and Fable 5.1: Capabilities
This is the weirdest situation in which to write a capabilities review.
Increlution
Survive the ever increasing pressure of time for as long as you can! A minimalistic incremental game about time management that takes inspiration from roguelite games, with a focus on meta-progression. Every generation has a better chance at survival, because previous lives influence its instincts
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
