You’re wrong about Second Amendment rights

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

The Second Amendment is unique among the Bill of Rights for appearing to protect an…

the logic of “silence is compliance”

“Silence is compliance” is a phrase that many people toss off without thinking through how it…

Facebook product managers can save the world

Six months ago, I said that Trump would win the election in part because the rise of new media destroyed the historic function of the media as our Fourth Estate. I was upset that product managers at our most important Internet companies seem to refuse…

The blockbuster movie cycle in consumer technology

Yep, it’s an end-of-the-year technology prediction post …

We’re at a special place in the consumer technology cycle. I’ve seen this movie before. Consumer technology trends are often described as waves, but I like a…

How Bad Product Management is Destroying the World

God I hate tech hyperbole. And I literally hate the use of “literally” to mean its opposite … but let me explain how bad technology product management can literally lead to the end of the world.

It’s time to take the training wheels off the Internet

For over 20 years, Internet businesses have grown under the protection of a special law that provides extraordinary privileges. This law has properly been hailed as a boon to innovation, and has become enshrined in some quarters as an…

the tragic triangle of the three cultures

In 1959, C.P. Snow delivered a lecture called The Two Cultures, about a vexing divide…

why second life failed

This post is about why Second Life failed — but not in the sense of, “here are the reasons why Second Life failed,” but instead, “here is why it is true that Second Life failed.”

Slate published an article titled “Why Second Life Failed” that also, like this…

Facebook’s Libra should have launched a dozen years ago

In 2007, Facebook sent a couple of strategists to Linden Lab to ask us about virtual currency. Of course they would ask us — at the time, we were the world’s leading experts in managing a virtual economy, heading towards a billion…

Why The Next Financial Crash Will Be The Last

or, an Outline of Everything I’ve Read on Twitter in 2020 so far