The WordPress Plateau
It seems WordPress has “peaked”. Actually, the whole open web platform seems to have peaked. “The open web” slowly drifts into a “business card” zone in people’s minds: an outdated necessity waiting to...
View ArticleShitty tech
Best Apple AirPods Feature: Keep them in your pocket without the case and the smart ear detection will make sure to discharge their battery.
View ArticleArgue on bike lanes
SEE&LISTEN HOW government across the world managed to carve such an elegant division amongst people. 1/ You will die 2/ Your life meaning is stolen by unimaginably rich psycho oppressors. 3/ Your...
View ArticleNo demarcation lines
Using a different platform does not make you avant-garde or a rebel. Generations don’t have demarcation lines anymore. The young waste away in different corners of the internet doing exactly what the...
View Articlefreelance newsletter
If a successful freelancer has a newsletter about being a successful freelancer they’re likely not a successful freelancer.
View ArticleThe strings
String theory. Not that one. The other one. The strings are not tied to a puppet. The strings are weaved.Who pulls the strings controls the fabric. A crease here. A hole there.Squeeze this. Loosen...
View ArticleCultivated meat
Europe hosts first cultivated meat tasting The next web … while the ultra rich grow wagyu cows.
View ArticleStone paper is the worst
Buy the paper that saves the trees which is made of plastic but we call it stone paper to hide the tactile obviousness. “Stone” paper is one of the worst inventions ever. And so many companies jumped...
View ArticleBuilding a social prison (I)
Having spent half my statistical life expectancy I look around and see that nobody from my generation managed to change their social class upwards in the absence of some severely rare lucky strike....
View ArticleI am still at the peak job
I’ve been through layoffs before, but never through buyouts. I gotta say, it hits different. Remember when I said Automattic is peak job? It is. Nevertheless, this week 159 people left, all at once,...
View ArticleOther people’s projects
This week I’ve seen three friends. One talked to me about their drop-shipping startup and his woes with Romanian e-commerce. Another one has a supplement production facility and talked to me about his...
View ArticleOrchestration of the world
The political spectacle of this year is in full force. So many elections on the same topics that say nothing about problems and all about manipulating people to agree on made up problems. With Trump...
View ArticleA world has ended. Welcome to the new world pioneers!
We live in the ruins of the 1st networks. Facebook, X, Instagram, Telegram, TikTok are the modern equivalent of ancient giant architecture that sank civilisations. They are the 1st networks. They did...
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