Archive - Adventure Capital

The Next Telco Boom in GenAI

(and maybe that's ok)

Nov 25, 2024 •

Lonely San Francisco

A city who's wealth is built on network effects refuses to understand them.

Nov 19, 2024 •

October 2024

Systems Thinking and the Denial of Death

Failures are still coming even once you learn how to understand them

Oct 31, 2024 •

September 2024

Easy Evaluations as Comfort Blanket

You can't go home to the easy answers again

Sep 17, 2024 •

August 2024

Complexity Laundering

When someone points to any number of things instead of themselves.

Aug 14, 2024 •

May 2024

Should Prophets Speak Like Prophets?

Maybe not, if they want to change things instead of getting famous.

May 7, 2024 •

March 2024

Finishing Schools, Generative AI, and how Ethics is not a solvable problem.

What do images of black nazis, dark-skinned popes, cybernetics, and the culture war have in common? Relative complexity.

Mar 28, 2024 •

December 2023

Smuggled Infinities

Pascal's Sucker Bet, and when to ignore it.

Dec 4, 2023 •

November 2023

September 2023

A Lens on What Google is (and is not) Good At

There’s a long essay I wrote internally at google that cites things I can’t share publicly.

Sep 14, 2023 •

July 2023

Why "I got rich and it didn't make me happy" feels weird

or: a practical lesson in contrapositive proof

Jul 26, 2023 •

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