Somewhere along the line, the culture shifted. We stopped pretending. For decades, success was about the illusion of control. The polished pitch deck. The glossy commercial. The polished founder who never broke a sweat — even when everything was on fire behind the scenes. That’s the “fake it till you make it” era.And it’s over. Because right now, we’re watching something wild happen across the entire digital landscape: the rise of the Build-in-Public crowd — the people who ar

A while back, I wrote about The Meaning Economy  — the idea that as AI and automation steadily absorb traditional labor, the next wave of value creation won’t come from what we do for a living , but from what we create, express, and share  as humans. That idea felt theoretical at the time — but now we’re starting to see the first real-world on-ramps appear. One of the clearest? Tech storytelling. The Human Layer That Machines Can’t Replace Across industries — politics, media,

And why AI might finally slow us back down. There was a time when running a process meant you could go make a sandwich. Back in the day, computing was slow. You’d start a program, watch the progress bar crawl, maybe hear the hard drive click like a heartbeat, and then… you waited. Compiling code? Go grab lunch. Rendering a video? See you in the morning. Early computing was a Zen garden of patience and progress wheels. Then we got impatient.We wanted faster chips, shorter wait

There was a time when learning to code felt like unlocking a secret language. The screen glowed, the cursor blinked, and every keystroke...

Every time I scroll, there’s another meme about how AI is ruining civilization. The temptation is to roll my eyes, laugh, and move on....