There's no such thing as "tech" (Ten years later)
Ten years ago I wrote that there is no "technology industry" . It's more true than ever. There is no "tech". There's no such thing as "a FAANG company". There...
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New York Tech at 30: the Crossroads
This past week, over a series of events, the New York tech community celebrated the 30th anniversary of a nebulous idea described as "Silicon Alley", the...
I've been working in and around the technology industry for a long time. Depending on how you count, it's 20 or 30 years. (I first started getting paid to put...
Codeless: From idea to software
Something actually new? There's finally been a big leap forward in coding tech unlocked by AI -- not just "it's doing some work for me", but "we couldn't do this...
Wikipedia at 25: What the web can be
When Wikipedia launched 25 years ago today , I heard about it almost immediately, because the Internet was small back then, and I thought "Well... good luck to...
How Markdown took over the world
Nearly every bit of the high-tech world, from the most cutting-edge AI systems at the biggest companies, to the casual scraps of code cobbled together by...
500,000 tech workers have been laid off since ChatGPT was released
One of the key points I repeated when talking about the state of the tech industry yesterday was the salient fact that half a million tech workers have been...
How the hell are you supposed to have a career in tech in 2026?
The number one question I get from my friends, acquaintances, and mentees in the technology industry these days is, by far, variations on the basic theme of,...
They have to be able to talk about us without us
It's absolutely vital to be able to communicate effectively and efficiently to large groups of people. I've been lucky enough to get to refine and test my...
Founders Over Funders. Inventors Over Investors.
I've been following tech news for decades, and one of the worst trends in the broader cultural conversation about technology -- one that's markedly accelerated...
Even though AI has been the most-talked-about topic in tech for a few years now, we're in an unusual situation where the most common opinion about AI within the...
The "Taylor's Version" generation is not gonna let Big AI steal her stuff
You didn't used to have to be an expert on intellectual property law just to be a music fan. You would just put on your headphones, hit play, and enjoy whatever...