“What’s Web3?” Ask this of a non-engineer, and he’s likely to answer by repeating some seductive Tweets he’s read about a utopian future web where users “own” their data. The definition is going to rest heavily on a progressive comparison to the primitive Web 1.0, a simple HTML era where…

Writers and software engineers have more in common than they realize. That they’re both slaves to the rules and exceptions-to-the-rule of a language is the more obvious commonality. …

It’s hard to quantify or even describe authenticity. It’s one of life’s murky, mysterious intangibles that you just kind of feel. And like its cousins, love, happiness and purpose, it’s elusive, powerful, unmistakable and a sort of continuous muted pain when it’s absent. That pain, that cringe, is a primal…