The Missive

Small posts about tech, venture capital, and other selected topics.

May 31, 2017

Charting The Growth of Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends Report

There’s a certain seasonality to release dates. Apple announces new software in the summer and hardware in the autumn. Burial, my favorite electronic music artist, releases singles and EPs in dark winter months. And Mary…

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Mar 9, 2017

FB To Snap: We Have More Money, No Shame About Copying, And We Will Bury You

Back on February 28, the day before Snap Inc’s IPO, Rob Moore published a piece in NewCo explaining why he believes “Snapchat won’t make it to the end of the year.”

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Feb 27, 2017

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick May Have Had A Worse Week Than Donald Trump

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Jan 23, 2017

Trump’s Alleged Favorite Spy Novel Uncannily Echoes Present Circumstances

I am a big fan of a podcast called Benjamin Walker’s Theory of Everything, which is produced by Roman Mars’s Radiotopia podcast network. The first half of Walker’s latest episode, titled “The Twentieth…

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Dec 23, 2016

A Dispatch From The Department Of Existential Threats

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Nov 9, 2016

California PAC Launches Secession Bid for 2019

Yes California made its appearance known on the national stage in the wake of Donald Trump’s apparent victory in the US presidential election. The organization, formally referred to as “Yes California Independence Committee PAC,” is launching a bid…

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Oct 31, 2016

The Internet of Hackable Things

Last week, the East Coast of the US experienced a service outage on many of the most popular sites on…

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Oct 18, 2016

Deep Learning-Powered Twitter Bot Launches “Presidential Bid” To Benefit Charity

It might be quite some time until an artificially intelligent agent can actually launch a real bid for the White House, but in the meantime we’ll have to settle for this. DeepDrumpf is a deep…

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Oct 11, 2016

Pricing Samsung’s Viv Acquisition

Dag Kittlaus, founder of Siri and Viv, announced on the company blog the sale of Viv to explosives…

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Oct 10, 2016

David Foster Wallace explained why I feel so sick after presidential debates this year

In the wake of last night’s presidential debate, I feel somewhat ill at ease. I feel as though all the spin and commentary about the candidates’ performance is so rarified that it’s…

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